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1Freevo Changelog
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6 * Updated mplayer tv plug-in to CSEND_MPLAYER_CMD
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15svn co svn://svn.freevo.org/freevo/branches/rel-1/freevo freevo-1.8.x
16svn co svn://svn.freevo.org/freevo/branches/rel-1-7/freevo freevo-1.7.x
17
18== Release 1.8.4 (2009-01-24) ==
19--------------------------------
20
21 * New skinable dialogs (F#2308911)
22 * New screen-saver module, "life" (F#2371097)
23 * New screen-saver module, "flames" (F#2376752)
24 * Updated ivtv_xine_tv plugin with a record menu screen, xine-ui patch required (F#2373921)
25 * Fixed command plug-in that tried to read a non-existent log file (B#2486033)
26 * Fixed cd_burn plug-in for spaces in directory names and location of temp files (B#2473568)
27 * Fixed OSD drawing of transparent text (B#2482964)
28 * Fixed record server automatic re-encoding (B#2482703,B#2458849)
29 * Fixed reencode video plug-in; incorrect calls to the encoding server (B#2483017)
30
31== Release 1.8.3 (2008-12-01) ==
32--------------------------------
33
34 * New last.fm radio player plug-in to use the latest API and GUI player (F#2371347)
35 * New pygoom-2k4 module to fix memory bugs and conform to Python's modules (F#2371241)
36 * New wikisubtitles video plug-in to get subtitles for videos (F#2147641)
37 * Updated apple trailers (F#2089598)
38 * Updated encoding server to name incomplete encodings with incomplete (F#2190016)
39 * Updated encoding server replaced twisted with kaa rpc calls (F#2371436)
40 * Updated French translation (F#2318587)
41 * Updated Italian translation (F#2153010)
42 * Updated geexbox skin with a new layout (F#1917603)
43 * Updated livepause for IVTV devices (F#2343240)
44 * Updated mouse support so that it is optional (F#2089306)
45 * Updated mplayer tv plug-in to have the event TV_SEND_MPLAYER_CMD (F#2298515)
46 * Updated OSD with alpha-blending dialog (F#2255527)
47 * Updated RTVE video plug-in to allow videos from the archive to be played (F#2104431)
48 * Updated video autojoin behaviour to allow a regular expression to join the files (F#2372187)
49 * Updated video podcast plug-in to support more feeds and reduce delays (F#2372071)
50 * Updated webserver to support Cooliris RSS feed for images (F#2371410)
51 * Updated youtube plug-in to allow standard and locale specific feeds (F#2099147)
52 * Updated youtube plug-in to feed more than 25 videos (F#2115012)
53 * Fixed automatic CD-ROM drive detection to ignore comments (B#2085387)
54 * Fixed CD-ROM backup to support more than one drive (B#2371309)
55 * Fixed encoding idlebar to be able to select a font (B#2187603)
56 * Fixed headlines plug-in to ignore items without a title, etc. (B#2183225)
57 * Fixed imdb helper to correctly handle dates when available (B#2075291)
58 * Fixed imdb search when a season is specified but no episode (B#2214605)
59 * Fixed joy plug-in to remove any pending events when enabled (B#1916407)
60 * Fixed menu selecting methods using ENTER instead of SELECT (B#2214605)
61 * Fixed mplayer crash when auto cropping is enabled (B#2089592)
62 * Fixed mplayer when play list is enabled (B#2219657)
63 * Fixed mplayer when playing a DVD ISO (B#2249030)
64 * Fixed record server auto re-encode show title (B#2193796)
65 * Fixed record server generic record module to allow a group_type to be given (B#2017200)
66 * Fixed ROM drives mounting instead of umounting a disk, also umounts before an eject (B#2323270)
67 * Fixed RSS feed crashing on invalid URLs or feeds it cannot handle (B#2372220)
68 * Fixed RTVE video plug-in for changes to the web page (B#2196882)
69 * Fixed setup to detect when Numeric is installed (B#2372089)
70 * Fixed skin blurr's placement of media information (B#2371255)
71 * Fixed tv recordings_manager crashing when deleting a recording (B#2138835)
72 * Fixed video item having broken synlinks (B#2323234)
73 * Fixed wiimote not detecting when the remote has been switched off (B#2037944)
74
75== Release 1.8.2 (2008-08-25) ==
76--------------------------------
77
78 * New speak plug-in (F#2030738)
79 * New mplayer visualization plug-in for audio (F#2046827)
80 * New video plug-in for streaming programs from rtve.es (F#2070045)
81 * Updated livepause for graphic OSD for vlc (F#2028707)
82 * Updated OSD for alhpa blending between screen updates (F#2052947)
83 * Updated mplayer tv and video plug-ins to correct MPLAYER_VO_DEV_OPTS handling (B#1989738)
84 * Updated mplayervis plug-in to be able to set the frame rate (F#2027953)
85 * Fixed new arguments to mplayer for the video codec (B#2022949)
86 * Fixed idlebar fonts for wide-screen TVs (B#1981503)
87 * Fixed livepause plug-in to display OSD over fullscreen video in X11 (B#2031911)
88 * Fixed tv channels to correctly process channel names (B#2022957)
89 * Fixed tv mplayer plug-in to correctly handle DVB settings (B#2030591)
90
91== Release 1.7.9 (2008-08-25) ==
92--------------------------------
93
94 * New mouse support for Freevo (F#2013847)
95 * New tv plug-in to browse by genre (F#2031789)
96 * New video Spanish information grabber, FilmAffinity for movies (F#2013250)
97 * New video plug-in, fillscreen, to crop, scale and change monitor aspect for video items (F#2018044)
98 * Updated freeboxtv to  be in the tv plug-ins (B#2022158)
99 * Updated mplayer audio plug-in to show a pop-up when caching (F#2026124)
100 * Updated mplayer to handle subtitle and audio cycling using the SUBTITLE and LANG events (F#2010109)
101 * Updated recordings manager to improve its performance (F#2031616)
102 * Fixed audio network items for mplayer plug-in (B#1972914)
103 * Fixed audio scrobbler for protocol 1.2 (B#1967805)
104 * Fixed audio last.fm typo (B#1981236)
105 * Fixed image viewer to show the date and time of the picture (B#2022946)
106 * Fixed IMDB to use new Plot (B#1982159)
107 * Fixed OSD not to crash when viewing non-supported images (B#1989196)
108 * Fixed OSD to always set the SDL_VIDEO_WINDOW_POS for the new pygame (B#2010111)
109 * Fixed video item to show the rating instead of an expression (B#2027958)
110 * Fixed webserver help plugins module to allow non-ascii characters (B#1983965)
111
112== Release 1.8.1 (2008-05-26) ==
113--------------------------------
114
115 * New DVB/ATSC live pause plug-in (F#1927555)
116 * New DVB/ATSC live pause plug-in video overlay (F#1927555)
117 * New helper module (vg) to generate TV_VIDEO_GROUPS (analogue only) (F#1963294)
118 * New webserver old media library module (from freevo-1.6) (F#1963299)
