I've been having a few thoughts about the direction of Freevo and specifically the 1.x branch recently and thought I would share some of my ideas with this list.
Freevo 1.x is still going (reasonably) strong although slightly long in the tooth and Freevo 2, while further forward than a couple of years ago, isn't yet ready for release. So in the interim I'm thinking about the following changes to the Freevo 1.x code base with the idea of calling it Freevo 1-NG (not quite 2 but no longer 1.x). 1. Getting rid of pygame and replacing it with WebKit and pygtk. This means all the skins would be written in HTML and Javascript (lots more people able to do that than there are for our current skin format)) and we could then have video in the same window! I'm aware this will mean everyone would need X to run freevo but I'm thinking this is 2010 and even a 5 year old machine is going to be very capable of running X and freevo. 2. The other thing I'm keen on, is going UPnP crazy, sorta :-) . Most other media centers appear to support UPnP to some degree. I think we should strive to be DLNA compliant and support sharing and using out other UPnP device of the box. (I've been bitten by the UPnP bug recently due to having to work on it at real work!) Just to be clear Freevo 1-NG, wouldn't be using clutter, but would be making more use of kaa. Cheers Adam ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo _______________________________________________ Freevo-devel mailing list Freevo-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-devel
