> Stephen Rowles wrote: >> All, [snip]
>> * 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 Have you installed cElementTree? This is quicker than the standard Python ElementTree and may speed up the processing of TV XML data. [snip] >> * 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. Yes you can, you can't play a stream backwards (MPlayer and xine limitation), but you can jump back in small chunks see: http://freevo.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/doc/FAQ#head-1a3f1df0e6b485720982726aa7969b6b0461d2fe [snip] >> * No program info available while viewing a recorded TV program, things >> like time remaining, name and summary of the program. >> > Because of the architecture of freevo this won't be available outside of > the 2 branch. You can do this too, at least as far as the time elapsed and remaining is concerned by sending the 'd' event to mplayer. The other two may be possible with the video.bmovl plug-in but I'm not sure what state this plug-in is in. >> * 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. I think that you will find this is a feature of xine :) mplayer loads a lot faster. You can confirm this with running the command from the command line. prelink may help speed up the loading time of all applications. >> * Picture viewer, with "slide show" time set, I cannot pause the >> playback to look at one photo for longer >> > Feature request on the tracker. Have you tried the pause button? IIRC you can pause and resume the image viewer. >> * 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? IMAGEVIEWER_DURATION may need to be changed as the default is 0, see freevo_conf.py for a description. >> * 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. >> > Again add a feature request to the tracker :) There is really not enough information in the fxd file of a recorded show to do this at the moment. Duncan ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
