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 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
