The first beta release (0.1) was focused on adding all kind of new functionality to Mediaportal. And if you look back, we started somewhere in february/may and now we have a fullblown HTPC application
Now its time to think about the second beta release which we are already working on. The beta 0.2 release will focus on the following 3 quality aspects:
- Usability
- Performance
- Stability
Usability
This means we'll make MP more usable for the advanced and beginning users. Things we're thinking about
- improve support for mouse / touchscreen users
- show meaning full messages when something goes wrong.
An example of this is the tvguide. In the past this just showed an empty screen when there was no tvguide available. Now it tells the user that there's no tvguide available. Another example: the RSS feed now tells you when it cannot download the requested RSS Feed
Performance
MP is taking up 2 much performance in my opinion. Our goal for Beta 2 is to use 0% cpu when browsing through the GUI
When playing video/audio or viewing TV the cpu% used should be the same as in any other application like windows mediaplayer or other htpc applications
Stability
Now that we have a nice HTPC full of functionality its time to make things stable. This will be done from inside ->out.
Meaning we'll start stabilizing the Core engine of Mediaportal first.
This includes
- Skin engine
- playlist management
- video/audio players
- tag readers
when the core has stabilized we'll continue with stabilizing the plugins of Mediaportal.
When working on stabilizing the code, i'll also add more documentation to the sourcecode it so it will become easier for new programmers to read & understand the code. Hopefully this will attract new developers
Please notice:
During the development of Beta 2, we'll keep fixing bugs reported in the forums and will listen & implement new features to keep you guys happy
Request. Please only reply to this thread if you have idea's on how to improve Mediaportal on these 3 points! Other bugs / feature requests should be posted in the correct forums
Frodo
and
Now its time to think about the second beta release which we are already working on. The beta 0.2 release will focus on the following 3 quality aspects:
- Usability
- Performance
- Stability
Usability
This means we'll make MP more usable for the advanced and beginning users. Things we're thinking about
- improve support for mouse / touchscreen users
- show meaning full messages when something goes wrong.
An example of this is the tvguide. In the past this just showed an empty screen when there was no tvguide available. Now it tells the user that there's no tvguide available. Another example: the RSS feed now tells you when it cannot download the requested RSS Feed
Performance
MP is taking up 2 much performance in my opinion. Our goal for Beta 2 is to use 0% cpu when browsing through the GUI
When playing video/audio or viewing TV the cpu% used should be the same as in any other application like windows mediaplayer or other htpc applications
Stability
Now that we have a nice HTPC full of functionality its time to make things stable. This will be done from inside ->out.
Meaning we'll start stabilizing the Core engine of Mediaportal first.
This includes
- Skin engine
- playlist management
- video/audio players
- tag readers
when the core has stabilized we'll continue with stabilizing the plugins of Mediaportal.
When working on stabilizing the code, i'll also add more documentation to the sourcecode it so it will become easier for new programmers to read & understand the code. Hopefully this will attract new developers
Please notice:
During the development of Beta 2, we'll keep fixing bugs reported in the forums and will listen & implement new features to keep you guys happy
Request. Please only reply to this thread if you have idea's on how to improve Mediaportal on these 3 points! Other bugs / feature requests should be posted in the correct forums
Frodo
and