From: Alan <lam...@gm...> - 2011-08-18 02:45:51
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> On a side note, I am in no rush to try 2, I fairly happy with Freevo 1. > (For the life of me, I never could get dvbstreamer working nor svn, but > 1.9 works for my needs) And, my wife will kill me if I "mess around > with that thing" anymore. Never tried XBMC but, if it's anything like > Boxee, it's nice, but it's not Freevo - it's cluttered, sluggish on my > old pentium4, and it doesn't record. Using Freevo to launch Boxee or > Huludesktop is great, but not enough to make me want to get rid of Freevo. I am in the same boat as you, I'm hesitant to update my Freevo installation anytime soon. I would rather see the bugs present in 1.9 fixed before jumping to a new version that will probably have its own issues. For example, Freevo crashes whenever it tries to play a file with accents or japanese in its name. Some plugins don't work. etc. These are all issues that haven't been fixed in a long time, and I don't think a new version would fix this. |