All, While at the moment I don't have the time to contribute in terms of actual coding, I thought that I would put together a list of things I find difficult or just don't work or I would like to see. This is intended to help with future development... not to start an argument! From what I have read many of these issues will be fixed in freevo 2.0, but I wanted to put these out there for the record.
I really like freevo, and wouldn't want to go back, but some of the things on this list make life difficult, especially with non-technical people trying to use the TV when we have visitors (like parents). Please note this really isn't a moan, I really like freevo and appreciate all the hard work people put into it, this is meant in the spirit of improving things for the future. Is there an appropriate place in the wiki I could put this info? this might be useful for summer of code type activities? Also, if anyone knows an easy way to solves any of these issues with the existing 1.x stream, then please let me know :D * TV guide is really slow to load :( - would be better if the "timer" picture was displayed, but spends ages seemingly doing nothing, any controls pressed are cached during this time so you can end up watching TV rather than viewing the guide! This is a particular problem when people use the system for the first time. (note 10 days TV guide for around 20 channels) * Cannot pause/rewind/fastforward live TV with DVB - I really really miss this from my old "off the shelf" PVR system * Cannot "rewind" recorded TV shows. You can skip back and forward in large chunks, and I can speed up / slow down the playback, but cannot rewind. This is incredibly frustrating when you missing something and just want to wind back a few seconds - again I really miss this from my old PVR, (I guess this is more of a xine/mplayer issue than freevo). * Watching TV stops recordings happening, this is very frustrating, more than once the TV has been switched off, but freevo left running with live TV, and as a results my recordings haven't happened. My previous off the shelf PVR popped up a box asking if I wanted to keep watching with a timeout, if the timeout was reached then the live TV stopped and recording started. * After watching TV, returning the the TV guide returns with the guide at the point you started watching TV (a time which is now in the past), this causes confusion as programs that appear to be "on now" on other channels have actually finished, would be great if the TV guide moved forward to the correct current time. * No program info available while viewing a recorded TV program, things like time remaining, name and summary of the program. * Application switching to watch video is very slow, I use xine and it takes ages to start playing video and to get back to the freevo interface afterwards * No ability to "bookmark" tv programs, I often have to stop watching half way through, would be nice to resume where I left off * Picture viewer stretches photos - I have a 16:9 wide screen TV, annoying as people always look fat / thin * Picture viewer, with "slide show" time set, I cannot pause the playback to look at one photo for longer * Picture viewer, would like an option to random recursive view all photos - just to do a slide show of everything :), would go nicely with random play list of my mp3's for background use. * From recorded show, would be really nice to have "add to favorites", I sometimes record a program to discover I really like it and want to record the rest of the series, would be ace to have a menu option to do this. * Ability to move / categorise record TV programs - I have a "films" directory, but I have to manual connect to the box and move films into this directory when they are recorded. I do this to try and keep the recorded TV list more manageable. The ability to do this from the freevo interface, or maybe a facility to save all "films" or other category TV shows into their own directory would be great. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
