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[Android Apps and Games] Stevethegreat:
Fantastic little app and may I say I'm a proud owner of one copy as well (mostly I prefer free alternatives over the market but this, *this* is an exception). Perfect for tablets or TV out driven picture...

A couple of notes that I would hope would be of the tiniest little help to its developers:

Firstly even though the main screen seems to fill the whole screen the movie/tv-show view/section of the app seems to fill only half of the screen; the other half of the screen estate seems to be taken over by an inexplicably large logo plus the status bar (which -i feel- has no place to an app created for media consumption).

Also may I inquire whether it would be possible for the scrappers to take their info in the same language as androids configured system language (and not just in English)? For example if I have my tablet's system language in Spanish mizuu may take my movies' info in Spanish.

Thanks for your incredible work... keep it up :)
[Android Apps and Games] MichellBak:
Hey, thanks a lot!

1. Not sure what you mean - can you please take a screenshot of it? :)

2. Already possible! :) If you check the "Prefer localized movie info" setting in Settings, Mizuu will look for Spanish data if your tablet's system language is in Spanish. If none were found, it'll default back to English.

Regards,

Michell
[Android Apps and Games] Stevethegreat:
Oh sorry, I had no idea what that option meant. Thanks for the clarification...

And here's a screenshot of what I mean in my first inquiry:

http://desmond.imageshack.us/Himg68...reenshot2012012302142.png&xsize=640&ysize=480

As you may be able to see the status bar stays on while the options above my shows seem to be quite big ultimately leaving only half of my screen estate for use . Wouldn't it be possible a larger part of the screen to be available? I.e. by eliminating the status bar and making the fonts (above) significantly smaller?
[Android Apps and Games] MichellBak:
No problem!

My guess is that 95% of the users are using it in portrait mode on their phone, and it's not really a problem in that mode - only in landscape. I can't remove the status bar, as that'd also remove the search, update and other buttons. I could maybe make the fonts slightly smaller and reduce the margin, but not sure if that would change much. I'll make a note to include it in the next update :)
[Android Apps and Games] Stevethegreat:
Hi I'm using the landscape mode in conjunction with TV out ultimately delivering the picture to the big screen...

You could add an option to hide status bar search and everything else only in landscape mode (for those of us who want this) and have them return in portrait mode. So have portrait mode for search/update etc and have the landscape mode only for our viewing pleasure (for those of us who would opt to choose that option of course).

Thanks for your great efforts :)

Edit: You could name that option "full screen landscape"...
[Android Apps and Games] MichellBak:
I'll see what I can do :) It's a good idea, but there are a few problems with it from a developer's point out view.
[Android Apps and Games] Stevethegreat:
Of course you may be able to simply put a "full screen option" for both landscape AND portrait which would hide almost every on screen buttons and it would be only for the few of us who use the app only in landscape mode (I mean if that's not a great effort to you).

I'll await for any results with great interest .

...again, thank you!
[Android Apps and Games] MichellBak:
The biggest problem I can think of is the horizontal scroll view without the status bar, because the item layout doesn't scale. So, you'd get more space, but the items (or covers) wouldn't get any larger. Anyway, I'll see what I can do about it - no promises, but I'll have a look :)
[Android Apps and Games] Stevethegreat:
Can't you get *more* covers in the same space though? In fact maybe this would be even more preferable (more visible items not larger).

Thanks anyhow, even looking is enough :)
[Android Apps and Games] MichellBak:
Mizuu offers two views - a grid view and a scroll view. The grid view will show much more than the scroll view, so I think you should have a look at that.
[Android Apps and Games] MichellBak:
A few minor updates...

Version 1.7.6.3 (January 23)

Fixes Movie Trailer issues

Version 1.7.6.2 (January 22)

Bug fix

Download:

- Free version

- Paid version
[Android Apps and Games] Raman325:
This looks like a pretty slick app. I will definitely have to throw it on my tablet once I get home tonight.

One comment/feature request though. Not sure if you are familiar with XBMC but your library management for metadata seems very similar. If you haven't seen it before, definitely take a look, its a great media center application for desktops. I would love to see some sort of XBMC integration into this, maybe use this to browse my collection and I can choose to play it on my XBMC server? XBMC has its own remote application but your implementation for browsing your library blows the XBMC remote's abilities out of the water.

