Notices

Hi gallen : can you please enter the channel at irc? all devs are there, so you can solve our your doubts with easy.

server: irc.freenode.net
channel : #canola

also : there's a new README file there... may help you!

Marcelo

I asked in that channel 3 times yesterday and nobody answered...

I'll check out the new readme

Hei Tarkam : Actually what you said, the remote control is one of our targets since Canola 1, as we dreamed about the contextual interface : car, home and pmp.

The thing is there are a huge numbers of server side solutions, and most of them are not so well prepared for the real end user.

That's why we chosed UPNP. Our goal is to not only stream from, but also control and in the end, even serve music to your desktop pc then goes to your music system.
So imagine that you came from work, with a new file on Canola, then you can play it on your internal sound system without even need to copy the file.

The problems /drawback : Sonos is a great idea, I have been looking / checking since the launch, but they work because they are selling the whole solution, and even connecting to a music store. For us with just a client.. is really hard to trust a lot of servers, and users are kind of not so "used" to them. Having PS3s, or Windows media with UPNP can help but still complicated : /

Marcelo

Jgallen : the guys are in lunch time, wait a little bit I will check in the physical room

Marcelo

jgallen23,

I'm putting together a brief howto on plugin installations that will be available in my blog shortly. I'll let you-all know in 15 minutes or so.

There you go, here you can find more info on how to run Canola2 plug-ins on the desktop:

http://blog.eduardofleury.com/archives/2008/04/24/

Let me know if that helps.

Best regards,
Fleury

fleury - awesome, thanks!

When launching in windowed mode and having the window say, half way down the screen, the utube plug-in plays video in full screen off center. Checkout the screen shot below.



When the canola window is at 0,0 (x,y) selecting full screen in utube works fine.

Hope that helps.

Oh, and not wanting to complain too much but the audio with the utube plugin is way out of sync with the video.

Baloo : Please, can you check the version of Mplayer you have? there's a known issue with the mplayer embedded mode, Ithink you will need to update in the testing build also to get ride of those.

We will see this displacement.

Br

Marcelo