Benjamin Zores wrote: > Hi, > > Although knowing Freevo for quite a while, I've just subscribed to this list > a few days ago. > Let me introduce ... I'm MPlayer developer and team leader from GeeXboX > distribution. > After having reached our 1.0 goal, we're now facing towards a complete rework > of our GUI > and after several months of studies and start-stop development of various > solutions > I've decided for our project to completely re-use Freevo code. > > I've been playing with nearly the same toys Jason did with MeBox project and > started > using Evas for our GUI (but in C while he did in Python with Kaa) but after > all, > Freevo2 seems to be much more usable and advanced than our software ever will > be. > > What I'd like to do for GeeXboX 2.0 release is to have a complete inclusion of > Freevo 2.0 in our distribution. Even if I can only wishes so, I'd like to > propose your team > some kind of partnership, being some official Freevo LiveCD or distribution, > whatever you may call the result ;-) > How does such an idea sounds to you guys ? > > Currently I'm trying to integrate Freevo 1.6 to our distribution to be a > first step made. > As for now, GeeXboX does only works in console mode (i.e. no X server, though > it may change) > and I'd like to know if some of you already had a try to a non X based Freevo > (i.e. framebuffer > for Freevo, vesa or vidix output for mplayer/xine) and what potential > problems we may encounter. > > As for Freevo2, this is of course our goal to be reached (once released) and > we'll try to help > you finalize/test it the best way we can, but currently i'm not even managing > to have a try at it > under my regular distro. In the same way, I can help you pushing some MPlayer > patches/features upstream to help with Freevo2 development. > This sounds like great news. Mind if I put up a note on www.freevo.org about the partnership?
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