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[Android Apps and Games] MichellBak:
Mizuu doesn't touch any of your existing library movies when you do an update. Only if you clear the database. I won't change this. You can manually remove files from Mizuu when you delete files from your directory.

My pleasure! :)
[Android Apps and Games] Stevethegreat:
Any news on the (long awaited :p) update?

Also the feature of auto-updating the library (if one chooses so) when booting the app, is one that is currently considered?

I'm asking because that's quite a crucial part of the desktop media center programs, and I though it would had been a welcome addition in here as well. In general this type of apps are built for convenience (among other things), no? (if it was not for that we could/would merely choose our "video" file from a bunch of other files as we did before the advent of "media centers")
[Android Apps and Games] MichellBak:
I've made a massive amount of changes, and I really only need to update various layouts and add support for network connectivity. The last one is also one of the hardest things to do, especially because Mizuu supports nfo files and custom cover art.

Like I've said before, auto-updating isn't a priority at the moment. I've completely revamped the way updates work now, and I need to make sure that everything is working there before I do anything else that involves updating the libraries.
[Android Apps and Games] sjuarez1980:
Mizuu and Adw Launcher EX

Hello all

I an pretty new to the Android Tablet scene and I am trying to setup my Transformer Prime to have multiple hubs. Yesterday I purchased Mizuu and I find it's pretty awesome. Without launching ADW Launcher, I first placed the Mizuu Movie Cascade (20) on the home page and I was able to scroll through the movie titles with a swipe down on the leading cover. When I launch ADW Launcher and I add the same Movie Cascade, I cannot swipe through the list. Is this a known issue or do I need to configure something?

Any suggestions?

Thanks

SJ
[Android Apps and Games] MichellBak:
Hey!

This is a bug with ADW, not with Mizuu :)

Cheers,

Michell
[Android Apps and Games] sjuarez1980:
Thanks for the update. Hmm... now I have to research if there will be a fix for this anytime soon...
[Android Apps and Games] MichellBak:
According to this thread it seems like it's a compatibility issue with ICS and ADW Launcher.
[Android Apps and Games] MichellBak:
Version 1.7.9 is out!

This is NOT the version with network support. Still aiming for 1.8 on that one. Never the less, I decided to release this to give you an update with all the latest changes so far. And there are a lot of them.

Paid version is available on Market now, free version will follow soon.

Version 1.7.9 (March 29)

Actor view has been improved

Added “Movies in library” feature for Actor details

Added “Up” buttons in all parts of the application

Added a review dialog that appears after 30 application launches – it’ll only be shown once and you’re free to dismiss it

Added fade-in animation to backdrop images from the web

Added icons to application settings

Added new sorting options

Added option to search for trailers on YouTube in Trailers section

Added seasons browser in TV shows

Added setting to disable cover art and fanart browsers on touch

Added setting to disable subfolder searching

Added setting to enable Instant movie mode

Added setting to enable titles in overviews

Added setting to request root access – you’ll need to enable this if you’re currently using root access with Mizuu

Added support for additional external memory paths in File sources

Added support for custom backdrop images for movies

Added support for poster.jpg / poster.tbn files

Backdrop images now scale much better

Bug fix: Issue with movies and show titles including special characters (might need to re-scan or manually update)

Bug fix: Localized movie data

Bug fix: Movie parts

Bug fix: Rare crash when removing a file source

Changed the way the horizontal scroll view works in order to fix a compatibility issue with previous version

Code optimizations and speed improvements

Complete rewrite of the file naming “decrypters” – more intelligent and more naming conventions are supported, including folder name scraping

Fewer pop-up dialogs

Improved File sources

Improved thumbnail quality (requires a re-scan or manual cover art download)

Justin.tv videos now open in the browser

Library updates happen in the background

Lots of layout changes

Lots of strings have been made easier to understand

Manual TV show episode identification has been improved

Removed setting to enable more file formats

Revamped widgets, always up-to-date

Reviews now show Tomatometer and user score

Search for actors only by typing “actor: {actor name}” or genres by typing “genre: {genre}”

