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[Android Apps and Games] MichellBak:
@innerspace

I'd love for you to try out the upcoming update, and see if that helps. Cheers!

I'm sad to say that I have no idea what's happening with Android Market - seems like Google's experiencing some problems :confused:
[Android Apps and Games] innerspace:
ready and waiting sir!
[Android Apps and Games] nvanlaar:
I am having some sort of issue with custom cover art. I put the .jpg into the correct folder and the widgit pulls up the cover art, but inside of mizuu the cover does not appear.

Thanks for any help,

Nick
[Android Apps and Games] PhoenixFx:
Very nice interface, but I think title search doesn’t always work well. It can’t detect most titles even if I give the exact name appearing on IMDB; for example for the file “The Big Bang (2011).mkv” somehow it detect “The Big Fat Quiz of the year (2011)” as the movie. But when I type the exact name in IMDV without the .mkv part i get the correct movie.

Also could you improve TV series support ? Perhaps use tv.com instead of IMDB? and try to find out the exact episode ? like for example if you have a file name like Chuck.s04.e21.avi you can extract the episode information, because sXXeXX is more or less like the internet standard for TV episode numbers these days.
[Android Apps and Games] MichellBak:
You need to launch the app again to load custom cover art :)

Hey! The next version improves file search and identification a lot! I'll upload the update in a few hours :)

I'm just about to start work on a separate app for TV shows, that'll do just that! :)
[Android Apps and Games] MichellBak:
Just finished work on the next update, and it should be rolling out to devices now!

Here's the changelog:

Version 1.4.0 (July 28)

Added option to set a custom storage directory

Added support for movie.nfo files (usage instructions)

Code & speed optimizations

Improved file search & identification

Improved manual identification

Improved support for storage directories

UI improvements

Updated Details view

Various bug fixes

So... what are you waiting for? :)

NOTE: It may take a few minutes for the update to appear on Market.
[Android Apps and Games] rvspinx:
Thank you so much for including the .nfo scraper and custom cover art. This makes my life a lot simpler and I no longer need to rely on 3rd world internet! If you need any assistance with your soon to be created TV show organizer let me know, I have organized as well and can share the xml for manual scraping if needed.
[Android Apps and Games] MichellBak:
You're very welcome! :)

Please don't forget to rate / review the app on Market - it'd help me a lot! :)
[Android Apps and Games] smelian:
thank you dev

i bought it without having Tab cuz isold mine

i bought it cuz its look good and useful and you are working very well updating it
[Android Apps and Games] MichellBak:
@All

There's a small bug in v. 1.4.0, that allows you to use the application in portrait mode, although this is NOT supported. The orientation will be locked again in the next version. Sorry for any inconveniences.

Thank you! :)
[Android Apps and Games] nvanlaar:
The new version doesn't read movies from my external SD card, the previous version did...
[Android Apps and Games] MichellBak:
Hey!

Sorry to hear that. Would you kindly post the directory of your external SD card here? Are you using a custom ROM?
[Android Apps and Games] nvanlaar:
Sorry, my bad. I needed to check the unsupprted file types box. (Why is *.avi unsupported?)
[Android Apps and Games] MichellBak:
Oh, that's better :)

I'm listing *.avi and some other formats as unsupported because the OS doesn't natively support playing those files. You'll need a third party application for that.

Cheers!
[Android Apps and Games] nvanlaar:
I know it's probably not your fault, but this is really annoying...

On another front, it would be nice if custom cover art didn't get erased with a refresh/update. Maybe have a different directory/folder?

Thanks you,

Nick
[Android Apps and Games] MichellBak:
Yeah, there's nothing I can do about that. Both the lite and full version share the same minimum requirements. Could it have something to do with you using a custom ROM, perhaps? Android Market is rather buggy at the moment. The Developer Console has a lot of bugs, too, atm, so I'm hoping they'll soon fix it. It's pretty annoying.

Can you please try to search for "pname:com.miz.mizuu" in Android Market on your tablet?

Next update will include improved updating, so that doesn't happen. It'll only update files that aren't in the library. There will of course also be an option to do a full update :)
[Android Apps and Games] daniel9522:
is there way to view movies which are on an external harddrive

can tv series also appear like movies in the paid app

and i want to buy the paid app but cant since i live in dubai

is there any other way to get the paid app

and maybe in the next update you can use your android phone as remote control( just an idea)

thanks :)
[Android Apps and Games] nvanlaar:
Nothing comes up in the device app, but the web store pulls up mizuu - paid version. I don't get why the lite version works OK, but the market won't allow the paid version...? Should I contact the market support? Any thoughts to posting to the Amazon market?

Thanks,

Nick
[Android Apps and Games] innerspace:
Mizuu Sort Of Working on G-Slate

Alright, after the latest update the app is working on my G-Slate but is crashing and acting buggy.

