Faster and better mediabrowser

[fredricz]

Hi, I don't dislike the design on the mediabrowser, but I think it's to many images and worthless code to load. It could be built with better code, less images and better design.
I'm not saying that my suggestion is the best, I just threw something together.

What do you think?

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[zip]

Hi, I want to do something like that, yes. I have the wireframes, but waiting for 1.3 to be released before looking at the design. But basically I agree, I want to go with minimal design (think Win8 Metro) and tablet-ready UI.

I like your designs, are you a professional?

[fredricz]

Hi, thanks.
I work as an IT-consult but i've worked as a webdeveloper before. Photoshop, CSS, HTML, MySQL and PHP. But it's great that you are planing to upgrade the mediabrowser, it would be awesome.

But do you develop the mediabrowser yourself or do you have any help?

[zip]

Normally it was designed by designcrowd.com and delevoper by a contractor. If you're up for it PM me and we can sort out some deal for you to design/build the next version

Hello!

I don't mean to hijack this thread but since I didn't want to just create a new post for this and this one seems to be fairly fresh and I couldn't find a list of features that are currently under development (or at least on a wish listI, I figured i'd post here!

Thanks a lot for the great work/support for this awesome piece of software, I am using it on a headless debian server and I love it! (been a user for over a year now, and a "pro" registered for a few months)

Here is a list of ideas for the next review of mediabrowser: (in no particular order, except the first one!)

- HTML 5 to play on Apple devices (please pretty please , although not sure if this is easily feasible)
- accept cookies so you don't have to re-login when you refresh the web page
- Search/sort capabilities
- select first letter to jump to media starting with it
- enter the first 3 letters of media and show the matches (ajax type search)
- Allow multiple users/passwords to share media with family/friends
- Possibility to share only partial library (i.e. for kids, only select kids movies etc...)
- Possibility to display metadata information without starting the stream (i.e. click on the title instead of the poster)
- Easily see watched/unwatched status (especially for tv series)
- Start next unwatched episode easily from the Series page
- Serviio console built-in (for admin type users)
- Auto focus on the user/password box to input without having to select it first (tab navigation also)

That's it for tonight, i may come back and edit if i have more ideas
Thanks a lot!

dels

[spudy12]

I believe this would be a good feature suggested by Xmantium here

@zip, found this article about not using cookies, instead this nifty javascript - http://www.jstorage.info/

http://www.iliadraznin.com/2012/04/cook ... ge-jquery/

Would be cool just have the "remember me" tickbox like ServiiGo's login

Also, as I know the ipad / iphone are going to be supported in the 1.3 release, prehaps the ability to detect the device being used, and have a separate mobile optimized site for mobile devices.
This is easily done using javascript, css or php and is fairly easy to implement.

  Code:

 example of php
<? if (
 stristr($ua, "Windows CE") or
 stristr($ua, "Mobile") ) {
 $DEVICE_TYPE="MOBILE";
 }
 if (isset($DEVICE_TYPE) and $DEVICE_TYPE=="MOBILE") {
 $location='YOUR-MOBILE-SITE.com/index.php';
 header ('Location: '.$location);
 exit;
 }
 ?>


more info here and here
If you use this, it may be possible to force it to use the ipad (mobile) profile in the console if detected the mobile site being used

If either a mobile version of the site was made, or the normal site updated maybe this could come in handy for the iphone/ ipad - ability to detect 'swipe' gestures for scrolling through pages
Many ways to implement this discussed here. The best one I have found from my testing is Jquery mobile here although this is html 5 orientated.

Finally, be able to change the audio language of a film from the mb video interface, although I'm not sure if flow player needs to support it and / or does already.
Just checked and I think its a feature request here (sorry for cached copy, their site seems to be down)

I also think the most important improvement would have to be the mediabrowser. A lot of my friends want to make use of it, but it isn't cross-platform compatible.
Would be awsome if it would also work on the iPad, iPhone etc. This way people won't need an Application for the Android and iOS devices.

Hello!

I don't mean to hijack this thread but since I didn't want to just create a new post for this and this one seems to be fairly fresh and I couldn't find a list of features that are currently under development (or at least on a wish listI, I figured i'd post here!

