Re: [Freevo-users] (re) Ideas for next major release wanted
Warning - completely not freevo related, just chatting... Eric Bus wrote: Dale Cooper wrote: Hum, on the other hand, is anyone actually recording movies from TV to _keep_ them? I mean - we have got DVD, right... and if not then P2P :) I for one hate movies run on TV for these reasons: In my case: no :) Yup, neither do I. Cable TV here is always 4:3, so all 16:9 movies are cropped. Quality is not as good as DVD and you have to remove the commercials. So the only reason I record TV is for normal shows that don't come out on DVD or that are 4:3 by origin. P! Cable TV. I have no cable :( I am in "developing" country, living in "bad location" when it comes to cable companies. They just won't put cable here .. frs. And I am living in the capital city, LOL. However we have quite good (state-owned) channel with no advertisements. It is sort of prostitute - it becomes whatever they want. E.g. for the time of the olympics it was a "sport channel" for 24 hrs a day :) There are interesting movies from time to time, subtitled and these would be worth recording for me. Currently they are broadcasting all Kubrick's movies, sometimes they do all (or most) Woody Allen's movies. ... and yes, that was them who broadcasted Twin Peaks for me :) a) it is in 99% dubbed (not VO). Thats why I bought DVD to watch it in English, French, German, Chinese... whatever the original was... (ah -with subtitles, of course :) ) Fortunately most programs here are in the original language with subtitles. Yes, I envy the TV in Netherland. Although it is funny - the "patterns". I am in Amster regularly, every year in the middle of September. And there are the same movies on TV, every year :) Maybe just a coincidence :) However I guess the French and Germans are having the same problems as we (Czechs) - too many movies dubbed. b) sound is just stereo, not DD, DTS, 5+1 Depends on your source ofcourse. Digital TV has MPEG2 video with 5.1 sound. In theory, because most programs are still broadcasted in Stereo :) hehe, Digital TV here is _experimental_ only, working in 2 cities and nothing is for sure. The politicians can't agree on the multiplexes and arghhh. It would just made me angry if I kept writing... so I will stop here :) ...I guess, this should go to some other for.. ahhm...list as this is really not freevo related :) Anyway, have a nice weekend, everyone. Dale --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IT Product Guide on ITManagersJournal Use IT products in your business? Tell us what you think of them. Give us Your Opinions, Get Free ThinkGeek Gift Certificates! Click to find out more http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/guidepromo.tmpl ___ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
Re: [Freevo-users] (re) Ideas for next major release wanted
Citeren Dale Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: | Hum, on the other hand, is anyone actually recording movies from TV to | _keep_ them? I mean - we have got DVD, right... and if not then P2P :) I | for one hate movies run on TV for these reasons: Depends on what you mean by "keep". Forever: no, couple of months:yes. I record some series but only find time now and then to watch them. The list of recorded episodes can grow pretty long (over 60 GB) on my freevo box. | a) it is in 99% dubbed (not VO). Thats why I bought DVD to watch it in | English, French, German, Chinese... whatever the original was... (ah | -with subtitles, of course :) ) I spent one night in a hotel in Switserland this summer and found that on all channels the movies were dubbed... very annoying indeed. How come they don't use subtitles? It must be cheaper to do that I guess. The story of German television I heard is that a vast percentage of the germans still cannot read (!). Maybe an ape-sandwich :-) story though. Richard --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IT Product Guide on ITManagersJournal Use IT products in your business? Tell us what you think of them. Give us Your Opinions, Get Free ThinkGeek Gift Certificates! Click to find out more http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/guidepromo.tmpl ___ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
Re: [Freevo-users] (re) Ideas for next major release wanted
Dale Cooper wrote: Hum, on the other hand, is anyone actually recording movies from TV to _keep_ them? I mean - we have got DVD, right... and if not then P2P :) I for one hate movies run on TV for these reasons: In my case: no :) Cable TV here is always 4:3, so all 16:9 movies are cropped. Quality is not as good as DVD and you have to remove the commercials. So the only reason I record TV is for normal shows that don't come out on DVD or that are 4:3 by origin. a) it is in 99% dubbed (not VO). Thats why I bought DVD to watch it in English, French, German, Chinese... whatever the original was... (ah -with subtitles, of course :) ) Fortunately most programs here are in the original language with subtitles. b) sound is just stereo, not DD, DTS, 5+1 Depends on your source ofcourse. Digital TV has MPEG2 video with 5.1 sound. In theory, because most programs are still broadcasted in Stereo :) Eric --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IT Product Guide on ITManagersJournal Use IT products in your business? Tell us what you think of them. Give us Your Opinions, Get Free ThinkGeek Gift Certificates! Click to find out more http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/guidepromo.tmpl ___ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
[Freevo-users] (re) Ideas for next major release wanted
Hi. Do not know whether am duplicating this one .. or maybe it is available already. Have not setup finished so can't say. But what about different formats for the final recorded video file? I mean - some sort of equivalent of LP and SP on the regular VHS VCR? Or should we (users) do this outside of freevo? "LP" (=lower bitrate and this stuff) would be obviously usefull for recording long lasting series for example. While SP for regular movies. Hum, on the other hand, is anyone actually recording movies from TV to _keep_ them? I mean - we have got DVD, right... and if not then P2P :) I for one hate movies run on TV for these reasons: a) it is in 99% dubbed (not VO). Thats why I bought DVD to watch it in English, French, German, Chinese... whatever the original was... (ah -with subtitles, of course :) ) b) sound is just stereo, not DD, DTS, 5+1 Cheers, Dale
[Freevo-users] Re: Ideas for next major release wanted
Florian Demmer wrote:
> favorites with the same name should be allowed...
