On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 19:43 +0100, Florian Boucault wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I believe a not too intrusive way to display metadata would be below the
> current preview. Transition wise, the preview could shrink a bit after a
> couple of seconds to make space for metadata text that could fade in.
> What do you think?
>
> Florian
>
>
> El lun, 07-01-2008 a las 10:24 -0800, Kevin Fox escribió:
> > On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 18:58 +0100, Philippe Normand wrote:
> > > Le lundi 07 janvier 2008 à 18:39 +0100, Patrick Dessalle a écrit :
> > > > Hello,
> > > >
> > > > I don't know if it's the right place to ask question but I don't like
> > > > IRC ^^
> > > >
> > > > I've tested Elisa (ubuntu gutsy packages) on the computer hooked on my
> > > > TV but there are a few limitations that make it quite unusable for me
> > > > (the main issues being the subtitles handling
> > >
> > > I believe we still support subtitle files (but not vob sub yet). Just
> > > name your sub file like the video file, but with a different extension,
> > > depending on the sub format (srt or txt in most cases).
> > >
> > > > and the fact that file/folders names are truncated which isn't very
> > > > useful when trying to watch videos of some tv show since you don't
> > > > always get to see the season and episode number).
> > >
> > > Well, there's no easy answer to your concerns at this point. The ideal
> > > solution would be to not cut labels but make them horizontally animated.
> > > Eg, make them move from left to right back and forth, slowly.
> > > Unfortunately that's not supported yet in Pigment. :(
> >
> > Not a very general solution. When you have a lot of similar things like
> > 4 seasons of some show, you need more data then a scrolling filename can
> > easily provide.
> >
> > I've been working a bit on a MythTV plugin for Elisa, and kind of run
> > into the same problem. I think a better solution would be to split the
> > screen into two parts. The top half or 2/3rds would be the way things
> > are now with the icons/preview, and the bottom part would be the full
> > file name, or if there is metadata, the metadata provided by the plugin.
> > stuff like:
> >
> > The Simpsons - Episode 3
> > Channel: 4
> > Date: 12/04/2007
> > Description:
> > Lisa gets a ....
> >
> > See (
http://www.mythtv.org/mythimages/conflictresolution.png) for a
> > screenshot of Myth. Think, the bottom half of that screenshot, with the
> > top half being elisa's file chooser.
> >
> > Kevin
> >
> > >
> > > > Other than that, elisa is a very promising project and one of the big
> > > > selling point for me, compared to mythtv and freevo, was that
> > > > installing the deb and running it just worked with HAL support and
> > > > without too much conf file tweaking.
> > > >
> > > > I'd like to check out if the current SVN version would be something I
> > > > could use on my TV (meaning the bugs that annoy me are fixed) or if I
> > > > should create new tickets or try to write some plugins myself.
> > > > When I run elisa.py
on a "fresh" update (i.e. without any ~/.elisa
> > > > folder), the programs fails to load a component. I've tried each and
> > > > every *.conf from the sample_config folder and they all fail on some
> > > > exception at some point. Usually something about a frontend that can't
> > > > be created.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Can you give more details please? What component is failing to load. If
> > > you all dependencies to be installed, install the "elisa-extra" package.
> > >
> > > > By the way, on hal_service.py, line 62, on my version of dbus (0.82.4
> > > > from Debian sid), I don't have a property "message" for DBusException,
> > > > I've modified that line (you don't use the value of message anyway) to
> > > > let elisa fail at some later point.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Hmm ok, can you give us the traceback you got? We'll find a proper fix
> > > for it, for all versions of DBus deployed around ;)
> > >
> > > > My question/suggestion is basically: does elisa run straight out of
> > > > svn (meaning i messed up somewhere) or is it normal that it doesn't
> > > > work on my machine ?
> > > >
> > >
> > > For now, I advise you to wait the release to use Elisa "in production".
> > > We are fixing some issues still, there will have some activity in SVN
> > > this week :) If you're using Sid, the official Elisa package will be
> > > updated shortly after the release.
> > >
> > > > Thank you for having read this awfully long email,
> > > >
> > >
> > > You're welcome, thanks for the feedback :)
> > >
> > > Philippe
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