Re: Moovida audio/video forward/back navigation

On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 1:48 PM, Peter <peter <at> maubp.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> As things stand, Moovida does not make it easy to navigate
> to a particular part of a song or video. I recently submitted a
> merge request to make the left/right buttons jump by 20s
> instead of one minute:
>
> https://www.moovida.com/quality/review/request/%3C320fb6e01001270359m24088500o5546db78c9f4077a <at> mail.gmail.com%3E
>
> The 20s patch helps, but I still don't like the current situation,
> please see this forum thread for a discussion of other options:
> http://www.moovida.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=1696
>
> Feedback would be welcome - here or on the forum.

Any other comments (beyound Guillaume Emont's interesting
work on using extra keys on the keyboard for fine control)?

Is this simple fix worth checking in? Would it help if I made
the time step a user setting in the configuration file?

Thanks,

Peter

Re: Media scanner work

On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 5:14 PM, Vanessa Obree <vobree <at> fluendo.com> wrote:
> Hi Peter,
> Regarding the media scanner, it's going be nearly impossible for us make the
> deadlines communicated previously as it's proving to be a lot more work than
> initially planned, so if you have some suggestions that could improve this
> short-term please feel free to contribute!
> Regards,
> Vanessa

Hi Vanessa & the dev team,

Can we have some kind of status update on the media scanner work?
Is there a public branch we can checkout?

In terms of short term work I have a couple of merge requests waiting
on Bundle Buddy, https://www.moovida.com/quality/review

Specifically a trivial change "Allow folder.jpg etc for cover art", plus
a more debatable one "[Bug 491073] Scanner ignores year in TV
and Movie filenames".

I also have an submitted patch to do with how the media scanner
records time stamps.

For medium/long term changes, some discussion on the forum has
made it clear to me that for some things Moovida needs more work
at the database level (e.g. better handling of the same video in
multiple formats).

http://www.moovida.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1726

Status of Moovida 1.0

Re: Media scanner work

On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 4:18 PM, Peter <peter <at> maubp.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 5:14 PM, Vanessa Obree <vobree <at> fluendo.com> wrote:
>> Hi Peter,
>> Regarding the media scanner, it's going be nearly impossible for us make the
>> deadlines communicated previously as it's proving to be a lot more work than
>> initially planned, so if you have some suggestions that could improve this
>> short-term please feel free to contribute!
>> Regards,
>> Vanessa
>
> Hi Vanessa & the dev team,
>
> Can we have some kind of status update on the media scanner work?
> Is there a public branch we can checkout?
> ...

Hi Vanessa,

Thank you for the much more general reply (see her email today,
3 March 2010, titled "Status of Moovida 1.0"). I will reply there.

Peter

Re: Status of Moovida 1.0

On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 9:31 AM, Vanessa Obree <vobree <at> fluendo.com> wrote:
>
> Dear Moovida developers,
> You may have noticed that there has been less activity around
> Moovida 1.0 as of late. This is because all of our resources are
> now focussed on Moovida 2.0 release, which will be a significant
> departure from our current version.

I had wondered why Moovida had "slowed down" since the end
of last year. This sounds very exciting (and a little concerning).

Could someone update the Launchpad page which currently says
"Moovida 1.0 series  is the current focus of development ",
https://launchpad.net/moovida

When do you expect to release Moovida 2.0? It would be
helpful to know (even roughly) for those of use considering
investing time working on features or plugins.

More importantly, is the Moovida 2.0 development code available
publicly yet? Since this is the (public) development mailing list, it
is likely that people here would be willing to test it. If however,
Fluendo Embedded will be keeping Moovida 2.0 "private" for
now, that is understandable - but you risk losing volunteer
developers (especially if Moovida 1.0 stagnates).

> Since most development on Moovida 1.0 is currently suspended,
> it also means we have very little time to review requests, bug
> fixes and the like on Launchpad, and we will not be able to
> merge any changes in the short term.

I hope this means that in the interim critical bugs in Moovida 1.0
will still be addressed.

> Needless to say, we are working hard to fix the media scanner
> issues and other shortcomings for an improved and radically
> different next version.
>
> We will keep you informed with regards to the specific actions
> Fluendo Embedded will be taking with Moovida 1.0., and how
> the community can move forward and keep contributing.
>
> I understand this may be upsetting to some of you given all the
> efforts you have placed in contributing to Elisa/Moovida 1.0 in
> the past few years. Luckily, Moovida remains open source so
> you will always be free to keep using / playing around with the
> software that has conquered so many users since its inception.

Could you explicitly confirm that Moovida 2.0 will remain open
source? Just to be clear ;)

Thanks,

Peter

Re: Status of Moovida 1.0

RE: Status of Moovida 1.0

Re: Status of Moovida 1.0

Le mercredi 03 mars 2010 à 14:09 +0100, Vanessa Obree a écrit :

> As for the concern of Moovida remaining open, Moovida 2.0 will be
> partially open, but not to the same extent as 1.0. For this reason the
> code for 2.0 is not currently available publicly, but when we will be
> in a position to share more information we will make sure to contact
> this list first.

I'm pretty sad to read that. As a Free Software hacker, I will certainly
not continue to work, or even use, a closed media center...

	G.

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Re: Status of Moovida 1.0

Guillaume Desmottes a écrit :
> Le mercredi 03 mars 2010 à 14:09 +0100, Vanessa Obree a écrit :
>
>
>   
>> As for the concern of Moovida remaining open, Moovida 2.0 will be
>> partially open, but not to the same extent as 1.0. For this reason the
>> code for 2.0 is not currently available publicly, but when we will be
>> in a position to share more information we will make sure to contact
>> this list first.
>>     
>
> I'm pretty sad to read that. As a Free Software hacker, I will certainly
> not continue to work, or even use, a closed media center...
>
>
> 	G.
>
>
>
>   
Same for me.

Florian

Re: Status of Moovida 1.0