@iliaden :

- All the themes I have (flat black, graphite & marbles) do not show either of the two lower buttons (back & options). I can access the back button by the hardware key, but have no link for the options menu; any solution?

We are looking into this issue. We don't know exactly what is happening, but we did already some changes to the themes, to see if is in the theme files and also, removed some bindings that toogles the lower bar. If you are using the n810 try typing some letters in that screen (I forgot exactly which ones) the bar will show and hide :/


- album entries work a bit better (recognized multiple entries for 1 more album; 3 to go!
(note: I created the ID3 tags myself, all tracks being tagged with an identical album title)

Can you send the last 3? (sorry for the work), but it's the best way to find the bugs on our code


- maemo extras repository required for installation of youtube plugin is offline :S

This is beyond our control, and to avoid even bigger problems we cannot setup one for us.

- video playback still less efficient than MPlayer; did not notice any difference with beta6

This is also a mplayer issue. Mplayer when embedded mode does reduces performance. We are slowing doing researches on how to fix it, and also considering one new backend with the same (probably) performance but with a real API, easier to control and to avoid bugs.

- non-unicode characters perfectly supported (edit for my previous post)

Nice.

- youtube works OK (exceeds my expectations to be honest). Was unable to try all the features due to lack of options menu.

If you tried all options there, those were all the options. theres no way to implement everything at once right? and we started with a basic set, and now we will include a little more as needed by the users. Sort the search results, maybe comments, choose the downloads folder and maybe feeds will be probably implemented.


@slip
Slip: did you try at once letting the " loading" go for more time? (I know it sucks ) but for us there's a huge difference between hanging and taking 5-10 minutes.

Do you have a huge card? We are planning to include a "advanced" mode that turns off the library integrity check in the beginning, making it even faster to start up canola, but then make sure to refresh manually your library if you did any changes.

@iliaden:

Iliaden, thanks for clarifying that. Just to make sure, we have been so crazy about the optimizing the scanner, that in our last benchmarks we did we were already really fast. If I'm not mistaken, but I will not take this as official, as the others can have some bugs with out " test media " card, created with some of the files sent by you, LMS was considerably faster than the other scanners (in the other media players).

This goes back to the point that we need a reliable media playback engine. Unfortunately in our estimatives it would take 3 months to have one working with the performance near mplayer (based on libXine) but this would end with our problems related to this.

At least we are trying the possible : find the bugs even on other softwares and sending patches to try to fix it, the other projects have been great on talking to us, and this will improve over time.

Anyways, again thanks for a very detailed feedback

Marcelo