EDIT: Just to be clear this is a request not a demand. This application looks great as is, and was clearly built for a different purpose than what I have in mind for it. All I'm saying is that some combination of this, XBMC, and some sort of integration between the two would be a movie/TV junkie's wet dream...

Anyway, thanks for making this!
[Android Apps and Games] MichellBak:
Thanks :)

I've had a few similar requests and I'm thinking about how to do it properly, because I'd also like to separate Mizuu from XBMC as an alternative rather than something you can use alongside XBMC :)
[Android Apps and Games] Raman325:
Totally fair. Now if only my device was compatible. What devices does this run on? Im on ICS on an HP Touchpad and I cant find it in the market. The market website says its incompatible with my device so im probably going to have to tweak my build.prop to find it
[Android Apps and Games] sleith:
Cool! keep improving!
[Android Apps and Games] MichellBak:
AFAIK it'll run on all tablets currently on the market. Your Touchpad would be a xlarge device with ldpi screen, and that should be supported. Send me an e-mail, and I'll send you something to try out :)

Thanks! :)
[Android Apps and Games] cbrox:
thanks again for your quick response, excellent app!
[Android Apps and Games] Ikar34:
Hello,

I bought this application and I find it really very well done.

I just wondering if you had plans to add more scrapers (Allociné or cinépassion for France or in my case).

Or, as I use xbmc, I put all my movies into folders containing nfo, posters and fanart, would it be possible to use these files instead of using the information reported by the scraper?

Again thank you for this wonderful application.
[Android Apps and Games] MichellBak:
Hey!

Yes, I just need to find the best way to do it :) There's a setting in Mizuu to use localized data if available - in your case that'd be French, if your tablet's system language is French. It'll default back to English, if none were found in French. It's worth a try.

You can actually already use nfo files and custom cover art, just make sure that the files are the same name as the video file and are located in the same folder. I.e. Avatar.mp4 would need Avatar.nfo and Avatar.jpg. Check out this link: http://mizuu.tv/faq/can-i-use-custom-movie-data/

You can also use customer backdrops, but they need to be in sdcard/data/com.miz.mizuu/ and must follow a special naming right now. Working on better support for that :)
[Android Apps and Games] Ikar34:
Thank you for the quick response.

In fact my tablet is set in French, but none of my films, however, correctly named is found with a translation of sypnosis French.

Are you sure that this function works?
[Android Apps and Games] MichellBak:
It should work, but it requires that the movies contain French data as well. Mizuu uses themoviedb.org, so you can check a few movies and see if they contain any French data. If not, it'll use English.
[Android Apps and Games] Ikar34:
This is the case. I take for example the film "Le Petit Nicolas" which is in French, when I search on themoviedb.org, it finds it with French informations but in mizuu those informations are in english ... while in the options mizuu I have checked the location
[Android Apps and Games] MichellBak:
Cheers, I'll give it a shot!
[Android Apps and Games] MrCapcom:
Thanks for the response about the Anime.

I notice that most of the ones I looked for are there on that website but the app still won't tag the files. Is there anything else I can do? can you add manually?
[Android Apps and Games] MichellBak:
Can you give me examples of your filenames? They need to follow the naming conventions for Mizuu: http://mizuu.tv/faq/naming-conventions-movies-tv-shows-mizuu/
[Android Apps and Games] MrCapcom:
[sage]_Mobile_Suit_Gundam_AGE_-_15_[720p][10bit][8075C124].mkv
[Android Apps and Games] MichellBak:
Yeah, that won't work. Even I had difficulty finding out the exact name, season or episode from that file name. You need to make sure that the file names match the naming conventions supported by Mizuu.

In your case, that file in particular could be:

Mobile Suit Gundam AGE S01E15.mkv
[Android Apps and Games] MrCapcom:
I'll try that out my movies work flawlessly I like the new stack widgets
[Android Apps and Games] Stevethegreat:
One more recommendation/note I may add. I hope I'm not too overbearing:

I've tried to remote control Mizuu through the use of my BT keyboard's arrow keys yet the overlay made it impossible (for that) to happen.

