Hi, I also think in this direction. I'm designing cross platform home automation/entertainment system and it would be nice to make Freevo crossplatform. At least core GUI, some time ago I tried this, but no luck. Maybe it's time to try again. It could go in two directions: - plain Freevo source and windows counterparts of dependincies (recently I downloaded windows components and 3-4 are missing windows counterparts...) - to go with cygwin (linux like environment under windows) and compiling dependencies.
In both cases we should find media player equivalents (should be open source). For audio there is maybe winamp, foobar2000, for video mazbe xine for win32 or other... I think it would be worth, cause in windows domain there is currently no equivalent open source GUI frontend media engine as Freevo is. Since it's based on python, it would be nice to take advantage of that. Another example of success story is Misterhouse (I use it for home automation layer in my system). It's Perl based, oepn source and it's reported to work almost on any machine with Perl... That's what I think the main advantage of Freevo is. I'm closely watching development of similar GUIs in windows, but no one is going to be open source - the best you get is plugin system. myHTPC is nice, but it's closed source and may be commercial some day... Some other promising programs like MediaBox simply ended (source was not opened to public, lack of money and lack of development), etc... So I think one day we should present Freevo to all those people waiting for myHTPC2 and I think a lot of them will be learning python... When you use python, much bigger group of peopel can contribute (this is certainly case with Misterhouse...) Regards, Robert Rozman ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
