Hi Curt, Sorry for the very late reply, for some reason your mail was marked as spam by our spamassassin, I just found it...
Curt Barnard a écrit : > Hey, I've been running Elisa off and on for a couple months now watching > its progress, and first I'd just like to say I love where it's going. > I'd been looking for a good media center option that had a nicer > interface than some of the other linux options, and this is it. I can't > wait to see how it progresses! Did you check our latest releases? 0.5.24.1 was released yesterday, packages for ubuntu (hardy and intrepid) are available in our PPA (https://launchpad.net/~elisa-developers/+archive). > I'm a recently graduated computer science student (a masters student > now), and I'd like to help out some if I can. I don't have time to code > really due to my studies. I have some issues or questions I'd like to at > least mention, if theres some way to get more info for you guys you'll > have to tell me how. I run an Ubuntu desktop and some LAMP servers, but > I'm definitely not a pro linux user (getting there though). One issue I > have had is when playing video, it occasionally just wont. After hitting > play, it loads up the first frame, and it might show the next frame 10 > seconds later, but it seems to be playing.... slowly. This doesn't > always happen, and I can't reproduce it at will (the worst kind of bug, > I know!). Is there some way I could get more information on this to you? Do the same videos play fine with other gstreamer-based players (you can try totem-gstreamer or gstreamer directly: `gst-launch playbin uri=file:///path/to/video/file`)? > Also, my music collection is extremely large (60+ gigs), and every time > I start Elisa is rescans my collection. I can still play music while > this is happening, but it takes awhile to finish scanning, and I'm not > sure if it may be related to my other problem. I'm nto even sure what > exactly it's scanning for since my music all works. New files? Finally, Yes, that's what it does, although it seems the user feedback is confusing. It's simply looking for modified/new/deleted files, not rescanning the unchanged files. So after one complete scan has been performed, the rescans should be fast. If you quit Elisa while scanning, next time you start it it should restart where it left it. > the only thing that is missing for me is the ability to watch television > if my graphics card has a tuner. It seems like it would be a popular > request. Is there any plan to add this? Would it be possible to make a > plugin that connects to a MythTV back end? Some time ago Rui wrote an analogTV/v4l2 plugin for the 0.3 series of Elisa. Last time I checked he was porting it to Elisa 0.5. Rui, any updates? > Again, if theres a way I can contribute that requires little time > comittment, let me know. I definitely can code, but I don't really have > time with my studies. I've not contributed to an open source project yet > actually, and this is the first one that really seemed like something I > might like. There are many ways in which you can help. Here is a quick unordered list: - Play with Elisa and report bugs (https://bugs.launchpad.net/elisa/+filebug); - Come up with cool feature specifications you would like to see in Elisa and open bug reports to track them; - Localize Elisa in any language other than English you may happen to speak (https://translations.launchpad.net/elisa/0.5) - Write cool plugins for Elisa (see our beta documentation: https://elisa.fluendo.com/wiki/Docs/PluginTutorial) - ... > Curt Cheers, Olivier
