RE: [Freevo-users] Ideas for next major release wanted
Hello all! What I would like to see is the stream metadata display for web radios (such as in Winamp & others). It would show the stream name, current artist and title. I do not know if it is possible to implement with Mplayer, but at least it works with mp3 streams in Winamp and XMMS. Kari --- 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_idP47&alloc_id808&op=click ___ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
Re: [Freevo-users] Ideas for next major release wanted
Dirk Meyer wrote: This is also a good place to place a help request here: we need help to develop Freevo. Not only python programmers, we have many tasks on the todo list. So please, if you have some time, help us. If not, I guess the next major release will be 2005. I would love to help, and I know enough languages that I'm not afraid of Python. However, it would be much easier for developers new to Freevo if you took an hour to put together a "hacker's guide to Freevo" with some of the basic logic behind how things work. It took me a long time to decipher how some of the play threads were managed and I'm still not sure I get it all. Here are some sample questions that might be nice to answer: 1. What are the __init__.py files in each directory? 2. How does one interface with and control the current play list for the audio/video player(s). For instance, if you want to insert a new entry before the next item, how would you do this? How does one iterate across the play list to begin with? 3. What are some of these files for to begin with? There are 20-30 key main and sub-level directories. It might be nice to have a 1-2 sentence description of the files contained within and their function. It doesn't have to be long, but at least briefly descriptive would be nice. Here are the things I would write if I could even figure out where to start: 1. A function that would take the current audio item's author, iterate the playlist for the next occurrence, then insert that item after the current. (This is a "play another song by this person" function. You can also go by genre/source.) 2. While viewing a channel, or especially when switching, it might be nice to have a button (or during switching have an option to do this automatically) that briefly shows a bar with the TV guide row for that channel so you can see what's now playing and what's coming up. 3. It would be nice to have the password-protection controls a little easier to access. Specifically, the ability to enter numeric passwords via the remote. Maybe this is possible already, but it doesn't work for me and it's hard to set up anyway - I was thinking of something arrow-button-based. I would be more than happy to contribute documentation, as well, but I haven't wanted to start until I personally know more about Freevo. o Web: we also need a better WiKi and maybe someone to do all the web updates. Post some news and stuff like that. I don't know what is possible on sourceforge and what is not. Or if you have a root server somewere were you can host and maintain out website, that would be really cool. I'm a little confused by this one. You already have a fairly nice and relatively informative (if out of date) page on Sourceforge, at http://freevo.sourceforge.net/ Is there something this isn't letting you do? I maintain my own project home pages on Sourceforge and haven't had any complaints. Regards, Chad --- 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
Re: [Freevo-users] Ideas for next major release wanted
On Sep 4, 2004, at 5:46 PM, Robert Howlingdog wrote:
Hi.
First of all hi to everyone, this is my first post I guess - I am
newbie to this list and to Freevo as well. I have Freevo installed for
about 2 weeks only... Once the LIRC starts working for me I will be
more or less happy.
2Dirk: it is funny - you said GUI ideas.. and well... everyone is
throwing in any ideas :) .. and so will I...
To start with - and Dirk wrote about that - I would volunteer to help
and implement some parts of what I am proposing. However I do not dare
to say I would do it all myself for two reasons:
a) I am quite busy doing other stuff so if anyone would be waiting for
me to deliver some functionality.. s/he might get upset by delays ;)
b) more importantly - I do not know Python but might give it a try to
learn. I can do Java, PHP, HTML, JavaScript etc. if that helps for
"transformation" :) Would it be worth trying?
Also, I already tried to read the the devs website (2 weeks ago or so)
and this is something stopping me to try more - I cant find any
reasonable documentation :( Maybe I looke into wrong places but I did
not find any single starting point that would clear some questions I
have and would kick me to start.
Talking about documentation - where the hell is DTD for fxd files? Or
any COMPLETE example? I am open to admit I am totally blind but I
honestly tried to find it and failed :)
So - here are the things I am currently missing in Freevo. Unlike many
other Freevo users I am much more AUDIO oriented as I have only
terrestrial TV here (4 channels and more or less they all suck :) ).