>
> for example:
> i get a channel that shows old season one csi on tuesday and season
> four on thursday. i could make a fav for all csi in the schedule, but
> this would also record the replays on wednesday and friday, which
> would collide with other shows to record...
Looking in the code (never tried), it should be possible. But there
was a problem with the recordserver, try the following patch.
Dischi
*** recordserver.py.cvs Fri Sep 17 21:51:47 2004
--- recordserver.py Fri Sep 17 21:50:43 2004
***
*** 421,426
--- 421,433
# Hey, something is already recording!
if prog.start - 10 <= now:
# our new recording should start no later than now!
+ # check if the new prog is a favorite and the current running is
+ # not. If so, the user manually added something, we guess it
+ # has a higher priority.
+ if self.isProgAFavorite(prog)[0] and \
+not self.isProgAFavorite(currently_recording)[0]:
+ _debug_('ignore %s' % String(prog))
+ continue
sr.removeProgram(currently_recording,
tv_util.getKey(currently_recording))
plugin.getbyname('RECORD').Stop()
***
*** 608,615
if prog.title == fav.title:
if fav.channel == tv_util.get_chan_displayname(prog.channel_id) \
or fav.channel == 'ANY':
! if fav.dow == dow or fav.dow == 'ANY':
! if fav.mod == min_of_day or fav.mod == 'ANY':
return (TRUE, fav.name)
elif abs(int(fav.mod) - int(min_of_day)) <= 8:
return (TRUE, fav.name)
--- 615,623
if prog.title == fav.title:
if fav.channel == tv_util.get_chan_displayname(prog.channel_id) \
or fav.channel == 'ANY':
! if Unicode(fav.dow) == Unicode(dow) or Unicode(fav.dow) == u'ANY':
! if Unicode(fav.mod) == Unicode(min_of_day) or \
!Unicode(fav.mod) == u'ANY':
return (TRUE, fav.name)
elif abs(int(fav.mod) - int(min_of_day)) <= 8:
return (TRUE, fav.name)
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[Freevo-users] Re: Ideas for next major release wanted
Hi, sorry for the late answer. This answer mail is an answer to all configure ideas send in this thread. First of all: it would be cool to have an easier way to configure Freevo. But since my todo list is very long, I won't have time to do that. There are two starts for this somewere, but both didn't get finished. Mick wrote: > On Sun, 2004-09-05 at 07:52, Michael Osten wrote: >> > >> > 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 don;t quite think thats what he was asking.. This 'feature' does no > exist right now. I'd be happy to help get it started. But it is very > complex. Yes, it is. There are different ways for setting stuff: o local_conf.py: it should still be possible to use that file, it is easier for testing. o inside freevo: you have limited control with a remote (no complex texts) o use of the webserver > Firstly: how to get the options? There needs to be a way for freevo to > tell the user (or the plugin) exactly what options are available? > > Maybe a meta search on config()? Obviously, the documentation is no the > best ;-) So, this method would allow for the "config plugin" to include > config for activated plugins.. Actually, I'm quite chuffed with this > idea... There should be a new file for all config variables for this. It should contain the name, default value, doc and value type (list, string, int, list of list of string). About the plugins: we need a new way to detect: what plugins are there? What options do they have? > Lets look at how to assign the dir to store tv recording: how? > i) text box? > ii) file system select. I guess from inside freevo you can't do very complex stuff. Maybe settings this is part of the webserver. > But: the real issue is this: > How to get the config loaded? Right now freevo needs a restart on any > config change. Is this ever going to change? If not, in shutdown we > need a few more options: > i) soft restart (init.d/freevo restart) > ii) hard restart (reboot) Some variables can be changed without restart, others can't. I guess we should add an option 'restart freevo'. Dischi -- Well, I want to die quietly, peacefully, in my sleep like Grandpa did. Not screaming and crying like his passengers. pgpkY1H906T5V.pgp Description: PGP signature
