Re: The future of Freevo 2.0
Dirk Meyer <[email protected]>
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Hi, On 17.07.2011 16:29, Tuomas Tonteri wrote: > I was wondering what is the place of Freevo 2.0 in the landscape of > alternatives? What makes it unique from all the other HTPC software? > There seems to be more competition here than there was five years ago. IMHO there is only one big new player: XBMC. Yes, there are others, but they are small, just like we are now. > This from a very happy user of Freevo 1.X through its DirectFB backend. > The best thing for me in Freevo (1) is the use of multiple separate > programs, especially its use of mplayer. I do not want to change that. There are good video players and many good people working on them. We do not have the man power to build our own player and I don't want to. Just hook into mplayer and gstreamer and reuse their good work. Dischi -- Veni, Vidi, VISA: I came, I saw, I did a little shopping. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Magic Quadrant for Content-Aware Data Loss Prevention Research study explores the data loss prevention market. Includes in-depth analysis on the changes within the DLP market, and the criteria used to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of these DLP solutions. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51385063/