Hi, I have been working on writing my own simple media center (like many I guess). I found out that kaa is very powerful and made my work very simple. Thanks to all the developers and especially to Dischi and Jason. I am still working on the media center but wanted to give you guys a preview in case we have plans to do something like that for Freevo 2. Please follow this link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4w9fkXYjOk and see the details of the video below
1. The opening screen. Only "Play videos" and "Listen to Music" work at this point. The cool graphics effects are borrowed from Jason Tackaberry. 2. After selecting "English New" folder a demo of how the application handles up and down keys is shown. The selector moves. But if selection goes beyond the window limits the text moves with the same animation. 3. Next I play a track that has an album art. I don't know why the screen flickered and the media time flickers when I am recording. It does not happen if I don't use the SVIDEO out and TV tuner to record. So the actual experience is much better :) 4. Pressing esc key stops the player and returns to previous screen. 5. One more esc later, pressing 'e' on a folder gives more options like "Play all files in directory" etc. 6. Multiple items will be queued in the player. Pressing 'a' and 'z' in the player screen will change to previous and next item in the playlist (not shown in the video) 7. Pressing 'd' on player screen attaches the player to the main screen and takes you back to the previous screen. The player maintains the album art, metadata and media time while you keep browsing. 8. Selecting a video to play causes the audio player to stop and the video player starts fullscreen. 9. Pressing esc key stops video and takes you back to the previous screen. 10. Selecting multiple items works just like with audio player. As each media ends, the next item loads and start playing in the playlist. 11. Pressing 'd' will cause the player to attach itself to the main screen and thus plays in a mini player mode while you keep browsing. Thats it for now. Sorry for the big email. I made this video so that we may have some ideas for the designs and artwork to be done in SoC 07. The code is still under development but if anyone wants to try it I can send the code. It requires the latest kaa from svn and beacon to be running. I will be very busy for the next 2 weeks so there will be no more updates to the code until after that. Thanks Chandan ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Freevo-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-devel