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Jon Scheer wrote: > First off, I want to say that Freevo is great, and if you never made > any changes to it again my wife and I would still love it and continue > to use it. :-) Thanks. > Concerning ideas for future releases, when navigating menus, I think > it would be nice if the menu option you selected was briefly > highlighted (say, for 250msec) before going into that menu (like on > many DVD players). I use LIRC to control Freevo (from any TV location > in the house), and every now and then when I push a button on the > remote Freevo (LIRC, really) detects it as multiple presses. Thus, I > may be at the top level of the menu, then when I press the button I'm > suddenly 3 levels down. Having a brief delay before going into the > menu would not only help to know where one is about to go, but it > would make it look/work like many (all?) DVD players, etc. Nice idea, I will keep that in mind. Dischi -- I pretend to work. They pretend to pay me. pgpySfVm16TBj.pgp Description: PGP signature
[Freevo-users] Re: Ideas for next major release wanted
Graham Pitt wrote: > mentioned before, i'm sure but how about: > > - all configuration done from menus Not that easy, see a second mail from me about that later today. > - a plugin download, installation and uninstallation menu from a sub > menu of freevo 1. will only work with configuration inside Freevo 2. will only work if plugins use the setup.py interface from freevo. > - a skins download, installation and uninstallation menu from a sub > menu of freevo we need more skins to need that Dischi -- On-line, adj.: The idea that a human being should always be accessible to a computer. pgpouPpLBbwxU.pgp Description: PGP signature
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shadow wrote: > First of all, thanks for all the great work so far. Thanks. > I would also like better support for other languages, especially > Chinese and Japanese, mainly because I watched anime on it. This is > referring to displaying text/metadata and filenames will > chinese/japanese characters in them. I won't do that, I have no such files / fonts. But I will except any patch regarding different languages. > Better developer documentation will be nice too, so I can have a go at > hacking the source (even though I know nothing about python :) ). I'm on it right now. The next major version should have a better code doc. Dischi -- /dev/brain0 was not cleanly unmounted, check forced: e2fsck 1.14, 9-Jan-1999 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09 e2fsck: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read while trying to open /dev/brain0 Could this be a zero-length partition? pgpiJKPgGtuPh.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [Freevo-users] Re: Ideas for next major release wanted
that's exactly I was looking for ... ;-) best regards Christian On Wednesday 22 September 2004 07:44, Tom Van den Bon wrote: > Already there, > > Its an mplayer visualisation plugin, and it uses pygoom. Its called > video.mplayer-vis. > > Tom > > Christian Nebl wrote: > >One thing might be cool also: > > > >how about a visualisation plugin when listening to music ? > > > >best regards > > > >Christian > > --- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by: YOU BE THE JUDGE. Be one of 170 > Project Admins to receive an Apple iPod Mini FREE for your judgement on > who ports your project to Linux PPC the best. Sponsored by IBM. > Deadline: Sept. 24. Go here: http://sf.net/ppc_contest.php > ___ > Freevo-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users -- Programmers never die: They just GOSUB without RETURN. -- --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: YOU BE THE JUDGE. Be one of 170 Project Admins to receive an Apple iPod Mini FREE for your judgement on who ports your project to Linux PPC the best. Sponsored by IBM. Deadline: Sept. 24. Go here: http://sf.net/ppc_contest.php ___ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
[Freevo-users] Re: Ideas for next major release wanted
Mick wrote:
> There have beeb many good, no great suggestions for improving freevo.
> Who want to volunteer to colate a list a ideas? Alot of them have been
> suggested a number fo times by a number of different users.. Meaning
> most fo them could probably help to create them if only they knew there
> were other people willing to help in the process...
Great idea. It would be very helpfull if someone could create a nice
text file with the ideas:
o idea subject
description (long, copy and paste from different mails)
message-ids and mail address from the mails about this
o next idea
[...]