My idea of Mizuu is (it) to be my portable "XBMC" turning my phone into a portable HTPC. Whenever I am to connect it (my phone) through MHL (tvout) to any TV I have scripted it to instanteneously open mizuu and put bluetooth's state to on. That way I can remote control all my collection of movies/series (and hopefully -in the future- pictures and music too). It turns my TV (any TV) to a "smart TV" (and through 3G I have all the content of webvideos too).

You can imagine thus, that the fact that it does not support external HID commands (like most of any other android app) is very costly to me. It's a great app, it trully is, but for now it's confined to the very small inches of one's phone/tablet, so for the time being it's not for me. Hopefully I'll return once (and if) some of those features are to be added (more ample spaced landscape mode, HID support).

Of course I had only paid 1.35€ to buy the app and I believe it deserves every last penny of it. Keep up the good work :)
[Android Apps and Games] MichellBak:
Hey Steve!

Send me an e-mail and I'll let you try something out - hopefully it'll work as you'd like it to :)
[Android Apps and Games] MichellBak:
Just to follow up on this - I've found a bug that prevented titles from being translated, and the manual identification option also didn't take the setting into consideration. It's been fixed and will be in the next version.
[Android Apps and Games] Ikar34:
Thanks a lot MichellBak !
[Android Apps and Games] K Dotty:
Is there an program like this for PC's?

Just ordered a 32Gb mem card for this.

Sent by wiggling my big toe running ICS
[Android Apps and Games] MichellBak:
You can use Boxee, XBMC, My Movies, etc. :)
[Android Apps and Games] K Dotty:
Thanks, will have a look at those. Been using Mizuu on my touch pad ands its great. Thanks;)

Sent by wiggling my big toe running ICS
[Android Apps and Games] Stevethegreat:
Two questions if I may:

I still haven't seemed to have found out of a way to have my library auto-updated (instead of having to do it by hand).

Also may I inquire (about) when the new version would be out?

Thanks for your great work. Keep it up.
[Android Apps and Games] MichellBak:
Hey!

1. That's not supported, so that's why you can't find a way to do it. You'll know better than anyone else when you library should be updated, so there's really no reason for Mizuu to look all the time. It's quite possible that it'll come as an opt-in later on, though.

2. In February, hopefully. But it's a lot of work and I've already made changes to thousands of lines of code. It's really a major overhaul.

Cheers,

Michell
[Android Apps and Games] tjw345:
Any chance of adding 2.x support? I'm on my Nook Color CM7.2 (which happens to be 2.3.7 Android) and I'd love to use this but it seems it only supports Honeycomb and ICS.
[Android Apps and Games] MichellBak:
Sorry, no. Mizuu uses lots of large bitmaps, and that kind of memory usage is only allowed in Android 3.0+.
[Android Apps and Games] Stevethegreat:
Hi :)

Hmm, can't wait for it, even though -I guess- I already know one of the changes :p

As for the auto-update it's more of a convenience feature, for example it may only have to work only once when one opens the app (if he/she chooses to enable it). That way Mizuu will be spared of many unnecessary checks and hopefully you from major rework of the code.

I find myself working with your little piece of software a lot lately... Thanks for your great work.
[Android Apps and Games] MichellBak:
Trust me, I'm not exaggerating when I say that it's a major update. It's quite possibly going to be 3-4 times larger than the 1.7 update, which has been the biggest update thus far. I'm really excited about it :)
[Android Apps and Games] Stevethegreat:
Can't wait then :). I'd be happy to explore the new features and probably figure of new powerful ways to incorporate them in my "setup" (my phone is more like an ecosystem of functions, from HTPC, to Ubuntu PC, to gps, to a mere phone :p - thank god for automation).

By the way is the feature that I referred to -above- challenging to be implemented? I speak about auto-update of course (a *single* check only when the app boots for the first time ).
[Android Apps and Games] MichellBak:
It's not really much of a challenge, but it won't be part of the 1.8 release. I need to make sure that everything in that release is working before I start adding other things that rely on the changes made in 1.8.
[Android Apps and Games] Stevethegreat:
Fair enough, and like I said can't wait to play with 1.8 in my device :)
[Android Apps and Games] Erickomen27:
I Just Installed This Onto My Phone A Tablet... This App Is Amazing!! I Can't Wait To See What Comes In The Future!!
[Android Apps and Games] MichellBak:
Thanks man! I think you'll love the next update :-)
[Android Apps and Games] catolh:
Can i get my hopes up for network support? :D
[Android Apps and Games] MichellBak:
You betcha! :)
[Android Apps and Games] pammix:
Beautiful app!!! But works on Google TV ?;)
[Android Apps and Games] MichellBak:
Thanks! Not everything works at the moment. There's no development kit available for Windows, so I have no chance of testing it on Google TV.
[Android Apps and Games] pammix:
This?: developers.google.com/tv/android/docs/gtv_addon :)
[Android Apps and Games] MichellBak:
Yes, but:

