Hi all, A bit ahead of schedule Freevo-1.6.0 will be released this evening.
I hope you have as much fun with the new version as I have had preparing it. Don't forget to report and bugs to the freevo tracker: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=46652&atid=446895 But, of course there won't be any... O:-) Duncan Here are the release notes: ================== Release Notes for 1.6.0 ----------------------- The have been quite a number of changes, see ChangeLog for details. The ChangeLog has a tracker reference for a discussion about the changes. IMPORTANT --------- The recordable setting has been from from VIDEO_GROUPS Delete this setting from your local_conf.py This change can be mostly automated by running: freevo convert_config To use multi-tuner support the VIDEO_GROUPS needs setting up correctly see http://freevo.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/doc/MultiTunerConfig elementtree, include in Python-2.5+, is now a prerequisite for freevo, if can be downloaded from http://effbot.org/zone/elementtree.htm idlebar and headlines plug-ins are now enabled by default, you will need to remove the following plug-ins from local_conf.py: plugin.activate('headlines', level=XX) plugin.activate('idlebar') plugin.activate('idlebar.tv', level=20) plugin.activate('idlebar.cdstatus', level=25) plugin.activate('idlebar.diskfree', level=30) plugin.activate('idlebar.clock', level=50, args='%a %d %H:%M') If you don't like and of these plug-ins the can be deactivated by: plugin.remove('<plug-in name>') Known Problems -------------- If a directory is name with a media extension it will be treated as a media file, e.g. music.mp3 or record.avi. Use music_mp3 and record_avi instead. If a mp3 file is incorrectly named the header search will scan the whole file, e.g. something.mp3 which is really a wave file. Sometime the headlines plug-in crashed when it receives incorrect data from the rss feed. mplayervis does not play nicely with the detach player. ivtv codec settings and other ivtv calls are skipped for ivtv-0.8.0 driver and higher. Here is the change log: =============== Note ---- Items marked (X#nnnnnnn) have a tracker item see: X is (B)ugs or (F)eature request, #nnnnnnn is the tracker number http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=46652 Release 1.6.0 (2006-10-31): --------------------------- * New events to allow jump directly to menus, tv, movies, music and pictures (B#1567501) * New headlines and idlebar are enabled by default (F#1584197) * New multi-tuner support, to allow use of more than one tv card (F#1574282) * New plug-in for wakeup and shutdown (B#1567885) * New plug-in 'idlebar.diskfree' to show the available recording disk space (B#1567491) * New plug-in 'ivtv_xine_tv' to allow pausing of live tv (B#1566518) * New plug-in 'upsoon' interrupt tv or radio when a recording is about to start (F#1567895) * Added Catalan translation (F#1512162) * Added checks for prerequisite packages that were missing (B#1392996,B#1566374) * Added forcing of font and its size to override skin definitions (B#1563296,B#1563299) * Added Linux event device input handler (F#1579124) * Added initial image orientation is now read from EXIF tag (F#1573072) * Added many more skins to the freevo core package * Added patch to disable installation of documentation for rpm builds (B#1565074) * Added PLAY_START and STOP events for radio player (B#1567995) * Added Teletext subtitle recording plug-in for IVTV cards (F#1575146) * Updated audio player to allow control when detached, automatic detaching (B#1567939) * Updated df_xine is detected, use it for DVDs (B#1563026) * Updated freevo tv_grab to report a failure (B#1567705) * Updated generation of lircrc to allow more buttons to be detected (B#1567503) * Updated idlebar to split up the plug-ins to separate modules (F#1577109) * Updated LCDproc for 5.x series (B#1563153) * Updated lirc handling to suspend and resume correctly (B#1567499) * Updated menu for DVDs audio and subtitle tracks to use language name instead of code (B#1402649) * Updated MPlayer tv plug-in to pass MPLAYER_AO_DEV (B#1563334) * Updated playing games to disable the joystick plug-in (B#1566590) * Updated radio player to no longer required the code to be changed (B#1563361,B#1563944) * Updated radio player to allow other other players (F#1575225) * Updated record server to allow separate pre- and post-padding times (B#1567502) * Updated record server to ignore case of the title when scheduling a favorite (B#1574292) * Updated record server to correctly process non-ascii characters in a title (B#1574292) * Updated tv ivtv so that it will allow 2.6.18 and higher kernels, uses ivtv-0.8+ * Updated tvtime with new play events (B#1563005) * Updated tv_util to use TV_RECORDFILE_OKLETTERS (B#1566067) * Updated video autocropping not to autocrop network steams (B#1576832) * Updated webserver so that it can run as a non-privileged user (B#1567943) * Updated xmltv to version 1.2 giving a significant increase in speed (B#1565080) * Fixed a mediamedia crash on non existent directory (B#1566584) * Fixed cacheing when xmame is installed and GAMES_ITEMS is not set (B#1567549) * Fixed cache scanning whole disk when an item is 'None' (B#1567549,B#1571008) * Fixed calls to lirc (B#1568113) * Fixed cancellation of recording during freevo schedulefavorites (B#1565077) * Fixed cdbackup plug-in when directory has a permission problem (B#1569162) * Fixed coversearch when a non-ascii character is in Artist or Album name (B#1565765) * Fixed detection of xmame version for new versions (B#1298350) * Fixed favorite item not causing a problem it mod time (B#1563359) * Fixed get mixer by name calls (B#1563365) * Fixed help for freevo cache (B#1577574) * Fixed idlebar clock display when using UTF-8 (B#1570917) * Fixed mplayer tv plug-in to close the ivtv device (B#1567494) * Fixed slide shows so that music does not crash between tracks (B#1563353) * Fixed usbstorage showing images in audio menu (B#1563010) * Fixed v4l2 ioctl calls for 64bit AMD machines (B#1563326) * Fixed recordserver missing favorites when the title has non-ascii characters (B#1574292) * Fixed recordserver missing favorites when the title case has changed (B#1563370) * Fixed webserver not crashing when there is a permissions problem (B#1577266) * Removed MPlayer and Xine version checks (B#1566373,B#1574273) * Removed -OO option from install (B#1565076) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? 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