...Where I'm struggling is with slide shows (you know, a collection of pictures and some short videos all combined into a show and rendered in MPEG) should I keep these in the pictures folder or should these be promoted to video? Well, life is hard and full of difficult decisions ...
Would also be cool to have the possibility of touch screen buttons instead of the traditional scrolling menu items. So the user can go right, left, up and down, instead of just vertical scrolling. Makes an HTPC much nicer to use imo.
I like your approach; ask the customer!
Looking at it from that angle, I guess the family pictures and family videos and family slide shows should ALL be in the same folder (family images?) since they are all images, be it still (pictures), moving (video) or a combination (slide show). What they have in common is the family.
Unfortunately this goes wrong with the MP interface, it dictates still images to be accessed through 'my pictures' and moving images to be accessed through 'my videos'. The interface is format (jpeg vs. mpeg) driven not content (personal vs. public) driven.
VdR
Oh please, not again such a stupid discussion. We hear this since MP started and that's simply NOT true. If you wanna know why, search the forums, there are old posts where this topic has been discussed endlessly. What do you think did we found our quality assurance test team for? If you say that the team doesn't care about stability, this implies that the test team is not doing their work properly. I doubt this, they're working their ass off just for you, exactly like the development team does. Maybe you just don't realize how hard it can be to run such a project. It's not a fingersnap and voila - there's your perfect MediaCenter. FOR FREE!However I have the impression that I see more and more attention to features and nice to have's and less to basic stability.
what's the difference between a "movie" and a "video" ?