Dirk Meyer wrote:
> Jason Tackaberry wrote:
>> On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 10:55 +0100, Duncan Webb wrote:
>>> When comparing the picture quality of TV broadcasts from CRT TVs and TFT
>>> TVs the picture quality was simply much better with the CRTs.
>> I'm rather tempted to say the reason is, paradoxical
Jason Tackaberry wrote:
> We're moving into the HD era. You need a more capable system to play HD
> content. If HD content doesn't interest you and UI eye candy, Freevo
> 1.x will continue to be available for as long as Duncan is motivated to
> work on it.
>
> Supporting older hardware is a pain
On Sat, 2009-01-24 at 23:00 +, Andrew Flegg wrote:
> A $40 PCI card, which'll fit a low (CPU-)power Mini-ITX machine in a
> small case with room for only one or two PCI cards?
PCI? No. If you have no free PCI-express slot, then clearly you can't
upgrade easily.
The alternative is a motherbo
On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 10:55 +0100, Duncan Webb wrote:
> When comparing the picture quality of TV broadcasts from CRT TVs and TFT
> TVs the picture quality was simply much better with the CRTs.
I'm rather tempted to say the reason is, paradoxically, because of the
added (temporal) resolution and (s
Jason Tackaberry wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 08:59 +0100, Duncan Webb wrote:
>> For analogue TV and DVB-T of analogue recordings the CRTs are still very
>> much better than flat screens; this has to do with the none square
>> pixels on CRTs.
>
> Can you elaborate on this a bit? I'm skeptical,
On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 20:11 +0100, Dirk Meyer wrote:
> What gfx card to you have?
Note that a $40 nvidia card will provide an excellent Freevo 2
experience :)
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On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 08:59 +0100, Duncan Webb wrote:
> For analogue TV and DVB-T of analogue recordings the CRTs are still very
> much better than flat screens; this has to do with the none square
> pixels on CRTs.
Can you elaborate on this a bit? I'm skeptical, as I don't see why this
couldn't
Dirk Meyer wrote:
> Duncan Webb wrote:
>
>> I've just started the jump from Python-2.4 to Python-2.6 on my DirectFB
>> machine. So far it has been easy enough and been fairly trouble free.
>>
>
> Stupid question from the 2.0 development point of view: you use DFB in
> Freevo? What card to y
On Mon, 2009-01-19 at 23:53 +0100, Dirk Meyer wrote:
> So after the 2.4 question, here a new one: anyone not using X11 and why?
I'm also interested in answers especially that don't involve old
hardware.
This may be a controversial statement, but we're not considering older
hardware at all for Fre
On Mon, 2009-01-19 at 23:50 +0100, Dirk Meyer wrote:
> kaa.rpc and we want to rename one function there. I guess you also use
> kaa.Process which will be updated with a new API soon (that API requires
> 2.5).
Not just a new API, but semantic changes that might mean a
not-so-straightforward porting
On Mon, 2009-01-19 at 20:18 +0100, Duncan Webb wrote:
> Personally, I don't mind making Python-2.5 a requirement. I wonder how
> many people are still using Python-2.4 as it can be a biggish task to
> migrate all the packages.
Biggish, although I think most recent distros take care of that without
Jason Tackaberry wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-01-15 at 19:52 -0800, Michel Lespinasse wrote:
>> There is an etch package for python 2.5, so this would not be a huge deal.
>
> This seems to be the general sentiment so far.
>
> Duncan, you're so far kaa.base's biggest customer (by means of Freevo
> 1.x) s
On Thu, 2009-01-15 at 19:52 -0800, Michel Lespinasse wrote:
> There is an etch package for python 2.5, so this would not be a huge deal.
This seems to be the general sentiment so far.
Duncan, you're so far kaa.base's biggest customer (by means of Freevo
1.x) so I'd definitely like to hear your th
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