Search has been improved and now includes actors, genres and episode titles

Semi-transparent menu bar in details view on tablets

The glossy effect setting now also applies to the horizontal scroll view

The Welcome screen can now be personalized

Theme changes

TV show identification has been significantly improved

Unidentified TV show files are now added to a list of unidentified files

Updated Edit Movie interface

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[Android Apps and Games] famewolf:
For those of us not on hi-speed any chance of a "buffer entire video then play" option (possibly with some sort of status to show how much buffered/estimated completion)....optionally with the ability to specify where to place the cache...sdcard...mounted usb storage etc.
[Android Apps and Games] MichellBak:
I might misunderstand you, but I don't thinkl that's really up to me, but rather the video player to do :-)
[Android Apps and Games] famewolf:
When I went into the web tv and was trying to view movie trailers it didn't look like it was using my movie player....will check again.
[Android Apps and Games] MichellBak:
If you're referring to Web videos, it'll open the videos in the most suitable player. Youtube videos are opened in the youtube application, Justin.tv videos are opened in the browser and all others are opened in the default video player. Same goes for movie trailers - they're also opened in the default video player.
[Android Apps and Games] MichellBak:
Version 1.7.9.1 (March 31)

Fixed a bug with backdrop images for titles including special characters

Improved file identification for filenames with special characters

The update is available for both paid and free users. Free users can download the application here:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.miz.mizuulite
[Android Apps and Games] famewolf:
I upgraded to the most recent lite version....did clean install and re-scanned my library from scratch...it identified several video's with names such as 4F657616.avi as all the same movie... Manolito Four Eyes: The Mischievous Holidays. I don't expect a match on the filename but on other hand I don't expect the same false match to show up for 4 different video's.

Oh I initially tried to enable the mizuu news feed but it threw the main screen showing Movies, Tv, Web, Movie Trailers off probably due to the size of the recent blog entry....part of screen went to the right offscreen....you might have better luck scrolling the news from right to left at the bottom of the screen.

If you pull up a movie....any movie...and arrow up to settings then down arrow to the movie description and arrow down to the bottom the default display only shows 1/2 of the very last line...obviously you can grab the mouse and drag the description up a little more but for folks who only want to use the keyboard it seems like it would be a simple fix to add a blank line to the bottom of the description to fix this.

Don't think I'm just being negative...overall looks wonderful.
[Android Apps and Games] MichellBak:
Hey!

Regarding your four unidentified files, this is likely because Mizuu tries to search for movies based on the parent folder name if it fails with the filename. That'll also explain why all four files are being identified as the same movie - because they're in the same folder. I'd go ahead and see if it's possible to improve the filename of said four files :-)

Yep, it's supposed to move the four buttons a bit to the right to make room for the headlines and recommended titles. Nothing unusual there :-)

I'm not entirely sure I know what you mean regarding the last bit - could you please specify?

And don't worry, I don't think you're being negative - glad you like the new update! :-)

Cheers,

Michell
[Android Apps and Games] famewolf:
The video's being identified wrong are in /mnt/media/usb.D611-196B/Video/Misc/ This is where I keep uncategorized videos and it really should NOT be being matched to anything.

To see where the description is being "truncated" do the following (assuming you have a phone with a dpad that allows "up arrow" and "down arrow") Pull up your display of movies and click on any one of them. Hit up arrow once. "Play Movie" will be highlighted in Blue. Hit up arrow again. The settings button in upper right of screen will be highlighted blue. Hit down arrow once. You will now be in the description. Hit down arrow as many times as it takes to get to the bottom of the description of your movie. You will note on the last line of the description only 1/2 of that line is being displayed. Using touchscreen you can drag the description up but it would seem to be a simple fix for folks using keyboards (such as google tv) or phones that navigate using the dpad to add a blank line at end that forces full description to show or some similar fix.

Screenshot's attached.
[Android Apps and Games] MichellBak:
Yeah, makes sense. A search for "Misc" results in this (and the first result is picked by Mizuu):

http://www.themoviedb.org/search?search=misc

Regarding the "half line" issue, I don't experience it on my Prime with a keyboard. It just scrolls down to the bottom like it's supposed to do.