Secondly, I am assuming that Freevo is part of home network
(=>internet) and so soem of the functions would need to be prepared by
other means than purely by remote controller.
The list , finally:
A) WEB INTERFACE
a.1) playlist creation and management - for video and audio. Before
you ask - yes playlist for videos. I download a lot of muic clips and
so that makes sense to me :)
a.2) remote control over the web - PLAY feature :) + ENQUEUE
a.3) move/copy files - inside the Freevo "sandbox" - directory
structure
B) GENERAL FEATURES
b.1) Random play of video files (maybe possible already by fxd file?
--- but have not found). Once again - reason is music clips
b.2) Random play over directory and all subdirectories
b.3) Maybe rating? Personal rating ("when I am alone"),
"family/flatmates" rating ("when everyone @home want to listen"),
party rating ("when I have guests") - and play according to these
modes -- so I would select "I am alone" .. and voila :)
Maybe it might be more generic -like custom creation and naming of the
"categories" for rating - and then play according to these.
Next is inspired by cute Rio Karma player, sorry :)
b.4) Play by genre (+random)
b.5) Play by artist (+random); this could be done by implementing b.3
if the user organizes the files accordingly. But why dont we use
freevo cache, database for this?
b.6) Play by "years" :) - Sounds of 70s, 80s, 90s ... you know? ;)
b.7) Whats new? Play whatever is new in Freevo in last
days/weeks/months
b.8) What I really like about Karma is "Entertain me" - which is the
playlist of most popular songs. Plugin that seems to do this for XMMS
is here: http://www.luminal.org/wiki/index.php/IMMS/IMMS
b.9) and "Forgotten gems" - something I liked but have not heard for
days/weeks/months
b.10) and well, generic "Reminder" - something I have not heard for
days/weeks/months. There _is_ a difference compared to
b.9.
OK, I do not know whether you like at least some ideas or not, or
whether it makes all sense to anyone else than myself :) As I said, I
am willing to help with some parts of this.. I would be interested
mostly in improving the web interface.
Don't kill me, please, and have a nice weekend.
R
From: Dirk Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [Freevo-users] Ideas for next major release wanted
Date: Sat, 04 Sep 2004 11:08:10 +0200
Hi,
I'm searching for new cool gui ideas for the next major release of
Freevo. Only gui ideas for now, I don't have time to implement much
these days. For most of the ideas it would be great if you can send a
fake screenshot. Just take gimp or any other program you like and draw
a screenshot how you want Freevo to look like. Also add information if
some parts of the screenshot should fade or move it.
o Image viewer: When pressing the DISPLAY button you see a box with
some additional informations. How should that look like in the
future? And were to get the information? Right now Freevo supports
'bins' xml files for additional stuff, but what do you use to add
descriptions to an image?
o Video: The next version of Freevo will support to draw on mplayer
and maybe also xine. If you press DISPLAY, you will see that. How
should it look like? I guess current time, maybe a slider and the
text. But I need fake screenshots. And when DISPLAY is not pressed
an
Re: [Freevo-users] Ideas for next major release wanted
I agree with this. We, my family, love our Freevo Box, but I am the only one who can do stuff. I do the IMDB lookups, configure all the directory locations / options. While this is not onerous to me, it means that I can't easily set up a freevo unit for freinds/ relatives. My Freevo box is mainly used to play movies by the way. It has a tv card in it, we just watch tv on the tv and have very limited requirements for recording shows. In short, a builtin gui for the freevo.conf Cheers (You did ask :) I agree. Our family watches zero broadcast television. All television programming we watch comes via bittorrent so we can get (near) HDTV in an area with no HDTV signal, or DVD's.. What I would like in the next release is a solid interface with bittorrent, a bug free method of ripping DVD's, and a way to organize and refresh web radio listings. I would guess that the core users of Freevo are like me, because, no offense, but MythTV does a much better job of recording live TV, but lacks in the other dept.'s -- Michael Osten http://www.bleepyou.com/~mosten/pgp.txt PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part
RE: [Freevo-users] Ideas for next major release wanted
Hi.
