Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo as PVR with standalone media player?

2011-10-24 Thread Daniel Pocock
>> Does Freevo aim to address this use-case at the moment, e.g. acting as a >> back-end DVR and serving content to dedicated media players, and is >> anyone doing any work in this area? Are any of the media players >> `Freevo friendly', e.g. able to use Freevo as a DVR? >> >> >> > As I under

Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo as PVR with standalone media player?

2011-10-24 Thread Preston Hagar
On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 8:21 PM, Daniel Pocock wrote: > Hi, > > I've been looking at the wide range of standalone media players now on > display in the shops > > Their key benefits: compact, low power/fanless, inexpensive, fully > integrated UI with remote control > > As far as the architecture of

[Freevo-users] mpd interface for freevo

2011-10-24 Thread Alan
I have a good idea for freevo: A real mpd interface (eg: using libmpdclient, and not simply parsing mpc's output). I recently tested an mpd client called GMPC [1] and it looks really impressive. It would be neat to have an interface similar to this, with the ability to load or create playlists, and

Re: [Freevo-users] Idea for Freevo config file

2011-10-24 Thread Alan
On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 4:55 PM, Liz wrote: > I had an idea (which I cannot make happen) for a web based program to > produce a config file. > I don't know why I thought that a web based interactive program would > be better than one packaged in with Freevo, except that it should be > easier to ma

[Freevo-users] Idea for Freevo config file

2011-10-24 Thread Liz
I had an idea (which I cannot make happen) for a web based program to produce a config file. I don't know why I thought that a web based interactive program would be better than one packaged in with Freevo, except that it should be easier to maintain, as it would not be distro based. To me, making