Hi all, here is an update...
Rob Shortt wrote:
There is a new runtime version available and the sooner we can test it out the sooner we can go ahead and release 1.3.2-pre5. :)
The same goes here. :)
For those of you that are feeling adventurous and are using Freevo from CVS you may cvs update and then install this new runtime version. You may find the runtime here:
I am having a few issues with the latest runtime so I'm not going to spam the users list yet but it would be great if some people could test my new runtime package.
http://freevo.sf.net/runtime/runtime-pre5-test2.tar.gz
Yes, it is large. I have also added tvtime. I was up until 2:15 AM this morning working on this. :)
Unfortunately there is NO dxr3 support in this version. For that to happen continuously someone will need to provide me with an SDL dxr3 patch that is updated for newer (CVS) ffmpeg. It would be nice if someone could maintain that patch (or if we found an existing maintainer). I don't have a dxr3 card so what I can do here is limited, plus I have lots of other things to worry about.
Issues I am having:
-Fonts look ugly! I don't know what caused this. The runtime includes pygame 1.5.6, SDL12/SDL_ttf from CVS, freetype-2.1.3 .. however when I build SDL_ttf it caomplained about not finding libttf which is Freetype 1, so I installed the libttf-dev debian package to work against. This system is pretty fresh (because of my crash) so it is possible that the previous version picked up something better?
-The mysterious audio problem is back (or never really went away)!! This time when I skip songs Freevo just hangs a couple seconds after starting the new song. With the old runtime you'd get a pygame parachute traceback saying something extremely vauge about threads. Now there are NO messages at all. :( I would appreciate and and all help nailing this one down. I don't think we should release a new version without fixing this.
-Mplayer audio and the audio playing freevo screen. Freevo needs to be updated for the new mplayer track times (mm:ss) and should probably support both old and new.
This is all I can think of at the moment.
The rest should still be valid:
Before you unpack this runtime you should probably backup your existing runtime directory just in case.
cd /path/to/freevo mv runtime runtime.orig cvs update -d runtime tar zxvf runtime-pre5-test1.tar.gz
This runtime package has runtime/apps,lib,dll,preloads inside and will compliment the runtime directory out of CVS.
Be warned that this runtime weighs in at a hefty 18 megs but I think that is a fair price to pay for less problems in the field. Also please note that you must update and recompile runapp because I had to modify it to handle staticly compiled apps.
Things to test:
-dxr3 support
-directfb support
-alsa support (mplayer)
-play dvd, cd, mp3, ogg
-test images
-test different video file formats. I had mplayer freeze on some of my mpeg1 files but not others for instance. mplayer should also play nuv files from mythtv, and hopefully normal nuv files... if not then I will remove that patch.
-someone who already uses it should test timeshifting
-test mp1e in runtime/apps. This is compiled with a btaudio patch and also supports v4l2.
-test mencoder
I don't have a regular v4l or v4l2 device in my Freevo box anymore (using ivtv, woo hoo!!) so testing mencoder is especially important.
Also there was a mysterious audio crash in -pre4 and CVS that happened while skipping to the next song which seems to have gone away, please test this also (ok so that would be pretty obvious).
The runtime contains: mplayer mencoder mpe1 jpegtran cdparanoia fceu aumix python 2.2.2 with modules: CDDB DiscID Numeric PIL xmlplus xmms aomodule cdrom fchksum mmpython mx ogg pygame pygphoto pylirc pyshift twisted
-Rob
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