Hi Dischi, Jason,
I've installed a copy of freevo2 and started playing around with it.
First off the candy interface looks great. Highlights so far are:
* The UI is well designed, smooth and extremely responsive (really
shows up freevo-1.x here).
* The photo viewer is really slick, I love the scrolling thumbnails
across the bottom and the calendar plugin.
* Music and video playback and photo viewing all working at least to
some extent.
* Relatively easy to install
Low points so far are:
* No up to date docs for installing either in svn or the wiki.
* Had to hack kaa popcorn to get video to play (using -vo xv). Until
the new video code is done this seems like a reasonable workaround
(no nice overlay admittedly) for my requirements. Maybe a config
of VIDEO.LEGACY.PLAYBACK = True might be an option to encourage
others to test?
* Crashes during audio playback.
* No TV viewing or recording.
Overall I was really presently surprised having not checked the code out
in a long time. I would be more than happy for now to test it as much as
possible and provide bug reports assuming you're looking for them? I
replied to another post asking for some pointers on porting plugins and
I've created the most basic of pages on the wiki for it. If either of
you could expand it with a brief example it would be great. I'll work on
porting plugins if I have a starting point to get me going.
I get the feeling that if Dischi finds time to hack in the gstreamer
support and you release an alpha-1 pre-release you'd get quite a lot of
users and hopefully some additional developers on board. Even with just
a legacy video fallback mode, the improvements to the photo view and
music browsing (responsiveness mostly) alone might be enough to attract
people.
I hope this gives some useful feedback and might encourage others to
test out the code. I'll post separately to the devel list the tracebacks
I've encountered so far.
Thanks for your work on this, I'm really looking forward to switching
over completely hopefully in the near future.
John
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