By the way - which device are you using? The movie details view looks weird. It doesn't look like that on any of the supported devices.
[Android Apps and Games] famewolf:
Shouldn't "Misc" be a generic term? I suppose I can change it to Uncategorized...the previous version didn't do that with Misc.

The display was on my logitech revue (google tv) (unsupported) (could be cause it's at 1280x720 [720P] resolution vs a phone's lower one) but works similar on my nook color (supported). The only difference for both devices would be I was in a forced landscape mode vs portrait.
[Android Apps and Games] MichellBak:
No, the previous version didn't search based on the folder name, but the latest one does. It's been a very requested feature. The best way to fix it is to simply name your files correctly or change the folder to something like "Uncategorized", which doesn't return any results on www.themoviedb.org.
[Android Apps and Games] famewolf:
Could the graphical glitches (which are minor and have workarounds) be due to the higher resolution of the revue which is 1280x720 (720P)? Some of the newer tablets I know support similar resolutions.
[Android Apps and Games] MichellBak:
They're due to it not being supported. All supported devices look like they're supposed to. Once I add support for Google TV, I'll make sure that everything looks as it's supposed to. And no - I don't know when that'll be :)
[Android Apps and Games] famewolf:
Apologies for bothering you. The fact I run non standard dpi's on my phones causes google to list almost everything as incompatible so I've gotten used to sideloading apps and determining if they are compatible by whether the app runs.
[Android Apps and Games] MichellBak:
No worries. Just know that you're on your own if something looks messed up or doesn't work as expected :-) There are reasons why developers limit the availability and in my case that's one of them.
[Android Apps and Games] Dragonn90:
Hi,

I love your app, but I'm French and I wonder if in a future update we could use this website : http://www.allocine.fr/ as a source?
[Android Apps and Games] jdogzilla:
Can this app be also setup to pick videos and TV series from a networked HDD or even a DLNA server? That would really be cool.
[Android Apps and Games] curti.nogg:
If your rom supports CIFS and you use CIFS Manager you can pick videos from a networked HDD.

If I remember correctly version 1.8 should have support for network/dlna features.

Sent from my Captivate
[Android Apps and Games] famewolf:
I don't know if you consider this a bug or not but every time you open the free version it tells you there is an update but when you go to "upgrade" there is not. I assume the upgrade is actually for the pay version.
[Android Apps and Games] deolarte:
great app just purchased, and I am using the widgets which slide down across in one screen. One for tv, movies and google play books. A suggestion would be to add one for games, such as for android or rom emulator games which would also use the widget, allowing for a full manager. Ill post a screen of what i mean. Thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] MrCapcom:
I had a questoin sometimes ill open up a video via this app and a little bit into the video it just stops the movie and closes out. I use the same player and navigate tothe file form that app lets say like dice player or mx player and it plays through the movie no problem.

But if I go through mizuu it stops. any ideas?
[Android Apps and Games] MichellBak:
Holy mo! For some reason I haven't been receiving e-mail notifications for this thread, so sorry about the very late replies...

Cheers! It's a possibility, but it requires that the site has a free API and it'll also require quite a few code changes. For now it's just themoviedb.org for movies. Having said that, the site does offer details in French for some titles.

Nope, no ideas, and I'm 100% sure that it has nothing to do with Mizuu. Once the video player starts, Mizuu is put in the background, and it's simply using an OS standard way of starting a video player.

Is it still doing that?

Network support is coming in the next release. If you can't wait, you can try out CifsManager (root required), but that application has some bugs of its own, so test on your own risk :)

Cheers! Mizuu is just for video management :)
[Android Apps and Games] Jonah!:
Hi Michell, are you going to add some languages? The app is really cool, but i really miss Italian language... I've translated almost everithing on your site, if it needs to be updated i'll do that, but please, consider to add more lannguages :D
[Android Apps and Games] MichellBak:
Hey Jonah!

Yes, I will indeed, but I've made quite a bit of changes to the strings and these changes haven't yet been made to the online translation tool because I'm not yet done making changes.

