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<blockquote data-quote="SePPiE" data-source="post: 8266" data-attributes="member: 10540"><p>I have to say that 0.1.0.5.1 is already quite more CPU "friendlier". I find it more smoothly. So that's good! That was one of the things that I thought needed improvements.</p><p></p><p>Other suggestions would be:</p><p></p><p>1. (like already mentioned) less techy talk, (for instant when you press the button to get the playing media as background in the main window and when you're not running any media it says: Make sure you are running VMR9). A dumb end-user will never know what this means. </p><p></p><p>2. Other point indeed, also like mentioned before, is the satellite image that defaults to germany... You may better just say that there's no sat image defined...</p><p></p><p>3. Automatic hardware detection (which shouldn't be hard in my opinion).</p><p></p><p>4. Theme selection in frontend itself. Also, like mentioned, adding media.. But keep the rest (techie stuff) in sep app...</p><p></p><p>5. Better OSD system in Live TV... Channel info, EPG info etc when zapping to channel...</p><p></p><p>6. Other thing mentioned, but very needed in my opinion.. one button for ONE function! I think you can narrow down a lot of key shortcuts or make it more efficient.. hard to explain, but I get a feeling this could be simpler..</p><p></p><p>7. Integrate entire winlirc into mediaportal instead of needing seperate winlirc running. (winlirc plugin for ATI remote control does this for instant), IDEAL.. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> (mediaportal is my only running app anyways).. (you could always make this a seperate functionality you can switch on or off for people wanting more complex configs using girder etc.) This makes it easier for non techie users, in my opinion. Just learn your remote, select your config and of you go.. It's also GPL so no prob there.</p><p></p><p>8. Somewhere in very near feature, stop implementing new functionality and start stabilizing all the existing stuff and improving user experience... A lot of stuff have been added recently (DVB-s through SDK, DVB-T through BDA, web guide) etc, and I think we need to concentrate on stabilizing and working only on these existing plugins/extensions and wait with implementing new features till we get at the beta 2... I get the feeling, (maybe wrong), that the whole 0.1.0.4, 0.1.0.5 and 0.1.0.5.1 release chaos has been do to the fact that a lot of people added stuff and were working "against" eachother.. </p><p>I could be seeing this wrong, but just a feeling i had imediatly after seeing this all happen. Even then, with the activity on this project, you guys can afford to have a little breather on features and spend some time on efficiency and stability. We can wait, cause we know that you guys are working on it on a daily basis.. That's not something that can be said for a lot of other projects out there (mythtv?, meedio?, sceenio?) It's always MONTHS before you hear something back and every update it's always dissapointing to see what they managed to accomplish in such a long time...</p><p></p><p>9. For agree, make MDwrapper menu easy accessible from livetv or somewhere in front-end when you're in fullscreen... Teletext, cc and MHW epg data is another thing I would like to see native support for instead through Mdwrapper dll's.</p><p></p><p>10. keep this up! Cause MP kicks ass <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> since dvb-s is supported, this is the only program I use now and it keeps getting better at a really nice pace.. And I would also like to mention that i already find user useability a whole lot easier and nicer then myhtpc and meedio ever were (actually, i thought that config system sucked mayor butt)...</p><p></p><p>Hoped this helped..</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SePPiE, post: 8266, member: 10540"] I have to say that 0.1.0.5.1 is already quite more CPU "friendlier". I find it more smoothly. So that's good! That was one of the things that I thought needed improvements. Other suggestions would be: 1. (like already mentioned) less techy talk, (for instant when you press the button to get the playing media as background in the main window and when you're not running any media it says: Make sure you are running VMR9). A dumb end-user will never know what this means. 2. Other point indeed, also like mentioned before, is the satellite image that defaults to germany... You may better just say that there's no sat image defined... 3. Automatic hardware detection (which shouldn't be hard in my opinion). 4. Theme selection in frontend itself. Also, like mentioned, adding media.. But keep the rest (techie stuff) in sep app... 5. Better OSD system in Live TV... Channel info, EPG info etc when zapping to channel... 6. Other thing mentioned, but very needed in my opinion.. one button for ONE function! I think you can narrow down a lot of key shortcuts or make it more efficient.. hard to explain, but I get a feeling this could be simpler.. 7. Integrate entire winlirc into mediaportal instead of needing seperate winlirc running. (winlirc plugin for ATI remote control does this for instant), IDEAL.. :) (mediaportal is my only running app anyways).. (you could always make this a seperate functionality you can switch on or off for people wanting more complex configs using girder etc.) This makes it easier for non techie users, in my opinion. Just learn your remote, select your config and of you go.. It's also GPL so no prob there. 8. Somewhere in very near feature, stop implementing new functionality and start stabilizing all the existing stuff and improving user experience... A lot of stuff have been added recently (DVB-s through SDK, DVB-T through BDA, web guide) etc, and I think we need to concentrate on stabilizing and working only on these existing plugins/extensions and wait with implementing new features till we get at the beta 2... I get the feeling, (maybe wrong), that the whole 0.1.0.4, 0.1.0.5 and 0.1.0.5.1 release chaos has been do to the fact that a lot of people added stuff and were working "against" eachother.. I could be seeing this wrong, but just a feeling i had imediatly after seeing this all happen. Even then, with the activity on this project, you guys can afford to have a little breather on features and spend some time on efficiency and stability. We can wait, cause we know that you guys are working on it on a daily basis.. That's not something that can be said for a lot of other projects out there (mythtv?, meedio?, sceenio?) It's always MONTHS before you hear something back and every update it's always dissapointing to see what they managed to accomplish in such a long time... 9. For agree, make MDwrapper menu easy accessible from livetv or somewhere in front-end when you're in fullscreen... Teletext, cc and MHW epg data is another thing I would like to see native support for instead through Mdwrapper dll's. 10. keep this up! Cause MP kicks ass :) since dvb-s is supported, this is the only program I use now and it keeps getting better at a really nice pace.. And I would also like to mention that i already find user useability a whole lot easier and nicer then myhtpc and meedio ever were (actually, i thought that config system sucked mayor butt)... Hoped this helped.. [/QUOTE]
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