I thought I'd poke my head in here too and thank all the devs for their hard work over all these years. I've been using Freevo for -- as close as I can tell -- almost a decade. I still remember the humble beginnings, the thrill of getting video to play back from a Linux command-line... and the countless hours spent banging my head against brick walls, understanding why people would go out and buy a TiVO that "just works" right out of the box.
I'll keep it short here, I already did enough damage on the user list. Over the last few weeks I wrote a recording plugin to control the SiliconDust HDHomerun Prime recording box, and modified other parts of the Freevo to work with multiple tuners and handle simultaneous recordings. More details on the other list. Again, a heartfelt thanks to all of you. It's been so much fun and I've learned so much in this time. I now consider Python part of my programming "toolbox" and finally, FINALLY got my brain wrapped around object-oriented programming. And I know it was in no small part due to tinkering with the Freevo. I have no plans to abandon the Freevo, especially not now that it's finally recording and playing back in HD (it's been a long time coming). I'm going to stick it out to the bitter end. Which due to the open-source nature... may never actually arrive. ^_~ Cheers to you all. James Trietsch Oregon, USA On 1/20/2014 10:38, Dirk Meyer wrote: > Hi, > > I have no idea how many people still read this list, how many people > still use Freevo 1.x, and how many people use 2.0 from git (I guess that > is only me). > > I failed to get a release of Freevo 2 out. I changed too much, a > complete rewrite and some parts are also written three or four times. My > fault, I know -- an error made years ago and when noticed, it was too > late to change it. And since I started a new job four years ago my time > working on Freevo got smaller and smaller every month. Jason also is > completely busy with his job. > > I still say Freevo 2 is ready to use, but I will not release it. I'm not > sure it works with the latest clutter or gstreamer, I only know it works > for me. It lacks many important features such as DVD playback (I have a > BluRay Player) and TV recording. I do not need it and I don't have time > to code it. > > Besides that, XBMC has a much bigger community, UPnP is enough for many > people (even I use NAS + BubbleUPnP + TV sometimes) and new development > such as Chromecast will reduce Freevo's usefulness even further. > > I will continue to use Freevo 2, I may even write an Android client for > it (after learning Python with Freevo which was useful for getting my > current job, hacking Android is a good next step), but I see no real > future for Freevo without a live community and more people hacking code. > If someone contributes something, I will add it. If someone needs help > to get Freevo 2 running, I will provide it. > > Since we also lack someone maintaining the server we host and I do not > want to pay for something we don't need, I will shut it down at the end > of February. This means the SVN and the Wiki will be gone. If someone > wants a backup of the Wiki please tell me. The code is already on github > and will remain there. The mailing list on SF will continue and so will > the mail server hosting freevo.org and all mail addresses will continue > to be valid. > > Maybe after some time someone resurrects Freevo. I would love to pass > the maintainership over to someone just as I took it over from Krister > years ago. Maybe someone takes the kaa-stuff and writes something new > and better. I'm happy to assist and I think the same is true for Jason. > Maybe I will release something someday based on the current code. > > It was a great time, I learned a lot and it was much fun. > > > Regards, > > Dischi > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > CenturyLink Cloud: The Leader in Enterprise Cloud Services. > Learn Why More Businesses Are Choosing CenturyLink Cloud For > Critical Workloads, Development Environments & Everything In Between. > Get a Quote or Start a Free Trial Today. > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=119420431&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > _______________________________________________ > Freevo-devel mailing list > Freevo-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CenturyLink Cloud: The Leader in Enterprise Cloud Services. Learn Why More Businesses Are Choosing CenturyLink Cloud For Critical Workloads, Development Environments & Everything In Between. Get a Quote or Start a Free Trial Today. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=119420431&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Freevo-devel mailing list Freevo-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-devel
