On 05/08/2010 14:30, Jason Tackaberry wrote: > On Wed, 2010-08-04 at 21:35 +0100, John Molohan wrote: >> Is the tvserver ready for use? Any pointers on how to get started and >> what is supported at the moment? > Unfortunately I don't really know, because dischi wrote it. Dischi did > just write http://doc.freevo.org/2.0/TVServer which says this about its > status: > > Status > The core is running and working (or was at the beginning of 2010 > when I last worked on it). But does nothing useful due to the > lack of a UI to control it (that part in Freevo 2.0 is broken). > > The following items are still on my TODO list: > > * Make it possible to control the TV server using the > Freevo 2.0 GUI > * Add mdns support to limit the configuration to a > password for kaa.rpc to connect > * Live TV support > > The following items are nice to have if someone else is willing > to do it: > > * Create a small GTK app to control the TV server. Since > kaa.base and GTK work fine together, it should be easy > to create such a small tool. > * Make TV devices. Right now only a dvbstreamer plugin > works. More devices, such as analogue TV would be nice > > Due to limited time on my side it would be nice if someone else > can take over the maintainership of the tvserver code. If you > have any questions about the code, ask on the mailing list or on > #freevo at irc.gnu.org. Straight off the press by the looks of it :) Great to have an update on this, thanks (and thanks to Dischi too) > I've been using my own seriously hacky script to do tv captures off my > HDPVR. The HDPVR needs a lot of hand-holding, like automatically > reopening /dev/video0 if the feed suddenly stops, or even repeatedly > reloading the hdpvr module until it starts working. > > I might look at moving all this into an hdpvr plugin for tvserver and > start using it. Adding any functionality that can be used by a wider audience is always good. > Meanwhile, as always I'm definitely happy to answer questions about > kaa's API (which is what I'm more familiar with, I haven't done much > hacking on freevo proper). I could also take a look at bug reports as > well, especially anything with a traceback. :) > Cheers, > Jason. Great, I've pretty much ditched freevo-1.x already as the music menu and playback from freevo2 (candy) does everything I need (while at the same time being much more responsive and better looking) so I'm now poking around seeing what else can be done.
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