Thanks a lot for the great work/support for this awesome piece of software, I am using it on a headless debian server and I love it! (been a user for over a year now, and a "pro" registered for a few months)

Here is a list of ideas for the next review of mediabrowser: (in no particular order, except the first one!)

- HTML 5 to play on Apple devices (please pretty please , although not sure if this is easily feasible)
- accept cookies so you don't have to re-login when you refresh the web page
- Search/sort capabilities
- select first letter to jump to media starting with it
- enter the first 3 letters of media and show the matches (ajax type search)
- Allow multiple users/passwords to share media with family/friends
- Possibility to share only partial library (i.e. for kids, only select kids movies etc...)
- Possibility to display metadata information without starting the stream (i.e. click on the title instead of the poster)
- Easily see watched/unwatched status (especially for tv series)
- Start next unwatched episode easily from the Series page
- Serviio console built-in (for admin type users)
- Auto focus on the user/password box to input without having to select it first (tab navigation also)

That's it for tonight, i may come back and edit if i have more ideas
Thanks a lot!

dels

Some awsome suggestions, really agree on most of them.

[fredricz]

Well, responsive layout is the way to go. Doesn't matter what screen resolution you are using, it fits.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responsive_web_design



...btw if anyone would like to try my design at the top, http://serv.fredricz.com/serviio/

[zip]

I've just added MB designs to vote for in the betatester forum. Got some pretty good submissions and need help picking the best one So if betatesters, please head over there and vote.

[fredricz]

Is there anyway to become a beta tester?

[zip]

Is there anyway to become a beta tester?

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[siriusblack]

Hi Fredricz

Just tried it out http://serv.fredricz.com/serviio/

I like the concept you have done

It works good

Nice job

Has it ever been requested for mediabrowser to include a start time? At least for me, each time I go watch something that I previously started, it starts again from the beginning and I have to wait......

Just really starting using it since 1.3 and iOS support.

Has it ever been requested for mediabrowser to include a start time? At least for me, each time I go watch something that I previously started, it starts again from the beginning and I have to wait......

Just really starting using it since 1.3 and iOS support.

You should be able to use the "time line" at the bottom ... just make a note of the time you stoped and set it to start at that?

Has it ever been requested for mediabrowser to include a start time? At least for me, each time I go watch something that I previously started, it starts again from the beginning and I have to wait......

Just really starting using it since 1.3 and iOS support.

You should be able to use the "time line" at the bottom ... just make a note of the time you stoped and set it to start at that?

Yes, but then I still have to wait until it renders to that time (as it seems to start to re-render each time from the start)...so for a 1080p 10GB x264 movie, it can be quite awhile until it renders to say 1hr 30min......

So would there be a param to pass to ffmpeg to start at a certain time?

Has it ever been requested for mediabrowser to include a start time? At least for me, each time I go watch something that I previously started, it starts again from the beginning and I have to wait......

Just really starting using it since 1.3 and iOS support.

You should be able to use the "time line" at the bottom ... just make a note of the time you stoped and set it to start at that?

Yes, but then I still have to wait until it renders to that time (as it seems to start to re-render each time from the start)...so for a 1080p 10GB x264 movie, it can be quite awhile until it renders to say 1hr 30min......

So would there be a param to pass to ffmpeg to start at a certain time?

I run 720p 3.5 gig x264 mp4 videos and it lets me pick a time anywere foward/back almost instant .... say less than 3 secs ...

whats your server running serviio setup ... ie os - ram - processer - ect?

I will try a large 1080p vid but im guessing its going to be the same ... will update when ive done it!

[zip]

Has it ever been requested for mediabrowser to include a start time? At least for me, each time I go watch something that I previously started, it starts again from the beginning and I have to wait......

Just really starting using it since 1.3 and iOS support.

You should be able to use the "time line" at the bottom ... just make a note of the time you stoped and set it to start at that?

The timeline doesn't work on iOS the same way as on Flash, due to the supported file format. Apple's HLS format is used and the player can only seek within the already transcoded part of the video.

Thanks Zip ... thats sorted that

Well in reading the ffmepg docs, there are options for this, guess just not implemented...c'est la vie.....

[zip]

In ffmeg yes, but the iOS player can only seek in the available (ie trascoded) stream. Via the Flash player Serviio gets a new seek position and sends stream starting there.