I'm using Windows, so I can't support Google TV yet.
[Android Apps and Games] akkidy:
I recently purchased and installed Mizuu on my Transformer Prime and I'm happy to find out just now that I'm supporting a developer who's an XDA member. I'm really very happy with the app, it's almost like having my Boxee Box on my tablet.

I only wish that an advanced sort option or filter will be added, such as sort by recently added, similar to Boxee Box sort option so it will be easier to find newly added movies. Also, for a huge movie collection, it is a bit long of a scroll to see the entire list, although search is available, it is still nice to have an alphabetical tab to easily jump between titles when sorted alphabetically. I also find Mizuu to take a long time to display my movie list coming from the main screen, or when editing a movie information and going back to the list. I thought this should be faster since most of the data is already stored locally. I hope to see some performance improvement on succeeding updates. I also look forward for an option to merge parts, like when a movie is split in 2 files, provide an option to add the 2 files together as one title so that I wouldn't see 2 thumbnails of the same movie in the list.

These are mostly my wish list, regardless, Mizuu is a great movie management app to have and I can't say enough how happy I am to stumble upon this wonderful app. Thank you Michell, you created a very useful program.
[Android Apps and Games] MichellBak:
Hey!

I've already answered your e-mail, but let's go through some of the stuff here as well :)

More sorting options are coming. Also, it'll be easier to get through your collection.

Regarding the speed, that's because you're using .nfo files and not letting Mizuu "do its job" with local files. Mizuu downloads cover art and stores it in the optimal resolution and also creates a thumbnail version of that image, so it's incredibly quick to load. If you're using .nfo files, all of that doesn't happen. I'd recommend you have your cover art images in 550 x 374 pixels. The next update will help a bit, regardless. If you're using the horizontal scroll view, it'll get even worse - because Mizuu needs to create the reflection effect and apply it for every image real time. That takes a lot of horse power.

Again, I recommend not using the .nfo files and just let Mizuu do its job. That'll give you the best result right now.

I'm aware of the potential issues of having double entries due to multiple copies of the same file, but it's not a priority at the moment. Especially, since it's so easily fixed by the user - you can either delete the extra entry or file.

Cheers,

Michell
[Android Apps and Games] akkidy:
Michell, you made me so excited to look forward for the upcoming update. I know you are a busy developer, thank you for making your product the best out there in the market!

I did not mean duplicate files, I meant movie files split in two like part 1 and part 2 or CD1 and CD2, so just for example; "Avatar CD1.avi" and "Avatar CD2.avi". So there is really no deleting of extra files since they are not duplicate. I understand that it's not a functionality issue, so not a priority, but if you are able to do it, it's a bonus to have. Thank you for creating this wonderful app!
[Android Apps and Games] MichellBak:
Movie parts should be supported. Please refer to this: http://mizuu.tv/faq/naming-conventions-movies-tv-shows-mizuu/

I know there's a bug right now regarding other files being shown, but if it doesn't work out for you, please feel free to send me filenames of the files in question, and I'll make it work :)
[Android Apps and Games] akkidy:
Michell, that's wonderful that it already supports movie parts. I don't know how I missed it!

Is the naming convention for the movie part case-sensitive? I have "Dolphin Tale CD1.avi" and "Dolphin Tale CD2.avi" and both are showing as separate movie.
[Android Apps and Games] MichellBak:
Err, I'm actually not too sure about that right now. Don't know why it would be, but it's possible that I wasn't thinking straight when I did it :)
[Android Apps and Games] sciacca75:
Hi some missing feature.

My movie are in different subfolder...is possible to keep different folder also on db.