First of all hi to everyone, this is my first post I guess - I am newbie to
this list and to Freevo as well. I have Freevo installed for about 2 weeks
only... Once the LIRC starts working for me I will be more or less happy.
2Dirk: it is funny - you said GUI ideas.. and well... everyone is throwing
in any ideas :) .. and so will I...
To start with - and Dirk wrote about that - I would volunteer to help and
implement some parts of what I am proposing. However I do not dare to say I
would do it all myself for two reasons:
a) I am quite busy doing other stuff so if anyone would be waiting for me to
deliver some functionality.. s/he might get upset by delays ;)
b) more importantly - I do not know Python but might give it a try to learn.
I can do Java, PHP, HTML, JavaScript etc. if that helps for
"transformation" :) Would it be worth trying?
Also, I already tried to read the the devs website (2 weeks ago or so) and
this is something stopping me to try more - I cant find any reasonable
documentation :( Maybe I looke into wrong places but I did not find any
single starting point that would clear some questions I have and would kick
me to start.
Talking about documentation - where the hell is DTD for fxd files? Or any
COMPLETE example? I am open to admit I am totally blind but I honestly tried
to find it and failed :)
So - here are the things I am currently missing in Freevo. Unlike many other
Freevo users I am much more AUDIO oriented as I have only terrestrial TV
here (4 channels and more or less they all suck :) ).
Secondly, I am assuming that Freevo is part of home network (=>internet) and
so soem of the functions would need to be prepared by other means than
purely by remote controller.
The list , finally:
A) WEB INTERFACE
a.1) playlist creation and management - for video and audio. Before you ask
- yes playlist for videos. I download a lot of muic clips and so that makes
sense to me :)
a.2) remote control over the web - PLAY feature :) + ENQUEUE
a.3) move/copy files - inside the Freevo "sandbox" - directory structure
B) GENERAL FEATURES
b.1) Random play of video files (maybe possible already by fxd file? --- but
have not found). Once again - reason is music clips
b.2) Random play over directory and all subdirectories
b.3) Maybe rating? Personal rating ("when I am alone"), "family/flatmates"
rating ("when everyone @home want to listen"), party rating ("when I have
guests") - and play according to these modes -- so I would select "I am
alone" .. and voila :)
Maybe it might be more generic -like custom creation and naming of the
"categories" for rating - and then play according to these.
Next is inspired by cute Rio Karma player, sorry :)
b.4) Play by genre (+random)
b.5) Play by artist (+random); this could be done by implementing b.3 if the
user organizes the files accordingly. But why dont we use freevo cache,
database for this?
b.6) Play by "years" :) - Sounds of 70s, 80s, 90s ... you know? ;)
b.7) Whats new? Play whatever is new in Freevo in last
days/weeks/months
b.8) What I really like about Karma is "Entertain me" - which is the
playlist of most popular songs. Plugin that seems to do this for XMMS is
here: http://www.luminal.org/wiki/index.php/IMMS/IMMS
b.9) and "Forgotten gems" - something I liked but have not heard for days/weeks/months
b.10) and well, generic "Reminder" - something I have not heard for days/weeks/months. There _is_ a difference compared to b.9.
OK, I do not know whether you like at least some ideas or not, or whether it
makes all sense to anyone else than myself :) As I said, I am willing to
help with some parts of this.. I would be interested mostly in improving the
web interface.
Don't kill me, please, and have a nice weekend.
