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30 day trial
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RE: 30 day trial
(June 8, 2012 at 12:30 pm)Moros Synackaon Wrote: Amarok is for playing music exclusively and XBMC is only good for deploying on a big screen.

Interesting that you lump two very, very distinct pieces of software together.

Dar's player is competing with the likes of:
- EVERY VIDEO PLAYER OUT THERE
-- VLC
-- Media Player Classic
-- Windows Media Player
-- iTunes (the Quicktime component)
-- Winamp (v3+ with video components)

Actually they have a very definite similarity, both being well-made, *free* media players that I enjoy using. If I had said WinAMP instead of either one, it wouldn't have changed the gist of my question.

What is Dar's Delphi media player going to have to make it actually worth spending money on?
"How is it that a lame man does not annoy us while a lame mind does? Because a lame man recognizes that we are walking straight, while a lame mind says that it is we who are limping." - Pascal
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#12
RE: 30 day trial
(June 8, 2012 at 11:22 am)Jaysyn Wrote: I'm curious Dar, why would I choose your player over any of the following?

Windows: WinAMP, Songbird, XBMC

Linux: Amarok, Audacious, Banshee, XBMC

Mac: iTunes

What is the hook?

First of all I wouldn't expect you to choose Hypercube over any other media player as I'm sure you could use more than one as each would have a different approach to handling your media files.

What I would like to think is that you would try Hypercube and really like it and enjoy using it. You'd really enjoy..
  • The way it works
  • Its intuitive nature and ease of use
  • Its design
  • Its plethora of interesting, useful and unique features
  • The powerful playlist editor which incorporates a preview media viewer
  • The ability to save practically every aspect of your viewing preferences such as Aspect ratio, Colour, Brightness, Audio, Zoom and Stretch etc. to the actual video you're watching so each time you play it those settings are resumed
  • The virtual editing where you can cut sections of a video out and/or only play certain sections and/or mute any part of a video you want and/or hide any part and/or speed up or slow down sections and/or add comments to any section (like creating your own subtitles)
  • The special attention given to watching video on extended displays such as H.D. televisions where all aspects of the video playing can be controlled from the playlist editor from your monitor without having to operate controls displayed on the T.V.
  • Features such as 'Unpause in' which allows you to setup a movie to start at a specific time. Especially useful if like me, you have a television in another room connected as an extended display. This way I can start the movie, pause it and then instruct Hypercube to 'automatically' unpause it in, say, 5 minutes allowing everyone to get settled without me having to go back upstairs and hit 'play'
  • Likewise the 'intermission' feature for long films where someone always says, about half way through, "can you pause it for a couple of minutes please?"
  • Shutdown Options that allow you not only to control what happens when the last file has finished playing such as shut Hypercube down, launch any file or even shut down windows itself, but also has a shutdown timer built in.
  • The ability to encrypt and password protect any media file so that it can only be played on Hypercube with the correct password. Very useful for shared computers where you have a video collection that you'd rather not be viewed by anyone else, if you know what I mean Angel

And many more than I haven't mentioned, or created, or even thought of yet.

In fact, anyone with ideas for 'interesting' features, don't keep them to yourself.

So, basically I'd like to think that you would want to own a copy, not necessarily because you want to replace any other media player, which of course you certainly could, but simply that you really enjoyed having it as a useful part of your media playing system Big Grin
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#13
RE: 30 day trial
Sounds pretty beastin', man.
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#14
RE: 30 day trial
That does sounds pretty neat Dar. I'm not aware of any media players with editing capabilities.

I still think you should include MilkDrop integration as well as something like Google Play's Instant Mix.

Will Hypercube be able to fetch lyrics & album art?
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#15
RE: 30 day trial
(June 8, 2012 at 1:29 pm)Jaysyn Wrote: That does sounds pretty neat Dar. I'm not aware of any media players with editing capabilities.

I still think you should include MilkDrop integration as well as something like Google Play's Instant Mix.

Will Hypercube be able to fetch lyrics & album art?

I'd love to add visualisations but it's a pretty big job. I'll certainly look into it though Big Grin
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#16
RE: 30 day trial
Turning off visualizations is the first thing I do with any media player that has them.

You mentioned a beta in the thread you linked to, are you going forward with that?

Some of the features you mentioned perked my ears up, as I like to learn guitar parts by picking them out of videos sometimes, and slowing and isolating sections is real attractive to me. Editing too, yum. Would love to get my little grubbies on a beta to mess with....

Also TB mentioned Mac, and thought I'd throw out (just in case) that the Dell Mini 10v notebook is eminently Hackintoshable (there are programs and walkthroughs available that make it dead easy for dingle, dual, with even triple boot Win/SnowLeopard/Ubuntu) and they are going on eBay for around a hundred bucks, if you want to get into a test platform cheaply. Sadly, they won't do Lion because they are not dual core. Forgive my explaining if this is old hat to you, but Apple XCode is free (as well as the iOs SDK) and can be installed and run on a Hackintosh, so really the only expense to get into developing would be the Mini 10v, if you were interested. If you do, though, make sure it's the mini 10 *v* and not the regular mini 10, which is a different computer and is not as Hackintosh-friendly. I have done the dual boot on a mini10v and installed xcode adn the iOs SDK, and everything works, though I haven't had a lot of time to explore it and I am a compete novice with development. I did all this 'cause I have a couple of ideas for iOs apps I'd like to make.

Anyway, if you have a beta available I'd love to try it, and I'll buy your viewer when you release it even if I hate it, cause software developers need to eat too...heh....
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#17
RE: 30 day trial
I give an alternate experience on the hackintosh issue.

Been trying to get Snow Leopard working on a Compaq NX6325. The fact I have to hack the ATAFamily driver to make it load the disk controller tells me that hackintosh is about as "easy" as getting Linux 1.0 working in a VM.

Consequently, I recommend the VMware Snow Leopard [Ultimate] torrents. At least they work from Day 1.
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#18
RE: 30 day trial
(June 8, 2012 at 12:56 pm)Darwinian Wrote: The ability to save practically every aspect of your viewing preferences such as Aspect ratio, Colour, Brightness, Audio, Zoom and Stretch etc. to the actual video you're watching so each time you play it those settings are resumed
Can settings be saved for all files in a particular directory? For instance, if I have a directory containing 24 episodes of a series, it's likely that they all need to be viewed under the same config. Would it be easy to have one file that applies to all videos with Hypercube?
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RE: 30 day trial
(June 10, 2012 at 3:14 pm)Tiberius Wrote:
(June 8, 2012 at 12:56 pm)Darwinian Wrote: The ability to save practically every aspect of your viewing preferences such as Aspect ratio, Colour, Brightness, Audio, Zoom and Stretch etc. to the actual video you're watching so each time you play it those settings are resumed
Can settings be saved for all files in a particular directory? For instance, if I have a directory containing 24 episodes of a series, it's likely that they all need to be viewed under the same config. Would it be easy to have one file that applies to all videos with Hypercube?

That's great Big Grin Keep em coming Great

Edit: How would you envisage that working. At the moment I'm thinking that you make all your preferences with the file that's playing and then simply apply all those setting to all the other files in the same directory and/or playlist.
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Yeah, that's how I envisaged it working too. Perhaps it would be good to create a library of all your preferences, so when you open a new video, instead of configuring it all again, you can open up all your previously saved preference options and choose one of those to save time. If I download a movie from the same source, even if they aren't related, I should be able to use a previous preference config.
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