Testers Needed for my Media Centre Program, MediaFox™

[Keeper]

MediaFox™ 1.02 Beta

Hey Guys

Do you have a few Movies?

Would you like to help me test out MediaFox, a Media centre I'm working on?

Here is what it looks like

And here is the Link to the Program itself (+- 4MB)


1st run Tutorial:
- Run Media Fox.exe
- Add your Root Movie directory, eg: "c:\Movies" as a Media path
- Click Accept

That's it!

Notes:
- Your movies need to be in individual Folders. ie: each movie must be contained in it's own SubDirectory / Folder
- Please make sure your Movies' Folder name is named appropriately, so Covers & Info can be downloaded. ( eg. "The Matrix" is correct, but "The_Matrx(1999).ENG_Axxo_Sub" is wrong )
- When playing a movie, there are no controls to forward/rewind yet - only Pause(left click) and Exit (right click)

-If you get "Convert.exe" Errors, you need to install the Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable (1.7mb)

Please give me feedback

 

[RazedInBlack]

Will check it out!

So this will catalog movies stored on your HDD?

 

[Keeper]

Yes - but it's more than that

it downloads Covers & info automatically and you browse much like you would with an i-phone

 

[AnomalyNexus]

Needs bigger screenshots.

Not at my PC atm, so can't test.

 

[ToxicBunny]

This is cool to get a locally developed app like this.

Does it cache the covers and info? if so in what format?

 

[Keeper]

Bigger Screenshot:
http://i49.tinypic.com/33wxqq8.jpg


@TB: It saves the covers and info to the movie directory itself - so if you browse with "Thumbnail view" enabled, you will see the movie cover in Windows Explorer as well

you can also open the Info file from windows if you are browsing from there.

Covers are in jpg, Info in TXT

 

[gifs]

I just downloaded your programme and Avast detected a Virus in it: Win32:Sality

 

[ToxicBunny]

Ok.. can I start a wish list before I even try the app?

 

[gifs]

Ok.. can I start a wish list before I even try the app?

Number 1: Remove the built-in virus.

(or am I getting a false positive????)

 

[sn3rd]

Nice looking interface. Works, kinda, in Ubuntu through wine

 

[waynegohl]

I'm keen to give it a go.

 

[Keeper]

it's not a virus - it's definitely a false positive.

I have no intention of releasing viruses to mybb users - if you don't trust me, don't use it. easy.
most of the forumites on mybb know and trust me though


i'll try to use different compression algorithms on the exe to lessen the false positive reports when the beta is over

 

[Keeper]

Nice looking interface. Works, kinda, in Ubuntu through wine

Really!?

awesome!

thanks for testing that, i Don't have ubuntu

edit: oh, and what doesn't work ?

 

[gifs]

it's not a virus - it's definitely a false positive.

I have no intention of releasing viruses to mybb users - if you don't trust me, don't use it. easy.
most of the forumites on mybb know and trust me though


i'll try to use different compression algorithms on the exe to lessen the false positive reports when the beta is over

Thought it might be a false positive, I will try extracting the file and see if it is still picked up as a virus.

 

[waynegohl]

i think i broke it as all i get is 3 colours of black.

 

[gifs]

I turned off my AV, but nothing happens when I run Media Fox.exe.

The process shows up in the task manager momentarily, but that is all.

This on Windows 7 64-bit

 

[Keeper]

i think i broke it as all i get is 3 colours of black.

what do you mean "3 colours of black" ? you just see three colors of black when it goes into fullscreen mode?

please explain more what happens :erm:

 

[Keeper]

I turned off my AV, but nothing happens when I run Media Fox.exe.

The process shows up in the task manager momentarily, but that is all.

This on Windows 7 64-bit

can you run it in winxp Compatibility mode? (Right click on the MediaFox.exe and set it to XP Compatibility, and on the update.exe as well)

and thanx for testing on win7 for me, i only have XP)

 

[waynegohl]

ok i downloaded the file and opened it. it opens with the fox picture on the bottom right of my screen then asks to add media, a button on the right hand corner and a button on the top left of the screen. when i say add media all i get is a screen with a greyish colour on the top of the screen and another greyish colour box on the bottom corner right, where the logo was, and the rest i black.

 

[sn3rd]

Really!?

awesome!

thanks for testing that, i Don't have ubuntu

edit: oh, and what doesn't work ?

The interface works. Adding files works too. But playing them doesn't. Not sure how you're playing them? Are you launching the default media viewer? That could be the issue.

Also, getting covers crashes it. After starting up again, I get a Directsound issue, and I need to delete + re-extract to run it again.