what sad news indeed, but sensible, thanks for all the hard work, fyi the wiki
can also be found at https://web.archive.org
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On Tue, 1/21/14, Phil Raymond <tvp...@yahoo.com> wrote:
Subject: Re: [Freevo-users] The future of Freevo(.org)
To: "freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net" <freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net>,
"Dirk Meyer" <dis...@freevo.org>, "freevo-devel"
<freevo-de...@lists.sourceforge.net>
Received: Tuesday, January 21, 2014, 10:38 AM
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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