Linux Multimedia System

[Max Erickson]

Marek Franke wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> we have started with some people from our LUG (Linux User Group) a
'little'
> project, called LMMS (Linux Multimedia System). When it's 'finished'
it
> shall be a window-manager for use on TV and handle with
joysticks/gamepads.
>
> As the name says, it is for multimedia-applications, like listening
to
> music, watching videos and maybe playing some games. The idea is to
create
> a gui for application like mplayer, ogg123, mpg123, cdrecord etc.
>
> For now there are some widgets for displaying images, labels and some
> messages. Actually there is a working LMMS with a little menu, an
> image-viewer and a CD-player. Supperted joysticks/gamepads are Gravis
> Gamepad Pro, Nintendo's SNES Pads, Microsoft's X-Box pad and
keyboard.
>
> The whole project is written in python/pygame and can be found here:
> http://home.arcor.de/mfranke78/
> There is a little mailinglist too (German & Yahoo):
> http://de.groups.yahoo.com/group/dulugprojekt/
>
> Remember that the whole project is very basic for now! But it seems
to work.
>
> Greets, Marek

Be sure to check out freevo at http://freevo.sourceforge.net/ as it is
quite similar to what you are describing and they are quite far along.

max