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

Screenshot

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.

Screen One

Screen Two

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

update post 2 more screenshots:

Screen Three

Screen Four

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