On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 21:29:58 +0100 Nicolas Aguirre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
babbled:
> Hi evry body and happy new year,
>
> for a long time i want to post on this mailling list about an idea.
> I want to know if i was good idea to develop a HTPC programs around e17
> and if people are interesting
> I see on the CVS repository a programmed named "elation". I compile and
> try it. But he is just in version 0.0.1.
> I use Freevo for 3 months and i would like developp my own programms to
> listen music, watch DVD and TV all controled just with a remote. Guys on
> freevo havo do a good job but this application is very hard to
> configure, and his Look have no comparison with what we could do with
> edje and EFL (very good interface, skins, animations ... )
> If people are interesting on develop an applicaiton like this, contact me
I would love to... and arlo is right - check mythtv out first. personally i
still would want to DIY - mythtv mostly collects a lot of other back-ends - its
main work is in providing remote control between boxes (multiple htpc's in the
house) and a gui. thats and thats all easy with EFL (these days). i wrote
elation for myself and my gf who wanted to play cd's and audio cd's. its a bit
hackish, but it was intended maybe to be expanded in future. i think a great
place to start would be to finish off the dvd player and do everything properly.
have proper subtitle and language choosing menus, on screen display of play
status (position, fast forward/rewind status etc. etc. etc.) so make that part
100% comparable to an off the shelf dvd player - then start adding in "funky
features" like being able to browse a dvd by thumbnail (it would go through and
maybe make 1 thumbail per chapter, cache it based on the dvd cd ID) so you can
choose chapters much more easily. also the dvd insert/eject code is not that
great. make it handle multiple dvd devices (so u can picture in picture for
dvs'd).... etc.
emotion needs fixing to work with xine-lib latest. it works with rc5 but stopped
working as of rc7. emotion could be expanded to allow direct fetching of video
data (for making thumbnails) and updating to newer xine-lib api stuff.
once you have this done then adding in a master menu would work well (elation
was very much media driven - stick a disk in, it tries to figure out what it is
and just "do the right thing" as my gf loves her dvd's and cd's - she just
doesn't grok the idea of ripping no matter how easy i make it). making the media
detection more robust, handing photo cd's, cd's with mp3's on them or .jpg's and
jump into a special mode. the cd audio player is a real big hack. it uses
emotion - but its very limited.
anyway - i don't have time personally to work on it - i'm going all out on e17
as a no 1. priority. everything else can sit and wait until i'm done there.
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