Hi freevo-devels. This is my review and test on freevo2.
Getting help: I miss:
I would like to run "freevo2 --help" to get a little help from the
terminal. Maybe there is nothing to say, or maybe you can point to the
config directory, or perform some utilities from command line.
Config file, well I have seen "freevo2.conf" and how it works. It's well
explained, it has some examples, good, real good. I like how you advise
at the end of the file if there has been some wrong line at
configuration, awesome!. It has default values and even if you have
changed it, it remains visible as a comment.
Launching freevo:
It's fast,
Main menu:
Good layout,
I changed resolution to 1440x900 and freevo logo looks pixelated. that's
not good.
Window container system:
I activated full screen, but freevo continues into a window and don't
fit my screen, I can move this window. The worst thing is that this
screen is over anything on my system, it's always up. I think it could
be VirtualBox.
Issue: Flashes on the main window:
When browsing up and down on menus, sometimes the main window disappears
an instant, and recovers itself showing on another position at the
screen. When this occurs my terminal get this:
#####
libGL error: core dri or dri2 extension not found
libGL error: failed to load driver: vboxvideo
OpenGL Warning: crPixelCopy3D: simply crMemcpy'ing from srcPtr to dstPtr
WARNING candy:main(120): sync took 0.0118 sec
ERROR candy:__init__(47): disable player mplayer: No module named display
WARNING candy:main(120): sync took 0.0313 sec
WARNING candy:main(120): sync took 0.0476 sec
WARNING candy:main(120): sync took 0.0180 sec
WARNING candy:main(120): sync took 0.0627 sec
WARNING candy:main(120): sync took 0.0253 sec
WARNING candy:main(120): sync took 0.0126 sec
WARNING candy:main(120): sync took 0.0238 sec
WARNING candy:main(120): sync took 0.0126 sec
WARNING candy:main(120): sync took 0.0138 sec
#####
The efects navigating when you enter on a menu, or go back, are cool. I
like them.
Sometimes it crashes when moving on items: my terminal says:
#####
ERROR io(770): some error
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/kaa/base/io.py", line
756, in _handle_read
data = self._read(self._chunk_size)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/kaa/base/sockets.py",
line 708, in _read
return self._channel.recv(size)
error: [Errno 104] Connection reset by peer
ERROR stage(162): two backend errors in 5 seconds, giving up
pablo@pablo-freevo2:~$
#####
I like browse by artist, browse by calendar, and the way album covers
it's shown. Yes it's a nice work. Now I understand why it is called
freevo 2 an not 1.9.x.
I usually save one good cover next to album's song, or only inside the
first song of the album, and do not save thumbnails into others mp3.
With freevo2 I only can view this cover on the first song.
Remote control:
I activated as you suggested httpserver, jsonrpc, and downloaded
Android-Yatse. Well, I couldn't find multimedia server with yatse (yes,
both of them are in the same net). On the other hand, I could test
httpserver (:8080), and it's great.
Do I need all kaa-packages installed on the system in order to get working?
My system only have installed:
freevo2-master
kaa-base-master
kaa-beacon-master
kaa-candy-master
kaa-imlib2-master
kaa-metadata-master
kaa-webmetadata-master
Well, I would like to help to the project, but I'm not a developer, my
python knowledge are really poor. I only can test, say my user opinion.
I think I can help on graphics, layouts, making user manuals. Let me
know if you need something about this. I'll keep this virtual machine
for later testings.
Best regards. Pablo33.
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