Re: freevo2 trunk: tvserver rpc address bind failure

  On 05/08/2010 14:30, Jason Tackaberry wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-08-04 at 21:35 +0100, John Molohan wrote:
>> Is the tvserver ready for use? Any pointers on how to get started and
>> what is supported at the moment?
> Unfortunately I don't really know, because dischi wrote it.  Dischi did
> just write http://doc.freevo.org/2.0/TVServer which says this about its
> status:
>
>          Status
>          The core is running and working (or was at the beginning of 2010
>          when I last worked on it). But does nothing useful due to the
>          lack of a UI to control it (that part in Freevo 2.0 is broken).
>
>          The following items are still on my TODO list:
>
>                * Make it possible to control the TV server using the
>                  Freevo 2.0 GUI
>                * Add mdns support to limit the configuration to a
>                  password for kaa.rpc to connect
>                * Live TV support
>
>          The following items are nice to have if someone else is willing
>          to do it:
>
>                * Create a small GTK app to control the TV server. Since
>                  kaa.base and GTK work fine together, it should be easy
>                  to create such a small tool.
>                * Make TV devices. Right now only a dvbstreamer plugin
>                  works. More devices, such as analogue TV would be nice
>
>          Due to limited time on my side it would be nice if someone else
>          can take over the maintainership of the tvserver code. If you
>          have any questions about the code, ask on the mailing list or on
>          #freevo at irc.gnu.org.
Straight off the press by the looks of it :) Great to have an update on 
this, thanks (and thanks to Dischi too)
> I've been using my own seriously hacky script to do tv captures off my
> HDPVR.  The HDPVR needs a lot of hand-holding, like automatically
> reopening /dev/video0 if the feed suddenly stops, or even repeatedly
> reloading the hdpvr module until it starts working.
>
> I might look at moving all this into an hdpvr plugin for tvserver and
> start using it.
Adding any functionality that can be used by a wider audience is always 
good.
> Meanwhile, as always I'm definitely happy to answer questions about
> kaa's API (which is what I'm more familiar with, I haven't done much
> hacking on freevo proper).  I could also take a look at bug reports as
> well, especially anything with a traceback. :)
> Cheers,
> Jason.
Great, I've pretty much ditched freevo-1.x already as the music menu and 
playback from freevo2 (candy) does everything I need (while at the same 
time being much more responsive and better looking) so I'm now poking 
around seeing what else can be done.

I'd posted a couple of tracebacks recently but got no reply if you're 
looking for a few to start you off :)

Thanks,

John

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