Le jeudi 30 août 2007 à 09:33 -0500, Brad Griffith a écrit : > Last night I setup elisa 0.3.1 using the recently posted Ubuntu Feisty > packages. Overall, I'm very impressed. I also installed the Fluendo > codec bundle to allow for playback of a variety of video and audio > formats. It seems to be a very simple and well though UI once setup.
Wow, that's what i call Feedback! Let's take it point by point :) > I did encounter a handful of issues, though: > > 1) I watched an h.264 encoded video (encoded with HandBrake) and it > looked great. However, after adjusting volume or seeking, the > audio/video sync would get bumped off track a bit. The video appeared > to be just a hair behind the audio. Exiting the video and then > returning to it (fast-forwarding to my previous position) fixed it at > least temporarily. > We'll do some tests and submit a bugreport if we manage to reproduce the bug, thanks for noticing it. > 2) Whenever there is a lot of movement on the screen, a big sweeping > motion of the camera, the movement gets a bit jerky as if it's > dropping frames. I'm running this on an Athlon X2 4600+ and, at least > judging from top output, am only using about 20% of one core to play > this video. The video chip is an on-board Nvidia GeForce. And > playing the same video in mplayer or other players doesn't exhibit > these problems. One possibility that crossed my mind was enabling > XvMC, but I couldn't determine if that was possible for gstreamer. > Seems like you have vsync issues? Are you using the free or proprietary drivers? Pigment supports vsync for the proprietary drivers, right Loïc (Molinari) ? :) > 3) I tried watching a 720p wmv from IGN and it would play the first > few seconds of video and then stop. No audio at all. Same file > played in mplayer. > We'll do some tests as well.. 720p wmv material used to work, AFAIK.. Stay tuned :) > 4) I downloaded the Theora Large version of the latest Totally Rad > Show episode (http://www.totallyradshow.com) and tried browsing to it > in elisa. However, the folder I'd put the show into, while visible, > did not have the little bouncing arrow indicating I could look inside > and, in fact, wouldn't allow me to access the video. > That's a rather annoying temporary hack we had to implement there :( If you rename the file extension from ogg to ogm, you be able to play the video from Elisa. That hack shall disappear soon I hope! > 5) I have a music library containing approximately 165 artists. > Scrolling through the list can be a bit difficult because you have to > scroll for a short period to get the speed of the scroll up and then > stop a few times to check your current position in the list. It also > seems that the current UI may be a bit sub-optimal for situations > where you don't already know what you want to listen to. In that > case, you have to step through each artist-album one at a time instead > of being able to get an idea of what's available at a glance. > There was a grid mode display, showing you all your albums by cover at a glance but there are some usability issues :( We also plan to implement a search engine soon. > 6) I couldn't figure out how to change volume or track position while > playing audio. There was no OSD to indicate the options I had once I > started playing the music. > If you hide the menu while playing audio, then press OK/Enter, you'll see the player dock and volume informations. > 7) I encountered a confusing behaviour when browsing music by folder, > which perhaps shouldn't be the item selected by default when going > into Audio. My music folder is organized by artist and then album. I > browsed to "Andrew Bird," then "Armchair Apocrypha." While the tracks > were listed in the correct order on the right-hand side of the "Play > All" icon, upon clicking "Playing All" it appeared to play the album > in a random order. Odd, indeed. Will investigate on that issue. > > 8) When first seeing the listing of videos, my girlfriend remarked on > the fact that the video thumbnails looked nice. However, when > browsing music, the artist icons and song icons look repetitive and > don't really communicate any useful information. Not quite sure what > to do here, but I think (from looking at Banshee's music > recommendations plugin, for instance) that grabbing artist photos > using Last.fm might be a really slick touch. > Last time I checked Last.fm API it wasn't really easy to retrieve bands pictures. Also there might be legal/copyright issues there. But for sure it's a nice idea :) > 9) I couldn't intuit what the logic behind the zoomed out video > display was. For instance, I would be watching a video clip, press > stop on my remote and there would be nothing on the screen other than > the list of video files. However, if I browsed up to the highest > level in the hierarchy of my videos, just before returning to the home > screen carousel, a freeze frame of the video I had just been watching > would appear. Seemed odd. > Sounds like a bug yes, we'll fix that one. > 10) I think it might be worthwhile to at least offer the option to > resume a video I was watching at the position I had reached before > stopping. > Yes I came up with same idea while looking at LinuxMCE :) Video bookmarks would totally rock yeah. Will file a new ticket about that. > 11) I couldn't get access to any DAAP shares. Tried starting banshee > w/ DAAP sharing enabled, but saw no options in the Network section of > my music. > Have you installed python-daap? Anyway Elisa can't yet play music hosted on DAAP shares :( So the DAAP plugin is not really useful for now. > 12) Couldn't determine how to enable the flickr and youtube features > shown in the screencast. > See the FAQ_EXTRA to activate the Flickr plugin. You'll need to manually install some dependencies like twill and flickrpc. The Youtube plugin is not public yet. It will be soon shipped apart from Elisa via the new Plugin repositories we are currently working on :) > 13) My elisa.conf has one folder for music and one folder for videos. > However, when I browse these sections, the first thing I see is a > single icon saying "videos" or "music," which are the names of the two > folders. If I only have one location for a type of media specified in > my elisa.conf, I'd expect to not have to explicitly select that > location before browsing my media. > That's a feature we had in Elisa 0.1. Would be nice to reimplement it, will file a ticket. > 14) I know this is simply a preference, but I think the blurring of > the icons in back of the home screen carousel is too pronounced. > > I know that's a lot of criticism, but I really am very excited about > elisa. I'd really like to get away from MythTV and elisa is already > nicer in several ways (not having to manually re-scan the folders for > new media, the UI, the planned "just works" network features, the > simple controls). Thanks so much for all your work! > Thanks to you for all these constructive remarks :) Philippe