Thanks for the great help though, I hope you'll be interested to help again when the strings are updated :-)
[Android Apps and Games] eboukobza1:
I 've got an iconia tab a700 (which is under ICS 4.04)and when i go to the market,it's says me that my device is not compatible.

It's very strange ,cause i can download it on my GS II :confused:

I have copy the free apk from my galaxy to the tablet,and it's works fine.

But ,how can i buy the paid version?
[Android Apps and Games] MichellBak:
Hey!

Please refer to this:

http://mizuu.tv/support-high-resolution-devices/

The app may work on your device, but it's not tailored for it, and that's why Google Play doesn't show it as compatible. I don't want anyone to have a sub-par experience with the app, so I test everything before marking it as compatible. In this case it hasn't been possible to test, so it's not been marked as compatible.

Cheers

Michell
[Android Apps and Games] eboukobza1:
Actually,most of the apk are not optimised for high resolution, that's a recurrent problem.

But the free version is working fine for the moment :)

I'll send you a feedback ,if I've got some problems
[Android Apps and Games] MichellBak:
Yes, but I personally won't mark anything as compatible unless I've personally tested it and made sure that everything is working as I want it to :)
[Android Apps and Games] svortevik:
Mizuu cant find my memorycard on my Galaxy Tab2 10.1.

Will this be supported anytime soon?
[Android Apps and Games] MichellBak:
Hi!

It's already supported. Just browse to the folder where your memory card is mounted, when you add a file source.

Cheers

Michell
[Android Apps and Games] svortevik:
Hmm, I will try again then.

Thank you:-)
[Android Apps and Games] MichellBak:
Sure! The "Ext. SD card" button may not work, but Mizuu will allow you to browse the full file system, and the SD card is mounted as a folder in there. I'm not quite sure what the exact file path is, but it's possibly located somewhere in "/mnt/". Please let me know what the file path is, so I can add direct support for it in the future :-)

Cheers

Michell
[Android Apps and Games] svortevik:
/mnt/extSdCard/

:)
[Android Apps and Games] MichellBak:
Thank you! That'll be part of the next release :)
[Android Apps and Games] RaZi3L_:
hi Michell, I do not understand why updating the database does not delete those that no longer exist in the repository ...

It's annoying having to find the movies and delete them by hand from the database one by one, it should be a function to carry out the upgrade process itself. You say that the functionality of the application is "Mizuu Helps you gather and manage all your favorite movies and shows on your Android device." ... But if that "management" is not complete but involves you having to perform hand tasks his usefulness is relegated to a beautiful but incomplete app.

For the answer you give to sciacca75 I understand that is a "feature" that you have no intention to change .. I wonder why, and if it's a final decision because then I would have to look for alternatives that best fit what I understand "management" despite having bought it...

Despite this criticism I must say that I think is a wonderful app
[Android Apps and Games] MichellBak:
One reason is that some content might simply be unavailable because it's on a USB storage device or a network device. I suppose I could add it as an option when updating the libraries.
[Android Apps and Games] RaZi3L_:
thank you for your answer michell... it would be nice if you add at least an option to do it, something like that... or perform a connectivity test with the storages before update...
[Android Apps and Games] MichellBak:
Yes, I'll see what I can do :)
[Android Apps and Games] Stevethegreat:
Hey, long time no "see". So I'm back at ICS and I'm using Mizuu again, so may I reiterate a recommendation I had made back in the day?

Well, what I wrote then was *if* it is possible an option to be added that whenever Mizuu launches to refresh the sources automatically. One is having to do it by hand each and every time as it stands now.

It's not a deal-breaker that we do not have this feature but I find it to be one of the "musts" of desktop Media Centers and I would like to see it over the mobile platform(s) as well...
[Android Apps and Games] MichellBak:
Hey! I haven't forgotten it and it's a good suggestion. It'll probably come after version 1.8 :)
[Android Apps and Games] reggie14:
This is a spectacular app. I've always complained to friends about how terrible video file management is on Android devices. I wish I would have known about this app before. Kudos to the developer.

