Installation notes on PyCar( Win2K, WinXP )
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This file contains installation instructions for the PyCar package based on PyMedia.

PyCar is a car based media player program which was developed using the PyMedia package.
( http://pymedia.org )
It allows to play different types of media information such as:
 AVI, DIVX, DVD, MP3, OGG, WMA, audio disks and more.
Also it support playlists and extracts additional information from your media files.

Features
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- Plays mp3, mp2, ogg, ac3, wma
- Plays audio disks
- Plays avi, VideoCD, SVCD and DVDs
- Shows media information for all supported formats
- Displays album pictures( cover art )
- Playlists
- Interacts with LCD
- local CDDB support for Audio disks( take a copy from the http://freecddb.org )
- i18n compatible, russian language translation included( any other volunteers ? )
- Adjustable cache size for skip free playback while on the road
- Touch screen friendly
- Skinnable

Requirements
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- PIII, Athlon no less than 400Mhz
	For video playback 1.2GHz+ preffered
- 128Mb Memory
	For large sets of files( 4000+ ) 256 Mb is preffered
- Win 2K/XP
	For Windows 200 SP6 is required
- DirectX 5.x+

It should be enough just to install the OS and pycar. It will not ask you to install any other programs...

Installation
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At the time being the installation is pretty simple. Just unpack all files into the c:\pycar directory,
and you're ready to go !
By default the following directories are configured:
	Music files: c:\music
	Video files: c:\movies
	CDDB database: c:\pycar\cddb
	Playlists: c:\pycar\playlists
You may repoint these directories to your own or add additional directories by clicking on the settings 
button in the pycar main menu.
If you wish PyCar to automatically detect your audio disks you need to download cddb database 
( freecddb.org )and unzip it into the c:\pycar\cddb or any other place where CDDB is referenced by PyCar.

Predefined keys
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These keys has been predefined in pycar for pre-release 1.2.3.4-pre5:

UP- moves selection up
DOWN- moves selection down
PG UP- moves selection one screens up
PG DOWN- moves selection one screens down
HOME- moves selection to the beginning of the list
END- moves selection to the end of the list
ENTER- execute or enter the selection
BACKSPACE- go back to the previous selection if possible
INS- stop current playback( either video or audio )
ESC- go back to the root menu

Everything else is available through the touchscreen or mouse clicks.

Known bugs
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1. Some mp3 files are not played correctly( well they are but some noise in the background )
2. While playing DVD please wait until all titles are read

Executing
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Windows: 
	c:\pycar\pycar.exe
Linux: 
	python pycar.py .

Docs
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No docs available at this time yet

Troubleshooting
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If you did exactly what's in this doc above, you shouldn't have any problems running PyCar, 
but if you do, just email to: pymedia-pycar@lists.sourceforge.net
Send me the following info:
	1. Operating system you're running on + details about hardware
	2. Run pycar from the command prompt and copy the trace stack you'll see on a screen

Plans
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1. XM/FM Radio support

Feedbacks
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I appreciate any kind of feedbacks, just send me some words to jbors at pymedia dot org.
Also you may want to visit http://pymedia.org/pycar for updates and news on PyCar and PyMedia.

Thanks,
Bors/