Kinoma media player

[rainfreak]

I actually uninstalled the free version for the sole reason that I didn't like it scanning my card everytime I loaded up the app. I have an 8GB card filled with music, videos and pictures. It took the free player almost 15 minutes to scan everything, of which I really would not have chosen for it to scan anything but (maybe) the videos.

If you change that functionality, as many have suggested, I will try out the app again. As for you coming here and trying to help the users here that are having problems, I appreciate it. Really, we all do, trust me.

[jmorton10]

Originally Posted by rainfreak

I actually uninstalled the free version for the sole reason that I didn't like it scanning my card everytime I loaded up the app. I have an 8GB card filled with music, videos and pictures. It took the free player almost 15 minutes to scan everything, of which I really would not have chosen for it to scan anything but (maybe) the videos.

If you change that functionality, as many have suggested, I will try out the app again. As for you coming here and trying to help the users here that are having problems, I appreciate it. Really, we all do, trust me.

I managed to get the program working today (sort of). The scanning feature definitely has to go, or at least let you exclude directories from it.

I also have an 8 gig card full of movies/mp3's/pictures/gif's for the GPS programs/weather panel icons etc etc etc etc

Not only did it take probably 20 minutes to scan that, it then added 1890 files to the picture directory so that is useless. Then, I shut the program down & put the phone in a cradle. Ten minutes later I restarted Kinoma. I had not touched the phone at all, but it still insisted on ANOTHER scan which probably took three minutes. Now three minutes may not sound like a lot, but it's an eternity when all I wanted to do was view a youtube video.

I will say this: this program plays youtube videos as well as my quad core home setup..........(it is WAY better for that than any other option)

This will really be a killer app when they get all the bugs worked out.

~John

[Charles@Kinoma]

John,

Originally Posted by jmorton10

In the "my media" directory there is a "pictures" folder. When I open that, the program has cataloged & is displaying every single windows icon/all the HTC Home weather icons/all the individual tiles of the HTC Home digital clock I'm using etc etc etc...

Can you email me (charles@ our domain) the exact path to the folder they're using? Apps should not piggyback on user folders for resources, but we can work around that.

Thank you!

-- Charles Wiltgen

[jmorton10]

Originally Posted by Charles@Kinoma

John,


Can you email me (charles@ our domain) the exact path to the folder they're using? Apps should not piggyback on user folders for resources, but we can work around that.

Thank you!

-- Charles Wiltgen

Thanks Charles, I sent a screen print of the storage card open in an ActiveSync window on my laptop to your tech support. That will give you guys an idea of all the content. \Storage Card\Program Files\MarsWare is the weather panel directory, but there are eight other program folders on the card also (+ a dedicated movie folder & a music folder)

~John

[rainfreak]

@Charles

Basically, please tell your developers that we need to be able to manually choose our folders, be it all, some or none. Then we are all happy campers... and spending money on your product.

Win - Win if you ask me

[jmorton10]

Originally Posted by rainfreak

we need to be able to manually choose our folders, be it all, some or none.

I have been playing with Kinoma on & off now that I have it at least half way working. I have decided that unless I can turn off the scan totally I will be unable to use this awesome program.

The scan is an absolute deal-breaker unfortunately. I had saved an awesome youtube video (a live StevieRay Vaughn clip) as a favorite in Kinoma & wanted to show it to my Wife.

Tonight, I had my phone sitting in a cradle on my kitchen table & was in no great hurry so I started Kinoma & was waiting out the scan to show her the video. The problem is, 40 minutes later it was still scanning & the Wife had gone out by that time.

Kinoma's support is very responsive & is working with me to correct this. I REALLY hope they provide a way to turn off the scan (which I have no use for whatever) because then it would be a killer app.

I was A/B ing Skyfire & Kinoma tonight for youtube & I can say there is no comparison, Kinoma blows away Skyfire for perfect youtube playback. The Kinoma youtube image is WAY better than Skyfire & it full screens the video's automatically as opposed to trying to get it right with Skyfire's awful zoom feature..

If I can have Kinoma work minus the scanning, I would delete Skyfire from my system & use Opera Mobile & Kinoma exclusively.

~John

[copper rs]

the interface is really nice, but like everyone else has said, its useless without being able to pick folders to scan. my media folder in kinoma is full of icons and other things that aren't photos. keep working on it and i would buy the software for $20. $30 is too much when you consider almost everything competing with kinoma is free.

[evobe]

anyway, i thought i'd put in my two cents since no one has spoken about any other problem except the storage card issue. i've been using the program for a while and i think it's great. i'm also having the storage card problem but it just started happening so i'm not too annoyed just yet.
one thing i did notice immediately was the problem with podcasts. i'm a podcast fanatic and not only can kinoma not read xml lists but you can't program in your own feed urls.
has anyone else noticed this issue or am i missing a step?

[caleb02]

since this thing scans out entire phone and storage card i am now more then ever convinced that this is a promgram from the government and riaa to combat piracy in media. I see no reason for it to allways scan everytime you start the program to "find" my media.

[copper rs]

if it was created by the government it wouldn't work as well as it does...