On 17/06/2010 16:58, Adam Charrett wrote: > So in the interim I'm thinking about the following changes to the Freevo > 1.x code base with the idea of calling it Freevo 1-NG (not quite 2 but no > longer 1.x). > > 1. Getting rid of pygame and replacing it with WebKit and pygtk. This > means all the skins would be written in HTML and Javascript (lots more > people able to do that than there are for our current skin format)) and we > could then have video in the same window! I'm aware this will mean > everyone would need X to run freevo but I'm thinking this is 2010 and even > a 5 year old machine is going to be very capable of running X and freevo. > > 2. The other thing I'm keen on, is going UPnP crazy, sorta :-) . Most > other media centers appear to support UPnP to some degree. I think we > should strive to be DLNA compliant and support sharing and using out other > UPnP device of the box. (I've been bitten by the UPnP bug recently due to > having to work on it at real work!) >
As an end user, sounds great to me. I run X and I am sure lots of people do for hardware acceleration e.g. VDPAU which I think you need X for don't you? HTML + Javascript should open up a lot of possibilities for layouts and customisation which would be good. And should make doing so easier as there would be tool support for HTML design etc. I guess if the display is HTML you could offer the same controls via a remote HTTP connection as well, might be an easy way to allow remote control from a phone / tablet device with the the same real interface. Personally I don't care about UPnP but would love some improved love for remote record server, streaming from remote systems (e.g. dvbstreamer and the server in the loft setup) and better mutli-card / single multiplex dual stream recording for DVB. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo _______________________________________________ Freevo-devel mailing list Freevo-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-devel
