[Blog] MediaPortal 2 progress report (5 Viewers)

[tourettes]

- Automatic online bug reporting (when Mp2 or plugins crash)

Definitly not.
Nothing can replace a decent bugreport thread, where the developers then can talk to the user who encounters the issue.

This is not as bad as you make it sound It would be useful to use some already existing crash report framework to allow the application to send the crash data for some further analysis.

Of course it shouldn't be used to generate any error reports, but instead of the analysed data it would show us the areas what components are causing the crashing etc. For example we could see that there is some really badly behaving directshow filter causing 25% of the application crashes. Or we could see that some of our own component has some speific code path that causes lot of trouble and we could review the code in that part. But in any case the data shouldn't be used directly for anything, especially for generating a Mantis report.

 

[tourettes]

Well.......SAF 5.0 already uses FFDshow - So why not implement it in MP2 like XBMC?

XBMC is not using ffdshow, probably ffmpeg is confusing here.

What comes to MP2 and shipping some directshow video decoders... it could happen if someone starts to pay for the H.264 etc. format lisencing & patent fees.

 

[infinite.loop]

It would be useful to use some already existing crash report framework to allow the application to send the crash data for some further analysis.

Of course it shouldn't be used to generate any error reports, but instead of the analysed data it would show us the areas what components are causing the crashing etc. For example we could see that there is some really badly behaving directshow filter causing 25% of the application crashes. Or we could see that some of our own component has some speific code path that causes lot of trouble and we could review the code in that part. But in any case the data shouldn't be used directly for anything, especially for generating a Mantis report.

That is then not an automated bugreport as msj33 suggested, which would "replace" the current bugreports, and require that a developer goes through all the automatically generated reports.

That is what the teams developers rejected concordantly in the past.

 

[mpsam]

As we think about features for MP 2, are you considering the use of the play to feature of windows 7. It would be especially useful for music. I do not know how it works but it would be really nice to be able to search and select a movie before turning on the projector, or to select bedtime stories and play them to my children's room

 

[Quarter]

So how is Mediaportal 2 coming on now? Is anything completed? Quite interested on an estimated release date, is it like 6 months away or a year? Can't wait to start learning to build plugins for it.

Sorry for the questions, I'm just looking forward to the progress reports and then the time to play with it.

 

[Albert]

AW: MediaPortal 2 progress report

Some annotations:

To attract more skinners, we'll organize a skinning contest soon. We'll write about it on our main page.

Quarter:
You can just check out MP 2 from our SVN and get used to its structure and coding style. There, you can see the current progress.

 

[infinite.loop]

So how is Mediaportal 2 coming on now? Is anything completed? Quite interested on an estimated release date, is it like 6 months away or a year? Can't wait to start learning to build plugins for it.

First public alpha release in less than 6 months.

How long it takes to get MP2 in a condition where it can fully replace MP1 is not clear. Depends on the amount of help we receive from the community. We need a lot of artists, testers and developers.

 

[wouter1971]

Hi Chris,

Is it possible to use MP2 with a TV server of MP1? Because i use MP to watch TV and i understood from earlier comments that the TV part is missing in the first public releases.

 

[infinite.loop]

Is it possible to use MP2 with a TV server of MP1?

There is no TV Plugin nor a TV Engine yet in the current development state of MP2.

Because i use MP to watch TV and i understood from earlier comments that the TV part is missing in the first public releases.

The first releases are for testing only. MP2 won't be able to replace MP1 for quite some time.

 

[JimmyBoy]

Im just wondering what are the main goals with MP-II ?

To create a better framework on which to base new releases ?

To add functionality that cannot be added to MP1 ? (and if so, any examples?)

Are there any "Killer" features to be in MP-II that are not / can not be in MP1 ?


Im just curious about what will be new in MP-II and looking forward to giving it a go when it's in a usable state.