Thread: [ANNOUNCE] Alpha release of Open Media Player
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2013-08-06 , 15:24
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Originally Posted by tuxsavvy View Post
If I may add one feature request, that is to scale down the video (which the user is playing on the screen) to whatever size for hildon-desktop sets it as a background task. In other words, when say a user is playing and watching a video, all of the sudden they receive a message or some other notification. They want to be able to switch out of the Open Media Player and see the list of programs running in the background whilst Open Media Player is still playing that video. Some may recall this feature was once available in the Media Player (standard) but they have made it to pause the video once the user tries to switch task. This feature was also notable in the N900 teaser/trailer video where the user was playing the trailer video "9", switching out of the Media Player (stock) and then into hildon-home. Open Media Player can almost do the same thing except when viewing in the list of programs running, the video tends to be cropped instead of scaled down.
Do I understand correctly that the stock MP used to act exactly like in the N900 teaser? Can anyone else confirm this? Playback in the background is still possible even today, but the video is cropped, not scaled: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaGit6wWiCM. Perhaps it is possible to implement if the geometry of minimized windows is available somewhere, but I have never heard of it.

Originally Posted by tuxsavvy View Post
I just streamed a music from internet radio using Open Media Player, first time doing it and I realised there was no way to set the buffer size. Maybe another feature request (if possible) would be great!
OMP uses MAFW as the back-end to play all media and as far as I know it does not expose that for configuration.



Originally Posted by sixwheeledbeast View Post
Any chance of having better laid out portrait support in car view?
Uhm, there is portrait mode for the car view? If everything works correctly, it should be locked to landscape.



Originally Posted by artpra View Post
Checked and it`s exactly the same, no improvements.
It seems that OMP on my device is locked down the first time it is started, but only when started in the way which I mentioned in my previous post and does not seem to occur in the version attached to that post (based on 2 reboots with standard 20130804 and 2 with modified).

I went through diffs once again, without noticing anything especially suspicious, but there is still hope in brute force. If you are willing to dedicate some time to it, we could try bisection. There are 22 commits between 20121220 and 20130321, so I would provide 23 builds (that extra 1 as sanity check) and you would track down the commit which introduced the bug. 23 might not sound encouraging, but with binary search you should be able to find the problematic commit in about 5 attempts.

If anyone wants to give it a try on his own, I have added release tags to the git repository, so the versions are easy to locate.
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