Hei Dischi great to hear that freevo 2 is back on the road! For me, the main plus of freevo 1.x is the simple plugin API... and the powerfull configuration options.
Is there allready a plan, how the plugins can be used/reused in freevo 2? is there a new API or just copy and past of the old ones? Andreas Am Sonntag, 17. Juli 2011, um 11.47:46 schrieb Dirk Meyer: > Hi everyone, > > please read this if you are a Freebo user, even if you are no developer > at all. I have been thinking about the future of Freevo 2.0 and need all > your help to get it going somehow. > > I tried XBMC some days ago and while it looks very nice, it forces me to > organize my media collection in a way I don't want to and has some > usability issues (IMHO). Therefore, I still need Freevo. :) > > The main problem with Freevo 2.0 is my and Jason's lack of time the last > year. Development was not only slow, it wasn't existant. I now have one > Freevo-hacking day in my calender each week which may be dropped if the > weather is too good but it is there and I plan to use it. There are some > minor issues I will fix no matter what happens. But I do not have the > time to finish Freevo 2.0 to make it look and feel like I want. If you > want to help in any way, please answer to this mail and we can discuss > it. If you need help to start (like kaa.base help), feel free to ask. > Jason and I can both answer your questions. Jason: I assign your name to > some smaller stuff here, I hope it is OK. ;) > > Freevo Core: > > 1. kaa.base is done and has all the cool stuff I want. If there is a > bug, Jason and I will take care of it. But it shouldn't be much. > > 2. kaa.metadata is also done. Maybe add or change a parser, but that is > not important right now. Patches are always welcome. > > 3. kaa.imlib2 is also working as it should and it does not play a big > role in the Freevo 2.0 core. > > 4. The Freevo core directory is also mostly done. There are some minor > bugs in the playlist stuff but it should be easy to fix. The menu reload > also has some problems I need to investigate. > > To summarize: the core is mostly done and the remaining points are on my > TODO list and I will fix them. Now the bigger problems: GUI. The > clutter-based GUI can do nice stuff but needs some more work. > > 5. kaa.candy has the basics, but may need some nice effects like > mirror-effect, better animations, etc. It has everything we need to make > Freevo 2.0 work but it could be nicer. If you know C (Python not needed) > and want to play with clutter or if you now Python and want to dive into > kaa.candy, drop me a note. You only need to know kaa.base and clutter as > dependency. > > 6. XBMC looks soooo cool. The big background images, the animations. > Nice! We do have the code in Freevo 2.0 to do the same (even support to > grab TV show or movie specific wallpapers and images). I need help from > a designer to make look Freevo even better. Can someone make a fake > screenshot how Freevo should look like? Can someone provide nice > wallpapers (CC licence)? This is one of the things I can not do myself. > > The GUI stuff needs help from you. C programmers, Python programmers and > artists. Or if you cannot help with that, tell us what you want to have. > Let's dive into the media plugins: > > 7. kaa.beacon is mostly done. I have some minor things on my list I will > do the next weeks. The big problem is a better network support. Jason: > we talked about distributed beacon servers. Do you still plan to do > this? Do you still have time for it? > > 8. kaa.popcorn (or video player) needs clutter support to write on a > texture. This would enable us to draw on top of the video and put it on > the background. Again: help needed here. we could either put the mplayer > output on a texture or use gstreamer. Jason played with the first option > but the code is not finished yet. Jason: do you think you can finish it? > Others: do you want to help here? You need to understand kaa.base and > kaa.popcorn (which you could change to your needs). Besides that, > mplayer and/or gstreamer. The mplayer integration would also require C > and clutter knowledge. The gstreamer integration needs pygstreamer. And > we need to figure out how to integrate it with kaa.candy and the Freevo > core. That would be my task. > > 9. The image viewer could look nicer. If you want to help on this > smaller part of Freevo, feel free to tell me. > > 10. I have no time to work on TV support. I need help on working on the > TV server, the TV devices (e.g. dvbstreamer), the EPG, etc. This is one > of the major tasks I want to assign a new maintainer. > > And something different: > > 11. There is not webserver for Freevo 2.0. Anyone willing to take over > this part? You have complete control what you want to do. I guess you > have to know your HTML/CSS/JS-fu. > > 12. Android / iPhone support? Not needed but nice to have > > 13. Port plugins from Freevo 1.9 to 2.0 > > And last but not least: > > 14. It has been 2 or 3 years since I last asked for donations and I am > paying for the server and the domain on my own since the money run out. > It is only 11 EUR/month but it would be nice if some of you would help > me out here. You can use paypal and dis...@freevo.org for donations. > Thank you. > > Long mail and I hope to get some feedback. Who is willing to help? Code > C or Python? Clutter knowledge? Gstreamer? Web-stuff? Or a designer > without coding? It would be a shame if Freevo dies, but I cannot do this > alone. > > Regards, > > Dischi > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > --- AppSumo Presents a FREE Video for the SourceForge Community by Eric > Ries, the creator of the Lean Startup Methodology on "Lean Startup Secrets > Revealed." 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