Micheal- I have to wonder how forking will acheive your goals. It sounds more like you want to reduce the supported hardware. What outside hardware is required? There is nothing required by Freevo that is not required by the MS media center. In truth there is really better support for hardware than MS media center especially when compared to the Vista release. My freevo 1.6.2 use nothing but a TV, a remote control, 2.1 speaker setup, and a nic to get tv guide. I would say that makes it very solid stand alone system. I believe many of the other users run a very similar setup. You stated design goals are the same as those put forth for the 2.0 branch. You are right that the 1.6 goal is not really going there. The 1.6 branch is just a holding pattern till 1.7 goes live and it is just a test ground for the 2.0 branch. If your real desire is to be able to give some one a cd have them install it and have a working media center, then I strongly recommend working with geexbox team. It is headed up by a deveolper that is doing work on both Mplayer and Freevo. GeexBox is now using Freevo as Gui front end for the system.
Evan On 2/5/07, Michael Beal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've thought this through for quite some time. I have many reasons for > wanting to go in a different direction. I will state that none of my > reasons are because of anything personal against anyone on the lists. There > are development goals I'd like to persue with the now deprecated 1.6 code > that I do not feel are currently being pursued. I also do not feel that my > development goals will fit with the majority of the current developers on > this list. I can safely say that the current version running on my system > is very far from the original 1.6.2 package I installed. > > My primary goal is to develop a stand-alone system; one which competes well > against M$ Media Center; requires no outside supporting hardware; fully > interfaces with both conventional and widescreen monitors; and requires no > more than a TV or monitor and 2, 4, 6 or 8 speakers. The current state of > the project, from my personal experiences, does not indicate that these > goals are being considered. > > Some of you use SPDIF for audio playback into external equipment. Others > use their 2-channel audio cards. Some have widescreen monitors while others > have 4:3 screens which do not operate at maximum resolution. Because of > these differences, there are strange quirks in the system that need > attending and demand development of a more simplified yet standardized > system. > > I don't feel that testing has been accomplished to the degree required in > order for Freevo to be a complete, polished multimedia system. Too much > time is being spent developing new toys and gadgets while little time is > going toward spiff and polish. > > I am now turning toward building an autoconfiguration plugin for my system. > This, I believe, can not be accomplished on a system that is still under > extensive development as is 2.0. I also do not believe that a reasonable > balance can be struck between the 2.0 branch and the 1.6 branch that I am > currently using. > > For these reasons, I respectfully ask approval to branch the Freevo project. > > Michael > > > ________________________________ > Any questions? Get answers on any topic at Yahoo! Answers. Try it now. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? > Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job > easier. > Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 > > _______________________________________________ > Freevo-devel mailing list > Freevo-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-devel > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier. Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Freevo-devel mailing list Freevo-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-devel
