Hi!
As I didn't manage to take part in the survey, here is a recent lists of my
ideas, suggestions and feature requests:
- I patched the tv mplayer plugin to support execution of a configurable
system command AFTER mplayer has been started. This might be
useful in case you have to adjust v4l picture parameters.
- I experimented with easy support for a picture-in-picture feature. Of
course that only works with a second card. However, I use two analog
TV cards and therefore was able to try it. It works quite simple:
- first TV picture is being displayed fullscreen through mplayer on
fbdev
- second (smaller) TV picture is being displayed through mplayer on
cvidix
Cvidix uses the overlay of a G400, so the two pictures do not interfere.
Surprisingly, drawing the second TV picture takes below 10% additional
CPU time.
- I have a working version of a VICE/C64 games plugin. It can use the
autostart feature from vice to actually start games from D64 files.
Unfortiunately, I had to write an SDL driver for VICE to get it working on
fbdev. I plan to submit that driver to the VICE team. However, if someone
is highly interested and can't wait I can provide a patch against the
current version.
- fbxine is totally crap for playing audio CDs (who had that idea ? :-)). It
consumes about 30% CPU time (1.2GHz PIII) and takes >5 seconds to
change titles. Why not write a wrapper around the commandline cdtools?
They consume 0% CPU time and change titles <1 second? If we wish to
visualize audio we could easily use cd capture from alsa/oss then
BTW, fbxine is the default (!) choice if you use fbdev!
- I would like to bind lirc events directly to the actions from context menus
(key E). I think it is highly intuitive to start recording an audio cd or
dvd to disk by pressing the REC button on a remote control when the
selection is currently pointing to the device. Is this supported by freevo
and if yes, how does it work?
- Better support for suspend-to-ram/resume-from-ram. I use some
self-written scripts that would be of interest to others. I could sent them
if people are interested. I think so, as suspend-to-ram works perfectly
on my freevo machine since 2.6.9 is out. Actually, up to 2.6.8 the kernel
still at some not-so-nice flaws in the ACPI stuff, but the problematic stuff
got rewritten in 2.6.9. I definitely recommand it to others.
- tvtime: why did the tvtime developers removed support for SDL (and
actually all other display drivers except X11) from the code? I suggest that
the freevo team maintains them and adds them back to the code. I actually
redid the SDL driver already and will write one based on cvidix. I also
suggest to move timeshift code to that external tool.
Cheers,
Stephan Kanthak
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