GeeXboX and Freevo information needed

Phoxis · 06-07-2008, 09:21 AM

I have a question on the GeeXboX and Freevo

Whats the difference between them. are they same projects? they are going to merge in the 2.0 version.

please let me know the differences. and the one which has more features.
and what about Myth TV

Are they all live CD based distributions?

{BBI}Nexus{BBI} · 06-07-2008, 10:11 AM

What information could you need other than what is supplied on their websites? And there's Elisa too.

GeexBox: http://geexbox.org/en/index.html

Freevo: http://freevo.sourceforge.net/

MythTV: http://www.mythtv.org/

Elisa: http://elisa.fluendo.com/

Phoxis · 06-08-2008, 04:13 AM

i have read from all those websites, and lots of reviews from others too.
I want to know what is the relation of freevo and geexbox. Are they separate? or did they split? or same project with two versions? i want to know about th relation, with freevo and geexbox through past and future.

{BBI}Nexus{BBI} · 06-08-2008, 12:13 PM

They are separate. Two different projects of the same thing.

Take a look here: http://freevo.sourceforge.net/about/authors.php and here: http://geexbox.org/en/contact.html.

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...i want to know about th relation, with freevo and geexbox through past and future.

Drop either of them an email and ask. They're the ones in a better position to answer that question.

Phoxis · 06-09-2008, 08:56 AM

yea, thanks, let me tell you, please tell if i am right.

Freevo is a platform of HDTV and multimedia , which supports Xine, MPlayer. It comes with a Mandriva live CD (is it mandriva?)

GeeXboX is a purely live CD based OS, and not somthing which can be installed as a package.

Now in geexbox 2.0 geexbox is going to be build upon freevo technology, and use its packages.and freevo's live cd will become geexbox.
please correct me.

{BBI}Nexus{BBI} · 06-09-2008, 09:30 AM

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Freevo is a platform of HDTV and multimedia , which supports Xine, MPlayer.

Freevo is simply a MediaCentre that pulls all the MultiMedia functions together in one place. If your graphics card has HDMI then you can hook it up to a HDTV.

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It comes with a Mandriva live CD (is it mandriva?)

Freevo is not included on the Mandriva One cd. You can however add it after installing Mandriva One to the harddrive.

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]GeeXboX is a purely live CD based OS, and not somthing which can be installed as a package.

No, GeeXboX can be installed. See here for install instructions: http://geexbox.org/en/doc.html

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Now in geexbox 2.0 geexbox is going to be build upon freevo technology, and use its packages.and freevo's live cd will become geexbox.
please correct me.

This I know nothing about. What is Freevo Technology? Why would Freevo live cd become GeeXboX? Where are you getting this information from?