mms 1.1.0 rc5 released

[arj]

We have a new release candiate out for 1.1.0. Hopefully we should now be pretty close to 1.1.0 final. There's quite a large number of bugfixes in here but also some nice new features like the ffmpeg based thumbnailer and notification area.

Upgrading is as always high recommended.

Download:

http://mms.sunsite.dk/download-1.1.0-rc5.html

Changelog:

Features:
---------
- Added ffmpeg based thumbnailer
- Support finger scrolling when using touch input
- Add the ability to control playback using buttons in audio playlist
when using touch input
- Add notification area and clock plugin that will display the time in
notification area
- Don't just show mp3s on cd as one big list. Use folders as from hd.

Changes:
--------
- Lots of bugfixes and features to python plugin
- Make python plugin work on 64 bit
- Make mms's gstreamer plugin work in conjunction with jurassic
versions of gstreamer
- Fix DXR3 zoom
- mms doesn't check return code of inotifytools_watch_recursively()
- Fix two bugs in search
- Don't show current folder in playlist search as it's not right and
you can't choose anything anyway so it's just confusing
- Make up/down in search results work with keyboard enabled (mouse
movement would reset it)
- Fix mms crashes on exit
- Make go back to startmenu more consistent
- Weather: Make data-positioning (Low, High) translation dependend
- Fix wget wrapper for filenames with ' in them
- Don't cut of the last genre when sucking imdb information
- Make sure MMS doesn't choke when data is copied into a folder it is watching
- Fix crash entering a disc with not recognizable files
- Make movie playback (divx) from cd work again
- Better error checking in lyrics downloading
- Fix choosing cover with mouse
- Fix alsaplayer skipping tracks when starting playback
- Make back work with mouse as in all other modules
- Fix Search in Playlist - awfully slow
- Fix parsing/escaping strings used to create DB queries.
- Fix: Unrecognized long command line option crashes mms
- Fix: OFDB bug in downloading happy feet
- Another fix for unloading plugins

Other:
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- Adds a new -d switch to library tools so that user can make them
scan only selected directories.
- Makes output related to inotify clearer
- tells user *why* it can't add an inotify watch
- prevent multiple instances of mms (or mms + mms-xxx-l ibrary) from
running at the same time.
- Provide more flexibility for Feature Plugins
- On action radio stations now starts playing but are not added to
playlist. They can still be added using secondary menu.
- Add a method that external plugins can use to play music
- Disable movie collection by default and improve the description of
it, so that people will read the description and understand what it
is before enabled it
- Update Danish, German and Polish translations

[acmelabs]

...

Excellent,
very impressive history for this RC!

Regards,
Andreas

[Mikka]

cool thx for this software

[parti02]

thx

gruß
Dirk

[Uatschitchun]

For those of you who want to know what revno's are included in rc5, take a look at:
https://code.launchpad.net/~anders-gnulinux/mms/1.1.0-stable

[Uatschitchun]

Here you find the download-statistics for 1.1.0-rc5 debian-packages

http://www.prodeia.de/wordpress/2008/05/07/downloadstatistics-for-mms-110/

[arj]

Nice, does that mean you now have a blog?

[Uatschitchun]

Yeah, I switched over my hp to wordpress a good time ago now .. but as you might see, content is missing
There's not so big chance to aquire customers over inet, so it's very low on priority! Personal contact is what matters in my business ... so having a blog is one thing, getting me to know personally the other

[mau_gram]

HI arj,

I install your program, but still i can Not view any mms video. I'm running Hardy 8.04 64 bit.
Any suggestions ?

Thanks

Mario[/b]

[arj]

mms is "my media system". It's not related to mms videos. Does that answer your question?

[acmelabs]

HI arj,

I install your program, but still i can Not view any mms video. I'm running Hardy 8.04 64 bit.
Any suggestions ?

Thanks

Mario[/b]

Read this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multimedia ... plications
Especially the part about video and mpeq4.

The crappy video my Nokia 3110 is able to record, can only be played back here w/o sound, the sound codec seems to be something proprietary. You can transcode it with e.g such tools here, but you never know what really is in this avi-container. It should be mpeg4 but you'll never know. First try to play back your MMS-Video with xine or mplayer. If it works, MMS can also play it back.
If I play back my MMS-Video, MyMediaSystem cores here. (didn't filed this bug yet)

Hope, you aren't confused too much now.

Regards,
Andreas

[mau_gram]

Thanks Andrea for your contribution. With my old MS XP and MPlayer 9 I was able to play the video on www.tg5.mediaset.it but now that I'm only on Ubuntu I can not see my favored programs anymore.
I tried many thinks, but with no success at the time.
I'm running 8.04 Hardy with NVIDIA FX card.

Thanks for your Help.

Mario