[A100/A110] New autoplay feature, testers needed

[accident]

(01-24-2011 03:29 AM)rolandhii Wrote:  @accident, the autoplay feature was added to OEM models since 090204.

There's oem's still offering firmware downloads? mine hasn't for awhile now.

[rolandhii]

I think most of the OEM still get their firmware update after 090204.

[accident]

Sorry, I didn't mean to take this thread off topic.. I'll move this to pm

[jluc2808]

(01-24-2011 03:29 AM)rolandhii Wrote:  @accident, the autoplay feature was added to OEM models since 090204.

(01-23-2011 10:36 PM)jluc2808 Wrote:  ok tested with my HDX1000, work fine with the 2 files autoplay and autoplay_bg.txt
my first reports:
plus
- easy to implement
- work with photo and music
- interesting feature
minus
- all the photos are very pixelise
- need to be stopped to browse or do anything else
- shuffle mode is a simily suffle (sequence is always the same, even if it's not ordrered like inside the folder)

questions /enhanced:
- how could we restart this feature without rebooting the PCH
- is there a way to make a real shuffle
- is there a word to exclude some subfolder or extension (don't want to display _theme_)
- is there a parameter to unpixelise
- is there a way to skip photo (forward) rather than music
- is there a parameter to tell what transition beetween photo

@jluc2808,
1. The photos you meant are the albumarts or the photo slideshows?
2. Browsing while playback music is done in 200 series only, not implemented in 100 series.
3. Do you get the same random order everytime you boot up?
4. Currently you can do this if you have installed telnet.
5. Please refer to #3 and #4 above.
6. Currently no easy way. You can manually add the photo folders you want to show in the txt file.
7. Please refer to #1 above.
8. You can do this by playing music in background instead of photo in background, i.e. swapping the autoplay and autoplay_bg.
9. No, IIRC.

when i speak about pixelisation it's about photo slideshows
(the equivalent slideshow isn't so pixelise when i run via MusicJukebox)
ok it's another sequencewith another boot , i just tried with a stop and skip back order
- the skip back order return to slideshow and rerun it with the same order from the beginning - i will tell you if a reboot will do the same thing
- sorry i don't understand what is available with telnet ?
- ok with swapping photo and music

[rolandhii]

@jluc2808
1. Sorry but I don't know what is MusicJukebox.
2. This autoplay feature only generate the playlists, it will not re-shuffle the playlists during playback. If you are playing music using 101217 firmware, you can have the real shuffle by pressing REPEAT button during audio playback.
3. If you have installed telnet, you can re-play the autoplay generated playlists by the following command:

Code:

echo "/tmp/autoplay.htm" > /tmp/gaya_bc

4. If you want to re-generate the playlists, use:

Code:

/opt/sybhttpd/autoplay

[awdkoers]

Nice, i added in the first post that it works as well for HDX1000. I hope more people can test the autoplay feature and comment in this thread.

[jluc2808]

(01-24-2011 09:46 AM)rolandhii Wrote:  @jluc2808
1. Sorry but I don't know what is MusicJukebox.
2. This autoplay feature only generate the playlists, it will not re-shuffle the playlists during playback. If you are playing music using 101217 firmware, you can have the real shuffle by pressing REPEAT button during audio playback.
3. If you have installed telnet, you can re-play the autoplay generated playlists by the following command:

Code:

echo "/tmp/autoplay.htm" > /tmp/gaya_bc

4. If you want to re-generate the playlists, use:

Code:

/opt/sybhttpd/autoplay

@rolandhii
Musicjukebox is an application which generate a jukebox for music or photo like Yamj for video - static html which allow to start , play , shuffle, stop playlist with photo or photo with music
this application use mono wrapper with href instruction like documented in sysbas music or photo mono player.

just in example what is generated is like :

PHP Code:

href="file:///opt/sybhttpd/localhost.drives/HARD_DISK/HDX1000/Music/Alicia%20Keys/Alicia%20Keys%20-%20Songs%20in%20A%20Minor/playlist.jsp" pod="2,1,file:///opt/sybhttpd/localhost.drives/HARD_DISK/HDX1000/Music/PhotoJukebox/playlists/slides_AllSlides_C200.jsp" /> 


just to say with href instruction using mono wrapper photo aren't so pixelised

i have telnet installed , i will test both command tomorrow - OK tested and work fine - this enforce my next demand - include this feature in a command which is allowed with the standard interface

for the both command i think this could be good feature to include (2nd then the 1rst one) in an html page or another program (cgi, ....) and assign a TVID to start anytime it's needed, so the autoplay doesn't need a reboot to start ?

i understand you are using Mono wrapper as player (which is the standard player inside sysbas firmware) do you thing using MPD as background player, which allow to browse while the player is running ?

[jluc2808]

@awdkoers

i don't have this bugs:
I have to test it again but it looks like all photos are displayed in landscape (lying down) while the same pictures show in portrait (standing up) using the normal photo browser.

landscape and portrait is OK for me


Edit : does this feature run on C200 ?

[rolandhii]

No, this is for 100 series only.

(01-25-2011 11:58 PM)jluc2808 Wrote:  @awdkoers

i don't have this bugs:
I have to test it again but it looks like all photos are displayed in landscape (lying down) while the same pictures show in portrait (standing up) using the normal photo browser.

landscape and portrait is OK for me


Edit : does this feature run on C200 ?

[jluc2808]

@rolandhii

ok thanks for the response , did you see my request : include your 2 telnet line in a script or htm or .. which could be run from A110 interface

[awdkoers]

Now i tested the orientation of photo's again. I chose 4 portrait photo's standing up. In the normal photo player the photo's are shown in portrait standing up. When pointing to these photo's in the autoplay_bg.txt, using autoplay all these photo's are displayed landscape lying down.

I hope there is a way to fix this.
I use the popcorn a lot more now to play music all day without the need to turn on the television.

[awdkoers]

I have updated the first post:
Autoplay is already implemented for OEM models since February 2009, OEM firmwares released after June 2009 already have this autoplay feature enabled.
So there is no need to use the latest firmware to enjoy autoplay.