Thanks for the, again, detailed feedback. It's well appreciated.

El lun, 21-01-2008 a las 15:52 -0600, Brad Griffith escribió:
> Overall, I am amazed at the improvements made in the new release.
> It's extremely impressive.  The UI is far better than in previous
> versions, I'm able to keep elisa running overnight or throughout long
> movies without any crashes, the YouTube plugin is really fun.  Just
> awesome.  The issues I've come across so far are all minor but I
> thought I'd point them out anyway in case you weren't aware of them.
> 
> * I have a lot of videos encoded in h264 from Handbrake and the h264
> codec from the Fluendo code bundle recently released in your Web
> store.  The thumbnails for the videos all show up oddly distorted,
> sometimes the whole thumbnail is a repeating pattern of seemingly
> random colored lines and sometimes only the bottom half of the
> thumbnail looks that way, with the top half looking correct.  Other
> video formats (XVid, for instance) show up correctly.
> 

This is an issue that you are not the only one to experience I believe.
The thumbnailer needs some work. A ticket has been opened
(https://code.fluendo.com/elisa/trac/ticket/958)

> * There have been a few times that I load up the "my favorite videos"
> list in the YouTube plugin and it seems to randomly miss a few videos.
>  My list has 12 clips on it, but if I go to the list in elisa, it will
> vary from 8-12 items, different clips missing each time I load it.
> 

Ticket opened: https://code.fluendo.com/elisa/trac/ticket/959

> * When browsing a list of items in elisa, there are items with two
> lines of text, like audio albums, and there are items with one line of
> text, like videos.  Items with one line of text center the text in the
> middle of selection rectangle.  However, when I list individual songs
> on an album, the song title is listed as if there is another line of
> text beneath it, so that the song title is against the top of
> selection rectangle instead of being centered properly.
> 

This was a known but unreported issue. Thanks.
https://code.fluendo.com/elisa/trac/ticket/960


> * The currently audio playlist implementation is pretty confusing.  I
> will sometimes be listening to an album and decide that I'd like to
> switch to something different.  If you just enqueue the new album, you
> can't start listening to it until the other songs finish because the
> only way to remove songs is to clear the whole playlist.  So you have
> to remember to back out to the playlist, clear it, then browse back to
> what you want to listen to and select all the songs.

It is planned to reimplement it in an understandable and easy to use
way. https://code.fluendo.com/elisa/trac/ticket/474

> 
> * I can't figure out how to get flickr working.  I installed the
> latest flickrpc from Ross Burton's bzr tree, but whenever I try adding
> a flickr:// address to the appropriate area of elisa.conf, I get an
> error about that not being a recognized URI scheme.

Do you see "flickr" appearing at all in the menu "Images>Internet"?

> 
> Thanks again for the new release.  This is really great and enjoyable
> to use software.
> 
> Cheers,
> Brad Griffith

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