Freevo 1.9.0
Freevo 1.9.0 Ranking & Summary
Freevo 1.9.0 description
Freevo allows you to manage your entire digital media collection - music, videos, photos etc. via a remote controlled TV interface and through the built in web interface you can also access your media, view your TV guide and schedule recordings from anywhere in the world.
The benefit of Freevo above other HTPC solutions is that Freevo is 100% DRM free, plays video in 99.99% of formats, and most of all puts you in control of the television.
As an open-source home theatre computer platform, Freevo employs a number of open-source video/audio tools, Xine and/or MPlayer are used to play audio and video files in most popular formats.
Freevo can be used both for a standalone HTPC computer with a TV+remote, as well as on a regular desktop computer or laptop using the monitor and keyboard.
NOTE: For detailed instruction on how to install Freevo on your Mac system go HERE.
Main features:
- Cross platform - runs on OS X, Linux, and Windows (sort of)
- Watch & record television
- Pause live TV - DVB and analogue (with ivtv card)
- Support for multiple tuners - watch and record simultaneously.
- Separate recording server allows multiple backends and frontends on your network.
- Commercial detection/removal
- Play & backup DVD video
- Play any kind of file supported by mplayer/xine/ffmpeg including DIVX & MPEG4
- Watch the latest movie trailers
- Retrieve video covers & information
- Play & backup audio CDs and retrieve album track lists & covers
- Play MP3/Wav/Ogg/Flac or any other audio supported by mplayer or xine
- Tune into Internet radio from around the world
- Read news headlines and the weather
- View and import images from a digital camera
- Play games
- Control home automation equipment (lights, sockets etc.)
Enhancements
- Added support for Python-2.6
- Removed support for Python-2.4
- New audio icecast plug-in (F#2680204)
- New audio shoutcast plug-in (F#2680192)
- New convert_favorites_txt help to convert a favorites.txt to a favorites.pickle (F#2512372)
- New skinable dialogs (F#2308911)
- New "freevo cache" option --cropdetect to detect and add crop options to fxd files (F#2791887)
- New rtorrent module to allow torrents to be downloaded from freevo (F#2580403)
- New OSD dialog screen designer (F#2621369)
- New screen-saver module, "life" (F#2371097)
- New screen-saver module, "flames" (F#2376752)
- New tv guide plug-in "categories" (F#2743961)
- New zoneminder plug-in (F#2790321)
- Updated autoshutdown plug-in to allow a configurable start-up delay (F#2784634)
- Updated command plug-in to allow images to be specified in the fxd file (F#2778822)
- Updated dvdbackup plug-in to allow the audio codec to be specified (F#2791303)
- Updated encoding crop detection (F#2500046)
- Updated encoding server uniquely identify different re-enoding of files (F#2489762)
- Updated encoding server to run jobs as nice (F#2763076)
- Updated French translation (F#2784895, F#2795784)
- Updated ivtv_xine_tv plugin with a record menu screen, xine-ui patch required (F#2373921)
- Updated play state dialogues with time elapsed / total time (F#2594055)
- Updated recordings manager with Add to Favorites and Search for more (F#2661790)
- Fixed alsamixer mute variable error (B#2497746)
- Fixed busy not being removed correctly (B#1928513)
- Fixed button bar pop-up menu paging in (B#2788067)
- Fixed caching permission problems (B#2580201)
- Fixed command plug-in that tried to read a non-existent log file (B#2486033)
- Fixed cd_burn plug-in for spaces in directory names and location of temp files (B#2473568)
- Fixed cd_burn plug-in auto-detection of writeable drives (B#2778925)
- Fixed imdb returning XML numeric entities (B#2796344)
- Fixed livepause error and backend server error (B#2788099)
- Fixed OSD drawing of transparent text (B#2482964)
- Fixed record client for changes to kaa.base (B#2721256)
- Fixed record server automatic re-encoding (B#2482703,B#2458849)
- Fixed record server timing problems (B#2692397)
- Fixed recordings manager not to overwrite the fxd files (B#2688691)
- Fixed rom_drives mounting problem for non-root users (B#2502039)
- Fixed reencode video plug-in; incorrect calls to the encoding server (B#2483017)
- Fixed skin info; infinite loop in video style 3 (B#2662476)
- Fixed TV XML processing when the XML file does not have valid timezones B#2550109)
- Fixed video thumbnails to allow for flash music videos being too short (B#2663492)
- Fixed wiimote plug-in config errors (B#2494315)
Freevo 1.9.0 Screenshot
Freevo 1.9.0 Keywords
Bookmark Freevo 1.9.0
Freevo 1.9.0 Copyright
Want to place your software product here?
Please contact us for consideration.
Contact WareSeeker.com