Synopsis

Imagine a world where the tv guide is liquid, where the time slots are organised to suit your schedule. Imagine a place you can store all of your music, movies and photos for you and your family to enjoy. Imagine having access to all your games, podcasts, upto the minute weather and news reports. Imagine doing all of this for free. What a wonderful world that would be...

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New releases 1.7.9 and 1.8.2

Hello all freevoers,

Announcing that the new releases of Freevo-1.7.9 and Freevo-1.8.2 are available for downloading from sourceforge.net

First and foremost a real big thanks to everyone who has contributed to the development of the Freevo 1 series. And a thank you to everyone who has provided feedback on the doodle poll.

A special thanks to:
Gorka for his work with mplayervis and alpha blending between menus.
José his work with rtve.es plug-in and FilmAffinity plug-in and more.
Torsten for his speak plug-in.
Adam for updates to livepause.
Valera for lots of bug reports and fixes.

Now that the kaa.notifier code has proven to be reliable this will be the last release of the 1.7 series. We will now start to concentrate on updating the plug-ins to remove the code that polls for events from the main loop. The effect of the all this polling is that the user interface is much less responsive than it should be and the CPU load is higher than it should be.

What's new in 1.8.2

- New speak plug-in

- New mplayer visualization plug-in for audio

- New video plug-in for streaming programs from rtve.es

- Updated livepause for graphic OSD for vlc

- Updated OSD for alpha blending between screen updates

- Updated mplayer TV and video plug-ins to correct MPLAYER_VO_DEV_OPTS handling

- Updated mplayervis plug-in to be able to set the frame rate

What's new in 1.7.9, these are also in 1.8.2

- New mouse support for Freevo

- New TV plug-in to browse by genre

- New video Spanish information grabber, FilmAffinity for movies

- New video plug-in, fillscreen, to crop, scale and change monitor aspect for video items

- Updated freeboxtv to be in the TV plug-ins

- Updated mplayer audio plug-in to show a pop-up when caching

- Updated mplayer to handle subtitle and audio cycling using the SUBTITLE and LANG events

- Updated recordings manager to improve its performance

There is a lot of additional fixes from lots of people and the full list is available in the changelog

Finally the release statistics: Release 1.7.8 to 1.7.9 there are 7 new items and 87 changes. Release 1.8.1 to 1.8.2 there are 19 new items and 167 changes.

Have fun,
Duncan

John Molohan

26-August-2008

User poll

In order to help the developers get a better understanding of the areas that you, the users, feel need improvement a new poll has been created. Please take one minute complete it and ensure that Freevo is going in the right direction. It's available here