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Re: [Freevo-users] Re: Ideas for next major release wanted
Already there, Its an mplayer visualisation plugin, and it uses pygoom. Its called video.mplayer-vis. Tom Christian Nebl wrote: One thing might be cool also: how about a visualisation plugin when listening to music ? best regards Christian --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: YOU BE THE JUDGE. Be one of 170 Project Admins to receive an Apple iPod Mini FREE for your judgement on who ports your project to Linux PPC the best. Sponsored by IBM. Deadline: Sept. 24. Go here: http://sf.net/ppc_contest.php ___ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
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On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 03:40, Ole Andre Schistad wrote: > One thing that I personally miss and would find very useful is a menu > hook for creating and manipulating fxd files. Quite often there are > files that for some reason or other don't play back properly unless you > add custom parameters. It could be that the aspect ratio is wrong, or > that it needs a specific codec to play back. While all of this can be > fixed from the command like, those of us who run freevo on dedicated > boxes need to log in to the system remotely from another computer and do > it from there. > I like this idea. I just the other day had a telecine'd movie which *really* needed some specific config to get the ratio right. A plugin to create an fxd for a file, with some inteligent option-like menu would be great. There have beeb many good, no great suggestions for improving freevo. Who want to volunteer to colate a list a ideas? Alot of them have been suggested a number fo times by a number of different users.. Meaning most fo them could probably help to create them if only they knew there were other people willing to help in the process... > A second suggestion is to add hotkeys to freevo that work in all > contexts, including during movie playback, so that a freeze of the SDL > gui, Freevo itself, mplayer, what have you, can be solved by a keypress > and not by remote logon (again thinking dedicated box here). At least a > way to trigger /etc/init.d/freevo restart from the remote would be nice, > possibly also a ctr-alt-del event. Not sure how doable these are, but > they would be useful methinks. > Manu freevo users don't have a keyboard.. (at least I don't). Mick --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: YOU BE THE JUDGE. Be one of 170 Project Admins to receive an Apple iPod Mini FREE for your judgement on who ports your project to Linux PPC the best. Sponsored by IBM. Deadline: Sept. 24. Go here: http://sf.net/ppc_contest.php ___ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
[Freevo-users] Re: Ideas for next major release wanted
One thing that I personally miss and would find very useful is a menu hook for creating and manipulating fxd files. Quite often there are files that for some reason or other don't play back properly unless you add custom parameters. It could be that the aspect ratio is wrong, or that it needs a specific codec to play back. While all of this can be fixed from the command like, those of us who run freevo on dedicated boxes need to log in to the system remotely from another computer and do it from there. What I suggest is a hook to create an fxd file for all media files in a folder from the directory context menu, and ways in which to change the mplayer-parameters inside those fxd files from a drop-down list. The actual parameter list should be configurable by the user, and ideally also chainable (ie, multiselect will concatenate all your choices into one mplayer-options line). I think this would save a lot of hassle for many of us. A second suggestion is to add hotkeys to freevo that work in all contexts, including during movie playback, so that a freeze of the SDL gui, Freevo itself, mplayer, what have you, can be solved by a keypress and not by remote logon (again thinking dedicated box here). At least a way to trigger /etc/init.d/freevo restart from the remote would be nice, possibly also a ctr-alt-del event. Not sure how doable these are, but they would be useful methinks. -- Ole --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: YOU BE THE JUDGE. Be one of 170 Project Admins to receive an Apple iPod Mini FREE for your judgement on who ports your project to Linux PPC the best. Sponsored by IBM. Deadline: Sept. 24. Go here: http://sf.net/ppc_contest.php ___ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
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Uhm, huh? Sorry, but we already have that! =) Cheers, /jan -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Christian Nebl Gesendet: Dienstag, 21. September 2004 18:33 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: [Freevo-users] Re: Ideas for next major release wanted One thing might be cool also: how about a visualisation plugin when listening to music ? best regards Christian -- Programmers never die: They just GOSUB without RETURN. -- --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: YOU BE THE JUDGE. Be one of 170 Project Admins to receive an Apple iPod Mini FREE for your judgement on who ports your project to Linux PPC the best. Sponsored by IBM. Deadline: Sept. 24. Go here: http://sf.net/ppc_contest.php ___ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: YOU BE THE JUDGE. Be one of 170 Project Admins to receive an Apple iPod Mini FREE for your judgement on who ports your project to Linux PPC the best. Sponsored by IBM. Deadline: Sept. 24. Go here: http://sf.net/ppc_contest.php ___ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
Re: [Freevo-users] Re: Ideas for next major release wanted
allthough there are some problems reported: video.mplayer-vis works fine for me
/etc/freevo/local_conf.py
plugin.activate('audio.mplayervis')
press '0' on your remote or keyboard
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> One thing might be cool also:
>
> how about a visualisation plugin when listening to music ?
