Reply to thread

Message

<blockquote data-quote="Gamester17" data-source="post: 51156" data-attributes="member: 10298">On behalf of all HTPC newbies I just like to add that the one thing that I miss most in MediaPortal is 'built-in' codecs (decoders/encoders); it would be very nice if the MediaPortal team would consider including ffdshow with MediaPortal installation/setup program (as an option during installation), ...or even better their own derivative version of ffdshow that is customized for MediaPortal (with all standard settings easily accessible from within MediaPortal's GUI), and that those codecs where auto-updated regularly when newer versions of ffdshow/codecs comes out. That way your average user don't have to bother with codecs, post-processing filters, subtitle-filters and such, it would make the whole MediaPortal experience more user-friendly, especially the first impression which is very important when trying to attract new users.Another suggestion would be for the MediaPortal team to join the <a href="http://www.openusability.org" target="_blank">openusability.org</a> project, which could help humanizing MediaPortal's interface, making it more intuitive and user-friendly .Fool-proofing MediaPortal, aim for a user-interface for dummies, not for the computer nerds that many of us are (including myself), ...maybe the result will be something in the middle :wink:</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Gamester17, post: 51156, member: 10298"] On behalf of all HTPC newbies I just like to add that the one thing that I miss most in MediaPortal is 'built-in' codecs (decoders/encoders); it would be very nice if the MediaPortal team would consider including ffdshow with MediaPortal installation/setup program (as an option during installation), ...or even better their own derivative version of ffdshow that is customized for MediaPortal (with all standard settings easily accessible from within MediaPortal's GUI), and that those codecs where auto-updated regularly when newer versions of ffdshow/codecs comes out. That way your average user don't have to bother with codecs, post-processing filters, subtitle-filters and such, it would make the whole MediaPortal experience more user-friendly, especially the first impression which is very important when trying to attract new users. Another suggestion would be for the MediaPortal team to join the [url=http://www.openusability.org]openusability.org[/url] project, which could help humanizing MediaPortal's interface, making it more intuitive and user-friendly . Fool-proofing MediaPortal, aim for a user-interface for dummies, not for the computer nerds that many of us are (including myself), ...maybe the result will be something in the middle :wink: [/QUOTE]

Verification