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About Freevo

Imagine a world where the tv guide is liquid, where the time slots are organised to suit your schedule. Imagine a place you can store all of your music, movies and photos for you and your family to enjoy. Imagine having access to all your games, podcasts, upto the minute weather and news reports. Imagine doing all of this for free. What a wonderful world that would be...

Freevo is an open source HTPC media centre software integrating PVR / DVR funtionality along with music, video, gaming, home automation and more. It is written in python and uses existing popular software such as mplayer, xine and vlc. Primarily aimed at the Linux platform it is also possible to run on OSX and for the determined on Windows. It is the main mythtv alternative.

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New release 1.9.0

Freevo 1.9.0 is hot off the presses, and can be downloaded from sourceforge.net.

Major changes for 1.9.0 include support for Python 2.6, and discontinued support for Python 2.4. Several new features and plugins are introduced in 1.9.0. See the full list of changes.

Jason Tackaberry

June 2, 2009

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