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Jaguu

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F-A-N-T-A-S-T-I-C (new thumbnailing in 156)
« on: March 28, 2006, 05:30:20 pm »

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14. NEW: When in thumbnail modes, a thumbnail size slider appears in the view header.
15. Optimized: Changing thumbnail sizes is much faster.

F-A-N-T-A-S-T-I-C :)
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Re: Media Center 11.1.156
« Reply #1 on: March 28, 2006, 05:54:46 pm »

F-A-N-T-A-S-T-I-C :)


Yeah, this is really sexy !!!
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Re: Media Center 11.1.156
« Reply #2 on: March 28, 2006, 06:08:10 pm »

14. NEW: When in thumbnail modes, a thumbnail size slider appears in the view header.
15. Optimized: Changing thumbnail sizes is much faster.

F-A-N-T-A-S-T-I-C :)

Another big thanks from me on these!
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Re: F-A-N-T-A-S-T-I-C (new thumbnailing in 156)
« Reply #3 on: March 28, 2006, 07:35:02 pm »

yes!! well done!
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Re: F-A-N-T-A-S-T-I-C (new thumbnailing in 156)
« Reply #4 on: March 29, 2006, 11:38:36 am »

Brilliant - and dont forget

7. Changed: Media Center builds higher quality thumbnails. (use Options > Tree & View > Thumbnails > Erase all thumbnails... to force MC to rebuild)

I posted about these three things last night. I guess I wasnt the only one. Of course we cant always get what we want, but this kind of responsiveness is the best thing about MC. Thanks Matt and the team.
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Re: F-A-N-T-A-S-T-I-C (new thumbnailing in 156)
« Reply #5 on: March 29, 2006, 12:12:21 pm »

Agreed. This is absoultely great. Just a small bug:

If used with rectacle thumbs (DVD covers), the slider defaults the thumbs to go back into square settings...

Thanks
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Re: F-A-N-T-A-S-T-I-C (new thumbnailing in 156)
« Reply #6 on: March 29, 2006, 12:23:23 pm »

Agreed. This is absoultely great. Just a small bug:

If used with rectacle thumbs (DVD covers), the slider defaults the thumbs to go back into square settings...

Thanks
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Sorry to go OT with this, but are you storing DVDs on disk to watch through MC? Or just cataloging them with MC? If you're storing them on disk, in what format are you doing this? I was contemplating setting this kind of thing up at some point, but wasn't sure if MC could do it.
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Re: F-A-N-T-A-S-T-I-C (new thumbnailing in 156)
« Reply #7 on: March 29, 2006, 12:43:19 pm »

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Sorry to go OT with this, but are you storing DVDs on disk to watch through MC? Or just cataloging them with MC? If you're storing them on disk, in what format are you doing this? I was contemplating setting this kind of thing up at some point, but wasn't sure if MC could do it.

Yes, you can now copy DVD properly to disk. The only tricky thing is that you have to copy/rip the complete DVD with all the extra stuff. Selecting the main movie is not enough. Because I was always selecting just the main movie, I always had troubles until we could figure it out. And the last time I tried you had to import from within MC11.1. Importing from Windows Explorer did not work.

Personally, I rip most DVD's (only those I own) with DVD Decrypter and convert them to DivX. I use Auto Gordian Knot to convert to DivX. Next step will be to convert old personal video tapes to DivX. But I am too lazy for that right now.
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Re: F-A-N-T-A-S-T-I-C (new thumbnailing in 156)
« Reply #8 on: March 29, 2006, 01:00:55 pm »

well, I use Nero and hardly ever rip more than just the main movie as i usually dont care too much about the "bonus" stuff.

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Re: F-A-N-T-A-S-T-I-C (new thumbnailing in 156)
« Reply #9 on: March 29, 2006, 02:47:46 pm »

Personally, I rip most DVD's (only those I own) with DVD Decrypter and convert them to DivX. I use Auto Gordian Knot to convert to DivX. Next step will be to convert old personal video tapes to DivX. But I am too lazy for that right now.

Same here, only I encode to XviD instead of DivX.  They are basically equivalent but XviD is free (both as-in-beer and as-in-speech), and is generally considered to produce slightly higher quality video at similar bitrates.

I generally encode my DVDs (and my recordings off of my BeyondTV drive) to XviD via AutoGK to 1024MB (1 GB) per 2 hours of video.  They usually look beautiful (I'd say about 5% of the time I need to re-encode them with a higher bitrate) and they take up FAR less space than storing the raw DVD data.
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Re: F-A-N-T-A-S-T-I-C (new thumbnailing in 156)
« Reply #10 on: March 29, 2006, 05:08:40 pm »

Just a small bug:

If used with rectacle thumbs (DVD covers), the slider defaults the thumbs to go back into square settings...


I'm seeing this too. Can it be fixed?
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Re: F-A-N-T-A-S-T-I-C (new thumbnailing in 156)
« Reply #11 on: March 29, 2006, 09:48:09 pm »

I noticed that the thumbnail size slider only changes the horizontal spacing beside size, why not change vertical spacing too ?
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Re: F-A-N-T-A-S-T-I-C (new thumbnailing in 156)
« Reply #12 on: March 30, 2006, 10:02:10 am »

A fantastic interface - I love it!  Thanks!
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