Enable/disable subfolder scan
[Android Apps and Games] MichellBak:
Hey, just answered you on mizuu.tv, but yeah I'm going to add that as a setting.
[Android Apps and Games] sciacca75:
Same for me...

CD1 and CD2 show duplicate entry.
[Android Apps and Games] MichellBak:
Weird. CD doesn't work, but "part" does. Try with {moviename} part1.{extension} and {moviename} part2.{extension}. I'll fix the "CD" stuff for the next release.
[Android Apps and Games] sciacca75:
yes part1 and part2 works.

But PART1 and PART2 not works.....

Suggest disable case sensitive and add CD1,CD2,cd1,cd2

Other hints:

sorting with year

update don't know if i remove e avi file....it remain i database also file is removed

Sent from TF101G - Revolver 3.11
[Android Apps and Games] MichellBak:
Yeah, so it seems. Can't think of a good reason why it's case-sensitive, but that'll be changed in the next update.

More sorting options will be added at a later point.

Not sure what you mean regarding your last note. Could you please specify?
[Android Apps and Games] sciacca75:
try to explain.

First update, find 10 film on my NAS (yes i use cifs)

I remove a film from my NAS. I don't like it.

Second update without clear database.

There are allways 10 Films. I don't like this.

Only solution is clear all DB and fetch entere collection.

If there are 1000 films (i'm paid user:)) instead of 10 clear DB need long long time
[Android Apps and Games] MichellBak:
I'm still not sure if I understand what you mean, but I'll try to give you an explanation of what I think you mean.

Let's say we've got three movies - A, B and C. If you update the library, Mizuu will find all three movies. If you then remove movie C, you'll be left with A and B.

After some time, you decide to update the library again. You've got two choices: Clear database or don't clear database:

1. If you don't clear the database, Mizuu will only look for files that aren't already in the database - i.e. it'll only find movie C, because A and B already are in the library.

2. If you clear the database, Mizuu will wipe the database - in other words, your library will be completely empty. After that, it'll do a complete update and find all movies again - i.e. Mizuu will find movie A, B and C and try to identify them.

This is the way all major media center software works, and I don't intend on changing it.
[Android Apps and Games] curti.nogg:
I think he means if he deletes movie C from his NAS then the way to remove it from Mizuu is to clear the database and scan the NAS again.

If I understand correctly he would like films that are no longer on the NAS to be removed from Mizuu after an updating the library instead of wiping the database before an update.

I just checked and it appears Mizuu already offers an option to remove content manually.

Sent from my Transformer TF101
[Android Apps and Games] MichellBak:
Oh. If so, then I don't see the issue either. As you say, you can remove movies from the library in Mizuu - and the library updates naturally don't touch existing files unless you clear the library :)
[Android Apps and Games] 10507:
Is there any other way to edit/change cover art? I have tried adding my own cover to movie using the change art option under menu, but still it is not taking effect. I am still seeing blank cover art. Is there a particular format for the cover art?

Thanks
[Android Apps and Games] MichellBak:
Hey!

You can tap on the cover art image in the details view to launch a cover art browser with different options. More details here: http://mizuu.tv/faq/change-cover-art-image/

Alternatively, you can put a .jpg file with the same name as the video file in the same folder as the video file. More info on that is available here: http://mizuu.tv/faq/custom-movie-data-mizuu/
[Android Apps and Games] kratos313:
I download this app for my transformer and I love it but I have one problem. I have some movies that the system can't pull info for and when I try to add cover art it will not stick to that movie. But it will stick to another movie that I downloaded from a different source.

Can anyone help me out?

Sent from my EVO Titan 3D
[Android Apps and Games] MichellBak:
What's the filename of the movies that it won't work with? I can try it on my own devices then.
[Android Apps and Games] kratos313:
I had to rename the file cause the spelling was wrong but it was an NSFW movie the title was simply " Jada Fire "

The cover art wouldn't stick to that movie but it would let me replace Expendables cover art with the jada cover art

Sent from my EVO Titan 3D
[Android Apps and Games] sciacca75:
yes but it would be nice automatic remove from library when i remove a file only with update.

i delete "the ring.avi" from my directory .

then update library

inlibrary film the ring isn't disappeard

Sent from TF101G - Revolver 3.11
[Android Apps and Games] altarsoft:
I like movies. And this sofware can help greatly to fnd them. Thanks!