119 * Updated French translation (F#1967346)
120 * Updated Spanish translation (F#1971055)
121 * Updated TV record post processing to automatically re-encode the recording (F#1944888)
122 * Fixed command plug-in crashing when polling the event handler (B#1959045, B#1962010)
123 * Fixed lastfm audio plug-in for changes to audioscrobbler webservices (B#1967805)
124 * Fixed Wiimote plug-in for latest kaa SocketDispatcher changes (B#1941224)
125 * Fixed TV guide exceptions (B#1958916)
126 * Fixed TV guide Unicode errors (B#1962665)
127
128== Release 1.7.8 (2008-05-26) ==
129--------------------------------
130
131 * New autostart plug-in to send events at start up (F#1966434)
132 * New lcd plug-in (lcd2) (F#1910530)
133 * New idlebar sensors plug-in (sensors2) (F#1953007)
134 * New video menu plug-in to remove commercials (F#1920654)
135 * New video plug-in to supply video information from xine (F#1929333)
136 * New video wwitv plug-in for streaming TV from wwitv.com (F#1971765)
137 * Updated audio albumtree plug-in with support for ogg files (F#1928509)
138 * Updated fxd audio to allow radio tuner to be mixed with web radio (F#1962450)
139 * Updated French moviecovers for additional search in the forum (F#1971466)
140 * Updated French translation (F#1968240)
141 * Updated headline plug-in to use feedparser and fixes entities (F#1968843)
142 * Updated image viewer to allow a configuration variable of autostart (F#1929319)
143 * Updated plugins helper to work with __init__.py modules (F#1930102)
144 * Updated somafm with new stations (F#1954313)
145 * Updated tv guide to jump to now at the end of watching TV (F#1965480)
146 * Fixed audio coversearch plug-in for changed Amazon REST interface (B#1952372)
147 * Fixed audio plug-in six mixer's event named (B#1966739)
148 * Fixed encodingserver when video has a length of 'None' (B#1942301)
149 * Fixed freevused for latest kaa changes (B#1941223)
150 * Fixed "freevo cache --thumbnail --recursive" when path has spaces (B#1929635)
151 * Fixed games crashing when there is no working joystick (B#1968114)
152 * Fixed record client's find matches when title includes '().' (B#1955745)
153 * Fixed rss server crashing on valid RSS feeds (B#1834529)
154 * Fixed scrollable text widget when word is longer than line (B#1941573)
155 * Fixed sensors idlebar plug-in to correctly detect the sensors directory (B#1951848)
156 * Fixed skin "dark" causing a crash in the video menu (B#1966316)
157 * Fixed tv mplayer plug-in channel change for DVB (B#1935542)
158
159== Release 1.8.0 (2008-03-23) ==
160--------------------------------
161
162 * New ivtv_xine_tv plug-in to allow instant record, plus much more (F#1891595)
163 * Updated record server and clients replacing Twisted with kaa.rpc (F#1923565)
164
165== Release 1.7.7 (2008-03-23) ==
166--------------------------------
167
168 * New Polish translation (F#1919792)
169 * New atlantice skin (F#1907139)
170 * New DVD to disk back-up plug-in (F#1892278)
171 * New PDA control with feedback client and upd plug-in (F#1890855)
172 * New placement support when using xrandr (F#1869969)
173 * Updated cdbackup plug-in to add the year from cddb (F#1907065)
174 * Updated cd_burn plug-in to support play lists (F#1901175)
175 * Updated dvbstreamer to allow the live pause to use a remote server (F#1915730)
176 * Updated dvdbackup to allow customized menus (F#1890499)
177 * Updated makelircrc helper to allow include files (F#1922045)
178 * Updated playlist to process "#EXTINF" comments in m3u files (F#1890203)
179 * Updated Russian translation (B#1889826)
180 * Updated tv guide with scheduled to record and favorite icons (F#1886621)
181 * Updated tv program to stop reporting that a program is over (F#1886568)
182 * Updated xml tv epg to allow a time zone to be specified (F#1889376)
183 * Updated youtube video plug-in to look up two links (F#1890214)
184 * Fixed audio playlist when the end of the play list has been reached (B#1910749)
185 * Fixed audio selection for avi video files with more than one audio (B#1911247)
186 * Fixed audio selection for the first track for mkv and ogm video files (B#1890498)
187 * Fixed audioscrobbler plug-in not sending songs to last.fm (B#1902461)
188 * Fixed cdbackup plug-in to allow empty parameters (B#1889068)
189 * Fixed ivtv_xine_tv plug-in encoding of OSD messages (B#1893373)
190 * Fixed moviecovers plug-in proceeding when unzip is not installed (B#1903519)
191 * Fixed main program to cause a crash when local_conf.py is invalid (B#1886624)
192 * Fixed oneclick weather plug-in translation of 'at' to 'at a rate of' (B#1919537)
193 * Fixed video alternative player being shown twice (B#1910529)
194 * Fixed web servers encoding interface (B#1885914)
195 * Fixed web servers image pop-up encoding (B#1895302)
196 * Fixed web servers remote image locations (B#1900736)
197
198== Release 1.7.6.1 (2008-02-05) ==
199----------------------------------
200
201 * Fixed config so that it does not crash freevo (B#1888107)
202
203== Release 1.8.0rc2 (2008-02-03) ==
204--------------------------------
205
206 * New tv vlc live pause plug-in for DVB (F#1875427)
207 * New wiimote input plug-in (F#1868785)
208
209== Release 1.7.6 (2008-02-03) ==
210--------------------------------
211
212 * New audio MPD plug-in replacement (F#1865008)
213 * New DirecTV plug-in to send to DirecTV receivers (F#1858775)
214 * New flickr plug-in to see photo from www.flickr.com (F#1865290)
215 * New Gentoo wake-up script in the contrib/gentoo directory (F#1884611)
216 * New web-server modules to show guide channel and encoding_web (F#1864652)
217 * New Youtube video plug-in (F#1864496)
218 * Updated cdbackup plug-in with CD_RIP_FMT to set the encoding format (F#1857460)
219 * Updated encoding server to save the output to ENCODINGSERVER_SAVE_DIR when set (F#1865522)
220 * Updated itv plug-in for youtube video feeds (F#1868425)
221 * Updated menu osd sounds for more sound events (F#1870321)
222 * Updated mplayer audio plug-in to allow .asx play-lists (F#1884550)
223 * Updated re-encode plug-in and encoding core with additional features (F#1868764)
224 * Updated recordings manager plug-in to add thumbnail support (F#1857397)
225 * Updated record server to default watched/keep status (F#1857395)
226 * Updated skin code to wrap around when possible (F#1868478)
227 * Updated shut down to allow single key confirmation (F#1857456)
228 * Updated web server fileinfo module to display watched/keep status (F#1857392)
229 * Updated web server suite (F#1883219)
