Re: [Freevo-users] Ideas for next major release wanted

2004-09-30 Thread Florian Demmer
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

RE: [Freevo-users] Ideas for next major release wanted

2004-09-09 Thread Fabio Papa
--- Oscilated [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: Hello, good sir, Fabio... :) Let me explain... I'm totally positive that when I tell freevo via the /etc/freevo/freevo.conf file to display at 768x576, freevo does so. As such, I've essentially told freevo that I'm using a 4:3 ratio (which

RE: [Freevo-users] Ideas for next major release wanted

2004-09-07 Thread Fabio Papa
Thanks for the idea. Now, lets move on: What (specifically) do we think would be good options to have in a config plugin? Ok,then, as we're trying to do the same work as a number of set-top players/VCR, we should start looking at them. The player that should offer a good example is one

Re: [Freevo-users] Ideas for next major release wanted

2004-09-07 Thread Chad Robinson
Mick wrote: 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. 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

Re: [Freevo-users] Ideas for next major release wanted

2004-09-07 Thread Stefan Lange-Hegermann
You can already do that. It's the blue key on my remote (DISPLAY) - only works in the main menu. Am 07.09.2004 um 12:41 schrieb Chad Robinson: Selecting a new skin would be fun, too, although I understand some things may need to be reloaded in that event. It would probably be easiest if the

Re: [Freevo-users] RE: [Freevo-users] Ideas for next major release wanted

2004-09-07 Thread Bruno Tavares
Ah MP3... one thing i would really want (but is not *only* gui related) is to be able to rate MP3 (in a 1-5 stars scale like in itunes or rhythmbox). That way we could implement automatic playlists by rating. (we can port this to video to.. but i think no one would use it) Such as rating freevo

Re: [Freevo-users] RE: [Freevo-users] Ideas for next major release wanted

2004-09-07 Thread Marius Stan
Bruno Tavares wrote: Ah MP3... one thing i would really want (but is not *only* gui related) is to be able to rate MP3 (in a 1-5 stars scale like in itunes or rhythmbox). That way we could implement automatic playlists by rating. (we can port this to video to.. but i think no one would use it)

RE: [Freevo-users] Ideas for next major release wanted

2004-09-07 Thread Oscilated
Fabio Papa wrote: Ok,then, as we're trying to do the same work as a number of set-top players/VCR, we should start looking at them. The player that should offer a good example is one like mine, a DVD player with integrated dolby. The important things which I setup the first time I powered

RE: [Freevo-users] Ideas for next major release wanted

2004-09-07 Thread Fabio Papa
Hi Andrew, Doesn't the resolution, which we already configure for freevo, determine the aspect ratio? (800x600 = 4:3, 1280x720 = 16:9). Maybe I'm missing something...? Hm, I don't think there's any correlation. I think freevo simply calls mplayer in fullscreen mode, but it doesn't know

Re: [Freevo-users] Ideas for next major release wanted

2004-09-07 Thread Dale Cooper
Hi, I do not know whether it is already included but have not found any note about VPS support for TV recording? D --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop FREE Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools! Get your free copy of BEA

Re: [Freevo-users] Ideas for next major release wanted

2004-09-07 Thread Fons van der Beek
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? The thing is: The resolution of freevo

RE: [Freevo-users] Ideas for next major release wanted

2004-09-07 Thread Oscilated
Hello, good sir, Fabio... I now more fully understand your ideas. However, I still have a sense of purity in my mind. I'm not a developer, just a user, so it probably doesn't really matter anyway (I don't want to step on anyone's toes here). To continue our discussion... Hm, I don't think

Re: [Freevo-users] Ideas for next major release wanted

2004-09-06 Thread Fabio Papa
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. 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

RE: [Freevo-users] Ideas for next major release wanted

2004-09-06 Thread Mick
Hi Mick, I think that Michael got a little bit beyond what I was asking for. For sure, there are options which are difficult to set from inside freevo, as you pointed out. And maybe, it's even right that normal users actually _can't_ do that. But maybe, taking a strict amount of options to

RE: [Freevo-users] Ideas for next major release wanted

2004-09-06 Thread Mick
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[Freevo-users] RE: [Freevo-users] Ideas for next major release wanted

2004-09-06 Thread JJ2Dogs
Hi. I would like to see in freevo a new option for mp3. So I could play them by genrer. So It would take the info from mp3 tag and make the categories.. An also would be nice that I could browse the mp3 by clicking a font on keyboard. So I I press G I would get on GNR, or Z for ZZtop and so

Re: [Freevo-users] Ideas for next major release wanted

2004-09-05 Thread Rob Shortt
Kari Smolander wrote: Hello all! Hi, 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 I'd like to see that too. title. I do not know if it is possible to implement with Mplayer, but at least it

RE: [Freevo-users] Ideas for next major release wanted

2004-09-05 Thread Oscilated
Kari wrote: 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. Fabio Papa wrote: one thing I sometime miss in freevo is the ability to do part of the configuration process from inside

Re: [Freevo-users] Ideas for next major release wanted

2004-09-05 Thread Mick
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

RE: [Freevo-users] Ideas for next major release wanted

2004-09-05 Thread shadow
First of all, thanks for all the great work so far. I also vote for the configuration inside freevo. Even better if it can be done using a remote as I mainly use Freevo to listen to music or watch videos in my lounge room on my XBox. I would also like better support for other languages, especially

RE: [Freevo-users] Ideas for next major release wanted

2004-09-04 Thread Faser
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

Re: [Freevo-users] Ideas for next major release wanted

2004-09-04 Thread Jaap Struyk
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

Re: [Freevo-users] Ideas for next major release wanted

2004-09-04 Thread Fabio Papa
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

Re: [Freevo-users] Ideas for next major release wanted

2004-09-04 Thread Stephen Moore
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 /

Re: [Freevo-users] Ideas for next major release wanted

2004-09-04 Thread Jess Mahan
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. ---

Re: [Freevo-users] Ideas for next major release wanted

2004-09-04 Thread Jason Tackaberry
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

2004-09-04 Thread Michael Ruelle
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

RE: [Freevo-users] Ideas for next major release wanted

2004-09-04 Thread Robert Howlingdog
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

Re: [Freevo-users] Ideas for next major release wanted

2004-09-04 Thread Michael Osten
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

Re: [Freevo-users] Ideas for next major release wanted

2004-09-04 Thread Chad Robinson
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

RE: [Freevo-users] Ideas for next major release wanted

2004-09-04 Thread Kari Smolander
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