R
From: Dirk Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [Freevo-users] Ideas for next major release wanted
Date: Sat, 04 Sep 2004 11:08:10 +0200
Hi,
I'm searching for new cool gui ideas for the next major release of
Freevo. Only gui ideas for now, I don't have time to implement much
these days. For most of the ideas it would be great if you can send a
fake screenshot. Just take gimp or any other program you like and draw
a screenshot how you want Freevo to look like. Also add information if
some parts of the screenshot should fade or move it.
o Image viewer: When pressing the DISPLAY button you see a box with
some additional informations. How should that look like in the
future? And were to get the information? Right now Freevo supports
'bins' xml files for additional stuff, but what do you use to add
descriptions to an image?
o Video: The next version of Freevo will support to draw on mplayer
and maybe also xine. If you press DISPLAY, you will see that. How
should it look like? I guess current time, maybe a slider and the
text. But I need fake screenshots. And when DISPLAY is not pressed
and you seek, how should that look like?
o TV: similar to th
AW: [Freevo-users] Ideas for next major release wanted
Just put a plain-text file named .password into the folder and write the password into it, digits preffered, as they can be easily entered via remote! /jan -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Jess Mahan Gesendet: Samstag, 4. September 2004 23:05 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: [Freevo-users] Ideas for next major release wanted How about being able to password protect directories? I know that someone can circumvent this via going in via the command line, or via ssh, but would be nice so that the average use is restricted while in the freeevo interface. --- 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 --- 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_idP47&alloc_id808&op=click ___ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
Re: [Freevo-users] Ideas for next major release wanted
already present: http://freevo.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/DocumentationPage_2fUsageInfo#head-0f8cc4f34d7f062324d03aa0aea031c22c11c1c9 Mike Ruelle On Sat, 2004-09-04 at 17:05, Jess Mahan wrote: > How about being able to password protect directories? > > I know that someone can circumvent this via going in via the > command line, or via ssh, but would be nice so that the > average use is restricted while in the freeevo interface. > > > > --- > 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 --- 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
Re: [Freevo-users] Ideas for next major release wanted
On Sat, 2004-09-04 at 14:05 -0700, Jess Mahan wrote: > How about being able to password protect directories? Freevo can already do this. Cheers, Jason. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [Freevo-users] Ideas for next major release wanted
How about being able to password protect directories? I know that someone can circumvent this via going in via the command line, or via ssh, but would be nice so that the average use is restricted while in the freeevo interface. --- 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
Re: [Freevo-users] Ideas for next major release wanted
Fabio Papa wrote: Hi, one thing I sometime miss in freevo is the ability to do part of the configuration process from inside freevo. I agree with this. We, my family, love our Freevo Box, but I am the only one who can do stuff. I do the IMDB lookups, configure all the directory locations / options. While this is not onerous to me, it means that I can't easily set up a freevo unit for freinds/ relatives. My Freevo box is mainly used to play movies by the way. It has a tv card in it, we just watch tv on the tv and have very limited requirements for recording shows. In short, a builtin gui for the freevo.conf Cheers (You did ask :) --- 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
Re: [Freevo-users] Ideas for next major release wanted
Hi, one thing I sometime miss in freevo is the ability to do part of the configuration process from inside freevo. I mean, if I look at my set-top dvd player, it gives me tools to instruct its integrated dolby wheter I have 2 or 4 or 6 audio channel system. This would be helpful in freevo, I think. Maybe also other options, like default vo and filters could be included. Bye! ___ Yahoo! Companion - Scarica gratis la toolbar di Ricerca di Yahoo! http://companion.yahoo.it --- 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
[Freevo-users] cvs rel-1.5 crash
Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/src/freevo/src/helpers/webserver.py", line 49, in ? from twisted.internet import app File "/usr/local/lib/python2.3/site-packages/twisted/internet/app.py", line 42, in ? from twisted.internet import interfaces File "/usr/local/lib/python2.3/site-packages/twisted/internet/interfaces.py", line 25, in ? from twisted.python.components import Interface File "/usr/local/lib/python2.3/site-packages/twisted/python/components.py", line 22, in ? import reflect, util, context ValueError: bad marshal data --- 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