230 * Updated xine tv plug-in to show OSD messages (F#1861772)
231 * Updated xine video plug-in to show OSD messages (F#1861770)
232 * Deleted plug-in weather, moved to contrib/plugins (F#1863476)
233 * Fixed apple trailers plug-in crashing (B#1861463)
234 * Fixed audio play lists when the fxd file contains utf-8 characters (B#1865272)
235 * Fixed audio play lists when the m3u file contains blank lines, absolute paths and urls (B#1872465)
236 * Fixed audio cdbackup not showing the alert message when there is no data from freedb (B#1869928)
237 * Fixed manual record tv plug-in to work in December (B#1858008)
238 * Fixed oneclick weather plug-in to allow non-ascii location names (B#1856597)
239 * Fixed play lists not handling absolute paths (B#1872465)
240 * Fixed tv guide not scrolling to last channel from second channel (B#1858010)
241 * Fixed web server favorites and edit_favorite to use name and duplicate detection (B#1857394)
242 * Fixed web server file info not having an encoding header (B#1885751)
243 * Fixed web server programme info having no content when the title has newlines (B#1885729)
244
245== Release 1.8.0rc1 (2007-12-22) ==
246--------------------------------
247
248 * New changed the event and timer handling to use kaa notifier and kaa rpc
249 * New webserver slimbox interface to media (F#1850404)
250 * Updated French translation (F#1853455)
251 * Updated mplayervis for pygoom-2k4 (F#1846493)
252
253== Release 1.7.5 (2007-12-22) ==
254--------------------------------
255
256 * New Alsa mixer 2 plug-in (F#1832948)
257 * New user events plug-in to run commands (F#1852190)
258 * New French DVD trailer grabber (F#1841775)
259 * New French movie cover grabber (F#1841768)
260 * New gphoto plug-in, in contrib/runtime (F#1838260)
261 * New pygoom module for goom-2k4, in contrib/runtime (F#1846492)
262 * New somafm web radio fxd file and images added (F#1845786)
263 * New six channel mixer and idlebar plug-in (F#1833749)
264 * Updated Afrikaans translation (F#1855060)
265 * Updated French translation (F#1832751,F#1853454)
266 * Updated idlebar weather plug-in not to block the main loop (F#1821809)
267 * Updated mediainfo to stop caching of hidden directories (F#1849569)
268 * Updated mplayer to allow the volume events to passed over and shown (F#1834486)
269 * Updated webserver media library (F#1835346)
270 * Deleted plug-in audio.mplayervbr (F#1848097)
271 * Deleted tv.program_display (F#1853488)
272 * Renamed plug-in audio.playlist to audio.playlists (B#1834140)
273 * Fixed audioitem not displaying the year as a result of new metadata code (B#1838167)
274 * Fixed audiodiskitem not playing a cd when inserted (B#1830000)
275 * Fixed audioscrobbler killing the auto shut down feature (F#1831371)
276 * Fixed evdev for 64bit machines (B#1853790)
277 * Fixed geexbox skin TV menu reporting record server status (B#1835256)
278 * Fixed helper plugins, not allowing tuples as arguments (B#1832837)
279 * Fixed itv plug-in, having "No player for this item found" (B#1833018,B#1833829)
280 * Fixed lastfm plug-in path using /tmp to use FREEVO_CACHEDIR (B#1834488)
281 * Fixed oneclick weather plug-in not handling bad icon data (B#1834275)
282 * Fixed webserver hard coded file path in webconfig (B#1832875,F#1837395)
283 * Fixed webserver media library opening images with a '&' in the name (B#1835322)
284 * Fixed webserver plugins modules having the incorrect import (B#1835454)
285
286== Release 1.7.4 (2007-11-15) ==
287--------------------------------
288
289 * New Afrikaans translation (F#1790781)
290 * New Romanian translation (F#1809393)
291 * Updated Dutch translation (B#1766337)
292 * Updated German translation (F#1770195,F#1830634)
293 * Updated Italian translation (F#1829980)
294 * Updated Spanish translation (F#1821771,F#1824931)
295 * New DVB streamer plug-in, allows pausing and recording DVB/ATSC streams (F#1720288)
296 * New eject CD-ROM plug-in, adding a menu item to the drive menu (F#1773418)
297 * New fxd archive plug-in (F#1826280)
298 * New internet TV plug-in (F#1811634)
299 * New lastfm menu plug-in (F#1792494)
300 * New mplayer aspect plug-in to force the aspect ratio (F#1825484)
301 * New RSS audio podcast plug-in (F#1807634)
302 * New RSS video podcast plug-in (F#1825640)
303 * New text entry and program search (F#1768790)
304 * New youtube plug-in for the webserver (F#1783643,F#1792819)
305 * Updated ivtv_xine_tv plug-in for stop confirmation, progressive seek, video group selection and more (F#1814720)
306 * Updated lyrics grabber for scrollable lyrics (F#1786313)
307 * Updated LCD plug-in to allow a 16x4 mode (F#1776450)
308 * Updated alsamixer with event args and synchronous mixer control (F#1767928)
309 * Updated osd overscan to allow different margins for all sides (F#1791026,B#1813244)
310 * Updated servers, record, web, etc. to allow Twosted-2.5 to be used (F#1640870)
311 * Updated shopping cart plug-in at allow items to removed as well (F#1807315)
312 * Updated submenu selection when there is only one action to execute the action (F#1774569)
313 * Updated tv favorite handling and programme item to provide a consistent interface (F#1776909)
314 * Updated video item to include the full description (F#1777187)
315 * Fixed audio plug-in albumtree navigating back to the main menu (B#1798462)
316 * Fixed music causing a crash when the directory has non-ascii characters and an image (B#1801929)
317 * Fixed cd-rom drives eject causing a crash (B#1775892)
318 * Fixed df plug-in crashing when totalspace is zero (B#1812877)
319 * Fixed favorite crashing because of duplicate detection flag (B#1778494,B#1777726)
320 * Fixed matching favorites, by initially restricting the search (B#1776072)
321 * Fixed mixer plug-ins to allow a configurable volume step size (B#1813088)
322 * Fixed recordserver sometimes corrupting the record schedule (B#1827184)
323 * Fixed screensaver crashing after a long run when an event is read (B#1778894)
324 * Fixed tvmenu crashing because of the search plug-in (B#1774544)
325 * Fixed video thumbnail not creating an image (B#1827182)
326
327== Release 1.7.3 (2007-08-01) ==
328--------------------------------
329
330 * New Chinese translation (F#1752417)
331 * New Greek translation (F#1764757)
332 * Updated French translation (F#1762163)
333 * Updated Spanish translation (F#1764193)
334 * Added personal web pages to the webserver, using PERSONAL_WWW_PAGE (F#1729595)
335 * Added audio scrobbler plug-in for last fm (F#1760242)
336 * Added lyrics grabber to display the lyrics (F#1762610)
337 * Added sounds to menu selection, enabled with OSD_SOUNDS_ENABLED (F#1732380)
