YES! would love to be part of the test ;]

*running english vista

--slig--

I'd love to be a part of the test!

hello,
don't know if I'm late for the show... anyway I just got my vista home premium education, italian version... and if in need of a tester.. I'm on!

I would also very much like to be a tester, so sign me up! ;)

I would also like to give this a go on my vista machine!

Count me in!

I'm a .Net developer running Windows Vista

Count me in, please. Thanks.

Ahh, international users! Excellent.

I'm considering putting in some internationalisation in this version of Yougle, but of course I'd need someone to translate some of the category names for me. At the moment, she's English only. If you are a user from a country that isn't exclusively English speaking, it would be great if you could send me translations for some of the simple terms (ie. the category names, such as Animation, Comedy etc.) so I can make it that little bit more accessible for foreign users...even if the bulk of the movies are all English language anyway.

The download link is coming soon. I've got Yougle downloading and playing videos, but the playback can only begin after the WHOLE movie has downloaded. For a longish movie (like Red vs Blue Series 1, which is a good hour long) this is an insane wait.

I'm having to do some VERY interesting tricks to allow me to stream the video off a site when both the site and Windows Media Player/Center really doesn't want me to :)

 

MCML has a steep learning curve, but once you have a handle on it, it's not TOO bad.

 

I'll look into horizontal scrolling for the movies, but it's not the best idea when you're dealing with elements that are so long, particularly since I include the description with each item now, not just the title. If I scroll horizontally, you'd see basically nothing of the next or previous options. I'll see if I can get something worked out, but for now it's top-down scrolling.

Sorry guys - for now, I'm slowing down the development of Yougle 2.

I'm starting to absolutely HATE working on this program, with all of the extra complications involved in getting around the restrictions imposed by Media Player and the terrible documentation for the components I'm trying to get working.

Yougle costs me money - and while developing the first one was fun, this new version is costing me so much time and causing me so much @*%&ing pain that I'm really thinking of throwing in the towel - at least for the moment.

The Asynchronous Pluggable Protocols are causing me no end of trouble. There's no reasonable mechanism to debug them - I do everything the SDK asks, but Internet Explorer continues to insist that it can't download the file. That's it - no explaination, no cause - and the Check/Debug build of Windows Vista x64 - probably the ONLY tool that could help me - is so incredibly unstable that 99% of the programs you run in it (even IE) crash.

Right now, I'm angry and fed up. Maybe next week I'll be happy to go back to it, but right now I need to rant!

Thats a real shame :-(
Are there any other programers out there willing to lend a hand?
Is there some way to feed-back your comments to MS for advice?

Oh, I've got a contact in MS who is helping...it's just VERY, VERY frustrating work.

I'm getting MAMECenter working in the mean-time. Hopefully I'll get back to Yougle in not too long.

 

Well, if you do decide to pick back up work, I would be happy to be an alpha tester as well.  Had my Vista Premium 32-bit english MCE up and running for a couple of weeks now on a home built machine.

If you get tired of working with the new stuff, rest assured there are many of us who won't be upgrading to Vista for some time to come who would love some updates and improvements to yougle.  I am sure some of us including myself wouldn't mind donating to the cause either.

What I'd love to see is the addition of other video content sites and the ability to preset preferences (like adult filter on/off)

Yeah, I may have to upgrade to Vista eventually, as all of us eventually will due to MS tactics.  Are the former MCE modules for the most part compatible with Vista?

Although I've found that the most important ones have already been copied over, I was surprised to find that Yougle works in Vista. So far, I haven't installed many plugins, but if Yougle works, I'm thinking that most of the non-background addins should also work fine.

I'm afraid there will be no new features for the older version of Yougle at this time. I may do some updates should the sources change, but all of my new development effort is going into Vista/MCML applications.

Yougle 2 has a system I call 'SourceScript'. It's a simple XML file you can use to tell Yougle how to download movies (and the lists of movies) from other providers. This should allow users to create their own video sources for Yougle.

Apart from the fact that the Start screen is much, much ulgier IMHO, so far I like the Vista version of Media Center. The main reason I haven't upgraded my main MC machine is the fact that I don't think drivers are out for my TV card yet.

Just a word to those out there still waiting - as of this weekend, Yougle 2 is now streaming content from YouTube.

The streaming isn't great (there's some fairly major buffering trouble, causing the video to stutter badly until it suddenly becomes silky-smooth), but it's still major progress.

And yes, it means you can play, pause, rewind and move forward through Yougle movies. You can even save them to your hard-drive, if they are Flash-based like those found on Google Video and Youtube.

It's still going to be a while - but just wanted to let people know that I'm back on the case, now that Stage 1 of MoreWithMyMusic is done.