Re: [Freevo-users] Ideas for next major release wanted
Op za 04-09-2004, om 11:08 schreef Dirk Meyer: > Hi, > > I'm searching for new cool gui ideas for the next major release of > Freevo. > o Skin: everyone is welcome to also send skin ideas, how the basic > Freevo screen should look like. I'am very sorry to tell you that Freevo has it all all-ready... In other words: I'am also very sorry to tell you that freevo as it is is perfect all-ready... As thirth: I think freevo beats the others by far as it is... So as far as I'am conserned the only thing that could be bether is the default skin, personaly I like the crystal skin most, only thing missing on that is in the main menu a behaviour like mac-OS-X. (highlighting the selcted icon) Oh, and maybe the weather plugin standard builtin. In concreto, freevo is perfect, and I have no idea what can be added... Great Job!!! -- Groetjes Japie http://www.japie.deserver.nl Gnu/Linux 2.4.26 i686 Q: What's the difference between Windows 95 and a highly destructive virus? A: About 300 MB of hard disk space. ;^) --- 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
[Freevo-users] Re: Ideas for next major release wanted
"Faser" wrote: > Image Viewer were to get the information? How about EXIF? There are many > programs to read EXIF infos under Linux. (Please don't kill me if this is > already part of Freevo, don't have me box running). Exif is supported, but it only has minor informations. For my vacation pictures I want at least add a nice title, maybe a location, a small text and maybe a list of people on the photo. > One other suggestion (I don't know if easy or not) have direct access menus > on the top level (e.g. that I can define a new Menu to directly start a > certain radio station). I will think how to do that. Dischi -- FATAL ERROR! SYSTEM HALTED! - Press any key to do nothing... --- 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
RE: [Freevo-users] Ideas for next major release wanted
Hi Dischi, after saying thanks to all the developers I just want to quickly give one idea to your question. Image Viewer were to get the information? How about EXIF? There are many programs to read EXIF infos under Linux. (Please don't kill me if this is already part of Freevo, don't have me box running). One other suggestion (I don't know if easy or not) have direct access menus on the top level (e.g. that I can define a new Menu to directly start a certain radio station). Ciao Fred -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dirk Meyer Sent: Saturday, September 04, 2004 17:08 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Freevo-users] Ideas for next major release wanted Hi, I'm searching for new cool gui ideas for the next major release of Freevo. Only gui ideas for now, I don't have time to implement much these days. For most of the ideas it would be great if you can send a fake screenshot. Just take gimp or any other program you like and draw a screenshot how you want Freevo to look like. Also add information if some parts of the screenshot should fade or move it. o Image viewer: When pressing the DISPLAY button you see a box with some additional informations. How should that look like in the future? And were to get the information? Right now Freevo supports 'bins' xml files for additional stuff, but what do you use to add descriptions to an image? o Video: The next version of Freevo will support to draw on mplayer and maybe also xine. If you press DISPLAY, you will see that. How should it look like? I guess current time, maybe a slider and the text. But I need fake screenshots. And when DISPLAY is not pressed and you seek, how should that look like? o TV: similar to the video problem: what do you want to see when pressing DSIPLAY? And when you want to change the channel, would you like an OSD for that, too? How should that look? o Skin: everyone is welcome to also send skin ideas, how the basic Freevo screen should look like. For suggestions in this area, I will need more help: background and icon arts are needed here. And some basic navigation questions: IMHO there is a difference between selecting a channel for watching tv and selecting a program to record. Freevo cvs supports switching to channel view to select a show for record. It's much faster that way to select a program in two days from now. So how should these two menus look like? What keys to you want to press to toggle between these two? This is also a good place to place a help request here: we need help to develop Freevo. Not only python programmers, we have many tasks on the todo list. So please, if you have some time, help us. If not, I guess the next major release will be 2005. We need help in the following areas: o Python: if you know Python or are willing to learn it (very easy), please send patches to current cvs to make it work again. Most