338 * Added XINE_BOOKMARK for when xine has support for get_time, default is off (B#1745076)
339 * Updated childapp to use subprocess instead of popen (F#1729597)
340 * Updated freevo to allow X server options to be passed when using -fs (F#1749908)
341 * Updated headlines to allow the window to be scrolled (F#1752971)
342 * Updated local_conf.py.example with MPLAYER_HAS_FIELD_DOMINANCE (F#1729404)
343 * Updated mplayer to allow av sync to be adjusted during playback (F#1762273)
344 * Updated record_client to allow favorites to be added from the command line (F#1734781)
345 * Updated recordings manager to show full scrollable description (F#1759171)
346 * Updated skins to adjust the window heights when the button bar is active (F#1733061)
347 * Updated system sensors for a configurable path (B#1731892)
348 * Updated tv programme menu to show full description (F#1752973)
349 * Updated xine video plug-in to allow bookmarks to work (F#1729024)
350 * Updated xine video plug-in to process stdout and stderr message (F#1729603)
351 * Updated xmltv's use of element tree for Python-2.5 (F#1731775)
352 * Fixed apple trailers after web site update (B#1762274)
353 * Fixed audio channel selection for AVI files, when no id is present (B#1731232)
354 * Fixed autoshutdown when the record server is running remotely (B#1721638)
355 * Fixed button bar raising an exception when using colour actions (B#1732378)
356 * Fixed CD cover image search because of changes to Amazon developer services (B#1731835)
357 * Fixed fxd parser's setattr not working correctly in all cases (B#1728421)
358 * Fixed imdb search sometimes crashing and not returning the names (B#1749945)
359 * Fixed Panorama skin thumbnail (B#1731877)
360 * Fixed recordings manager not deleting old video when the disk is full (B#1728182)
361 * Fixed recordings manager changing the menu context (B#1741842)
362 * Fixed recordserver causing stack traces when the record_schedule.xml is empty (B#1733192)
363 * Fixed rom drive plug-in when the cd device cannot be opened (B#1746613)
364 * Fixed shopping cart to allow copying over existing read-only files (B#1738914)
365 * Fixed tv recordings manager not deleting files when out of space (B#1728182)
366 * Fixed unicoding errors for media ids when there are Unicode (F#1731825)
367
368== Release 1.7.2 (2007-05-26) ==
369--------------------------------
370
371 * Added remind main menu plug-in that calls remind showing calendar events (F#1726070)
372 * Added remindicon idlebar plug-in that calls remind showing calendar events (F#1726069)
373 * Updated Catalan translation (F#1709740)
374 * Updated French translation (B#1721805)
375 * Updated Spanish translation (B#1722301)
376 * Updated audio detached player to allow user configured event (F#1636457)
377 * Updated image viewer to exclude certain types of images be a regex (F#1719613)
378 * Updated mplayer to allow multiple crop points (F#1712397)
379 * Updated mplayer to allow previous channel selection (F#1720667)
380 * Updated recordserver to allow a tolerance for a favorite (F#1725823)
381 * Updated vlc plug-in for better integration in freevo (F#1721808)
382 * Fixed alsamixer choose mute control (B#1717659)
383 * Fixed CD burn plug-in's incorrect internationalization strings (B#1722295)
384 * Fixed directory listing crash when permission is denied (B#1715447)
385 * Fixed freevused mute mixer event name has changed (B#1717661)
386 * Fixed imdb plug-in to correct episode number format (B#1716131)
387 * Fixed mplayer plug-ins not resetting the audio before each track (F#1718436)
388 * Fixed play lists to skip directories with a .password file for recursive play (B#1715447)
389 * Fixed record manager not updating the keep/watched states (B#1725041)
390 * Fixed recordserver failing to record consecutive shows (B#1715260)
391 * Fixed recursive playing of password protected directories (B#1715447)
392 * Fixed rss feed not correctly writing the fxd file (B#1710553)
393 * Fixed rss feed to correctly process the URLs (B#1721637)
394 * Fixed USB storage devices causing crash when plugged in or removed (B#1722590)
395 * Fixed weather plug-in for changed URLs (B#1717788,B#1717660)
396 * Fixed xine playing DVDs that are on the hard disk in VIDEO_TS (B#1724489)
397 * Fixed XvMC handling to allow configuration option (B#1713801)
398
399== Release 1.7.1 (2007-04-29) ==
400--------------------------------
401
402 * Added ALSA mixer plug-in (F#1685326)
403 * Added Anamorphic widescreen "Panorama" skin (F#1669994)
404 * Added MusicIP Mixer Plug-in (F#1676991)
405 * Added progactive idlebar plug-in (F#1689358)
406 * Added TV recording manager (F#1672003)
407 * Added VIDEO_SEND_XINE_CMD event to send specific commands to xine (F#1683699)
408 * Updated and fixed German translations (B#1672040)
409 * Updated and fixed video selection of audio, subtitles and chapters (B#1677364)
410 * Updated IMDB download to extract season and episode from TV programmes (F#1683101)
411 * Updated ivtv record to work with SECAM-DK (F#1694182)
412 * Updated mplayer to allow the bottom field first and XvMC settings (F#1694186,F#1683423)
413 * Updated rss feed for better URL detection (B#1675373,B#1709515)
414 * Updated xine event handling to accept SEND_VIDEO_XINE_CMD (F#1683699)
415 * Fixed audio item correctly processing files without media tags (B#1678392)
416 * Fixed audio covers not working when a .directory file is on the path (B#1687649)
417 * Fixed audio directory containing accented characters (B#1679595)
418 * Fixed autoshutdown processing of return coded (B#1612257)
419 * Fixed command plug-in for long running commands (B#1683533)
420 * Fixed IMDB download, adds more data to fxd files (B#1670296)
421 * Fixed IMDB download, corrected accented characters (B#1683040)
422 * Fixed IMDB download, corrected handling of special characters (B#1682345)
423 * Fixed lirc to suspend and resume correctly after external commands and games are run (B#1707338)
424 * Fixed mplayer video plug-in not correctly selecting the audio and subtitle tracks (B#1677364)
425 * Fixed radio player to prevent it starting when a recording is in progress (B#1707295)
426 * Fixed screensaver intermittent deadlock problem (B#1674028)
427 * Fixed screensaver never changing the screen saver (B#1704956)
428 * Fixed tvguide showing too much debug information (B#1674014)
429 * Fixed video item length (B#1683035)
430 * Fixed video mplayer options for a combined video (B#1696110)
431
432== Release 1.7.0 (2007-02-25) ==
433--------------------------------
434
