Another Media Player © for Maemo :)
 

Well, Hello world :)
I want to know your opinion before starting. We (My friend Krum and me) have decided to create a media player. We know, that there's a lot of MPs around for Maemo like Kagu and UKMP and even just system player :). They are great and handy, but we have an idea of another player concept. A player, that can arrange playlists on its own, show subtitles and have a nice and handy GUI overlay for video playback and (one of the most) - to be handy and useable in non-fullscreen mode. And we want to know the opinion of the community bout this crap xD Maybe you have some requests?) Thanks for the attention :)

P.S.: Top secret! Screenshot of playlist organizing screen xD
http://img105.imageshack.us/img105/7...ayersw0.th.jpg

Re: Another Media Player © for Maemo :)
 

Well, post a beta version or something so that we can test it and tell you our opinion. Only from a screenshot no one can say if it's good or bad. :)

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I think one kind of player that is missing in Maemo world is simple, no nonsense directory based player that doesn't try to be annoyingly smart and just plays all files in a directory sorted by file name (or provides effective way to create playlists based on what's already organized in the file system). Another area to concentrate on is proper support of various formats (like ogg and flac) and also on important but always neglected things like gapless playback. Maybe it's just me, but any new development effort that doesn't address these issues in any way is just pointless.

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Kilikali.

I admit that the interface might be just a tad too simple and unintuitive (as in: not at all like an iPod) for some.

For me, its great: It plays music, doesn't waste precious cycles on eyecandy and sits on my N800. What more is there to want?

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Kilikali is not quite there yet. Interface needs some work (at least basic controls should not be buried under menu) and ogg support is far from world class - it takes too much CPU, so pretty much everything else you do interrupts playback. Nice can help a bit but suboptimal performance of ogg decoder seems to be the real problem... And there are other interesting and useful formats. And there's gapless playback (or lack thereof). So please, all people who think of addressing multimedia issues on n800, stop solving non-problems and do something useful. Album artwork, kinetic scrolling, parsing tags and organizing music and whatever else existing players do are nice, don't get me wrong, but without the basics none of these advanced features are really useful.

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A Video Player (front-end for mplayer?) with bookmarks and resume play would be great :)

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Need a video player with adjustable skip amounts, pause, resume. Hopefully, with more codecs, or an easy way to find/install codecs.

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On the music playing side , this is what i would love to see,aside from the great features youve already mentioned:

1. the ability to turn off id3 tag info and just have it display file names without it showing the .mp3 and etc. at the end.

2. the ability to choose not to display album art.


3. on the now playing screen (or whatever you call it) a nice finger friendly interface like kagu would be nice , so i can see and select certain song when i have it mounted in the car like i do but with bigger skip , previous , and play/pause buttons


4. any easy way to make skins for it possibly , or be able to go with the current system theme you are running (especially nuvoblack)


5. a visualization of a spectrum analyzer would be awesome



6. on the screen where you see artist , album , playlist...etc. , the ability to order those items , as i would want playlists at the top


on the video playing side:



1. the ability to display either thumbnails or just finger friendly title bars (like id want in music player ala kagu)


2. most definitely the abilty to add codecs


3. as was said above... a scroll bar , theres alot of movies where i want to skip the intro credits , as there is nothing happening


thats about all i can think of at the moment lol

Re: Another Media Player © for Maemo :)
 

Thanks for all requests, we're very apreciate attention! Most of them were added to "come tru" list :) Now we're working on gapless playback, cause it's No.1 feature in all requests :) We'll show you some stuff when it will be done for sure :) Thanks again, keep on requesting!

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^^^^Agree 100%