Hi. New here :) I tried out MythTV for a while, but decided to go back to FreeVo. The FreeVo interface is so much simpler and easier to handle. Of course, its less featurefull compared to MythTv, but it's what you (I) need, when you need it. and usually only 2-3 clicks away. Keep it up :)
although, there is a few features I miss and I would like to see in a coming version. Few of then has been discussed already though, so I'll keep it simple. Installation. Contrary to some others, I dont believe in setting up FreeVo from with, although some sort of nice installation and reconfiguring script for setting up freevo and directories and such would be nice, once its configured, any reconfiguration should be done through a shell script or a configuration file like present. Splitting it up into files might be a sensible way of simplifying the problem. Any configuration tools inside freevo will clutter up its interface imo. TV watching. This could be made simpler, and if your xmltv file is corrupt you cant watch tv (guide is inaccessible... Also, the method of watching livetv used by MythTV and MediaCenter is very nice, although straining on hardware it would be a nice option. For those who might not know, Freevo simply feed the Tuner information directly to Mplayer and out, which is excellent for watching tv on less powerfull machinery. MC and Mythtv however, uses two processes, one which records from the capture device and drops the data into a large file/fifo (5GB default in MythTV). Then it has another process which plays the stream. this allows for pausing, rewinding and mixing in overlay and osd information without any further setup. This is a feature which is a "must" in home theater systems, and I'd like to see that, at least as an opt-in feature.. For what I can see, some timeshifting capabilities are already in freevo, but getting it to work remains a mystery to me (not to mention complete lack of information... ) Consitent key interface. I find my keys for operation mplayer, freevo and Xine to vary very much. for instance, turning volume up and down and forward/rewind should at least be mapped to the same keys. Maybe including some input profiles ofr the applications in the freevo installation? And the the problem. It seems that for recording my soundcard uses IGain of my mixer. for looping the sound through for tv it uses Line. for playing movies, music and recorded material it uses pcm. So, why does freevo automagiacly mute Igain when playing music or video? it seems unneccesary and very annoying since the box is unneccesarely useless while recording... any remedy ? Long first post.. bear with me :) - Styx ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop FREE Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools! Get your free copy of BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 today. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=5047&alloc_id=10808&op=click _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