plugins are deactivated because of the rewrite of the main core. Or send new plugins doing all the stuff you want Freevo to do. If someone wants a bigger part like reworking the tv area (Rob can't do that alone if you don't want the next release in 2005), just tell us. o C: cvs uses mevas as render engine. Right now, it supports output via pygame, imlib2, bmovl, bmovl2 and ivtv_fb. Some of these display engines need more work and we also need more. Those who don't like the dxr3-sdl patch: this is a good time to write a dxr3 output canvas. If you want to help and don't know how, just ask. We also need someone writing a xine plugin to display our osd in it. o Docs: old problem, still no solution. We need more and better docs. Fill the WiKi with stuff you know, create a nice Freevo doc with docbook or something similar. Please help us here. o Web: we also need a better WiKi and maybe someone to do all the web updates. Post some news and stuff like that. I don't know what is possible on sourceforge and what is not. Or if you have a root server somewere were you can host and maintain out website, that would be really cool. o Skins: we need artists! We need backgrounds, icons and ideas how the skin should look like. That's it for now, waiting for feedback Dischi -- I say no to drugs, They just don't listen... --- 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 --- 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] Ideas for next major release wanted
Hi, I'm searching for new cool gui ideas for the next major release of Freevo. Only gui ideas for now, I don't have time to implement much these days. For most of the ideas it would be great if you can send a fake screenshot. Just take gimp or any other program you like and draw a screenshot how you want Freevo to look like. Also add information if some parts of the screenshot should fade or move it. o Image viewer: When pressing the DISPLAY button you see a box with some additional informations. How should that look like in the future? And were to get the information? Right now Freevo supports 'bins' xml files for additional stuff, but what do you use to add descriptions to an image? o Video: The next version of Freevo will support to draw on mplayer and maybe also xine. If you press DISPLAY, you will see that. How should it look like? I guess current time, maybe a slider and the text. But I need fake screenshots. And when DISPLAY is not pressed and you seek, how should that look like? o TV: similar to the video problem: what do you want to see when pressing DSIPLAY? And when you want to change the channel, would you like an OSD for that, too? How should that look? o Skin: everyone is welcome to also send skin ideas, how the basic Freevo screen should look like. For suggestions in this area, I will need more help: background and icon arts are needed here. And some basic navigation questions: IMHO there is a difference between selecting a channel for watching tv and selecting a program to record. Freevo cvs supports switching to channel view to select a show for record. It's much faster that way to select a program in two days from now. So how should these two menus look like? What keys to you want to press to toggle between these two? This is also a good place to place a help request here: we need help to develop Freevo. Not only python programmers, we have many tasks on the todo list. So please, if you have some time, help us. If not, I guess the next major release will be 2005. We need help in the following areas: o Python: if you know Python or are willing to learn it (very easy), please send patches to current cvs to make it work again. Most plugins are deactivated because of the rewrite of the main core. Or send new plugins doing all the stuff you want Freevo to do. If someone wants a bigger part like reworking the tv area (Rob can't do that alone if you don't want the next release in 2005), just tell us. o C: cvs uses mevas as render engine. Right now, it supports output via pygame, imlib2, bmovl, bmovl2 and ivtv_fb. Some of these display engines need more work and we also need more. Those who don't like the dxr3-sdl patch: this is a good time to write a dxr3 output canvas. If you want to help and don't know how, just ask. We also need someone writing a xine plugin to display our osd in it. o Docs: old problem, still no solution. We need more and better docs. Fill the WiKi with stuff you know, create a nice Freevo doc with docbook or something similar. Please help us here. o Web: we also need a better WiKi and maybe someone to do all the web updates. Post some news and stuff like that. I don't know what is possible on sourceforge and what is not. Or if you have a root server somewere were you can host and maintain out website, that would be really cool. o Skins: we need artists! We need backgrounds, icons and ideas how the skin should look like. That's it for now, waiting for feedback Dischi -- I say no to drugs, They just don't listen... --- 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