One problem that remains is that its still a pain to actually transfer files. I would be nice to have some nice way to select what movies or TV episodes will be downloaded to the phone/tablet over wifi. I got DoubleTwist with AirSync a while ago with the intent of doing this, but I've been incredibly disappointing with that app. Michell, do you have any interest in building sync features into this application? Perhaps after you get the network streaming working?
[Android Apps and Games] ^Fs:
I run the paid version on my GSM Galaxy Nexus, OG Asus Transformer, and now my new NSZ-GS7 Sony GoogleTV box (had to pull it and sideload... and it is fully functional)

My only request is for this to be able to find FTP and other network locations/media servers for files.

Otherwise, this is a godsend.
[Android Apps and Games] MichellBak:
Hey!

Thanks a lot for your nice :)

Regarding sync functionality, that's really not something I'd like to do at the moment. It's really complicated and hard to get working on multiple platforms and I honestly don't think it's worth the effort right now. There are a ton of other things I'd rather do instead.

Besides, transferring movies and TV shows using a wireless connection would literally take ages :)

Cheers

Michell

FTP shouldn't - hopefully - be much of a problem after support for Samba shares is done :)

PS. I'm going to be working a lot more on GTV support, so I can hopefully make it available through Google Play.
[Android Apps and Games] ^Fs:
I tried the latest nightly out on my GTV, and the interface seems to work a bit better

looking forward to the future development :)
[Android Apps and Games] MichellBak:
I don't have a Google TV yet, so the nightlies haven't been made for GTV yet, but I'm glad that it seems better already :)
[Android Apps and Games] ^Fs:
I don't mind bumping the thread up again with this:

:victory:
[Android Apps and Games] MichellBak:
It should be on its way to me as we speak, but I'm not sure how long it takes from the US :)
[Android Apps and Games] ^Fs:
Which one? I've got the 2nd gen sony box. It's still a bit sluggish (software's fault) and lacks apps (however you can sideload quite a bit).

Although, I'm somewhat satisfied with it just because of the extended TV guide... otherwise it's not much different than a PS3 or Xbox360.
[Android Apps and Games] MichellBak:
Actually not sure yet. Whatever Google decides to send me :)
[Android Apps and Games] ^Fs:
Oh, that's how it is! :D
[Android Apps and Games] MichellBak:
Heh, yeah. It seems they're quite happy with it :)
[Android Apps and Games] aliho:
Good app, thanks
[Android Apps and Games] Stevethegreat:
Hello, I think I'm addicted to this app :) so now that I've installed Jelly Bean on my device it's a bit of bummer that I do not seem to find it on the market. Is there some workaround I must know so that to make (the playstore) to have this app (the paid version) shown?

I'm so used of using this app, that I may even consider downgrading if I'm not to find a way to install it. Any help would be much appreciated :good:.

(oh and is there any update due ...sorry I had to)
[Android Apps and Games] MichellBak:
Hey Steve!

Send me and e-mail and I'll hook you up :)

Still working on an update. It's pretty much a complete re-write and I'm pretty busy at the moment with all kinds of stuff, so it takes quite a bit of time. But it'll hopefully be worth it :)

Cheers

Michell
[Android Apps and Games] Piccles:
Looking forward to a JB compatible version :good:
[Android Apps and Games] MichellBak:
Just send me an email :)
[Android Apps and Games] S4F4M:
I have an HP Touchpad with CM9 and the latest nightly build.

I only have *.avi and *.m4v files, and a playlist is not generating with Mizuu.

- App: no files found (after refresh)

- widget: "Loading..." and nothing else

Is there something that I can do?

NOTE: MovieBrowser finds all of my files. It just doesn't have a nice home screen widget.
[Android Apps and Games] MichellBak:
You haven't set up file sources, have you?

You need to tell Mizuu where to look for your files.
[Android Apps and Games] S4F4M:
Thanks for the quick reply.

Actually, I did set up the file sources. What I did NOT have was a stable internet connection (phone hotspot).

I messed with it again today, and since my wifi was off, I saw the message of no internet connection, and it dawned on me that that was the issue.

Great app BTW. My only recommendation is to not set a default video player through it. I did and could not figure out how to change that. I had to delete the malfunctioning video app in order to get the dialog box again about which video player to use.