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cannot uninstall beta3 - libecore0-evas and some other lib are "required for another app"

how do i force uninstall or bypass this?

Download and install the Canola2 Cleanup tool. Run it. It will clear your install without deleting those dependencies as well. Then you're ready for a fresh install.

i second the previous comment a page or two back about making the clock am/pm i despise 24 hour clocks lol

Got up this morning saw an update for Canola 2.0.0-beta5-maemo2 via application manager and updated Canola2. (Thought gosh that was quick with a patched update)

I also noted and downloaded the update of Canola-Tuning to 0.3.0-maemo2.

Feedback information:-

I have deleted my Canola Album Covers and Video thumbs using the following commands as user in xterm.

I switched off the device to hard-reboot. I then re ran the cover and Video tuning options to update my covers and video thumbs.

I have also forced and update to my media in Canola2 via the settings Media Library, Refresh all option in UI. (Assumed this would correct any tagging problems in addition to finding new AV Material)

I don't yet see an improvement with the latest tagging "box" problem.

I note that *.png images are still not being visualised in the top level thumbs view.

I am finding it impossible to get a video thumb for each of the various sample movies provided with a purchased N810 when using the Video thumb tuning option. Works for "Anna Abreu - End of Love at 3.34 mins " but never for "Freestyle at 35 secs" I always seem to get blank black frames?

I have tested a number of times and I can see frames are randomly captured from the videos, just wonder why in some videos the capture is currently almost exclusively a black frame? Perhaps Canola attempts to take an frame capture too late, as many of the samples are very short in length i.e. below 60 seconds?

By comparison for same video media, Media Box does better and has a much improved hit rate of scanning for frames of the video for the video thumbs which contain an image from the video, rather than a blank black frame?

Hope above information is helpful

I do like the increase in the Battery and Wi-Fi icons
I feel that the overall responsiveness of Canola2 in all areas of use is improved, switching video playback within UI, the overall response feels very much improved.
I really do like the clean UI interface of Canola when compared to other players that are available on the NITs. Keep up the good work

What algorithm is used for selecting a video thumbnail? Is it looking for a key frame after some type of interval? If so, the black frame may just be a keyframe.

Rdcinhou : I think so, it goes to a random frame between 15-something. When integrating this we will try to improve it a little bit more, to avoid the black frames.

Just wanted to add a comment about the new picture zoom capabilities in beta 5. Really great feature which works well in finger or stylus mode, the ability to zoom all picture types and the speed of the scaling up/down is very neat. (Well thought out option as usual Handful)

The zoom feature is handy for our RSS photcasts, when only the smaller thumb images are being downloaded via the RSS feed (i.e. from Flick)

Handful added a demo of the photo zoom, along with other recent added features in this blog post http://www.marceloeduardo.com/blog/d...-please-update

Hi Mike,

Leo is the one behind photo (of course Gustavo is the guy behind our efl) so I would that this is another team thing : )

BR

Marcelo

Yes, but behind or in front of every good team, there is always a good leader

Thanks "Canola team" for all your efforts, its showing in a very clean and well thought out media application for our Internet Tablets.

Looking forward to the UPnP Network Media streaming capability when its finally available for Canola 2, as I cant wait to see what little gems "the team" have added to the capability since it was provided with Canola1

I hope we do not disappoint you on this ))))))) we are really rushing to make the last builds, and our goals are clear :

Final podcast : we do want to be the best option for podcast fans. So :
-> smart queue (add more info)
-> better organization on first screen (Latest's episodes, Current Downloads
-> figure out a way of doing a good schedule downloads

Upnp: at least a pretty good client

Developer support : at least the basic, then I will handle to miguel the task of creating a good addition of widgets to aid developers

Theme creation support : we have plans of a webserver / client application don't know yet.

of course iron bugs out in all components

Let's see how much we can accomplish that... But I cannot lie, I'm pretty proud of the team that I have the pleasure to be part of think they can really do it nicely, we just need time!

BR