Month: May 2006

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My Media System

Rage

So by accident I was looking through Rasterman’s blog and found out that he has been developing a menu system for movie playback using the E17 libraries.

I downloaded the demo movie and was fairly impressed with the nice effects. So off I go to download the thing to evaluate the good and bad things about it. It turns out to be pretty snappy on my machine but also really buggy. It is probably at the same stage bug wise as mms was 2-3 years ago. I think the lesson I learned was that you can do some cool stuff with gstreamer and that using the E17 could be cool, so I’m definitely going to look into that.

Other than that it was a cool tech demo of some of the things E17 is capable of and it that regard it did a fantastic job.

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HTPC My Media System

The future of HTPCs

So I was thinking today about what the future of home theater PC’s and where mmsv2 (or actually the next big version) fits into this.

I’ve come to the conclusion that what is really missing currently is integration. Your HTPC just stores the media and doesn’t really interface with the rest of the world. You don’t want to use your remote control to tag and organize your image collection. You want your HTPC for presentation, sort of like when you do a presentation. It should be slightly more advanced but not much. Instead the advanced jobs should be done on a regular PC and the synced with the HTPC.

This brings up the next question. How do we get there? I think firstly the interface should be designed with this in mind and then for the most used application, such as F-spot, a plugin could be written in that app to synchronize with mms.

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Personal

Back again

So I’m back in Denmark. It was very hot on that little island and it seems the heat has followed me all the way back. Anyway I have my first exam of this semester tomorrow so I haven’t been doing much else for the last couple of days than reading up on that material. I wanted to apply the no-X SDL patch (with some modifications) for mmsv2 but haven’t found the time yet. After the exam tomorrow I’ll probably get it done.