El jue, 30-08-2007 a las 17:01 +0200, Philippe Normand escribió: > 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 :)
Indeed, thank you for the quality of your feedback Brad. > > > 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! This issue is reported in Elisa ticket #385 (https://code.fluendo.com/elisa/trac/ticket/385). > > > 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. This issue is now partly solved thanks to changeset #3361 (https://code.fluendo.com/elisa/trac/changeset/3361) and will be part of the next Elisa release (0.3.2). > > > 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 :) This sure is a cool 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. So Philippe did (https://code.fluendo.com/elisa/trac/ticket/573). UI-wise, integrating it does not seem trivial. > > > 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. Filed: https://code.fluendo.com/elisa/trac/ticket/574. > > > 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 Thanks a lot! Florian
