John Molohan wrote: > Stephen Rowles wrote: > >> [snip] >> > All feedback is more than welcome, it lets us see what people really use > freevo for and what features they need. There is a wishlist section on > the wiki, afaik it's horribly out of date. You could go through it and > remove what you know is done and ask the list for anything your unsure > of then start updating it again. The wiki is a really important part of > freevo as easily accessible and well written documentation is exactly > what people like parents and noobs need so I'd strongly encourage you to > help out here if you can. > Right... I'm not the greatest writer, but will try and find some time to update the wiki. At least I will feel like I'm contributing something, will also try and get my "howto" finished documenting how I built my media centre.
>> * 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) >> >> > Not sure what's happening here, I have 10 days worth of info for 19 > channels and my guide takes about 2.5 seconds to load on an 1.2Ghz > athlon and a 7200rpm drive. My TV.xml is 2.6M > My machine is very "wife friendly" so is a small quiet via EPIA box, 1.2ghz, 7200 rpm drive. my TV.xml is around 4meg. The problem is more the first time it is loaded after each update which takes ages. I'm not in front of my machine now but will try and get some accurate timings. The delay is certainly enough to cause problems. >> * Cannot pause/rewind/fastforward live TV with DVB - I really really >> miss this from my old "off the shelf" PVR system >> >> > Can you pause a DVB stream in xine standalone? Reason I ask is that you > can for ivtv cards by playing the url pvr:// Given that both present a > mpeg2 stream I would have thought that you could pause DVB also but > maybe not. If you can then it's a matter of someone extending the > ivtv_tv plugin to support DVB, you could open a feature request on the > tracker for this. http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=46652 > Hmm, pressing pause pauses the stream, but no caching happens so when you resume the stream it just jumps back to live play. I guess there needs to be a buffer put in place and this would be something for freevo 2.0 >> * 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). >> >> > Yeah that's something that bugs the hell out of me too, afaik it is a > limitation of mplayer/xine as you mention which I find hard to believe > that they don't have this functionality at this stage. > I wonder if this will be possible in 2.0, if there is more control over the stream and buffers being presented to the player? >> * 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. >> >> > Easy - just enable the upsoon plugin :) > Ace - will try that when I get home this evening. > [snip] >> * 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 >> >> > This again seems a bit strange to me. Have you tried to debug it? Enable > debugging in your local_conf and watch the logs and output with top etc. > to try figure out what's happening. > Yeah, will have to try that out and again get some timings and top information to find out whats happening, its really a minor irritation than a real problem, just makes everything a bit less "slick". If this turns out to be that xine is slow starting up and shutting down, I wonder if for shutdown something could be done to hide xine away behind the freevo interface while it stops, to at least make things seem smoother. >> * No ability to "bookmark" tv programs, I often have to stop watching >> half way through, would be nice to resume where I left off >> >> > Do you mean tv programs or tv recordings? With recordings if you are > using mplayer you can use bookmarks, there's a plugin for this, I'm > pretty sure it's enabled by default. If you're using xine there was a > post to the list a couple of days ago with a patch to enable support. > You can apply that or wait for it to be applied to svn or the next release. > Must have missed that one - will try that out, I meant bookmarking recordings. >> * Picture viewer stretches photos - I have a 16:9 wide screen TV, >> annoying as people always look fat / thin >> >> > Have you tried the panorama skin? This is designed specifically for > widescreen TVs. > ah, no, I use info I think because it was the "nicest" in terms of information displayed, didn't think that the photo stuff would be skin dependent. Will try switching skin and seeing if that makes a different > [snip] >> * 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. >> >> > Hmm I've just tried this and there is an option to 'Recursive random > play all items' for photos which should do what you want but it appears > to only display one random photo from my collection and then never move > on. Can you open a bug report on the tracker? > Ahh, I think I know what the problem here is... I would like to play ALL my photos, when I select "photos" from the main menu I have a top level directory filled with all the sub directories containing my photos. I can random play all the photos in one of my directories, but not all photos in all directories as I have nothing to open a menu on that covers that scope. I guess a work around here would be to create a dummy top level directory. I get that behavior for music as the CD drive gives me a top level folder. Its an interesting user interface problem :) > [snip] >> * 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. >> >> >> > You can do most of this if you enable the shoppingcart plugin. You can't > create directories from what I remember so you'd have to set up a few by > hand first but after that you can copy or move items from one directory > to another from inside freevo. > Hmm, shoppingcart - wouldn't have guessed it provided that feature from the name! - Again will try that out too > Hope that helps. > > That all sounds great - thank you. I will do my best to try stuff out and feedback / update the wiki / raise feature requests. thank you! ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