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> best regards
>
> Christian
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Re: [Freevo-users] Re: Ideas for next major release wanted
mentioned before, i'm sure but how about: - all configuration done from menus - a plugin download, installation and uninstallation menu from a sub menu of freevo - a skins download, installation and uninstallation menu from a sub menu of freevo - if freevo crashes the system starts with the last known good configuration just my crappy ideas. graham On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 17:32, Christian Nebl wrote: > One thing might be cool also: > > how about a visualisation plugin when listening to music ? > > best regards > > Christian --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: YOU BE THE JUDGE. Be one of 170 Project Admins to receive an Apple iPod Mini FREE for your judgement on who ports your project to Linux PPC the best. Sponsored by IBM. Deadline: Sept. 24. Go here: http://sf.net/ppc_contest.php ___ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
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One thing might be cool also: how about a visualisation plugin when listening to music ? best regards Christian -- Programmers never die: They just GOSUB without RETURN. -- --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: YOU BE THE JUDGE. Be one of 170 Project Admins to receive an Apple iPod Mini FREE for your judgement on who ports your project to Linux PPC the best. Sponsored by IBM. Deadline: Sept. 24. Go here: http://sf.net/ppc_contest.php ___ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
[Freevo-users] Re: Ideas for next major release wanted
Ducson Nguyen wrote: > One thing that might be nice: > > I update my listings every night, which of course updates my > favorites. For the most part this is good, but if one of the episodes > that's up for recording is one I don't care about, I'd like to be able > to delete it in such a way that updating the listings won't re-add it > to the recording queue. > > Not a big deal, obviously. At the moment, I just wait until the day of > the recording to delete it. We know, it's on our todo list already. Dischi -- Calm down -- it's only ones and zeroes. pgpYhfF8rsoIY.pgp Description: PGP signature
[Freevo-users] Re: Ideas for next major release wanted
One thing that might be nice: I update my listings every night, which of course updates my favorites. For the most part this is good, but if one of the episodes that's up for recording is one I don't care about, I'd like to be able to delete it in such a way that updating the listings won't re-add it to the recording queue. Not a big deal, obviously. At the moment, I just wait until the day of the recording to delete it. --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: YOU BE THE JUDGE. Be one of 170 Project Admins to receive an Apple iPod Mini FREE for your judgement on who ports your project to Linux PPC the best. Sponsored by IBM. Deadline: Sept. 24. Go here: http://sf.net/ppc_contest.php ___ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
[Freevo-users] Re: Ideas for next major release wanted
I second the idea of allowing configuration over the web. You'd need different levels of access, however. An admin access level and a normal user level. That way, my roommate or girlfriend can't destroy the box. Right now I can't think of anything else (beyond what has been suggested). It's a damn good product. But I'll emphasize making it easier to record live TV. Gotta account for the times when you're scanning the channel guide and think, "Holy crap! Gotta record that!" when the show in question is currently playing. Thanks for the hard work! I too would like to participate in development, so I'll be brushing up on Python ASAP. Duc --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: YOU BE THE JUDGE. Be one of 170 Project Admins to receive an Apple iPod Mini FREE for your judgement on who ports your project to Linux PPC the best. Sponsored by IBM. Deadline: Sept. 13. Go here: http://sf.net/ppc_contest.php ___ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
[Freevo-users] Re: Ideas for next major release wanted
Dale Cooper wrote:
> 2Dirk: it is funny - you said GUI ideas.. and well... everyone is
> throwing in any ideas :) .. and so will I...
No one is listening to poor Zathras
> 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?
Java is good. There is a nice tutorial on Python.org
> 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.
Most doc is inside the code. And that is also incomlete. If missing
doc is the main problem for people helping, I guess I should add it :)
> 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 :)
There are some docs what is possible in the Docs dir. But there is no
complete DTD, sorry. Maybe someone can provide it. The doc is in the
Docs dir and inside the code (urgs). Just grep for .
> 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 :) ).
Germany? I only ask because our program sucks, too :)
> 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
The web interface has very basic features right now. I like ideas 1
and 2, someone has to expand the web interface for 1 and after freevo
has a mbus interface 2 are about 10 lines of code.
> 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
You can do that right now. With ENTER on a dir or in the config
file. Default settings are random only for audio.
> b.2) Random play over directory and all subdirectories
Press ENTER on a directory
> 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.
We have a sqlite db running in the background. We should start to use
it.
> 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.
For all that we need the sqlite db. The integrate has stopped some
time ago, Aubin had great ideas similar to yours.
> 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.
I guess the db part is the most important feature for your ideas.
> Don't kill me, please, and have a nice weekend.
