--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] escreveu: > Hi all. > For my job, i have encountered some guys from Microsoft (i was > obliged :)
Too bad! > ) for a demonstration of their video codec VC9 (they try "normalize" > it via the SMPTE forum). That sucks! > During this demo, they showed us their 'Media > Center' product which looks like Freevo/MythTV mainly, but with some > interesting additionnal features : > - automatic picture slideshows : when you enter a folder with > images, a slideshow begins automatically IMHO, it's annoying. Having a playlist, maybe a random one, is ok, but auto-start sucks. > - nice transitions during slideshows : during this slideshow, the > transition between picture is quite nice (fade, ...) It may be easy. > - internal small zoom inside a picture : in order to add some > 'movements' > to photos, the photos are slowly zoomed (in a factor 1.2/1.5). I didn't understand what you mean here. > - When playing SVCD/DVD/AVI/..., if the 'Mute' button is pressed, > then the subtitles are displayed (and the sound goes off, of course) Cool feature. but we depend on Mplayer here. And, not every file have subtitles in it. > - When going back to the main menu, the current display is shown in > a very small window closed to the main menu. So you can switch back to > the video/audio/picture/TV nicely (like the audio.detach plugin, but > for all the items : video, picture, TV, games). Again, maybe it's annoying. TV and music I see some usage... but I don't see someone using this to game, video or picture. However we could have some bookmark feature and one key to go to main menu. So when you enter the previous section, ie: Music, it present you as the first item "Return to last position" (or a better name), so you can go back to some dir you were before. About having those things showing live at main menu... It's hard to implement. > For the "picture" features, it seems that 'feh' can do the job, but i > get a seg fault when i try to run it. Photo-desktop > (http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~dbenson/photo-desktop/) is a tool for > smooth zooming and translations effects, but there is only a few set > of parameters. we need some python library... maybe PIL does that. > For the rest ??? Dunno... > Any feedback on that ? We need better ideas ;) Some ideas that born on IRC today: den_RDC: encodedaemon: this could go remote and (re)encode wav, flac, mp3, ogg, mpeg, avi, ... Gustavo Yahoo! Mail - o melhor webmail do Brasil http://mail.yahoo.com.br ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ _______________________________________________ Freevo-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-devel
