I too will miss Freevo. Unfortunately, one of the functions version 2.0 leaves
out, is the primary reason i used Freevo. To capture HD streams out of my cable
box, using a Hauppauge HD PVR. Fortunately,I recently bought a new laptop and
installed version 1.90. As long as it continues to work, I will use it. Thanks
Dirk, for the many hours of work you put into Freevo, as well as everyone else
who contributed in some way.
Phil
On Monday, January 20, 2014 1:49 PM, Jake <j...@jakebriggs.com> wrote:
This is a sad day :( I used freevo for years but started using my TVs inbuilt
dlna client when my last htpc died 3 years ago. It was a threadbare experience
- but at least it didn't try to be too clever. I recently got a raspberry pi
for xbmc, but I do miss freevo. It had the perfect mix of simplicity and
features, my TVs dlna client is utterly braindead and xbmc tries to be too
clever.
Thanks for all your hard work Dirk!
Dirk Meyer <dis...@freevo.org> wrote:
Hi,
>
>I have no idea how many people still read this list, how many people
>still use Freevo 1.x, and how many people use 2.0 from git (I guess that
>is only me).
>
>I failed to get a release of Freevo 2 out. I changed too much, a
>complete rewrite and some parts are also written three or four times. My
>fault, I know -- an error made years ago and when noticed, it was too
>late to change it. And since I started a new job four years ago my time
>working on Freevo got smaller and smaller every month. Jason also is
>completely busy with his job.
>
>I still say Freevo 2 is ready to use, but I will not release it. I'm not
>sure it works with the latest clutter or gstreamer, I only know it works
>for me. It lacks many important features such as DVD playback (I have a
>BluRay Player) and TV recording. I do not need it and I don't have time
>to code it.
>
>Besides that, XBMC has a much bigger
community, UPnP is enough for many
>people (even I use NAS + BubbleUPnP + TV sometimes) and new development
>such as Chromecast will reduce Freevo's usefulness even further.
>
>I will continue to use Freevo 2, I may even write an Android client for
>it (after learning Python with Freevo which was useful for getting my
>current job, hacking Android is a good next step), but I see no real
>future for Freevo without a live community and more people hacking code.
>If someone contributes something, I will add it. If someone needs help
>to get Freevo 2 running, I will provide it.
>
>Since we also lack someone maintaining the server we host and I do not
>want to pay for something we don't need, I will shut it down at the end
>of February. This means the SVN and the Wiki will be gone. If someone
>wants a backup of the Wiki please tell me. The code is already on github
>and will remain there. The mailing list on SF will continue and
so will
>the mail server hosting freevo.org and all mail addresses will continue
>to be valid.
>
>Maybe after some time someone resurrects Freevo. I would love to pass
>the maintainership over to someone just as I took it over from Krister
>years ago. Maybe someone takes the kaa-stuff and writes something new
>and better. I'm happy to assist and I think the same is true for Jason.
>Maybe I will release something someday based on the current code.
>
>It was a great time, I learned a lot and it was much fun.
>
>
>Regards,
>
>Dischi
>
>
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