435 * Replaced mmpython with kaa.base and kaa.metadata (F#1580712)
436 * Replaced PIL with kaa.imlib2 (F#1580712)
437 * New apple trailers plugin (disabled by default) (F#1580418)
438 * New audio album tree http://freevo.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/doc/PluginAudioAlbumTree (F#1662741)
439 * New Bluetooth phone support to act as a remote control (F#1622143)
440 * New buttonbar plug-in that displays buttons on the bottom of the screen (F#1633140)
441 * New CD/DVD burn plug-in added (F#1605919)
442 * New encoding server, allows re-encoding TV programmes and ripping DVDs (F#1580642,F#1578402)
443 * New home automation plug-in, allows controlling device in the home! (F#1605293)
444 * New Linux event device support (F#1579124)
445 * New Music Player Daemon (mpd) plug-in (F#1623023)
446 * New PS3 support on Yellow Dog Linux
447 * New record server commercial detection and removal (F#1633567)
448 * New RSS server, for getting podcasts, etc. (F#1580407)
449 * New screensaver plug-in (F#1647485)
450 * New Shuttle VFD plug-in (F#1619761)
451 * New support for anamorphic skins (F#1625752)
452 * New XM online plugin (F#1580412)
453 * New weather helper to grab the weather using cron (F#1603052)
454 * New webserver library, allows playing/viewing on your local machine (F#1592806)
455 * New webserver remote, allows controlling freevo from a web page (F#1624110)
456 * New video plug-in to play bilingual recordings (F#1582292)
457 * Updated cdbackup plug-in to accept CD_RIP_CASE and CD_RIP_REPLACE_SPACE (F#1616046)
458 * Updated directory configuration to allow disabling of smart abbreviated item names (F#1602952)
459 * Updated idlebar clock plug-in to allow CLOCK_FORMAT to be used (F#1605951)
460 * Updated idlebar diskfree plug-in to allow the bar colours levels to be set (F#1605953)
461 * Updated DEBUGGING, IP, PORT, UID and GUI based on helper name (F#1580628)
462 * Updated helper convert_config (F#1578183)
463 * Updated imdb movie parsing to use BeautifulSoup (F#1590928)
464 * Updated menu goto events to jump to the shutdown menu (F#1619725)
465 * Updated multimail plug-in for Maildir support (F#1594915)
466 * Updated recordserver to allow automatic deleting of old recordings when low on disk space (F#1594630)
467 * Updated recordserver and tv guide to detect and show overlapping recordings (F#1625305)
468 * Updated tv guide to show when programmes are currently playing (F#1626075)
469 * Updated tv guide to show when programmes are in the past (F#1625774)
470 * Updated tv mplayer plug-in to pause live tv and change channels without stopping for dvb (F#1610656)
471 * Updated video player to allow commands before and after playback (F#1602956)
472 * Updated weather translations, with spanish weather translations (F#1621819)
473 * Updated webserver login to allow for a encrypted password (F#1623854)
474 * Updated webradio to show the stream information (F#1587694)
475 * Removed video plug-in mplayer for unichrome playback (B#1606699)
476
477
478svn co svn://svn.freevo.org/freevo/branches/rel-1-6/freevo freevo-1.x
479
480== Release 1.6.3 (2007-02-18) ==
481--------------------------------
482
483 * Fixed auto shutdown not calling the mount command (B#1632754)
484 * Fixed manual record when month is December (B#1621615)
485 * Fixed shopping cart for items with two or more subitems (B#1620425)
486 * Fixed shopping cart for when copying directories (B#1645468)
487 * Fixed video thumbnails not being shown with subitems (B#1620452)
488 * Fixed video thumbnails not being shown for playlists (B#1623905)
489 * Fixed webserver 'genre' module generated html (B#1622456)
490 * Fixed webserver 'manual record' module not allowing day 31 (B#1622662)
491 * Updated Catalan translation (F#1623286)
492
493== Release 1.6.2 (2006-12-22) ==
494--------------------------------
495
496 * Fixed audio track name formatting (B#1605570,B#1605042)
497 * Fixed autoshutdown unicode error (B#1612257)
498 * Fixed cdbackup plug-in to correctly execute lame (B#1615970)
499 * Fixed mplayer to correctly handle Matroska audio ids (B#1619058)
500 * Fixed weather unicode problem (B#1612617)
501 * Updated autoshutdown to react to the return code and removed unused vars (B#1612257)
502 * Updated osd forced fonts variables and freevo_config and local_conf (B#1608393)
503 * Updated Spanish translation (B#1612612)
504 * Added the Russian translation (F#1602678)
505
506== Release 1.6.1 (2006-11-25) ==
507--------------------------------
508
509 * Updated translations for new plug-ins and skins (F#1587980)
510 * Fixed autoshutdown crashing when there are no scheduled recording (B#1597979)
511 * Fixed cache problem when a play list file is corrupt (B#1589913)
512 * Fixed detached music player when the plug-in mplayervis is enabled (B#1582048)
513 * Fixed games creating rom list, removed errors being added to xml (B#1601281)
514 * Fixed games when the zip is corrupt (B#1586106)
515 * Fixed goto to tv menu, this was never in the original patch (B#1567501)
516 * Fixed IMDB parser, the title should not work (B#1586579)
517 * Fixed joystick repeated events after exit (B#1601309)
518 * Fixed mplayer cropdetect, only skipping 60 secs (B#1591170)
519 * Fixed osd when number of lines is less than zero (B#1601295)
520 * Fixed recordserver in debug mode printing non-ascii characters (B#1594117)
521 * Fixed weather download when visibility is empty (B#1591145)
522 * Fixed webserver displaying non-ascii characters and nxtvepg xmltv (B#1594642)
523 * Fixed VIDEO_INTERLACING = False having no effect (B#1586721)
524 * Fixed xine --no-lirc option when compiled without lirc support (B#1589722)
525
526== Release 1.6.0 (2006-10-31) ==
527--------------------------------
528
529 * New events to allow jump directly to menus, tv, movies, music and pictures (B#1567501)
530 * New headlines and idlebar are enabled by default (F#1584197)
531 * New multi-tuner support, to allow use of more than one tv card (F#1574282)
532 * New plug-in for wakeup and shutdown (B#1567885)
533 * New plug-in 'idlebar.diskfree' to show the available recording disk space (B#1567491)
534 * New plug-in 'ivtv_xine_tv' to allow pausing of live tv (B#1566518)
535 * New plug-in 'upsoon' interrupt tv or radio when a recording is about to start (F#1567895)
536 * Added Catalan translation (F#1512162)
537 * Added checks for prerequisite packages that were missing (B#1392996,B#1566374)
538 * Added forcing of font and its size to override skin definitions (B#1563296,B#1563299)
539 * Added Linux event device input handler (F#1579124)
