Initial thoughts

[infinityloop]

Originally Posted by frodo

I really dont understand all these replies
We where hoping for feedback , but now all we get is things like
- 'i installed mp-ii but uninstalled it after 3 minutes??'
- "MediaPortal 2" stirs up great anticipation and in most cases V2 is way better than V1
- Perhaps it should not be so prominent on the webpage, I was hoping for much much more than it delivered.

We clearly stated that mp-ii in its current stage is alpha , not feature complete and only released
to get the community involved with the design process

If all we get is remarks like the ones above of ppl who judge MP-II as if it should have been a complete
finished application then i will think twice next time before giving the community a chance to
help out and see /play with the new stuff

i do not mind to be honest.

if you go throught all the feedback-posts then those "weird" replies are the minority.

i allready expected that we wont get only positive feedback and that some ppl simply do not understand the meaning and the purpose of a "technology preview" or "alpha/beta" (even with fontsize=72, textcolor=red, bold ).
doesnt make me "angry" either. because i once also didnt knew what these terms _realy_ mean.

its always the same when developing software, isnt it?

we have much work todo, lets focus on that. and not on this.

[MJGraf]

@Frodo: Please don't let you get down by some people being disappointed. MP-II is exactly was it was anounced to be: A preview of what's possible. I for one didn't install it yet, as I'm not at home and only have my Laptop with a very poor graphic card with me. However, and although I gave up programming long time ago, I couldn't resist browsing through some code last night and I was very impressed. Very clean!

Keep up the good work - and keep publishing new alpha versions of MP II

cheers,
/Michael

[mackey]

Thanks for the preview, guys! It all looks really promising. I'm really excited about the whole thing and looking forward to help integrating MyLyrics into MP-II. With the well-structured and clever architecture it should be quite easy. Cool stuff.

cheers
Soren

[pavelr]

Hi,

Very nice!

I'd like to give you my feedback for next development MP II.

My dreams:

1. multiple hierarchical tags system for all media. Editable. For example as Tversity - UPNP server: http://tversity.com/support/tagging/
For all media type as picture, TV stations, etc. . With clever tools for "import" from MP3 tags, EXIF tags,..
+ media items editor as possibility change or translate everything
why? I always wanted to show someone all pictures with our cats tag: "My family.cats.Kubikula, My family.cats.Frantiska, media.type.picture" (one picture with 2 cats) - I can select and see all pictures with cats or only with Kubikula in next level of filtering...

2. Content menu by items type. What can I do with text, video, picture .. item? This can be define by tags only. I can get Kubikula as picture and video in one list. Action and content menu are different. For ex. slideshow with picture and video together

3. postprocessing menu for all media items (all type) and directories. For TV recordings cuting commercials (nice function in TV3), resizing, resampling, video, pictures, rotate by EXIF, deinterlacing, ... Implementation more filters like in ffdshow etc. Define templates and rules for development this "filters" (as plugins) for comunity of developers to develop single-purpose scripts and link with content posprocessing menu. Central management this filters and easy update to clients (by one click)

4. ONE modul in CORE MP II for "grabing" medias from internet - with tags and patterns in xml file. Like OOBA for XBMC. Patterns in xml file deside what MP show on the screen. list of items, Text, pictures, video.. . For ex. list of tv stations as 1. level and on line video as 2. level...

I see lot a similar plugins in MP1 - for TV or video internet grabbing - similar code, huge redundant effort and strong independent to author of code. I see advantage for the future ONE code and MANY xml files (od DB items). One programmer, many developers of contents. :-)

5. same for podcast ...

6. Share of resources of media contents on internet by (with) community. One click to import items to the client, and same easy way or one click to export item to central point to share with others. With tags, of course.

7. Language - one obligatory item in tags system... all media items have tags = all items we can translate to native language.

8. better structure for CONTRIBUTE item on your web pages. Create structure of developers! More of us can work on xml files, translations of tags, ... I'm not programmer, but copy - improve - past I can do. :-).

Sorry for my english. Nice work!
Pavel

[nemrod95]

Hi,
Thank you for allowing us to test your alpha preview
Don't focus on complaint, you have made the good choice
Thanks again and keep up the good work, we are waiting for another release
sorry for my poor english.....

[johnharbone]

Hi Guys just to say that I really like MP2 but couldn't seem to get on with the new folder system but I'm sure you'll soon sort that out, also just to say that were priveleged to be able to preview brand new software like this so please don't stop it coming its great fun.
Regards John

[tonyscha]

Perhaps it should not be so prominent on the webpage, I was hoping for much much more than it delivered.

Trying not to be to rude here, but these are the users you dont need!

-Either they are to quick or to slow to read!

Hopefully it turns out, I might install it tonight, after I replace my northbridge fan!

[THDBASED]

First of all many many thanks to all the people who worked on this, I think it is amazing taking in mind the time and effort people are putting into this!

A quick question though, just a concern not to be critical or anything like that, is it me or is the GUI running very very slow? I just want to make sure there is nothing wrong with my system (AMD X2 4400+ with 1gig RAM running Vista). I think speed is one of the most important thinks for a HTPC, if you are able to make it lightning fast then this will definitely be THE BEST HTPC SOFWARE EVER!!

[Darre]

About crashes Frodo; I think it crashes when you add more then one media folder at a time. Ill see if I can reproduce the crash tomorrow and if I do Ill attach logs. If anyone else want to try and duplicate it tonight I'm sure that would help.

[mofux]

Originally Posted by THDBASED

First of all many many thanks to all the people who worked on this, I think it is amazing taking in mind the time and effort people are putting into this!

A quick question though, just a concern not to be critical or anything like that, is it me or is the GUI running very very slow? I just want to make sure there is nothing wrong with my system (AMD X2 4400+ with 1gig RAM running Vista). I think speed is one of the most important thinks for a HTPC, if you are able to make it lightning fast then this will definitely be THE BEST HTPC SOFWARE EVER!!

hi, my computer is much slower than yours (AMD XP 1,8 Ghz, Radeon 9600) and it runs super-smooth here, even better than mp1...

so i think there's something wrong with your configuration!

EDIT: I'm also running vista on that mashine with 1 gig ram