On Mon, 2011-07-18 at 14:42 +0100, Stephen Rowles wrote: > On 17 July 2011 15:29, Tuomas Tonteri <t...@tuomastonteri.fi> wrote: > Hi, > > I was wondering what is the place of Freevo 2.0 in the > landscape of > alternatives? What makes it unique from all the other HTPC > software? > There seems to be more competition here than there was five > years ago. > > This from a very happy user of Freevo 1.X through its DirectFB > backend. > The best thing for me in Freevo (1) is the use of multiple > separate > programs, especially its use of mplayer. > > XBMC looks very flash, but configuring and actually using it is a pain > IMO. It's very much style over substance. I tried it for a bit but got > fed up and went back to Freevo. Yes they've made it look nice but > don't appear to have sat down to make the day to day use smooth (or > least not out of the box).
It seems that I'm not in the minority then (well not on this list anyway :-) ). I though about switching but having played with it the UI flow just doesn't work for me. I think my biggest dis-like was having to go all the way back to the top of a directory listing just to go up one directory level. > It also doesn't have built in TV support which is the main thing I use > Freevo 1.0 for. > > Without TV recording Freevo 2.0 is no use to me personally. > Unforunately I don't know enough python/C or have enough hours in the > day to offer help at the moment. I've been having problems finding time to work on freevo recently, but my intention has been to look at this side of freevo 2 and see if I can't get it working with Freevo 1 initially, just to get the ball rolling, and then think about Freevo 2 and TV, Cheers Adam ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Magic Quadrant for Content-Aware Data Loss Prevention Research study explores the data loss prevention market. Includes in-depth analysis on the changes within the DLP market, and the criteria used to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of these DLP solutions. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51385063/ _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
