Hi,
I used Freevo 1.x for years as HTPC only letting it go a year or two ago
as I didn't anymore need any multimedia center. As it worked great, I
had no reason to upgrade to anything else including Freevo 2.
Simply loved the things it could do. It could play _any_ music files,
even midi to hardware midi synthesizers, it could also play _any_
standard definition video file with great RGB picture quality to CRT TV
using matrox hardware. I don't think there is anything else out there
that can do these things.
In fact even with modern hardware it has the same strengths so for
anyone requiring some special functionality Freevo is still the way to go.
Anyway, about the server shutdown:
- Will the freevo web page (http://freevo.sourceforge.net/index.php)
still remain?
If not, I can host the web page BUT this would be on a home server that
can easily have a day or two downtime now and then and very rarely even
longer. However, the server has remained up for I guess 10 years now and
I plan on keeping it up for years to come. I can also host a version of
the wiki that is non-editable. If you don't get better offers then
please contact me Dirk and we will set it up.
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On 20.01.2014 20:38, Dirk Meyer wrote:
Hi,
I have no idea how many people still read this list, how many people
still use Freevo 1.x, and how many people use 2.0 from git (I guess that
is only me).
I failed to get a release of Freevo 2 out. I changed too much, a
complete rewrite and some parts are also written three or four times. My
fault, I know -- an error made years ago and when noticed, it was too
late to change it. And since I started a new job four years ago my time
working on Freevo got smaller and smaller every month. Jason also is
completely busy with his job.
I still say Freevo 2 is ready to use, but I will not release it. I'm not
sure it works with the latest clutter or gstreamer, I only know it works
for me. It lacks many important features such as DVD playback (I have a
BluRay Player) and TV recording. I do not need it and I don't have time
to code it.
Besides that, XBMC has a much bigger community, UPnP is enough for many
people (even I use NAS + BubbleUPnP + TV sometimes) and new development
such as Chromecast will reduce Freevo's usefulness even further.
I will continue to use Freevo 2, I may even write an Android client for
it (after learning Python with Freevo which was useful for getting my
current job, hacking Android is a good next step), but I see no real
future for Freevo without a live community and more people hacking code.
If someone contributes something, I will add it. If someone needs help
to get Freevo 2 running, I will provide it.
Since we also lack someone maintaining the server we host and I do not
want to pay for something we don't need, I will shut it down at the end
of February. This means the SVN and the Wiki will be gone. If someone
wants a backup of the Wiki please tell me. The code is already on github
and will remain there. The mailing list on SF will continue and so will
the mail server hosting freevo.org and all mail addresses will continue
to be valid.
Maybe after some time someone resurrects Freevo. I would love to pass
the maintainership over to someone just as I took it over from Krister
years ago. Maybe someone takes the kaa-stuff and writes something new
and better. I'm happy to assist and I think the same is true for Jason.
Maybe I will release something someday based on the current code.
It was a great time, I learned a lot and it was much fun.
Regards,
Dischi
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