Hello everyone : I think there are a lot more people using freevo than we think. I'm just an user but, Freevo 1.9. really impressed me and has been my htpc front-end for three years. It has fulfilled its role perfectly.Due to its flexibility, It was the only front-end that could meet my purpose. At this point, I have to say that I've spent _lots of hours_ reading and understanding the "localconf.py" file and reading the freevo - wiki. I had to learn how to activate modules and extracting information dealing with a linux terminal, to organize an xml file with a text editor for web radio listening, etc ... I think you know what I mean.
In my case, freevo has been a home-made arcade cab front-end. Due to a mechanical switch, I could pass SVideo image signal from the cab to the living room TV (another CRT TV). So my htpc was in fact a HT-arcade cab. Freevo was the only front-end that can work perfectly and cope with this, dealing with a resolution of 800x600 without errors in texts and menus, even more, could be easily configured and managed with joysticks devices and/or a HID interfaces (keyboards, remote controls or the like). For me that was awesome. My living room TV (CRT ) stopped working one week before the announcement of Dirk , and I acquired a smart TV. Well, even with the services that offers a smart TV, I decided to transfer the media center functions from the arcade cab to a dedicated PC behind the led, and perform a Freevo 1.9 installation from repositories on a fresh ubuntu (12.04). Anyway, the result is that I can continue enjoying my freevo media center to play videos, music and photos, launch firefox and other applications from command menu, as well as emulators which a keyboard control is needed (I have activated emulators plugin and configure fuse (ZX Spectrum ) and DosBox). Nowadays I can not imagine lunching videos and other stuff from nautilus... oh man, this is not cool at all. So, thanks to all the people who have contributed in this great software. ================ pablo33 from Spain. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Subversion Kills Productivity. Get off Subversion & Make the Move to Perforce. With Perforce, you get hassle-free workflows. Merge that actually works. Faster operations. Version large binaries. Built-in WAN optimization and the freedom to use Git, Perforce or both. Make the move to Perforce. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=122218951&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
