discinabq 5 Posted December 5, 2013 Posted December 5, 2013 the app is ok. Need to be able to adjust stream quality. It seems to have trouble streaming from remote server on high bit rate 1080p mkv files.
Guy 7 Posted December 5, 2013 Posted December 5, 2013 Hi, liking the app so far. Purchased it right away. Just two things I have noticed so far. No genres appear in any collection? Privacy concern - User profile selection shows the last login time and date. For #2 can that be disabled? Lastly not listed because I know you probably want to get the core stuff out of the way first. Subtitle support coming eventually? Thanks.
7illusions 1249 Posted December 5, 2013 Posted December 5, 2013 (edited) Much better. Looking at about 700kbit/s according to the logs. No buffering at all. Great. I'll push it to store along with a fix for the Initial LandingPage / no connection combo. And, a little correction in the appdescription that enlighten people about the localhost restriction. Edited December 4, 2013 by 7illusions
7illusions 1249 Posted December 5, 2013 Posted December 5, 2013 Loving the play too feature from the app so I can play to my xbox, is there any way the stream can be handed from the app, in this case my surface, directly from media browser server to the xbox so the surface is not running 90% CPU along with the media server..? At the moment, no. Hopefully we'll be able to handle this on the serverside later on, but it's still just in a "pen and napkin"-state..
7illusions 1249 Posted December 5, 2013 Posted December 5, 2013 will this app work with a MCE remote? It's definetly not designed for it at, but we've managed to get some funtionality in there. You will have to download the trial to give it a go.
7illusions 1249 Posted December 5, 2013 Posted December 5, 2013 Hi, liking the app so far. Purchased it right away. Just two things I have noticed so far. No genres appear in any collection? Privacy concern - User profile selection shows the last login time and date. For #2 can that be disabled? Lastly not listed because I know you probably want to get the core stuff out of the way first. Subtitle support coming eventually? Thanks. Glad you like it. As for your questions: 1. Genres is on the todo-list. It's scheduled for next "major" release 2. At the current state no. Never thought of that. Will add it on the todo list 3. Yes, subtitles, and audio streams are scheduled for next "major" release.
discinabq 5 Posted December 5, 2013 Posted December 5, 2013 It's definetly not designed for it at, but we've managed to get some funtionality in there. You will have to download the trial to give it a go. sweet - this could take over my HTPC 1
7illusions 1249 Posted December 5, 2013 Posted December 5, 2013 (edited) the app is ok. Need to be able to adjust stream quality. It seems to have trouble streaming from remote server on high bit rate 1080p mkv files. Luckily, we've already thought of this. Just bring out the charms menu, click settings , general and then enable the "Transcode To Low Quality" - toggle swtich. It should solve the stuttering.. Edited December 4, 2013 by 7illusions
Counterfitninja 6 Posted December 5, 2013 Posted December 5, 2013 At the moment, no. Hopefully we'll be able to handle this on the serverside later on, but it's still just in a "pen and napkin"-state.. If you manage this I'm sold... (not that I'm not already)
ernstgot 17 Posted December 5, 2013 Posted December 5, 2013 I noticed that the actors photo doesnt bring up other movies or shows that they are in. Will that work soon?
Logos302 86 Posted December 5, 2013 Posted December 5, 2013 I would love to buy this app but am having problems. It insists that I'm in the United states, which I'm not, I'm in Canada.
discinabq 5 Posted December 5, 2013 Posted December 5, 2013 One feature request i would like to have is more control over transcoding and direct streaming for video and audio formats, is that possible? like allowing pass through dts, or transcode at 720p / 1080p etc.. sort of like the web app?
7illusions 1249 Posted December 5, 2013 Posted December 5, 2013 @discinabq Something similar to this will happen in a not to distant future. We still have some issues with direct streaming that we're working on, but it should be solved soon enough.. 1
gthrift 64 Posted December 5, 2013 Posted December 5, 2013 @@7illusions I am getting a lot of buffering when watching remotely, even with low quality turned on. I'm not sure if this is a bandwidth issue or a cpu issue. I can stream the same video through the web client without issue using the highest setting for that episode (480p). @@Tikuf is there a difference between web and client streaming when both are transcoding on the fly?
gthrift 64 Posted December 5, 2013 Posted December 5, 2013 I would love to buy this app but am having problems. It insists that I'm in the United states, which I'm not, I'm in Canada. Does this work for you?
discinabq 5 Posted December 5, 2013 Posted December 5, 2013 (edited) Luckily, we've already thought of this. Just bring out the charms menu, click settings , general and then enable the "Transcode To Low Quality" - toggle swtich. It should solve the stuttering.. Thanks for that! I had charmes disabled on my desktop - figured this would be in the upper toolbar upon right click. But yes, I am still seeing stuttering even on low quality. the remote server is a dual quad core Xeon 8gb ram on a gbit uplink.. my local link is a 50/10 and the latency is 30ms. Edited December 4, 2013 by discinabq 1
gthrift 64 Posted December 5, 2013 Posted December 5, 2013 (edited) Looking at the logs it looks like there is a big difference The web, when set to 480p is at around 500kbits/s while the Win8 app is at 1200kbits/s on low quality. Edited December 4, 2013 by gthrift
Lee 212 Posted December 5, 2013 Posted December 5, 2013 mce remote functionality added to this and i drop mbc like a hot coal (no offence!) . it works wonderfully with my touchpad, problem being the wife!!
7illusions 1249 Posted December 5, 2013 Posted December 5, 2013 @@gthrift I'll push another beta for you if you have time to compare the same file ones again with another setting?
Logos302 86 Posted December 5, 2013 Posted December 5, 2013 Does this work for you? yes it does. hmm wonder how it got changed to US. Thank you..
gthrift 64 Posted December 5, 2013 Posted December 5, 2013 (edited) Much better. Looking at about 700kbit/s according to the logs. No buffering at all. Edited December 4, 2013 by gthrift
Counterfitninja 6 Posted December 5, 2013 Posted December 5, 2013 Loving the play too feature from the app so I can play to my xbox, is there any way the stream can be handed from the app, in this case my surface, directly from media browser server to the xbox so the surface is not running 90% CPU along with the media server..?
Logos302 86 Posted December 5, 2013 Posted December 5, 2013 Unless I'm missing something there is no way to access any other collection Type other then Movies,TV Shows and music. What about Adult, Mixed Content? or is there a Media Content view that I'm missing?
swhitmore 781 Posted December 5, 2013 Posted December 5, 2013 (edited) Unless I'm missing something there is no way to access any other collection Type other then Movies,TV Shows and music. What about Adult, Mixed Content? or is there a Media Content view that I'm missing? You're confusing 'Views' with 'Collections'. Collections are user defined media libraries, like Adult, Stand-Up Comedy, Movies, etc. Views are aggregates of the type of media in your collections. i.e. all the movies in all of your collections, all of the TV Shows etc. Also, not all collection types have their own view. Some belong to other views. e.g. Home Movies belongs to Movies, and mixed will contain multiple media types. Edited December 5, 2013 by swhitmore
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