iTheater iTheater Projectpage Pros: freeware OpenSource / GPL open for extensions Cons: only Release Candidate not finished yet MediaCentral MediaCentral Projectpage Pros: freeware supports EyeTV closest Userfeeling to FrontRow supports ATI Remote and Salling Clicker supports access to Bonjour shared Libraries from iTunes / iPhoto Cons: UI not very maclike, not as beautiful as FrontRow …
Monthly Archive: April 2006
Apr
11
2006
Apr
04
2006
get kaa.metadata (mmpython) running on OS X
go into kaa/base and edit setup.py by changing (line 36) this extensions.append( Extension(‘shmmodule’, ['src/extensions/shmmodule.c']) ) to this #extensions.append( Extension(‘shmmodule’, ['src/extensions/shmmodule.c']) ) or use this diff: 36c36 < extensions.append( Extension(‘shmmodule’, ['src/extensions/shmmodule.c']) ) — > #extensions.append( Extension(‘shmmodule’, ['src/extensions/shmmodule.c']) ) until now the support for cdrom drives only works on Linux, so i disabled it on OS X. now go to kaa/metadata and edit setup.py: change this ext_modules = [ cdrom, ifoparser ] to #ext_modules = [ cdrom, ifoparser ] ext_modules = [ ifoparser ] and change this ext_modules = [ cdrom ] to #ext_modules = [ cdrom ] ext_modules = [ ] or use this diff: 58c58,59 < ext_modules = [ cdrom, ifoparser ] — > #ext_modules = [ cdrom, ifoparser ] > ext_modules = [ ifoparser ] 61c62,63 < ext_modules = [ cdrom ] — > #ext_modules = [ cdrom ] > ext_modules = [ ] now go back to kaa/base and install the kaa.base package: $ sudo python setup.py install now go to kaa/metadata and install the kaa.metadata package: $ sudo python setup.py install you may use a different python instance, like /opt/python24/bin/python or something else if you don’t wanna install kaa into the default python on OS X.
Apr
02
2006
Text to speech
This is a very promising project that aims to build a open source text-to-speech system, based on a JAVA server client system with the ability to build webbased services…. But if you like to hear how text-to-speech works nowadays then head over to http://mary.dfki.de/online-demos/java-interface (you need java 1.5 web plugin) and select one of these voices: time-awb (English, male, limited) dfki-zeit (German, female, limited) dfki-bundesliga-excited (German, male, limited) dfki-bundesliga (German, male, limited) i never heard such emotional computer generated voices – that’s the right way!
Apr
02
2006
kupu resize images
I always had the problem, that i could resize (drag with my mouse) images inside kupu, but when i save the document the image has its original size 
Today i found the solution to this problem here To enable kupu to keep the resize information upon save you have to add width and height to the style whitelist in the kupu preferences in your site preferences.