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posted on 4-10-2007 at 11:04 PM
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eJukebox 4.55 Released
Here is the eJukebox 4.55!
v4.54 Updates:
-internal video player now shows up borderless over the now playing cover art
-you can now drop video files from explorer onto the eJukebox playlist to add them to the database.
-click the video to show the window border then you can move or resize it.
-go full screen by right clicking or double clicking the video when using Vista
-Internal video player now sizes correctly over now playing cover...even on eJukebox startup and after closing the video window
-now playing cover slide in-out animation now disabled when loading a video
-Resizing the cover/playlist will now resize the internal video to match the cover size and position
-video window now moves with eJukebox window
-right clicking the video no longer shows its window border only left click does
-songlist titlebar now displays "Searching..." when a search is being performed.
v4.55 Updates:
-added "Include Video (mpg, avi, wmv)" checkbox option to database update window to scan folders for video files and add them to the eJukebox
database.
-Tools menu's "Add new music files" now shows dialog so you can check 'include video' option.
-fixed nocover.png transparency not working in v4.54
-EJ Skin updated
-various other tweaks
v4.55 Refresh (April 12th, 2007 5:32pm EDT)
-adds 'Video' menu item to Tools button so that you can list all your videos
To Upgrade to v4.55: Shutdown eJukebox and download and run THIS
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posted on 4-11-2007 at 12:04 PM
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Hallo audiosoft,
I just tested the new version.
Here's a little feedback:
Critical:
I got a CTD while playing a video and activating the fullscreen-mode (with resolution-change).
Video: Aspcet-Ratio
On screen-resolution 1024x786 everything works quite fine.
Above that, I got "coneheads" in the videos.
I can compensate this, when I minimize the cover-window.
Cover:
I use a transparency png-cocover-image.
In the new version it doesn't work right.
I think you set some sort of black cover-background.
Old:
New:
See the difference?
Beside this everything works quite well.
Greetings
mchawk
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posted on 4-11-2007 at 04:33 PM
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Great job Audiosoft, I’m surprised you were able work out these issues so quickly. The video playback option is now truly awesome!!
The only addition I’m now looking forward to in regards to the video playback, is the option to scan folders for videos.
I also have a minor quibble; I like to put the year the video was released in brackets next to the video title, however when adding a new video to the
database it seems to ignore the brackets & anything between them.
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Audiosoft
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posted on 4-11-2007 at 06:48 PM
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mchawk,
Thanks for letting me know about the nocover.png losing transparency with 4.54. I have fixed that problem in v4.55. I am not sure how you are getting
the coneheads because for me the video is preserving the aspect ratio. It should show black bars above and below the video.
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posted on 4-12-2007 at 11:38 AM
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Audiosoft,
It seems that I've already seen the latest parts of your EJ skin somewhere else?  Your skin is a nice melting-pot!! 
Otherwise I still would need to add a few videos to my eJukebox..
Thanks for this update.
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Audiosoft
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posted on 4-12-2007 at 07:44 PM
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Pirk,
Ah you noticed! I really like the shape of your forward and back arrows so incorporated a modified version of it into EJ. Hope everyone likes it. BTW
I also moved the songlist header image/bar down a couple pixels with v4.54 so the first row of pixels finally lines up with the artistlist
scrollbutton and is in the same position as the albumlistbar when topped. So with v4.55 I modified the header images a bit for EJ and made it so the
blue line fades left to black since it lines up good now.
Next I think a new background image is need for EJ when not tiling a cover image in the songlist background. Any help with that from anyone would be
appreciated. The less time I spend on skins the more time I can spend on improving everything else and adding new features. Next I am going to add a
'Videos' link to the Tools button and maybe the homepage that will list all your videos in the songlist / carousel.
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Audiosoft
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posted on 4-12-2007 at 08:40 PM
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Thanks Pirk! That works pretty good with EJ after resizing it and making it a jpg. Think I will include it in the next update.
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posted on 4-12-2007 at 08:58 PM
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That's great Audiosoft! So maybe we will have some new features in eJukebox, sooner! like.. Several album covers in the Playlist, or a new Homepage? 
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Audiosoft
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posted on 4-12-2007 at 09:31 PM
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Pirk,
Not sure how multiple covers in the playlist would look/work? The homepage is the next major improvement but I am still trying to figure what I want
to do with it.
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Audiosoft
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posted on 4-12-2007 at 09:35 PM
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v4.55 Refreshed/Updated
OK. I have updated v4.55 and refreshed the v4.55 downloads so that eJukebox will now show a 'Videos' item on the Tools menu so you can list all your
videos.
