On 17/06/2010 4:58, Adam Charrett wrote: > I've been having a few thoughts about the direction of Freevo and > specifically the 1.x branch recently and thought I would share some of my > ideas with this list. > > Freevo 1.x is still going (reasonably) strong although slightly long in > the tooth and Freevo 2, while further forward than a couple of years ago, > isn't yet ready for release. > > So in the interim I'm thinking about the following changes to the Freevo > 1.x code base with the idea of calling it Freevo 1-NG (not quite 2 but no > longer 1.x). > > 1. Getting rid of pygame and replacing it with WebKit and pygtk. This > means all the skins would be written in HTML and Javascript (lots more > people able to do that than there are for our current skin format)) and we > could then have video in the same window! I'm aware this will mean > everyone would need X to run freevo but I'm thinking this is 2010 and even > a 5 year old machine is going to be very capable of running X and freevo. Sounds reasonable to me. Freevo's framebuffer support originates in the days when the Matrox G400 was a popular choice as CRT TVs were the only (sitting room) display option. I think it's not unreasonable at this stage to move on and require X. Those who really still need framebuffer could always stick with freevo-1.x as opposed to freevo 1 NG. > > 2. The other thing I'm keen on, is going UPnP crazy, sorta :-) . Most > other media centers appear to support UPnP to some degree. I think we > should strive to be DLNA compliant and support sharing and using out other > UPnP device of the box. (I've been bitten by the UPnP bug recently due to > having to work on it at real work!) Given the support for UPnP in most media centric devices now it seems like an obvious choice for freevo to move towards it so I'd certainly see that as a step forward. > > Just to be clear Freevo 1-NG, wouldn't be using clutter, but would be > making more use of kaa. Sounds good. > > Cheers > > Adam John
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