540 * Added initial image orientation is now read from EXIF tag (F#1573072)
541 * Added many more skins to the freevo core package
542 * Added patch to disable installation of documentation for rpm builds (B#1565074)
543 * Added PLAY_START and STOP events for radio player (B#1567995)
544 * Added Teletext subtitle recording plug-in for IVTV cards (F#1575146)
545 * Updated audio player to allow control when detached, automatic detaching (B#1567939)
546 * Updated df_xine is detected, use it for DVDs (B#1563026)
547 * Updated freevo tv_grab to report a failure (B#1567705)
548 * Updated generation of lircrc to allow more buttons to be detected (B#1567503)
549 * Updated idlebar to split up the plug-ins to separate modules (F#1577109)
550 * Updated LCDproc for 5.x series (B#1563153)
551 * Updated lirc handling to suspend and resume correctly (B#1567499)
552 * Updated menu for DVDs audio and subtitle tracks to use language name instead of code (B#1402649)
553 * Updated MPlayer tv plug-in to pass MPLAYER_AO_DEV (B#1563334)
554 * Updated playing games to disable the joystick plug-in (B#1566590)
555 * Updated radio player to no longer required the code to be changed (B#1563361,B#1563944)
556 * Updated radio player to allow other other players (F#1575225)
557 * Updated record server to allow separate pre- and post-padding times (B#1567502)
558 * Updated record server to ignore case of the title when scheduling a favorite (B#1574292)
559 * Updated record server to correctly process non-ascii characters in a title (B#1574292)
560 * Updated tv ivtv so that it will allow 2.6.18 and higher kernels, uses ivtv-0.8+
561 * Updated tvtime with new play events (B#1563005)
562 * Updated tv_util to use TV_RECORDFILE_OKLETTERS (B#1566067)
563 * Updated video autocropping not to autocrop network steams (B#1576832)
564 * Updated webserver so that it can run as a non-privileged user (B#1567943)
565 * Updated xmltv to version 1.2 giving a significant increase in speed (B#1565080)
566 * Fixed a mediamedia crash on non existent directory (B#1566584)
567 * Fixed cacheing when xmame is installed and GAMES_ITEMS is not set (B#1567549)
568 * Fixed cache scanning whole disk when an item is 'None' (B#1567549,B#1571008)
569 * Fixed calls to lirc (B#1568113)
570 * Fixed cancellation of recording during freevo schedulefavorites (B#1565077)
571 * Fixed cdbackup plug-in when directory has a permission problem (B#1569162)
572 * Fixed coversearch when a non-ascii character is in Artist or Album name (B#1565765)
573 * Fixed detection of xmame version for new versions (B#1298350)
574 * Fixed favorite item not causing a problem it mod time (B#1563359)
575 * Fixed get mixer by name calls (B#1563365)
576 * Fixed help for freevo cache (B#1577574)
577 * Fixed idlebar clock display when using UTF-8 (B#1570917)
578 * Fixed mplayer tv plug-in to close the ivtv device (B#1567494)
579 * Fixed slide shows so that music does not crash between tracks (B#1563353)
580 * Fixed usbstorage showing images in audio menu (B#1563010)
581 * Fixed v4l2 ioctl calls for 64bit AMD machines (B#1563326)
582 * Fixed recordserver missing favorites when the title has non-ascii characters (B#1574292)
583 * Fixed recordserver missing favorites when the title case has changed (B#1563370)
584 * Fixed webserver not crashing when there is a permissions problem (B#1577266)
585 * Removed MPlayer and Xine version checks (B#1566373,B#1574273)
586 * Removed -OO option from install (B#1565076)
587
588== Release 1.5.3 (2005-01-23) ==
589--------------------------------
590
591 * Update to new IMDb website
592 * Support for russian tv
593 * Xine and mplayer post processing updates
594 * Smaller enhancements, bugfixes and Unicode fixes
595
596== Release 1.5.2 (2004-10-31) ==
597--------------------------------
598
599 * Fix memory leak when running image viewer in slideshow mode
600 * Fix recordserver favorite handling for a specific day of week
601 * Fix video aspect handling in skin
602 * Smaller unicode fixes
603
604== Release 1.5.1 (2004-09-11) ==
605--------------------------------
606
607 * Better support for multi file videos
608 * Improved DVD detection
609 * Faster web-server TV guide
610 * Games snes header caching
611 * Imageviewer slideshow enhancements
612 * Bugfixes
613
614== Release 1.5.0 (2004-07-17) ==
615--------------------------------
616
617 * Bugfixes
618
619== Release 1.5.0-rc4 (2004-06-29) ==
620------------------------------------
621 * Better DVB support
622 * Runtime support
623 * Bugfixes and cleanup
624
625== Release 1.5.0-rc3 (2004-06-06) ==
626------------------------------------
627
628 * Make it possible to move inside a zoom in image viewer
629 * Main loop rewrite
630 * Auto detect movies with more than one file
631 * Chapter support for video files
632 * Improved pot file generation (i18n)
633 * Bugfixes
634
635== Release 1.5.0-rc2 (2004-05-11) ==
636------------------------------------
637
638 * Remove a race condition to fix mp3 playback
639
640== Release 1.5.0-rc1 (2004-05-07) ==
641------------------------------------
642
643 * Add new animation classes
644 * pygoom support (http://freevo.sf.net/pygoom)
645 * Support for DVD images as .iso
646 * Bugfixes
647
648== Release 1.5.0-pre1 (2004-03-21) ==
649-------------------------------------
650
651 * Add MimetypePlugin
652 * New fxd parser and better fxd item handling
653 * Rename most config variables (!)
654 * Add "cross fading"-style blending in the image viewer
655 * Fxd file support for <playlist> and <slideshow> (see share/fxd/examples)
656 * Replaced webradio plugin with a fxd file (share/fxd)
657 * New, reworked bluetooth plugin for controlling Freevo
658 * detachbar plugin to see what Freevo is playing when detaching the audio player
659 * Support for Rendezvous/Zeroconf based service announcement
660 * Freevoscreensaver plugin. loop your favorite movie or slideshow to be
661   your screensaver. And it only will show when in menus so no annoying
662   savers popup while watching movies.
663 * Update command plugin to allow for X users to run X based apps (Mozilla etc)
664   via a FXD file.
665 * big speed enhancement:
666    * better caching of files/attributes
667    * including mmpython cache inside Freevo
668 * storage of item variables of Freevo sessions
669 * VirtualFileSystem to store metadata
670 * Skin enhancements
671 * Support for DVD Mirrors (full lossless versions of DVDs played from the
672   hard drive)
673 * Reworked the web interface into XHTML with most design and layout in the
674   style sheet. Removed proprietary HTML attributes.