So if you have v4.55 and the 'Videos' item is not showing up on the Tools menu please re-download and install the v4.55 upgrade if you want that
feature.
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posted on 4-12-2007 at 09:51 PM
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| Quote: | Message original : Audiosoft
Pirk,
Not sure how multiple covers in the playlist would look/work? |
I think multiple covers in the playlist could work in order to have several "up next" songs with a Next button when in autoplaymode.. I mean like
the current up next area, but increased tenfold!
When in playlist mode: just a image for each album (the first album's song in the list). Easy!
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homepage is the next major improvement but I am still trying to figure what I want to do with it. |
OK, it's a pleasure to hear that.. I'm sure you will be inspired!
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Audiosoft
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posted on 4-12-2007 at 09:54 PM
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so you are saying have it show really tiny images next to the songname in the playlist?
How would the autoplay picks be layed out?
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posted on 4-12-2007 at 09:59 PM
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Good idea, bigger images would be welcome!
Each pick/image would have its own button to skip it, possibly..
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Audiosoft
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posted on 4-12-2007 at 10:04 PM
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i am confused...where are bigger images going to fit?
So you are saying it should replace the time with the cover art when in playlist mode?
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posted on 4-12-2007 at 10:08 PM
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The list is scrollable (well currently it's pages..), so I think that would always fit! Just remember the Junk's mock-up..
Maybe the additional images could appear on the left side, replacing the small "play" icon. The time must remain, otherwise Demnos will kill me!!!
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posted on 4-13-2007 at 01:22 PM
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As a long time Video jukebox owner here are my impressions solely from a Video perspective. The "add videos" option is welcome. For me there will be
quite some work though. The videos are not all named in the "Artist-Title" convention eJ uses. Some are just "IMAX Shuttle Launch" which sorts as
a "I" artist. But it does add them all! Playback seems good too, although getting it to continue playing while I try to move it across to the second
monitor hasn't worked yet. Maybe a hardware issue. I will try it later on the real Video Jukebox machine. I am playing with another machine now. If I
mess up the Video database, I am sunk. With videos spread out over 4 hard drives any one of them dying will kill the whole thing too. I also have
quite a few "Compilations" already set in eJ. Any new rebuild will lose all that work. Too bad Videos don't have "Tags"! But this is still a
great improvement and a great deal of fun to play with.
Thanks, Audiosoft.
Don
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posted on 4-13-2007 at 04:18 PM
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Would it be possible to set the video to play full screen by default in the now playing cover art window, regardless of what the album cover size has
been set as? The reason I ask is that I like to play the videos as large as possible, whereas I prefer my album art to be a bit smaller. You could
still have the option of resizing the video.
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posted on 4-13-2007 at 06:49 PM
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Audiosoft
I am not sure how you are getting the coneheads because for me the video is preserving the aspect ratio. It should show black bars above and below
the video. |
Sure you have a 4:3-picture? It's not to see on first view. Let me demonstrate it. Yesterday I recorded some videos from hit24. Here is the video in
ejukebox:
And now the video in WMP11:
See the difference?
The videodisplay in eJukebox is square.
In the normal-WMP is 4:3. They way it should be displayed.
I'll tried it as DivX-avi (4:3 - 1:1 pixel) and the original via Hauppauge WinPVR-card redorded mpeg2-stream (4:3 - 12:11 pixel) and theres no
difference.
These are normal PAL-Parameters for video.
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posted on 4-13-2007 at 07:18 PM
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mchawk,
What happens when you size the windows media player program window to be the same shape as the eJukebox video window/cover? Does the windows media
player program preserve the aspect ratio or do you get the coneheads effect if you stretch the full WMP program window a certain way?
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posted on 4-13-2007 at 07:28 PM
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Congrats for your avatar, mchawk!
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posted on 4-13-2007 at 07:33 PM
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audiosoft,
yes, i can.
There a 2 ways I get the correct aspect-ratio:
1. Using a screen-resolution of max. 1024x786. In this case the covers and the videos are very small and displayed correct. I use a screen-resolution
of 1152x864 because I get bigger (and better ) covers.
2. I can manually toss the video-screen to from sqaure to another aspectratio near 4:3.
In this case I see parts of the cover behind the video, the aspect-ratio is also not exact and I must rezise it evertime I start eJukebox.
I hope this helps a little. I'll go on trying and search the web about WMP and aspect-ratio. On doom9.org theres a hint, that WMP cannot adapt the
pixelratio...
Maybe this is a NTSC/PAL-Problem. They have different pixel-ratios for 4:3-display-ratio... Not even speaking of 16:9.... Hmmm......
@pirk:
Thanks... Just a little self-portrait.
