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Re: MediaBox Media Center 0.96 with UPnP and more

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Originally Posted by pycage (Post 497858)

Yes, it is.

The volume keys are simply F7 and F8 keys. However, the hildon desktop captures the key events before they reach your application, so you have to set a Xatom property on the window that wants to receive these keys:

Code:

# we need to notify Maemo5 that we want to use the volume keys

self.__window.window.property_change("_HILDON_ZOOM_KEY_ATOM",

    "XA_INTEGER", 32,

    gtk.gdk.PROP_MODE_REPLACE,

    [1])

That is, call property_change on the GdkWindow (window) member of a GtkWindow or HildonWindow.

thank you! i'm kind of interested in where you found this information. i searched everywhere (or so i thought) it really threw me that nothing came through to my on_key_press method.

thanks again

Re: MediaBox Media Center 0.96 with UPnP and more

I just installed mediabox in my N900. It's behaving strangely and I can't tell if it's a bug or user error. I searched talk.maemo.org and the bugzilla and didn't find an answer.

In the album view, mediabox shows several instances of the same album. For example, there are 16 instances of "Best of Bootie 2005", a compilation album. Each has one song in it. I expected one instance with 16 songs.

In the pictures view, a lot of my photos aren't shown. mediabox found DCIM, where the camera puts its pictures, and it found three of the eight photo directories in /Pictures but in each case it's missing a lot of pictures. Some appear without a thumbnail. mediabox won't show me those pictures.

Re: MediaBox Media Center 0.96 with UPnP and more

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Originally Posted by talmage (Post 497970)

In the album view, mediabox shows several instances of the same album. For example, there are 16 instances of "Best of Bootie 2005", a compilation album. Each has one song in it. I expected one instance with 16 songs.

This is a known bug with compilation albums where there are several artists.

Quote:

Originally Posted by talmage (Post 497970)

In the pictures view, a lot of my photos aren't shown. mediabox found DCIM, where the camera puts its pictures, and it found three of the eight photo directories in /Pictures but in each case it's missing a lot of pictures. Some appear without a thumbnail. mediabox won't show me those pictures.

Can you give more details on this?

Re: MediaBox Media Center 0.96 with UPnP and more

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Originally Posted by pycage (Post 497847)

No, not yet. Any volunteers? :)

There is an old and still opened feature request at garage about D-Bus API for MediaBox, which stops me from writing a widget :)

Re: MediaBox Media Center 0.96 with UPnP and more

Quote:

Originally Posted by pycage (Post 498292)

Can you give more details on this?

Thank you for asking.

The summary: MediaBox doesn't find all of my pictures and it doesn't display correctly all those it does find.

The pictures are in MyDocs/Pictures:
MyDocs/Pictures/20090107-Matney&MatneyBirthday
MyDocs/Pictures/20091219-Snowpocalypse
MyDocs/Pictures/20091220-Snowpocalypse
MyDocs/Pictures/20100116-Matney&MatneyBirthday
MyDocs/Pictures/BostonXmas2009
MyDocs/Pictures/Katie's Camera
MyDocs/Pictures/Katie's Memorial Slide Show
MyDocs/Pictures/Panos
MyDocs/Pictures/Vacation2009
MyDocs/Pictures/Vacation2009/05-Greg_Melissa
MyDocs/Pictures/Vacation2009/05-Phyllis

There are cover art pictures in MyDocs/Music/*/ also.

MediaBox shows me the directories with cover art. Each has a single file and MediaBox displays those pictures without fail.

MediaBox shows me only three of the Pictures subdirectories: 05-Greg_Melissa, 20090107-Matney&MatneyBirthday, and 20091219-Snowpocalypse. There should be 300 pictures in 05-Greg_Melissa. MediaBox shows me 19. There should be 31 pictures in 20090107-Matney&MatneyBirthday. MediaBox shows 2 and neither of them have any useful content. In fact, MediaBox shows the previously displayed picture when I select one of them. E.g. If I previously looked at the cover art for BB King's "Completely Well" CD, MediaBox shows me that picture again if I choose one of the pictures in 20090107-Matney&MatneyBirthday.

All told, I have about 1800 pictures, including album cover art. MediaBox finds about 200 of them.

Re: MediaBox Media Center 0.96 with UPnP and more

Hey pycage, any idea of when will the newer version with fixed volume be released? I can hardly wait :D
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Re: MediaBox Media Center 0.96 with UPnP and more

@nax3000:

yesterday evening my update manager showed up MediaBox in version 2010.01.30.
unfortunately still no others media renderers supported (can barely await it ^^), but the volume-bug is partially solved - at least the volume level stays unchanged when next song in playlist is played. on the other hand: if you touch the MediaBox's volume-slider, main volume goes way down again (if it was way up ^^).

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Re: MediaBox Media Center 0.96 with UPnP and more

Hmm that's weird.. I don't get an update prompt when I searched just now. Is it in extras-devel? because I have that disabled (I do have extras-testing enabled though)

EDIT - yup it's in devel :D

EDIT 2 - It seems like the volume issue is completely resolved for me

EDIT 3 - The bad news is - I did a check with the top command in xterm to see the CPU usage. default media player user an average of 14% while mediabox is about 25 :(

I hope to see mediabox optimized further. Right now I'll be using this as my default player anyhow :D
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Re: MediaBox Media Center 0.96 with UPnP and more

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Originally Posted by 412b (Post 499809)

There is an old and still opened feature request at garage about D-Bus API for MediaBox, which stops me from writing a widget :)

Fine, I'll do the D-Bus API and you'll do the widget. :)
What functionality do you need to be exposed via D-Bus?

Re: MediaBox Media Center 0.96 with UPnP and more

So after spending a day outside with mediabox here are my suggestions:

It takes about a second to go from one song to the next. It's.. kind of a lot. Would be nice if something was done about that.
Is it possible to make the volume rocker act as a next/previous track rocker when the screen is locked?
Also, adding a "next track" in the now playing screen would be great.
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