Media Center
Quick impressions
Good - Slideshow, really like the auto pan feature
Bad - could not figure out how to get it to shuffle the pictures
Theater mode - really like this, I plan to eventually use a Tablet Ultraportable PC and use possibly this program to interact with all my media, but a number of challenges exist. When viewing media like pictures or video, seems to default back to the regular media interface whenever I exit the screen.
Bad -Exit current view in Theatre view takes me back to the regular interface not the Theatre view. And once back in regular mode only way back to video or slideshow is ctrl-5 (should be user settable hot key as well) and then hitting full screen button (not easy, logical)
When you go back to theatre view the slideshow or video shows in the bottom right hand side, logically we are conditioned by interface conventions that clicking on it will bring it back up, but no you have to hit the full screen button. from that point the windowed view icon/button works as expected, and from the windowed point the full screen button works as expected...very nice, but if in the theatre view and the slideshow or video is playing in the bottom..hitting the full screen option...kicks you back to the regular view not the theatre view.....very confusing interface.
Also on the regular screen, you have no real indication that any media is playing when this happens except for the audio if you have it playing, yet the slideshow is still going on....if you go back to theatre view
Just needs a simple back option and a button to exit the viewscreen without going back to regular media center, really want to take advantage of touch screen and media capabilities.
Need ability to toggle how the media is viewed. Really should be a right click option for disk location, file type, etc. I am sure most people will have a preferential view and would clean up the interface alot.
I look at the primary interface as my setup screen, where I locate every thing and set everything up (would be nice if their was an edit mode - then could move files around easily drag and drop, delete and the like, actually manage the media on the machine, rather than just look at is and play it.) Really like that you have at least included a locate function external to do some basic media management, but would be really nice if it was all part of the program and just a toggleable edit mode.