The bulk of my collection isn't being found by the media scan. The app discovers 128 files. It finds files like /foo/bar/*.* but ignores 100s of folders like /foo/bar/fail/* and their contents.

I'm seeing no cover images for the large majority of the 128 files it does find. Bear in mind that XBMC/Boxee find the info on these files with no issue. I have altered my folder structure numerous times yet the app always recognizes the same 128 files.

So, something weird with recursive directories. Scan is inconsistent in file types discovered (sees some avi's for instance but not all).

Youtube trailer lookups work, movie details are loading and ratings are displayed.

One last note, I've specified my /MOVIES directory in settings and the behavior did not change.

Playback seems to be failing as well.

If I hit 'Play Movie' from within Mizuu it launches a dialog asking what player I'd like to use. I choose MoboPlayer (seems the best of all I have tried) and the player launches then fails saying "cannot open file..." however if I browse to the file from within Moboplayer it opens and plays back with no issues.

Some suggestions:

It would be nice if upon initial launch the user could be prompted for media locations to streamline importing. Also, adding further exclusion options would be nice. An option to "Use Folder Names for Lookup" like in XBMC would be nice.

XBMC has the ability to act as a media server or client, have you considered making Mizuu aware of XBMC shares or DLNA devices?

What can I do to help you debug these errors? Name it and it's yours.

On the PLUS side, the app is really pretty, scrolling is super smooth and the layout is nice and clean. So congrats on some really nice design and props for taking the initiative. Unfortunately as I type this the app just crashed again taking the crash report dialogue with it. Same situation as echoed above, app crashes after scan.

One quick question: is mizuu using xbmc code?

Thank you for your time!
[Android Apps and Games] MichellBak:
Hey!

You can add a custom storage directory in the settings, but I really wouldn't recommend it, as it'll take up a lot of memory if you've got many movies.

I'm working on a TV shows app, which will do that.

I'm afraid there's not any other ways to buy it at the moment - sorry.

Cheers!

All I know is that Android Market seems to be experiencing some issues, but you're more than welcome to contact the support and try to see what they've got to say. It's rather annoying.

Amazon Market - perhaps :)

Hey!

I know why you're experiencing those issues, and the majority of them will be fixed in the next update.

I never really intended for Mizuu Movies to be used with external drives, etc., so I'm really only capable of offering limited support.

In the latest update, I've limited the number of found movies to 128, but due to a coding error, it'll start getting buggy once you go past 64 movies. The reason for this is that the Android OS limits the amount of AsyncTasks you can run at a time to 128, and due to my mistake I'm currently using two tasks for each movie. I'm guessing you're seeing a lot of movies without cover and "Error" in the title, right?

That should actually explain a lot of your problems with the app, but I'll do my best to fix it and see if I can somehow get around the OS limitations of AsyncTasks.

The AsyncTasks are also to blame for the failed playbacks. The custom directory is the last to be checked, so if you've already hit the 128 movie limit, your files in that folder will not be added.

I'm actually not much of a fan of adding specified directories to scan, as the app should pretty much do everything on its own automatically, but for people with as many movies as yourself, that may not be good enough. I'll think about it and see what I can do, but for now the app isn't meant to be used with external drives and whatnot. I wrote it to use local files on your tablet, and I doubt anyone has that many movies on their tablet :)

The crashes are also caused by the high number of movies in your library. Android has a memory limitation for each app, called heap memory, and even though I'm using the largest heap I can, many Bitmaps will force a "out of memory" crash.

I'll try to work on avoiding it and handling out of memory errors better, but as I said, it's really not intended for that amount of movies.

And no - all the code is written by me from scratch, including the scraper.

Hope you can understand :)
[Android Apps and Games] innerspace:
hmm, this confuses me. why would we need a media manager for the small number of movies that will fit on, let's say, a 32GB device? I digress...

I am seeing the behavior you describe. How is it music apps and media players get around the issue of large libraries? Is this really an OS limitation issue? Will the hard limit of 128 entries be removed in the next update?

As you state, the app does not handle TV shows well, it would be nice to specify an exclusion for that directory. The app scans it automatically because it exists in my local filesystem at /sdcard/cifs/*

Seems to me that many apps store the resources locally and only pull the thumbs into memory when needed, like the Google Music app... maybe I'm misunderstanding you.

Again, I'll mention the XBMC shared library stuff. You may want to take a look.

Thanks again for the updates, I look forward to seeing the app mature.

[innerspace]
[Android Apps and Games] MichellBak:
Well, AsyncTasks are one of the only way to make network operations in Honeycomb, since you no longer can do it on the main thread. The amount of AsyncTasks you can have running at the same time is limited to 128 - check the docs, if you don't believe me.

