Re: Freevo 1 NG

On 17/06/2010 16:58, Adam Charrett wrote:
> So in the interim I'm thinking about the following changes to the Freevo
> 1.x code base with the idea of calling it Freevo 1-NG (not quite 2 but no
> longer 1.x).
>
> 1. Getting rid of pygame and replacing it with WebKit and pygtk. This
> means all the skins would be written in HTML and Javascript (lots more
> people able to do that than there are for our current skin format)) and we
> could then have video in the same window! I'm aware this will mean
> everyone would need X to run freevo but I'm thinking this is 2010 and even
> a 5 year old machine is going to be very capable of running X and freevo.
>
> 2. The other thing I'm keen on, is going UPnP crazy, sorta :-) . Most
> other media centers appear to support UPnP to some degree. I think we
> should strive to be DLNA compliant and support sharing and using out other
> UPnP device of the box. (I've been bitten by the UPnP bug recently due to
> having to work on it at real work!)
>    

As an end user, sounds great to me.

  I run X and I am sure lots of people do for hardware acceleration e.g. 
VDPAU which I think you need X for don't you?

HTML + Javascript should open up a lot of possibilities for layouts and 
customisation which would be good. And should make doing so easier as 
there would be tool support for HTML design etc. I guess if the display 
is HTML you could offer the same controls via a remote HTTP connection 
as well, might be an easy way to allow remote control from a phone / 
tablet device with the the same real interface.

Personally I don't care about UPnP but would love some improved love for 
remote record server, streaming from remote systems (e.g. dvbstreamer 
and the server in the loft setup) and better mutli-card / single 
multiplex dual stream recording for DVB.


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