Newest Kinoma Play auto rotates

[rbrown13]

I just purchased kinoma and I have to say it is great, I haven't played with any of the other players out there but this one is awesome.

[imneveral0ne]

yeah, i cant wait till i hopefully can get the full version :'(

[tek818]

kinoma is great, however hijacking all of the file associations is just not kosher!

[jmorton10]

Originally Posted by tek818

however hijacking all of the file associations is just not kosher!

I agree, especially when it does it without even asking permission.........

~John

[doomer]

I think I lot of folks are blown away by the slick interface. But if you are serious about your media, then this might not be for you. I own Kinoma, and have installed it and then removed it a few times. I think I do this to remind myself why I don't like it. If I could install it and it not interfere with other applications and associations, I'd leave it on. I really like to look and feel of the interface. But you have to make sacrifices to use it, and those just aren't worth it to me right now.

While I can only speak for version 5.0.70, but here are some of my problems with it.

- Choppy playback of some video types.
- Robs file associations
- Can't watch specific folders. (ie, scans my DVDProviler Portable folder, 1000+ thumbnails!)
- Unsupported Audio Codec when playing back videos shot with my Touch Pro
- Touchy auto-rotation (hair trigger!)
- No A2DP/AVRCP (?)

Over all it just has very limited control left to the end user. It needs these options tabs added:

Audio/Video Codecs
Watched/Scanned Folders
Auto-Rotation Sensitivity
File Associations

I keep hoping for an update to come along that will turn this into the 'killer ap' I've been hoping for, but it's not there yet. I am hopeful that the folks over at Kinoma will conquer these issues soon.

-D

[gianthobbit]

Originally Posted by themystx2

Will the Kinoma update FINALLY let us browse our files by folder? I find it easier to find files this way with how my files are organized.

True that, i have some mix cds and my browse by artist is so messed, I would prefer the option to search by folder.

Also the album art is terrible, almost not worth having its so bad quality, is this just that way in the free version.

Its easy enough to change the file associations so that not that big of a deal but they HAVE to fix the annoying auto rotation, you sneeze and it flips back and forth 3 times.

The other things that not kinomos fault but rather orb's is that it streams my video very poorly to my xbox, tversity does a much better job of this so I have to have two servers running all the time...