nito blog

Wow, I really need to get working on consistency with posts! I guess I will call this my annual post unless I remember to post again sometime soon.

Anyhow, put out a new build of nitoTV today and I’m pretty excited about the new addition of the Common Media Player framework. Graham Booker of Perian / Sapphire fame and I have collaborated to create an open source framework that currently serves as convenience layer between BackRow and the DVDPlayback framework to enable easy implementation for anyone to leverage the DVDPlayback.framework in their media plugin.

It’s late at night and I got the blog bug so I felt the need to update this space, however in light of it being 2:50 AM this post is going to be short and sweet.

Whats new:

1. DVD Overlays

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2. Resume, Main Menu, Start Over:

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3. 5.1 AC3/DTS passthrough

as you can see, this list isn’t ordered in any particular fashion since if it was 5.1 passthrough would have probably topped the list.

The AC3 passthrough is enabled by a brilliant plugin developed by Graham that passes the audio through to your receiver when using the DVD framework, and it also enabled me to make some basic modifications to MPlayers ao_coreaudio class to enable the plugin to work with properly formatted files with AC3 in them for passthrough as well. (AVI’s with AC3, VOB files.. etc)

Well I guess thats it. No news for hawkeye or any other Mac applications at the moment, our first iPhone app (not actually our idea, just one we we’re commissioned to write) should hopefully hit the stores soon. Watch this space for more developments with this framework, and any other future developments…

nitoTV wiki

You stay classy san diego.

happy 2009 everyone! sorry for the delay between posts (as usual). We are very excited about the latest feature added to hawkeye, so we felt it definitely necessitated a post. Aside from some crucial bug fixes, our sole 1.2 and favorite new feature of hawkeye to date is the ability to encode Video Ringtones for the iPhone! This does require a jailbroken phone, but thanks to our favorite dev team (the iphone dev team of course!) The pwnage process is as easy it could possibly be, extensive information on how to use video ringtones is available at the relevant help page for hawkeye.

in other news, nitoTV is still chugging along but will probably see a while without an update while we try to throw our hat into the ring for iPhone development, as usual time is short to write an extensive post, stay tuned for more shortly…

back from the trip, saw a bear, saw some great sights and found out how awesome huckleberry ANYTHING is.

on a different note its been quite some time since we’ve had any direct reference to nitoTV on the blog (and there is still no website section, i’ll definitely need to get on that) in any case, working on integration of the Application Launcher plugin into the next iteration of nitoTV (0.4.5) and thought i’d pop up some screen grabs of it in action.

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going to try and finish some stuff up today and maybe pop out a quick release…. more later.

update post 2 more screenshots:

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i will be out of town for about 10 days or so with very little internet access, if any registration files dont go through on the same day (we are having some issues with the automated system) please be patient, i will check everything daily, or hopefully a few times a day if i can to make sure all of them go out. i didnt get to finish up the blog posts and new screenshots before leaving unfortunately, but ill be sure to get them done when i come back.

alright here is the follow up post to the latest hawkeye release. there is a lot to cover in this post so it may have to be a multi part post (or at least edited and re-edited)

The first thing you will notice is the updated interface, for the most part it will echo the newer cleaner iTunes (i guess they did this new look with 7) There are also some new windows (chapter edit and subtitle palette)

chapter edit is a nice new edition. i’ll get this out of the way up front though, these chapters do NOT apply to iPod / iPhone playback, we hope to get to that in the next version.

these chapters apply to dvd authoring and file playback within hawkeye, you can bring up the chapters window from the file menu or from the contextual menu while selecting a file in the main table view. delete key will remove chapters and command + will add chapters during playback. if you want to add chapters while the file is not playing you can add them manually in the text field supplied on the chapters window. Make sure you format them properly 00:00:00

the subtitle palette is a simple palette with two text fields and color wells, these will be the stroke and fill color of the subtitles on any dvd you author after this point.

pre movies: these will play before any titles or the main menu of the dvd is played. An example would be any movie studio adding their own title movie prior to the presentation of the actual movie (new line cinema, miramax etc…), or maybe and FBI warning movies, things of that nature.

post movies: these movies will play after all the titles are finished playing on the dvd. (think dvd compression center video that used to be at the end of SEVERAL dvds, think old simpsons dvds)

more soon…

Alright the day is finally here, hawkeye 1.1 was unfurled today and we hope everyone is as pleased with it as we are. for now ill have to keep this initial release post short because i need to leave for work relatively soon, just wanted to get this post on here with the release info, i will post again sometime today or tomorrow with a big detailed list of all the new features and bugfixes, I will also be updating the screenshots on the website and hopefully i’ll have some time for some new video tutorials.

enjoy!

Wow, I didn’t even realize how long ago that last post was. it’s probably the reason I haven’t posted any updates saying “something will be out soon” since. I always end up being WAY off the mark when I make any type of prediction.

However, here are some new pictures, of the hawkeye that was mentioned all too long ago in that prior blog post (although it is far more than some bug fixes and new binaries, so it will prove to be worth that wait we hope)

The reason for the post now is I know for certain this version is inches from completion and just getting the finishing touches.

On a somewhat different note the time taken off from the re-write of hawkeye (among other things) was not time spent for naught, there are many skills picked up along that way that will make the new vision of hawkeye and any future project much brighter and hopefully swifter in development.

And as always thanks for your infinite patience with us, there is only two of us and we both have other full time jobs so it’s been tough lately, but we promise some great things to come… stay tuned.

yes we are still alive We’ve just been very busy with nitoTV work and some outside projects. We are close to a new hawkeye release (not the re-write which is definitely still coming) it will mainly have a lot of major bug fixes and some new versions of underlying binaries. i’ll post a more in depth update of things shortly, just wanted to pop in and let everyone know we are still hard at work and we haven’t forgotten about you.

we will also be (hopefully very soon) adding a new section for nitoTV on the webpage, it definitely deserves its own page on the website because we believe its a very promising project. We also hope to have some functionality interwoven between the plugin and hawkeye. Although that probably won’t come along till we finish the hawkeye re-write. PSP Commune is still under way too, too many things, too few people (only two of us) and WAY too little time…. more soon.

so a quicker than anticipated follow-up on nitoTV, not quite what we wanted the follow-up to be but good fixes/addition nonetheless. ISO support has been added and most if not all of the screensaver bugs should be erradicated. same download links as before.

installer

plugin zipped

so the reason we’ve been so quiet is the work on a nice little appleTV plugin for mplayer video/playlist/video_ts playback. you need an appleTV with ssh installed to get it, but we promise its worth it. the screen shots for now are all cut off because screencapture on the ATV isn’t cooperating. but here are some screens.

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playlist

video_ts

ill put some more detailed documentation when i get more time. for now here are two download links

installer

zipped plugin