675 * Metadata generation during runtime and by cache helper
676 * Unicode support
677 * Better automounter support for network shares
678 * many many other things
679
680== Release 1.4.0 (2003-11-20) ==
681--------------------------------
682
683 * some small bugfixes
684 * translation updates
685
686== Release 1.4.0-rc4 (2003-11-10) ==
687------------------------------------
688
689 * Added testcode for viewing the Composite input on the TV card
690  * Change src/tv/tvmenu.py:181 to enable it
691 * Bugfix in the xine audio plugin
692 * Support for mixed audio discs
693 * more bugfixes
694 * Translation updates for de
695
696== Release 1.4.0-rc3 (2003-11-03) ==
697------------------------------------
698
699 * Bugfix release:
700     Fix crash for playlists
701     Prevent crash when storing folder.fxd
702 * Add image for command plugin
703 * Translation updates for da and nl
704
705== Release 1.4.0-rc2 (2003-11-02) ==
706------------------------------------
707
708 * Added a playlist plugin
709 * TvTime plugin redo:
710     use new childthread
711     writes tvtime.xml to keep in sync with freevo channels
712     writes stationlist.xml to keep in sync with freevo channels
713     merges stationlist.xml and tvtime.xml if they exist already
714     set tvtime xml parameters if you have 0.9.10 or newer
715     added support for custom tuned channels using FREQUENCY_TABLE
716 * Additional translations: da, de, fi, it
717 * Changed the Shutdown function to ask for confirmation first
718 * Support for external plugins and themes
719 * And as usual: bugfixes
720
721== Release 1.4.0-rc1 (2003-10-05) ==
722------------------------------------
723
724 * changes in the directory structure
725 * setup.py for normal python installation
726 * i18n support: es, fr, nl, no, pt_BR, sv
727 * new record server
728 * idlebar plugin for lmsensors
729 * Merged latest xmltv parsing support
730 * Preliminary FreeBSD support from Lars Eggert
731 * xine support for audio playback (needs xine-ui cvs)
732 * Support for FLAC encoding, tagging and playback (xine or mplayer >= 1.0pre2)
733 * Many fixes for Python 2.3 warnings
734 * bugfixes and better error handling
735 * new games system (DIR_GAMES changed!)
736
737== Release 1.3.4 (2003-08-03) ==
738--------------------------------
739
740 * Fixed bug that causes some helper scripts like webserver to crash
741 * Webradio is working again
742 * Added BlueTooth control program into contrib/
743
744== Release 1.3.3 (2003-08-02) ==
745--------------------------------
746
747 * Moved all metadata parsing into mmpython
748 * Added CD->MP3 or CD->OGG Backup plugin from Rich C.
749 * Initial database support for music via sqlite
750 * Idlebar:
751     Added holidays and Rom drive status plugins to idlebar
752     Made it possible to arrage the idlebar plugins
753     All skins now work with the idlebar
754 * New info area
755 * New skins 'info' and 'noia' which use the new info area
756 * Major speed enhancements in the skin drawing code
757 * Replaced fonts with Bitstream Vera fonts.
758 * Xine support for DVD/VCD (dvdnav/vcdnav)
759 * New LCD plugin
760 * Support for Python 2.3
761 * Bugfixes and many other things
762
763== Release 1.3.2 (2003-06-29) ==
764--------------------------------
765
766 * Plugin interface
767  * Converted some functions into plugins
768  * detach plugin to listen to music in the background
769  * IMDB search and XML generation plugin
770  * Album cover search plugin
771  * IMDB Info plugin
772 * New skin engine
773 * Reactivated and fixed GUI code
774 * Bugfixes
775 * Added experimental support for tvtime (>= 0.9.8.3) for TV viewing.
776   tvtime supports Xvideo, directfb, and mga_vid with good deinterlacing,
777   smoother picture, better audio sync, OSD and reduced CPU usage when
778   compared to Mplayer for TV viewing.
779 * Support for more formats in the Image Viewer
780 * Daylight Saving Time fixes
781 * Shout/Icecast playback/bookmarks
782 * Preliminary TV Recording schedule editor
783 * "Web" radio support
784 * Major cleanup of old files in the source tree
785  * Converted some very large PNG files into high quality JPEGs
786  * Removed obsolete data
787 * many other things :-)
788
789== Release 1.3.2-pre2 ==
790------------------------
791
792 * Bugfixes:
793  * CD/DVD autodetection
794  * Games handling (fixed hang)
795  * XMLTV format (stop time not present)
796  * Image errors (fixed crash, display message about load problem instead)
797  * MP3 time display
798  * FreevoWeb channel selection when recording
799  * Identify media now return correct titles again
800  * Network access when using the runtime
801  * TV recording bug
802 * CD Audio playing (w. CDDB) by Thomas Schüppel
803 * Use "freevo setup" instead of "./configure" to set up Freevo
804 * New display mode for the image browser, with nice thumbnails etc
805 * New display mode for the video browser
806 * Added Joakim Berglunds patches for audio random lists off, extra cover dir
807 * Changed the movie xml files to the new format by Matthieu Weber
808 * Updated Belgian XMLTV program by Bart Heremans
809 * Updated MPlayer to CVS200302132232
810 * Changed remote control to use regular lirc files instead of special
811   Freevo Python files.
812 * Some Windows playlists can now be used if they have relative paths.
813 * Various updates and fixes for the web interface.
814 * Added CVS update to the latest alpha in the Makefile (cvsup)
815
816== Release 1.3.1 (2003-02-12) ==
817--------------------------------
818
819 * The runtime and apps packages are now included in the binary release!
820 * Fixed lots of bugs
821 * TV recording
822 * Added cache for mp3/ogg id tags
823 * The menu will rebuild itself when you add/delete files in the directory
824 * Added the autostarter again (insert a disc while you are in the main menu)
825 * Replaced the icons
826 * Moved a number of doc files to the Freevo Wiki.
827 * Bins support (http://jsautret.free.fr/BINS/index.html)
828 * Faster TV channel change
829 * Added Thomas Schüppels objectcache patch.
830 * Code cleanup / restructuring (xmms support dropped for now)
831 * Speeded up the keyboard handling.
832 * Changed keyboard volume +/- keys
833 * Added small contributed XMLTV Python apps for Belgium and Netherlands.
834 * The startscript freevo is less bash-ist
835 * Web interface for recording (freevoweb)
836 * Gentoo ebuild support
837 * Autodetect CD/DVD drives
838 * Made the config file handling smarter
839 * Changed the default PCM volume level from 100 to 90 to avoid distortion
840
841== Release 1.3.0 (2002-11-13) ==
842--------------------------------
843
844 * Added a font alias list in freevo_config to substitute missing non-free
845    fonts in skins with free fonts.
846 * Changed the TV guide to use Gustavo's new extended menus.
847 * The XML skins can now include other skin files. This makes
848  it easier to adapt skins to new screen sizes.
849 * XML skins can now load a local_skin.xml for changes by the user.
850 * Changed the "freevo" script so that it can be used to execute
851  standalone python scripts, e.g. "freevo execute epg_xmltv.py"
852 * Changed runapp to support priority settings of the new app,
853  /usr/bin/nice is no longer needed.
854 * Rewritten ID3v1 and new ID3v2.3/2.4 support
855 * Added DXR3 support using SDL.
