<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 2:44 AM, Christopher Kerr <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mythtv@theseekerr.com">mythtv@theseekerr.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 3:25 PM, Robert McNamara <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:robert.mcnamara@gmail.com" target="_blank">robert.mcnamara@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div>The following video is an up-to-the-minute walkthrough of what the app is capable of today, though there's quite a lot more on the way. I'll keep quiet on the upcoming changes, but suffice to say you ain't seen nothing yet. ;)</div>
<div><br></div><a href="http://vimeo.com/32063038" target="_blank">http://vimeo.com/32063038</a></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34);font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px">
Looks good - any chance you'll add a more traditional "browse" mode for videos? I find search a poor match for the way I choose movies to watch.</div><div style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34);font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Sorry, one of the other things I meant to mention about this is that I was also trying to take into account providing a rich experience without hammering a backend/limited connection. One of my aspirations here is to enable one to travel with an iPad and consumer content in a hotel room, at grandma's, etc. So producing a medium sized thumbnail for every coverart/fanart/screenshot/whatever over a slow connection can be painful. All the image download is done asynchronously, byt why waste limited bandwidth generating thousands of thumbnails if you can load the screen fast and only do so for the items you want to inspect?</div>
<div><br></div><div>The clever use of limited bandwidth is of moderate importance now, but also think about the (hopefully near) future where you'll also be live transcoding and streaming content to the iPad... you'll want that bandwidth for that. :)</div>
<div><br></div><div>Robert</div></div>