Re: [Freevo-users] [Freevo-devel] Next release of Freevo-1

[Art S R <art...@gm...>]

On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 2:57 PM, John Molohan <joh...@gc...> wrote:
> John Molohan wrote:
>> Duncan Webb wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I'm planning the next release of Freevo-1.8.4 for the 26 May 2009.
>>>
>>> The closing date for enhancement is Sunday 3 May, there is no closing
>>> date for bug fixes or translations.
>>>
>>> If you have some time please will you test the svn version. Most of the
>>> command line arguments have changed to use optparse. This means that to
>>> get the help for a helper then the -- option needs to be used to stop
>>> the argument processing for freevo. i.e: freevo makelircrc -- --help.
>>>
>>> The --start option has been replaced by --daemon as this is more what it
>>> does.
>>>
>>> album_tree has a new look and genre has been added to the database so a
>>> play-list by genre can now be generated. The sqlite database name has
>>> been changed to include the major version of sqlite as different
>>> versions of sqlite databases are incompatible.
>>>
>>> Image browsing has changed to use the thumbnails that freevo cache can
>>> generate, this is faster and less memory hungry.
>>>
>>> freevo cache can now run crop detect on directories and files and store
>>> the settings in the fxd file. I use a cron job to run this once a day,
>>> seems to work for me but you may have different results.
>>>
>>> If anyone wants an overscan test module, to see if the overscan settings
>>> are correctly set-up I'll post the plug-in.
>>>
>>> There are still a few bugs, that I know about, and these include:
>>>  - the CD/DVD drive can be locked when at the main menu
>>>  - the BusyIcon is a but broken, may be due to overscan settings.
>>>
>>> So if anyone wants to have a go at fixing these then they are welcome.
>>>
>>> There are still more changes, the current list is in the ChangeLog of a
>>> svn checkout.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Duncan
>> Could you include some of the skins from megabox?
>>
>> John
> I have the red version on my production machine, I'll submit that.
>
> I lost my laptop to a hard drive failure so I don't have a copy of the
> rest of them. I know someone else on the list had downloaded it, if they
> could submit some of the others it'd save me downloading another 1gb.
>
> John
>
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I have copies of these.  Where/how should I upload them?  Do we need
to get permission from the megabox folks to include their skins for
public distribution as part of Freevo or is that not an issue?

Art S R