Kino2 0.4.3 Series Released Options

[maslovsky]

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Version 0.4.3c is out!

Version 0.4.3c is yet another small update, including:

* Fixed broken Double Key functionality

Version 0.4.3b is out!

Version 0.4.3b is another small update, including:

* Better handling of OGG Vorbis tags

Version 0.4.3a is a small update, including:

* Better scaling of movies, especialy small ones (less than 320x240)
* Always using direct rendering, so corresponding option is removed
* Added Software scaling option - scale movies to the screen size, performance is poor though.
* Updated smarp cropping algorithm

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Version 0.4.3 is out!

Please, report bugs at http://cacko.biz/cacko/bugs

New features:

* Support for the latest mplayer 1.1.5 and PXA270 video driver (aka bvdd) 0.4.0
* C3000/C1000/C3100 devices support
* Kino2 can now load and play play file, playlist, folder or URL when invoked from Documents
* Kino2 now supports command line parameter - file name, URL, folder or playlist can be specified
* Multi-key support - different fuction depending on number of Remote Control button clicks (double click)
* Playback position can be controlled with silder
* Dislpay album picture if present in playlist directory
* Added font selection for the main display

New options:

* Enable position tracking
* Enable suspend when paused
* Temporarly disable suspend when closing lid (on C1000/C3000/C3100)
* Grab keyboard during playback
* Software volume control
* Enable fade effects
* Enable audio autosync
* Enable precise MP3 seeking
* Volume step is user configurable
* Save current position in playlist and in file (only when autoloading)

New keys:

* Clear Playlist
* Add All to Playlist
* LCD off

Issues resolved:

* URLs are now properly saved and loaded with playlist
* Fixed problem with suspend options not being properly restored
* File was not selected with OK/Enter button on C1000
* Refreshing Qtopia screen after mplayer video playpack is finished
* Now kino2 is using much less CPU when playback position tracking is enabled

Misc changes:

* Terminating mplayer process when too many errors are received during short time period
* Made resample audio off by default
* Prompting to restart Qtopia when remocom master is modified
* Updated handling of blank LCD when switched off externaly
* Minor updates to the Preferences dialog
* Removed some absolete options

[maslovsky]

Performance of Zaurus is incmparable to your linux desktop. You can do a software scaling (add -scale 640:480 option to the mplayer) and see the difference.

-fs and -wm options enable hardware scaling in mplayer, which can only handle videos of "proper" sizes, such as 320:240.

You can also try to enable "Smart crop" iption, it may help.

[daniel3000]

Hello Maslowsky,

Performance of Zaurus is incmparable to your linux desktop. You can do a software scaling (add  -scale 640:480 option to the mplayer) and see the difference.

-fs and -wm options enable hardware scaling in mplayer, which can only handle videos of "proper" sizes, such as 320:240.

You can also try to enable "Smart crop" iption, it may help.

Thanks for the explanation, and especially thanks for the tip with smartcrop. It did the trick! Now I can view those videos full-screen without transcoding!

However, exiting mplayer caused kino and then even the QTopia GUI to not display some elements (missing buttons and icons). Even after exiting kino, the QTopia GUI is damaged. The remaining icons (taskbar icons) work. But the system tray and start menu etc. are gone.

Restarting kino shows kino correctly. QTopia still damaged.

Tapping where the start menu icon should be brings up the start menu, so function of the GUI is still intact, only display is damaged.
Clicking away the start menu again shows half of the start menu icon (where the menu overlapped the icon), so according to my GUI knowledge <g> it seems to be a missing screen refresh or something like that.
Yes: "Rotation" from the start menu rotates the GUI and all items are shown again.

Just FYI, nothing critical as it seems, but maybe it is a problem of kino.

Thanks!
daniel