Why should I kill you? I'm open for every good idea ... and for bad,
since if people implement them, I guess a lot a crasy ideas will make
the way into freevo cvs :)
Dischi
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[Freevo-users] Re: Ideas for next major release wanted
Chad Robinson wrote: > 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. There is a small incomplete PluginWriting HowTo in the Docs directory. But I agree, we need more internal docs. I started adding many comments inside the files I touched (see the image directory for details). But a global doc how files interact and what is were in the source is missing. I guess I need to write a comment what the file does in each file and a small doc about the global design. > Here are some sample questions that might be nice to answer: Feel free, if answering your questions will result in more developers I'm happy to answer. > 1. What are the __init__.py files in each directory? They are called when you import the module. E.g. when you say 'import video', the src/video/__init__.py file is parsed. An __init__ file should not contain much code (I know, we have big __init__ files, but that is bad). Were __init__ is usefull: look at gui/animation/__init__.py. There is an 'from render import create'. After that staement you can use gui.animation.create. > 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? All the playlist stuff is in playlist.py. Right now, you can't interface with it, but you can change that if you like. > 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. On top of my todo list now. Expect more docs on Monday. > 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.) You need to rewrite the playlist.py part for that. Our playlist code is very limited. You may also want to take a look at the sqlite interface (Aubin: what is the current status?) > 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. Also on my todo list. That is a bit more complicated, the tv part will change. > 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. It is possible, but very bad documented. You can put a password file in a directory. But it would be call to have an item in the directory configure menu to set/del a passwd. > 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. We need two kinds of docs: for developer and for users. If you look at the WiKi, I guess there are many things you know that is not in the docs. >> 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? The WiKi sucks. There is no login so some stupid bots add porn links to it and we have to remove them later again. This isn't very hard, but I don't like it. Dischi -- A man generally has two reasons for doing a thing. One that sounds good, and a real one. --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: YOU BE THE JUDGE. Be one of 170 Project Admins to r
[Freevo-users] Re: [Freevo-users] Re: Ideas for next major release wanted
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[Freevo-users] Re: Ideas for next major release wanted
An example of a webinterface for MP3 handling: http://213.10.252.115/FreevoMP3WebinterfaceExample.pdf (valid for about a week) with kind regards Fons van der Beek --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: YOU BE THE JUDGE. Be one of 170 Project Admins to receive an Apple iPod Mini FREE for your judgement on who ports your project to Linux PPC the best. Sponsored by IBM. Deadline: Sept. 13. Go here: http://sf.net/ppc_contest.php ___ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
[Freevo-users] Re: Ideas for next major release wanted: Example Survey
Hello all, Yesterday I suggested a survey for freevo usage. Because i currently need survey software for an other project I tested the software with questions in respect to Freevo. I used phpsurveyor (http://phpsurveyor.sourceforge.net) and created a survey. A hardcopy of this quick and dirty sample can be found here: http://213.10.252.115/freevosurvey.pdf this link is valid for about a week, of course the webinterface looks better and is more user-friendly. All questions i could think of are included in this hardcopy, but it may not be complete. If anyone knows an additional question or suggests a modification please give me a line. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) If the developpers of freevo are intrested in activating phpsurveyor on their website i can provide them of assistance and of course the survey it self. I am also willing to maintain it. I don't know how may hits are on the freevo webpages, if my system isn't to slow, the survey can also be run on my webserver (and freevobox) As stated, it's quick and dirty implementation of a survey, not all questions are complete, because i am not a native english speaker and it's a quick and dirty implementation, it needs some serious shaping. Just let me know what you tink about it. It's certainly NOT complete, but I tried to include many of the topics on the mailinglists... P.S. The used webserver is a home-server with a rather slow ADSL-connection, so be patient while downloading. With kind regards. Fons van der Beek --- 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] Re: Ideas for next major release wanted: Perhaps a survey is needed?
I am working on an example for a survey... - Original Message - From: "John Molohan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2004 11:20 AM Subject: RE: [Freevo-users] Re: Ideas for next major release wanted: Perhaps a survey is needed? > > > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > > Of Markus Bonet > > Sent: 08 September 2004 22:37 > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: [Freevo-users] Re: Ideas for next major release > > wanted: Perhaps a survey is needed? > > > > > > >I this sounds good, i can setup a survey for the freevo pages. > > >If it doesn't sound goodforget it, it's just an idea > > > > > > > > Good idea! > > Add some questions about other usage of the box (fileserver etc.). > > > > Yeah I think this could provide some good pointers, on the tvtime site they > have a new survey every couple of weeks I think, we could follow this route > and concentrate on specific areas each time. As a matter of interest does > someone know how many views does the home page get every month? > > > > > Markus > > > > > > --- > > 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] > > > > > --- > 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] Re: Ideas for next major release wanted: Perhaps a survey is needed?
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Markus Bonet > Sent: 08 September 2004 22:37 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Freevo-users] Re: Ideas for next major release > wanted: Perhaps a survey is needed? > > > >I this sounds good, i can setup a survey for the freevo pages. > >If it doesn't sound goodforget it, it's just an idea > > > > > Good idea! > Add some questions about other usage of the box (fileserver etc.). > Yeah I think this could provide some good pointers, on the tvtime site they have a new survey every couple of weeks I think, we could follow this route and concentrate on specific areas each time. As a matter of interest does someone know how many views does the home page get every month? > > Markus > > > --- > 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] > --- 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] Re: Ideas for next major release wanted: Perhaps a survey is needed?