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Audiosoft
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posted on 4-13-2007 at 07:40 PM
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Maybe there is something different about the video files you are using? All my videos are showing up over the cover with black bars above and below
when the aspect is not 4:3 which is what it should do.
If you right click the video in eJukebox and select Full Screen the aspect works fine because your screen is 4:3... right?
Play the video from the screenshot in the actual windows media player program and then stretch the window around....do you ever see the conehead
effect?
Anyone else having a problem with video aspect ratio?
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posted on 4-13-2007 at 08:17 PM
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Heureka: I got it!
O boy! I got the solution:
It's a problem with the graphiccard-driver.... and I solved it. Yahoooooo!
O.K. I got a Nvidia Geforce7800 GS and use the Nvidia-standard-driver (version: 93.71)
In the driver-panel there's a video-overlay-setting dialog.
In this dialog I theres a slider choosing between the settings "Vk" an "Vg". Whatever this means...?
If I choose "Vg" everything is A-OK with the aspect ratio in eJukebox.
Problem solved. Red Alert canceled.
BTW: Even with the setting on "Vk" the videos in the WMP-Programm works with all kinds windows-stretching and in fullscreen very fine with the
correct aspect-ratio.
I don't question - I'll be happy that the new setting worked.
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Audiosoft
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posted on 4-13-2007 at 08:24 PM
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mchawk, ah the video card driver...now it makes sense. Glad you found the solution!
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posted on 4-13-2007 at 08:28 PM
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audiosoft, yes.
But we should keep this in mind.
Perhaps there are some other Nvidia-graphiccards out there with "Vk" as default-setting.....
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posted on 4-14-2007 at 12:59 AM
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I have a Geforce 7900 and it doesn't have that setting. But I want to move the video over to the right hand monitor of my two monitor setup. There is
a setting for "Full Screen Video" If I enable that to "auto select" it gives me both the video on the right at full screen, and the album cover
window too.
The video on the right comes in at all sizes. I need a check box like winamp had that says "force aspect ratio" with that off it always fills the
screen. In Media player now, with the TV set th HDTV 720P, the videos take up as much space as their native resolution. If the video is 320X240 it
takes up just a portion, where one at 720 fills it up. Anyone know of a setting to keep Media player from forcing the resolution of the file and let
is fill the screen?
Thanks!
Don
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posted on 4-14-2007 at 10:16 AM
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Excuse me, May I interrupt..
I've just downloaded 4.55. (I uninstalled 4.53). Everytime I try to run 'Jukebox_v4.55_Setup.exe' I get a pop-up box telling me this
"An error was encountered while preparing for extraction. Please contact your software provider for help"
I downloaded the install file again but still the same. (I can send a screenshot if u like)
Anyone else out there experience this?
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posted on 4-14-2007 at 10:21 AM
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OK OK It's alright now!
Don't know why it was doing that...
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posted on 4-14-2007 at 01:26 PM
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Dyno Don
I have a Geforce 7900 and it doesn't have that setting.
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Yes you have.
You have to disable the new nVidia-control-panel and use the classical view.
The Forceware-Driver are all the same for Geforce.
But in the meantime I'm not sure, that this setting ist my problem. After I wrote my posting yesterday the "coneheads were back". Regardless, the
setting in the driver.
As it were too late I shut down my PC.
After a restart today afternoon is everthing OK again.
At the moment I'm out of ideas....
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The video on the right comes in at all sizes. I need a check box like winamp had that says "force aspect ratio" with that off it always fills the
screen. In Media player now, with the TV
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This checkbox doesn't exist in WMP. As far I checked the Internet there is no solution.
Concerning Videos there are many variables:
Video-resolution
Video-aspect-ratio
Pixel-aspect-ratio (Think of DVD anamorph-video)
A DivX-Video should have a pixel-ratio of 1:1 and a physikal 4:3 or 16:9 video-resolution.
A PAL-DVD has a pixel-ratio of 16:11 for an 16:9-video.
NTFS has another pixel-ratio for videos - not to mention the different frame-per-second-settings.
And one fact I found ist, that WMP does not use the pixel-ratio - like winamp, PowerDVD or WinDVD,... do.
Normally WMP is the last program I use to display videos.
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just a portion, where one at 720 fills it up. Anyone know of a setting to keep Media player from forcing the resolution of the file and let is fill
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There is no setting.
If you want to use 2 Monitors: Use winamp.
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posted on 4-14-2007 at 04:03 PM
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For now I guess you are right. But the feature to add videos automatically will be great...once I rename a few. The Video Jukebox has not had it's DB
rebuilt ever..and it has to be almost two years old now. We live on borrowed time..
Don
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