MeediOS demo video (1 Viewer)

[zag2me]

As some of you know there was some discussion about MeediOS and Media portal merging at a point in the past.

It never happened but the 2 projects still share a lot in common and recently MeediOS has made some great progress so I thought I would make a video to show it off.

Here is a youtube clip of it so far, sorry for the stuttering video I think its something to do with camtasia, in reality the menus and transitions is smoothly animated thanks to the WPF engine.



YouTube - MeediOS preview alpha

MeediOS is open source so many parts of the project could potentially be used in media portal with the right implementations.

Its at a similar development stage to MediaPortal 2 in that its not usable yet, just a tech preview/alpha.

 

[tourettes]

The animations and transitions are really smooth with resonable CPU overhead(really needs a core duo though).

Huh, I wouldnt call it reasonable. Maybe you should check how low CPU usage current MPII skinning engine has

Some of the developers are looking at a dvd player solution at the moment.

Current WPF version of MediaElement doesnt allow DVD to be used -> not possible to mix/blend GUI elements with the video. This hopefully changes in the future.

MeediOS is open source so many parts of the project could potentially be used in media portal with the right implementations.

If HdWagner (I would assume he's mainly the man behind the skinning engine) hasnt found any sollutions to the issues/limitations MS WPF currently has then there is no need for MP team to evaluate the current MeediOS skinning engine.

 

[diehard2]

Hi zag,

Nice video. A core2duo does seem a bit much. Also, as tourette mentioned, M$ told Frodo that DVD with WPF would be impossible .

 

[binary64]

Hi zag,

Nice video. A core2duo does seem a bit much. Also, as tourette mentioned, M$ told Frodo that DVD with WPF would be impossible .

Core2duo is already needed for a decent htpc that can play 1080p avc, record a few shows and background encoding. DVD should be possible a number of ways - hwnd+vlc.dll, custom presenter, fullscreen mpc:he, etc (ok we might miss a few goodies like 3d rotation and reflections). As to WPF being only fractionally-opensource, well, so is Windows

 

[tourettes]

(ok we might miss a few goodies like 3d rotation and reflections).

And OSD over video... or context menus over video...

 

[cheetah05]

(ok we might miss a few goodies like 3d rotation and reflections).

And OSD over video... or context menus over video...

Can't you just interface VLC Player for DVD playback. Sure it will be limited slightly, but its better than nothing.

Or am i completely missing the problem?

....anyways just trying to help

 

[tourettes]

(ok we might miss a few goodies like 3d rotation and reflections).

And OSD over video... or context menus over video...

Can't you just interface VLC Player for DVD playback. Sure it will be limited slightly, but its better than nothing.

Of cource you can, but in that case MPII would be even a step backwards compared to MP1. Now we dont want that to happen do we?

 

[cheetah05]

Of cource you can, but in that case MPII would be even a step backwards compared to MP1. Now we dont want that to happen do we?

Howso...? I'm assuming you mean its because you can't use your own codecs (or can you with vlc - i don't know)....

...by the way, I am only discussing this on the premise that you haven't already found a solution.....if you have....excellent....if not (question above )

 

[Spragleknas]

Eh ... the solution?
--> MEDIAPORTAL - free MediaCenter HTPC Software - MediaPortal II gets opensource wpf engine

 

[iosub]

As some of you know there was some discussion about MeediOS and Media portal merging at a point in the past.

It never happened but the 2 projects still share a lot in common and recently MeediOS has made some great progress so I thought I would make a video to show it off.

Here is a youtube clip of it so far, sorry for the stuttering video I think its something to do with camtasia, in reality the menus and transitions is smoothly animated thanks to the WPF engine.



YouTube - MeediOS preview alpha

MeediOS is open source so many parts of the project could potentially be used in media portal with the right implementations.

Its at a similar development stage to MediaPortal 2 in that its not usable yet, just a tech preview/alpha.

Can you please post the link to download the alpha??
Thanks!