I this sounds good, i can setup a survey for the freevo pages. If it doesn't sound goodforget it, it's just an idea Good idea! Add some questions about other usage of the box (fileserver etc.). Markus --- 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
Here is my input on ideas how the next major version of Freevo could look like. At first the "looks" of freevo: Comparing freevo to competetors: freevo already looks professional and good (actualy after finetuning freevo looks best) tastes may vary but all main ingredients: playing media, viewing metadata, connecting to internet are OK! A finetuning of OSD (by using bmovl(2)) would be fine BUT beware of extra dependencies: with version 1.4 freevo strength was the easy initial installation if mplayer worked freevo provided a fine user interface! with freevo version 1.5 Freevo looked better! but installation was more difficult and may scare new users off The needs of users for a new version how freevo will be used depends on the current usage of freevo: -a computer with a crt(tft) and attached keyboard -a setopbox: a dedicated pc with output to a tv or plasma screen -a computer with a crt(tft) and keyboard WITH tv or plasma screen users with an attached crt,keyboard may benefiet from input features like browsing and renaming mp3 tags etc users with an extra TV attached to their computer may benefiet from a dual screen configuration users using freevo as setopbox want a "simple" user interface and may benefiet from a webinterface allowing them to configure and operate their system with a second computer. IMHO extending the webinterface may serve all users in all configurations... Extending input like renaming mp3-tages, grouping radio stations, creating playlists is much easyer done by using a webinterface as by using a remote control or an attached keyboard to a setopbox Therefore my question/suggestions would be: -Perl scripts for downloading main dependencies. -Keep the TV interface simple (but as beautifull as possible): It's for displaying and playing playlists,albums, movies and dvd's. Everyone also children and housewife's should be able to operate the "TV interface" of freevo -Usage of buttons like: red,green,yellow,blue would result in a more user friendly programm -Usage of statusbars/screens when streaming could also add functionality -Usage of a sliding controlpannel could add user comfort -Define a plugin interface as stated on emails before: the businterface -Extend the webinterface: configuration and modifying things like media tags, playlists, radiostations, xmltv bindings, stationlist,jukebox etc etc. -A second setup step could be by using the webinterface for finetuning the installation. (this serves every user, by using a browser on a second or the main freevo box) -Add a jukebox function not based on using the TV set but by using a webinterface. Personally i use a modified version of coolmp3 database as a seperate jukebox on my freevo box combining them (database features for playing and modifying mp3's) and using them over a webinterface (i don't want my tv on all the time) would certainly add functionality. Users that do not benefit from a webinterface are those users only having ONE computer attached to a TV with no second computer around, or no second crt and keyboard around.Designing a good webinterface with "good" looks would certainly make freevo unique to it's competetors. (the other's all "suck"). A good designed webinterface could also serve as "remote control" for pda users. If all requirements,dependencies,interfaces are known, I would be happy to help implementing/migrating the current web interface to a new one with new functions like remote control, jukebox, configuration etc etc. Just name what program's that will be used and i will get to know them. The requirments/sepcs could be: -a lightwight implementation of a webserver other than apache+php+mysql -Hardware specs (generating graphs on the freevo box?) -at what speed the webserver should work: lanspeed or modemspeed -Graphical design of menu's -by using java clients (i do not prefer them) -dependencies: imagemagick, sqllite,python, businterface ? On the other hand.just for being complete A completly other aproach could be: controling the freevobox by .e.g. tightvnc.. (if freevo is used with X) Currently I use this aproach and it serves me well, but ofcourse i don't have all input features as described above simple for the fact that freevo doesn't have them. --- 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: Perhaps a survey is needed?
