Canola2 beta teaser site online
We are still fixing some issues to do not block the old site, but you can already access the website in the following address
http://openbossa.indt.org.br/canola2/
Bare in mind that this is a teaser =) not everything is there, and we have some nice surprises still for everyone.
Update at night: answering some comments
770 support: We actually tested in the Hacker Edition. Sorry but we really had no time for testing in the 2006. There was a little bit too much changes between the 2006 and the HE so we don’t know if things are going to run. But you will be able to test it pretty soon.
Different from the final product: Of course we are running to do everything you see plus more (actually theres things done that aren’t listed) but as gustavo pointed out, some little bits here and there may change, but now we are going to have a public roadmap. For the first update we will focus on fixes of course. Then we will have a little bit of work force to improve and create new features. Examples of possible plugins are: An Youtube browser - player, Integration with the Video Center, and a lot more that can be done by the developers. Even games they can do if they want =)
OGG support: As Gustavo commented in some other blog, canola scanner is open sourced in garage, and canola uses mplayer or osso-media player. So you can actually play your files, and even more if they are supported by those players. also, you can improve the scanner for some specific thing you may need =)
Amazing!
Simply amazing!
Thanks for doing this. I can’t wait to use Canola 2.0.
Regards.
December 2nd, 2007 at 5:13 amDudes, that is DEAD SEXY!
Keep up the good work, you rock!
December 2nd, 2007 at 5:57 amHi
nice, can we hope this will also work in the 770 hacker edition?
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December 2nd, 2007 at 8:16 amI hope Orb support will be included ;-)
December 2nd, 2007 at 11:31 amHi Bundyo : Actually we don’t support Orb in this first release. We really wanted but unfortunately we have limits. So our priorities is to get the basic quite solid, and of course provide the tools if someone wants to experiment.
So, as far as I know ORB is quite easy to create a web client and the Canola plugin offers everthing people need to do. So if there’s some python hacker out there he can tries it, but we will do some studies after the basics features =)
I will count you already as one vote for this. (but I really think it’s interesting)
December 2nd, 2007 at 11:39 amOne thing I’d love to see developers make is what you mentioned as a possible plugin, “Examples of possible plugins are: An Youtube browser - player”
would make the tablets a compete device for me and my online viewing, looks like an excellent product, thanks again from Rip in Australia!
Cheers
December 2nd, 2007 at 11:39 pmRip
Fannnntastic. Eat yur hearts out MS-MCE Developers.
December 3rd, 2007 at 10:48 amAwsome doesn’t even begin to describe your work.
Thanks for your hard work. It’s begining to feeel alot
like Christmas……..
What about something that none of the other Maemo media apps support yet: Tagged album art? All of my music includes this, so its a pain to have to see it downloaded (often very poorly matched) from the internet when it exists within the files.
December 4th, 2007 at 9:27 pmJoe
You will be very pleased to know that the existing Canola Beta 1 already fully supports Id3 tagged album Art in each mp3 file. I specifically checked this by copying one file from and album I have on my PC to the scanned media cards of my Nokia 770.
Perfect….:-)
You can see some previous screen captures of mine that illustrate How this looks in Beat 1 in an earlier blog post of mine http://mikesl300i.blogspot.com/2006/12/canola-with-themes-and-multi-language.html
Not sure that any of the current Media players support this on the Maemo platform; Even the latest and updated Nokia Media Player (Which has been improved) provided with the Beta install of OS2008 that I have running on my N800 does not provide the capability!
December 6th, 2007 at 5:51 amGuys,
The second version we want to support this, but maybe will be only on the final version. this time we will really have a real real beta period, where our goal is to gather the bigger amount of bug information possible and fix them asap to them finish the features one by one as complete as possible and planned.
So as I’ve been saying the first roadmap list will be almost open, as we will mainly focus on bugs. So please bare in mind, that we will try to support most of the formats as long as they don’t compromise performance / stability of the software.
BR
December 6th, 2007 at 8:58 amHi all! Wow, this is a great UI!! Your teaser says something about Canola being a media server. Is that like the feature of Mediastreamer to control other rendererd like Roku/Pinnacle Soundbrigde? It would be really great if Canola can be used as a remote for mediaplayers on the one hand (would that include photos and movies to play through another devices like TViX on your TV?), but also to display this content on the Nokia itself (which of cource Canola is already capacle of). Thanks in advance for sharing your thoughts on this. By the way: if Canola can be used a remote controller you have a killer app for Sonos and such…. :-)
December 9th, 2007 at 5:59 am