Video player with audio switching (GTVBox/ViMu Player)

[mcd2000]

Think I found a bug.. I was testing out AirPlay and the screensaver was on with GTVBox running. I started sending a video to it, and it started playing (the audio anyhow), but the screensaver was still running..

After hitting a button on the remote, I verified that if you leave it inactive (but playing), the screensaver will eventually kick in again.

Many people complain about this issue. Will look closer tonight.

[deviousrich]

is there an official bugzilla / feature request for this development or are we best to post to this thread?
i just dont want to submit things you have heard a 1000 times before....

[tskitishvili]

Does GTVBox player have these features?
- ability to press "play" button on a folder for playing all files within it.
- display first found jpeg image instead of folder icon

Are there any plans to provide Movie Jukebox feature?

[mcd2000]

is there an official bugzilla / feature request for this development or are we best to post to this thread?
i just dont want to submit things you have heard a 1000 times before....

Not yet. Not have time for that yet... And doesn't think people will use it...

[mcd2000]

Does GTVBox player have these features?
- ability to press "play" button on a folder for playing all files within it.
- display first found jpeg image instead of folder icon

Are there any plans to provide Movie Jukebox feature?

- At the time you need to enter a folder and press PLAY |> button on the first file to play them all
- Folder icon? GTVBox on has sidebar icons

I am thinking of YAMJ integration but this will take time.

The main feature in roadmap now: MKV subtitles. It appeared to be harder then I thought it would be.


Next version coming in couple of days:
- Should behave more stable when streaming from SMB (I've added some caching). But can slow down seeking...
- Slightly changed SMB authentication. Should help people who can browse protected SMB, but can not play them
- Someone asked about subtitles size. It will be changable.
- Fixed issue with screensaver

There is also a feature called "Extended MKV support". When enabled in Preferences, it will display Title of MKV Movie (instead of just it's file name). Also it will display languge code of an audio track. Not a big deal... but It shows that work on internal subtitles is in progress.

[deviousrich]

good news on the coming release.
fair point on the bugzilla, i'll just pester you through here

any chance of getting jpgs shown i,e, if you hover over a jpg can you say show it in a lower half or as a background?

i have cover art and description art in all my folders and this would be a real bonus.

are you accepting help by the way, im a software engineer by trade and would be more than happy to help out if you need any assistance?
(all FOC without question, this is your app!)

[zarthan]

Congratulations and Thank You on creating a very nice Video app.

In the 2.1 Logitech Video player I was able to hold down the Fast Forward button and skip quickly through an MKV file (MPEG4 - AC3) to anywhere in the timeline. The Logitech Player in 3.1 behaves differently. The timeline indicator moves along quickly as it did in 2.1 but it takes 5, 10, 15 minutes to advance the actual video. At first I thought the player had frozen. Simply changing the container to MP4 the behavior is restored to the same behavior as in 2.1 and holding the FF button skips quickly through the file.

Since the GTVBox player behaves the same could I assume that the problem is with the GTV/Android video controls or do you have any control over this. I have changed my script to use the MP4 container but it would be nice to have this work without changing containers on all my old files.

[mcd2000]

In the 2.1 Logitech Video player I was able to hold down the Fast Forward button and skip quickly through an MKV file (MPEG4 - AC3) to anywhere in the timeline. The Logitech Player in 3.1 behaves differently. The timeline indicator moves along quickly as it did in 2.1 but it takes 5, 10, 15 minutes to advance the actual video. At first I thought the player had frozen. Simply changing the container to MP4 the behavior is restored to the same behavior as in 2.1 and holding the FF button skips quickly through the file.

Yep. I've found the same with MKV files. Don't know what to do with it for now...
Funny thing is that it worked on beta leak!

[mcd2000]

good news on the coming release.
any chance of getting jpgs shown i,e, if you hover over a jpg can you say show it in a lower half or as a background?

i have cover art and description art in all my folders and this would be a real bonus.

are you accepting help by the way, im a software engineer by trade and would be more than happy to help out if you need any assistance?
(all FOC without question, this is your app!)

JPG are just filtered out - you see only video files.
But I think i know the better solution for now... It will be easy to implement:
When you hover a video file, the player will look for a file with the same name and JPG extension (more like with subtitles) and when found will display somewhere at the bottom of screen (the same could be with a txt file). Is everyone ok with this?

Thanks for suggesting help, but I think I need a designer now more then a developer.

[zarthan]

Yep. I've found the same with MKV files. Don't know what to do with it for now...
Funny thing is that it worked on beta leak!

I think I will post this on the Logitech forums as a bug.