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mediabox first BETA release - help wanted



hi!

i've created a port for the first BETA release of my application called mediabox - as requested by todd@ after some talk in #openbsd

explanation:

mediabox is my try to create a replacement for freevo and mythtv which works on openbsd.
mythtv is using v4l (afaik - no chance on openbsd) and freevo is a big fat thing with a lot of big dependencies (e.g. twisted),
i gave up on get it working on openbsd and decided to write my own lightweight mediabox, with less dependencies


mediabox is a free (BSD-license), easy to use frontend for multimedia files
mediabox is a so called: home theatre pc platform (htpc)
it has been developed for openbsd, but should work on other systems too
it's written in python with the help of pygame

it's not really finished yet - it misses a lot of features, and iss of course buggy

if somebody likes to code some python and wants to help me - contact me/send diffs

status (what iss implemented):

my mediabox is connected via tv-out (sis63xx) to my tv - so i can:
- listen to music: playlists, cd playing
- play movies and dvd: covers and descriptions via imdp-py
- look at images: slideshows/zooming
- do configuration: complete configuration via menu

todo:
add feature: rip dvd
add feature: rip audio-cd
maybe add joystick support and support for games
add feature: news-reader

and of course one main thing: view and record tv needs to be implemented
my plan is to add tv capturing via bsdav-toolkit from jakemsr@

so again: i could need some help, if somebody is interested in helping me, contact me.

port is attached and downloadable here:
http://umaxx.um.funpic.de/mediabox/sources/mediabox-0.1-openbsdport.tar.gz

greets

umaxx

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