Kinoma media player

[dschoenike]

Originally Posted by jmorton10

At that point, the program would not complete a scan period. It would scan for 20 minutes or so & then freeze up on a different file every single time. ~John

Wow, thats not good. I was just thinking of what i have on my card. 5 avi movies (tropic thunder/dark knight/step brothers/day of the dead/diary of the dead) about 25 songs and about 100 pics of my wife and kids. The rest are programs like tomtom and other typical stuff. Outta 4gigs, i have 50mb free. I got real nerdy a little while ago, and used a stop watch on the kinoma scan time, and it averaged 11 seconds. It always ends on my "getspc" folder. i have no idea why.? I guess im just telling you what i have, to give ya an idea of what its working right with. But from what it sounds like from the kinoma guy, there's no real rhyme or reason to the horrible scanning issues (unless i missed an explanation?) hope they get it working for ya soon. dschoenike

[Charles@Kinoma]

Originally Posted by copper rs

my media folder in kinoma is full of icons and other things that aren't photos.

That's bad, and with each update we're adding exceptions for sloppy Windows Mobile apps that are storing resources in places other than reserved application folders.

We need your help. Can you please contact our support folks, or email me personally at charles@ our domain with the full path to the application icons or other resources you're seeing? Just choose Media > Get Info from the menu pod and scroll down to Address.

Friday's update has workarounds for several apps, and we have another update coming our very soon -- the sooner I can get that info from you the better.

Originally Posted by copper rs

i would buy the software for $20. $30 is too much when you consider almost everything competing with kinoma is free.

Kinoma Play is really a new type of app, and it's deceptively deep, so I recommend checking out the quick-start guide and this list of 101 Kinoma Play features and tips. There's also several reviews that go into quite a bit of depth about what makes Kinoma Play different.

Instead of giving us $20, Kinoma FreePlay is probably right for you. You can also get the full Kinoma Play for free by "checking out" with (i.e. taking advantage of an offer from) TrialPay.

-- Charles Wiltgen

[Charles@Kinoma]

Originally Posted by vwman18

I love this program. I mostly use it for streaming media via Orb and various podcasts. My biggeste complaint? NO BLUETOOTH SUPPORT!!

Kinoma Play supports A2DP (Bluetooth audio streaming) if your phone does, so we'd love to know more.

(Kinoma Play doesn't yet support AVRCP, the Bluetooth remote control protocol.)

-- Charles Wiltgen

[stifiling]

I finally checked it out. this program is pretty nice. replaces a few progs i'm using and as we all know the least installed to the phone the better. for me it's replacing, tcpmp, pocket player, youtubeplay, and htc album.

one thing i wish it could do though is...like windows media player on the pc, have your whole mp3/wma/wav etc. library in one column...and as your browsing through, when u wanna hear a song 'next'...double click it and enqueue it as the 'next song to play' in your playlist. like creating a playlist as you go.

don't know of a ppc media app that could do this, but that would be pretty nice.

[bruceo]

I tried Kinoma freeplay about a week ago and was not impressed at all. UI seemed very clunky. It took a huge amount of program memory to run. It scanned everi image on my mogul and had no way to select folders to view organized images or music. I could go on and on about my dissapointment. It has a lot of promise with all the features it is trying to tackle, but seems a long way off in reaching even basic logical functionality.

[caleb02]

Originally Posted by copper rs

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

maybe thats what they want us to think, even a broken clock is correct twice a day.

[vwman18]

Originally Posted by jmorton10

Can you stream Live TV from ORB through Kinoma??

I don't need that feature as I have a Slingbox, but I use ORB & have a TV tuner in my laptop & for some reason it works through IE but not through Kinoma.

~John

Sorry, I've never used that feature - I don't have a TV tuner in my PC. I can't get any channels OTA where I live so I never bothered.

[vwman18]

Originally Posted by Charles@Kinoma

Kinoma Play supports A2DP (Bluetooth audio streaming) if your phone does, so we'd love to know more.

(Kinoma Play doesn't yet support AVRCP, the Bluetooth remote control protocol.)

-- Charles Wiltgen

What information do you need? I desperately want this to work, so I'm all for troubleshooting.

I'll give an example of how I use the phone. I get the phone and my Pioneer DEH-P7900BT head unit paired (the Pioneer supports both A2DP and AVRCP). Then, get a stream playing from Orb or the web played by either TCMP or Windows Media Player. I now get music played through my car stereo. Maybe that's the AVRCP magic? I have no idea.

[meekell]

Originally Posted by evobe

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?

From the Main Menu bring up the Player options and choose "Open URL."

[bruceo]

Originally Posted by meekell

From the Main Menu bring up the Player options and choose "Open URL."

What has been the best podcast manager you have found? I have tried several and the best so far is the FREE beyondpod