Hi, I take this posting as a mail I want to write for a long time now. It's not personally :-)
"keir johnson" wrote: > I actually tried using 1.3.4, but it doesn't execute > properly---hangs, so I had to install only other version I had > downloaded which was 1.3.2. One common problem. 'It hangs' doesn't help much. If I don't know what happens, this will never change. > I'd like the dvd menu support that xine is supposed to use, but I'm > getting sick of 'fixing' each component that is necessary for freevo > (already worked alot to make mplayer work right). A second common problem: Freevo has good support for the hardware the developers have, they take care of it. But since I don't have more than one graphic card (and don't need to), users have to help users. You fixed each component. Good, than share your results with the rest. _Everyone_ has write access to the WiKi on the homepage. If each user shares the resultions they have, it would much easier for new users, Freevo could integrate this knowledge. In the future, I like to have some sort of auto detection. Freevo knows what cards you have and will setup correctly, no need to change the deatils. But right now, I get nearly no feedback for help requests. Here some examples: o I developed a way to detect if a disc is a DVD, VCD or SVCD. I send a mail: please test and send results. I only got 1 (!!!) answer. Lucky for you all, this answer helped to solve a bad bug. o A asked for all to write a small doc for plugins. Even if you don't know much about Python, you can document the plugins you use. I got 0 (!!!) answers. o A asked for a slashscreen. OK, I got one answer, but a little bit more would be great. o And skins, this has nothing to do with Python. Help us here, we are no designers. Someone wrote a howto for Freevo. He asked for help to make it better. I guess the answers are below 10. I (and the other developers) write some code. Documenting is a pain in the ass, I know, that's why most features aren't documented. > I'm still facing a problem with my capture card (BT878-based) where > I'm only getting garbage in top inch or so of picture and no real > picture---that will I'm sure burn-up countless hours researching and > fixing whatever the problem is. Ask here. If you know the answer some day, please add it to the docs to avoid that the next one has the same problem. > (Hope that doesn't sound ungrateful, but frustration is setting > in--sorry) Same here. Dischi -- Please do not complain about the coffee. You'll be old and weak someday, too! ------------------------------------------------------- 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
