Video player with audio switching (GTVBox/ViMu Player)

[proximous]

No. Parsing data from M4V is not supported.

Open source VLC supports M4V art, chapters, subtitles, etc. If you can't directly use what's there due to licensing, perhaps it can show you how hard or easy it would be to implement. I'd love to see GTVBox support M4V chapters and subtitles in a future release.

Related, I'm not opposed to converting M4Vs to MKVs. Does anyone know of a free Windows program that would do this without recoding and that would copy the M4V meta data into MKV meta data? I've found a lot of partial solutions but none that do it all seamlessly, and very few that have any easy support for meta data.

[mcd2000]

Open source VLC supports M4V art, chapters, subtitles, etc. If you can't directly use what's there due to licensing, perhaps it can show you how hard or easy it would be to implement. I'd love to see GTVBox support M4V chapters and subtitles in a future release.

It is not as easy. All common used video libs are C/C++, but you can only use Java on Google TV.
It was not very easy even to parse MKV and current MKV support has many bugs and for ex. does not support seeking. So, first of all I am working on improving MKV parsing. I believe that good MKV support is more important than other types of containers for now.

[surge]

It was not very easy even to parse MKV and current MKV support has many bugs and for ex. does not support seeking. So, first of all I am working on improving MKV parsing. I believe that good MKV support is more important than other types of containers for now.

Would the improved MKV parsing allow seeking on the Revue?
I have a bunch of MKV files and am trying to decide if I should convert them to a different format.
If seeking will not be an option, which format would be best to convert the MKVs w/AC3 without losing quality.

thanks

[mcd2000]

It was not very easy even to parse MKV and current MKV support has many bugs and for ex. does not support seeking. So, first of all I am working on improving MKV parsing. I believe that good MKV support is more important than other types of containers for now.

Would the improved MKV parsing allow seeking on the Revue?
I have a bunch of MKV files and am trying to decide if I should convert them to a different format.
If seeking will not be an option, which format would be best to convert the MKVs w/AC3 without losing quality.

thanks

I hope seeking will be fixed in 3.2 update if it ever coming.
If you really want seeking, you can convert to MP4 or M4V.

[mcd2000]

OK. GTVBox Video Player v. 0.6 is coming soon:
- NFS support. For real geeks only! If it will not work, don't ask me why!
- Improved continious playback ("play this and next files" feature). Also "play all files in this dir" added.
- M3U support.
- For continious playback and M3U files you can use PREV/NEXT media keys to switch files.
- It finally says "Can not play file" if the file is unplayable instead of always showing progress bar.
- You can now select subtitle shifting if it is not properly synchronized with your video (> and < buttons).
- Improved quicksearch: you can navigate up/down over suggested items (someone asked for this here).
- It finally displays labels of USB drives in the panel.
- When playing a file without video stream (i.e. music file), info bar will not disappear.
- Many bugs fixed, new bugs introduced.


GOOD testers are as always welcome to [email protected].

[sweup]

Thats great!

Also hope to see "type for title of folder" (as in Logitech app).

Many new features, Good job!

[mcd2000]

"type for title of folder"

Do not understand, sorry...

[sweup]

Yeah, I can understand that

What i mean is, with Logitech media app, you can just type for folders in the directory eg "Cartoon" all folders that have "Cartoon" in the name are shown (others are filtered away). You dont need to use the search box - just type

[mcd2000]

Yeah, I can understand that

What i mean is, with Logitech media app, you can just type for folders in the directory eg "Cartoon" all folders that have "Cartoon" in the name are shown (others are filtered away). You dont need to use the search box - just type

Now, you can do almost the same. Just press "S" before entering text.

[deviousrich]

OK. GTVBox Video Player v. 0.6 is coming soon:
-- When playing a file without video stream (i.e. music file), info bar will not disappear.

ahhhhhhhhh this was the one feature that i really loved when playing MP3s. i have a plasma tv so hate guis that leave static text on the screen and GTVBox was the one app that didnt! anyway you could have a "press to hide" button so i can just have a black screen?

you know you cant please everyone all the time right, someone has to complain, even with this level of service!