I wonder if a survey for users of freevo wouldn't be usefull: "knowing the users and their freevo usage would serve the developpers most certainly" Some questions in this survey could be: -Hardware specs: -CPU, memory, diskspace -(Remote)controll usage: serial lirc, capturing card, usb, keyboard? -Used graphic cards -Used sound system: OSS /alsa -Is AC3 used? -Usage of TV out -How many (current or planned) TV or SAT cards in te freevo box -How are spekaers connected to the system? -By a 5.1 Amp? -Directly: computer speakers? -How many computers are connected to the freevo box? -Is the freevo computer contiously conncted to the internet. -Usage rating: current and future use Picture viewing Movie viewing DVD viewing MP3 playing Weather Ripping DVD's Ripping CD's TV viewing and recording SAT viewing and recording Digital TV viewing and recording Need for dual screen configuration? Answering machine for telephone? Email usage on freevo box? RSS feeds -Need for? Installation wizards recording Radio I this sounds good, i can setup a survey for the freevo pages. If it doesn't sound goodforget it, it's just an idea Just my 2 cents --- 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] Re: Ideas for next major release wanted
- Original Message - From: "Dirk Meyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2004 4:39 PM Subject: [Freevo-users] Re: Ideas for next major release wanted > Fons van der Beek wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > I was wondering how the "new" OSD (or gui while playing a movie) > > works in ombination with mplayer and the format/size of the movie > > currently playing. In other words: "Is there a need to expand the > > movie to a given size to have a decent layout?" > > Currently: yes! The basic concept does not, but I guess the best way > would be always use the default resolution and scale it down before > sending it to bmovl. With that it's easier to move objects from on > screen to the other without resizing. > As stated in the text on the original email expanding the movie takes considerable cpu time, for a feature that is not often needed. I guess an option would be: Expand a movie smallar as a given minimum let's say e.g. 450x600, if the movie is "bigger" downsize or upsize the graphics of the "OSD" to movie size. This would enhance performance of the system and preserve a decent layout. Perhaps sizing of the "OSD" must also be dependend on the aspect ratio of the movie. my 2 cents... --- 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] Re: Ideas for next major release wanted
Dirk Meyer wrote: Dale Cooper wrote: I do not know whether it is already included but have not found any note about VPS support for TV recording? I you can tell me how. I looked at the dvb standard (I will only do that for dvb because I have no other card) and there is a vps flag. Maybe the next version of Freevo will have vps support for dvb, maybe not, depends if the stations use that flag. Also showview sounds like a good idea, but IIRC no one has cracked the code yet. Dischi As I said, I have not fully configured Freevo for video operations yet so I have no clue how recording _exactly_ works, sorry. However, if Freevo used VDR (http://home.t-online.de/home/hubertus.sandmann/VDR_installieren.htm) for recording, it seems to support VPS "natively". But maybe I am wrong and it can't be used. D
[Freevo-users] Re: Ideas for next major release wanted
Fons van der Beek wrote: > Hello all, > > I was wondering how the "new" OSD (or gui while playing a movie) > works in ombination with mplayer and the format/size of the movie > currently playing. In other words: "Is there a need to expand the > movie to a given size to have a decent layout?" Currently: yes! The basic concept does not, but I guess the best way would be always use the default resolution and scale it down before sending it to bmovl. With that it's easier to move objects from on screen to the other without resizing. Dischi -- C makes it easy for you to shoot yourself in the foot. C++ makes that harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg. -- Bjarne Stroustrup --- 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
Dale Cooper wrote: > I do not know whether it is already included but have not found any > note about VPS support for TV recording? I you can tell me how. I looked at the dvb standard (I will only do that for dvb because I have no other card) and there is a vps flag. Maybe the next version of Freevo will have vps support for dvb, maybe not, depends if the stations use that flag. Also showview sounds like a good idea, but IIRC no one has cracked the code yet. Dischi -- 665.9238429876 - Number of the Pentium Beast --- 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
Michael Osten wrote: > 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 Bittorrent is a great program, it it could change the way we download big files ... but right now, when someone thinks of bittorrent, he thinks of illegal downloads. The legal video downloads are close to nothing. Since I don't want to spend my free time to fight with film studios that Freevo is illegal (They think very simple and stupid: freevo can use bt, bt can be used to download illegal videos ==> freevo is illegal. Let's sue them). > 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 We know that, it's close to the top of my todo list. Dischi -- And now for something completely different. --- 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
Dirk Meyer wrote: > Since I don't want to spend my free time to fight with film studios > that Freevo is illegal (They think very simple and stupid: freevo can > use bt, bt can be used to download illegal videos ==> freevo is > illegal. Let's sue them). Oops, the sentence is not finished. | Since I don't want to spend my free time to fight with film studios | that Freevo is illegal, I don't want bt support in the Freevo | core. For plugins, you can do what you want, it's not my problem. Dischi -- Freedom of speech is wonderful - right up there with the freedom not to 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
Re: [Freevo-users] Re: Ideas for next major release wanted
First off, I want to say that Freevo is great, and if you never made any changes to it again my wife and I would still love it and continue to use it. :-) Concerning ideas for future releases, when navigating menus, I think it would be nice if the menu option you selected was briefly highlighted (say, for 250msec) before going into that menu (like on many DVD players). I use LIRC to control Freevo (from any TV location in the house), and every now and then when I push a button on the remote Freevo (LIRC, really) detects it as multiple presses. Thus, I may be at the top level of the menu, then when I press the button I'm suddenly 3 levels down. Having a brief delay before going into the menu would not only help to know where one is about to go, but it would make it look/work like many (all?) DVD players, etc. A second idea is an extension of Faser's comment about images -- can the EXIF information be read and the image rotated automatically? Again, thank you for Freevo -- it's a gift to the open source community. Take care. -Jon 9/8/2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dirk Meyer wrote: "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 --- 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
