Re: [Bino-list] wish list for future versions

[Martin Lambers]

Hi Frédéric!

On 10/05/11 16:55, Frédéric Devernay wrote:
> I gathered these bugs/features requests for Bino from a die-hard
> Stereoscopic Player fan (Pierre Meindre, from Stéréo-Club Français)
> [my remarks are within brackets - he's running 1.1.0 under Vista]:

Thanks a lot, such feedback is very valuable. To keep track of all these
things, I enabled the bug tracker on the Savannah project page:
<https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?group=bino>.

> - keyboard shortcuts should be accessible in GUI mode without having
> to click on the video subwindow [should be an easy-to-fix Qt focus
> issue]

This is now in the bugtracker.

> - parallax adjustment does stange things on borders in anaglyph and
> interlaced mode. When parallax is adjusted while the video is paused,
> the slider moves but not the value.

This is now in the bugtracker.

> - full-screen mode on two screens at the same time is not possible
> [does he mean having twice the same display, or having the left part
> on the left screen and the right part on the right screen - should
> the later case be fixed by using Equalizer?]

I think he means the latter case. This is a good way to get affordable
stereo projection based on polarization. I plan to integrate
multi-display support (Equalizer) into the GUI, with a few predefined
configuration files for common use cases such as this.

> - double-clicking on the video to switch fullscreen mode would be
> useful

This is now in the bugtracker.

> - display elapsed/remaining time [maybe only when the mouse moves?
> should be possible now that we have subtitles]

This is now in the bugtracker. I added a comment to this issue: I think
this should be part of a general on-screen-display solution (see the bug
tracker entry).

> - volume adjustment

Hmm, I'm not sure I agree with this one. I never understood why every
program has its own volume adjustment, all different: the system's audio
mixer should be used for this, shouldn't it?

> - vertical alignment, because some [bad] videos may need it

Ugh, this comes dangerously close to fixing broken videos, which may be
beyond the scope of a video player... however, I added it to the bugtracker.

> - flipping/flopping the videos on one or both sides would be useful
> for Planar-type stereoscopic screens [but I guess Planar screens also
> need fullscreen on two screens, since they use two monitors]

I don't understand this one. When would this be useful?

> About playlists [the next big feature?] : - during projections at the
> Stéréo-Club Français, they use Stereoscopic Player playlists where a
> very small video is played in loop mode between two films, so that
> the next movie can be introduced. It would thus be nice to have the
> possibility to choose wether each video in the playlist should be
> played in loop mode or not.

The playlist item is now in the bugtracker, with this comment attached.

Martin