[Freevo-devel] Next release of Freevo-1

[Duncan W. <du...@fr...>]

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The --start option has been replaced by --daemon as this is more what it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