Hi, With the announcement of v1.7, I'm moving back to Freevo after a brief try of MythTV when I got my DVB card. Mainly due to Myth's bloat, speed (or lack of) and the abysmal quality of the audio output and UI of MythMusic.
However, there are a couple of things which are now beginning to bug me enough to get into fixing them myself. Is anyone else working on these, or have any ideas on how to approach them? Anamorphic skin ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I've got a 16:9 CRT TV in the UK, connected over S-Video. X is running at 800x600 (with overscan). Since the TV stretches the image horizontally, this means non-square pixels. The current themes look rather "fat" like this, so I'm thinking of working on an anamorphic skin which would look better on these widescreen TVs. Since I'm not an artist, I imagine this will mostly be done by squishing images in a current theme horizontally, and modifying the co-ordinates to take it into account. Since font width/height can't be specified separately, I'm currently using Deja Vu Sans Condensed, which looks alright stretched back out. Is there such a theme already, or would there be a better way of scaling everything horizontally (perhaps in kaa?) giving the ability to define a theme which has ~1400 pixels horizontally to play with, which get squished to 800 on output? Duplicate recordings ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Freevo's scheduling looks almost as powerful as MythTV's however there doesn't seem to be any duplicate detection? Ideally when scheduling favourites, it would look through the list of previously recorded programmes and identify duplicates by subtitle or - if no subtitle - description. It'd then not record it again. Is this currently acheivable? Is it hackable with some scripts around the existing code, or do I need to add to the recordserver to keep note of all the recorded programmes, and modify scheduleFavorites() to check this list? Any thoughts on either of these which people have, or if people have worked on it before, or even if they're done already and I just need to flick switch X, would be very much appreciated. Thanks in advance, Andrew -- Andrew Flegg -- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.bleb.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Freevo-devel mailing list Freevo-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-devel