856 * Changed the default skin to the new blue_round1 skin.
857 * The image viewer now supports browsing CD/DVDs.
858 * Added support for choosing audio track, etc in DVDs.
859 * Movies can be played from URLs (LAN or the Internet).
860 * Music playlists can contain videos and URLs too now.
861  Both .m3u and .pls playlists are supported.
862 * Made the shell scripts sh-compatible.
863 * Added Bob Pauwe's image slideshow patches.
864
865== Release 1.2.6 (2002-10-12) ==
866--------------------------------
867
868Features, bugfixes:
869 * Fixed a bug for configuring TV for other than NTSC.
870 * Added new RPM building specs from Wan Tat Chee in the contrib/ dir.
871 * Added SDL as a display option to configure. Not tested!
872 * Added joystick support code from Dan Eriksen. Not tested!
873 * Fixed a bug in XML that could cause Freevo to crash.
874 * Replaced all fonts with the free Larabie fonts.
875 * Added a 640x480 mode.
876 * Improved the handling of removable media (CDROM/DVD)
877 * DVD/VCD/SVCD title selecting
878 * MPlayer hwac3 support
879 * Added Andrew Drummond's Mame code. Kinda works, but not done yet.
880 * Updated the XMLTV handling to deal with the new German format as well.
881 * Removed .mplayer feature for movie files. Please use <mplayer_options>
882  in the movie xml files instead.
883 * Movie xml files can now contain skin informations as well.
884 * Skin improvements
885 * Configure now checks for external programs
886 * Bugfix for 8-bit chars in bitmap filenames by Alex Polite
887 * Added Per Wigren's app for fetching Swedish and Norwegian TV listings
888  in contrib/PerWigren. (The newer version of XMLTV also supports Swedish
889  and Norwegian listings now.)
890 * Added Per Wigren's patch for different TV stations on the same channel
891  at different times of the week and/or day.
892 * Added Alex Polite's patch for using XMMS for playing and visualizing
893  music.
894 * Added Alex Polite's patch for recursive playlists
895
896== Release 1.2.5 (2002-08-21) ==
897--------------------------------
898
899Features, bugfixes:
900 * Added SDL as the graphics layer, which means that X11 and
901  all framebuffer devices are supported for the menu framework.
902  Both X11 and FB supports both the keyboard and a remote control.
903 * Added X11/Xv support for MPlayer, now most graphics cards can
904  be used with Freevo, not just Matrox G400.
905 * Integrated the MPlayer TV viewer for TV support on all graphics
906  cards.
907 * Integrated MPlayer as the main music player. It supports MP3, Ogg, WMV, etc.
908 * Added much better XML skin support. The main menu background, text
909  and icons can be easily be changed. There is also support for XML
910  files with movie info etc. See Docs/Skin-HOWTO.txt for more details.
911 * Added image display to main menu. JPEG/PNG are supported at
912  the moment, more will be added later. Images can be rotated.
913  Exif files (jpg with digital camera info) are supported, including
914  thumbnails which are displayed when using the file browser.
915 * Changed the installation to use a "configure" script
916 * Added autogenerated random playlist to the MP3 player
917 * Moved the DVD and VCD start item to the movie menu. Pressing EJECT will
918  eject/mount the medium in the drive.
919 * CDROM_MOUNT_POINT is deprecated now, use ROM_DRIVES to define all your drives
920 * Added support for shutdown of Freevo from the main menu. This can also
921  be configured to shutdown the entire system for standalone boxes, but it
922  is disabled by default.
923
924== Release 1.2.4 (2002-07-10) ==
925--------------------------------
926
927 * Fixed a problem where zombie (defunct) processes were created
928 * Changed the osd_server/Makefile to use /usr/X11R6 instead of /usr/X11,
929  seems to work for more distros
930 * Changed mixer.py to use /dev/mixer instead of /dev/mixer0
931 * Hide cursor in X11 OSD
932 * Added simple skins
933 * Display MP3 file and album PNG cover images and thumbnails
934 * Automatic X11 mode switching
935 * XMLTV support added (Yahoo support removed)
936 * SDL output support
937 * IMDB support (Images and extended info)
938 * Channel logo support
939 * Added min/sec display to music player
940 * Added icons to default skin
941 * Added PAL support
942 * Fullscreen X support
943 * Added the install.py script to check dependencies and compile Freevo
944 * Changed logfile handling
945 * Support for XML config files for each movie/album etc
946 * Support for CD/DVD tray open/close and disk mounting
947
948== Release 1.2.3 (2002-06-01) ==
949--------------------------------
950
951 * Fixed a big memory leak in the OSD server
952 * Made the mp3 progress info more efficient
953
954== Release 1.2.2 (2002-05-31) ==
955--------------------------------
956
957 * Added PNG bitmap support in the OSD
958 * Added freetype font support in the OSD
959 * Added transparency support in the OSD
960 * Added a skins directory
961 * Added a background bitmap to the main menu
962 * Added <movie>.wmv file type to MPlayer
963 * Fixed a bug in runapp.c
964 * Updated the boot-scripts
965 * Swapped MPlayer next/prev keys
966 * Removed osd_server/osd_fb, moved files to osd_server
967 * Cleaned up Makefiles, made x11 optional
968 * Added loading a local_conf.py file where directory
969  defs etc can be put so that it is easier to update
970  freevo_config.py
971 * Renamed osd_XXX servers osds_XXX
972
973== Release 1.2.1 (2002-05-17) ==
974--------------------------------
975
976 * Changed the config scripts to look for the file config_freevo.py
977  in /etc/freevo, ~/freevo and the current dir. This makes it easier
978  to use a customized version that is not overwritten by new
979  releases.
980 * Removed fixed paths so that it should be able to run on most Linux systems,
981  independently of where the applications are (/usr/bin, /usr/local/bin, etc).
982 * Added a feature to playing movies where a file can be attached to each
983  movie containing special arguments to MPlayer, e.g. aspect etc.
984  The file is named <filename>.mplayer.
985 * Added logging to both stdout and /tmp/freevo.log
986 * Added freevo/testfiles, it is now the default in config.py and contains
987  some movie/mp3 files for test purposes.
988 * Changed movie/music playlists to not repeat after playing all files.
989  This should be configurable when playing in a later version.
990 * Changed remote control cursor left/right behavior in menus, making
991  it easier to navigate.
992
993== Release 1.2.0 (2002-05-12) ==
994--------------------------------
995
996 * Watching TV is enabled again, the Matrox G400 BES bug seems to be fixed.
997
998== Release 1.1 (2002-05-10) ==
999------------------------------
1000
1001 * Moved mp3/movie suffix definitions to config.py
1002 * Watching TV is disabled at the moment, seems to be a bug in it.
1003
1004
1005== Release 1.0 (2002-05-08) ==
1006------------------------------
1007 * Initial release
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