Since most music and video players don't need to make 128 concurrent network operations, they're not going to have any issues with this. In Mizuu Movies, however, your movies are currently being identified at the same time. I may be able to change this, so only 10 or so will be identified at a time, but for now it's trying to identify all of them at the same time.

You can easily exclude TV shows. The app is capable of recognizing TV shows that are using the "show.title.SxxExx" format, and excluding them. This is enabled by default.

And yeah, Mizuu Movies does store stuff on the local memory as well, but loading 128 Bitmaps into the app memory is something that takes up a lot of memory. As I said, I'll work on keeping the memory usage down in the next release, and depending on how well it goes, I may or may not remove the limit.

Cheers!
[Android Apps and Games] innerspace:
I understand, as with all things Mizuu is a work in progress :)

I may have misunderstood the apps target audience a bit, but feel there are many out there like me who are aching for a proper media management/playback solution. Honeycomb and USB host means larger libraries are going to be a more common occurrence. I imagine properly dealing with media libraries that span multiple locations will be a pain so I do understand. Your app is at the top of my list (I've purchased it) so I'll be around. Looking forward to seeing how things develop.

Thank you for your speedy responses.

[innerspace]
[Android Apps and Games] MichellBak:
Hi innerspace!

I'm happy to say that I've successfully come around the limitation and that I've made extremely prominent progress towards fixing the memory issues :)
[Android Apps and Games] MehLon:
Out of interest, when do you expect the Gingerbread version to be completed? Can't wait to download it and give it a go :D
[Android Apps and Games] MichellBak:
Hey! I'll probably start work on it in a few weeks :) Just gotta make sure that the tablet version is working properly before I'll port it to anything else :)
[Android Apps and Games] brunnogama:
Hey man, How can I put my own cover´s movie?

There was a film the program does found the cover.
[Android Apps and Games] MichellBak:
Hey!

It's listed in the first post under "How to use movie.nfo & movie.jpg":

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=15901028&postcount=1

Cheers!
[Android Apps and Games] mddsd:
Regarding translation, if you want help to translate the app to Swedish, then do not hesitate to tell me. :)
[Android Apps and Games] MichellBak:
Thanks a lot! It won't be long before I'll need translators, and I'll keep you in mind :)
[Android Apps and Games] brunnogama:
Ow,sorry! I didn´t saw it. My bad.

So, I did the .nfo file, but on plot, I´m having problem on show characters with accent (ã, á, ç etc), showing a question mark on it.
[Android Apps and Games] MichellBak:
Please make sure that your .nfo files are encoded in the UTF-8 format and not ASCII :)
[Android Apps and Games] brunnogama:
How can I see it?

I created the .nfo file through .txt files (rename XXX.txt to XXX.nfo).

Is There other way to create it?

EDIT

Man, I remember. The Notepad++ do it!
[Android Apps and Games] MichellBak:
Yeah, open the file in notepad, hit Save As and choose UTF8 instead of ASCII at the bottom of the save dialog :)
[Android Apps and Games] gubshi:
Hey :)

I really liked the App on Honeycomb 3.0.1 on my Motorola Xoom (EU/WIFI-only), but now I'm on Manta Ray 2.0.1, which is 3.2, and the App won't recognize my movies, doesn't fetch the covers, and when I click on a movie the ab just FC'es :(

I know it's still in development, just wanted to let you know. Keep up the good work!
[Android Apps and Games] MichellBak:
Hey, that sounds really strange. It works just fine on 3.2 on my tablet. Can you please post the directory of the movies? Are you using any nfo files? Can you please send a crash report?

Thanks
[Android Apps and Games] brunnogama:
Hey man,

I connected an external hard drive on my Xoom with more than 600 films and Mizuu recognizes only 128. What should I do?

The HD is formatted in NTFS.
[Android Apps and Games] MichellBak:
Hey!

Wait for the next version, which will remove the limit. The current limit is set partly due to an Android limitation, which I've removed in the next version (gotta love open source) and partly because the current app's memory management kinda sucks. This is also fixed in the next version.

Also - I doubt you'd want to go through 600 movies in the current horizontal scroll view :)
[Android Apps and Games] brunnogama:
Yeah man, really thanx.

It would be great to have another view, as several smaller covers on the same screen, like this on Windows Media Center:

http://carltonbale.com/wp-content/uploads/windows_vista_media_center_dvd_library1.jpg

Would it be possible? :D
[Android Apps and Games] MichellBak:
I will add some sort of a grid view - not sure if it'll be exactly like this, but I'll be significantly better for large libraries :)

Cheers!
[Android Apps and Games] brunnogama:
Hum...

It would be great!!

I can´t wait this news features!
[Android Apps and Games] nvanlaar:
Good news. I switched to gtabcomb and viola! I could purchase mizuu. There must be something wrong with the Illuminate ROM.
[Android Apps and Games] nvanlaar:
Instead of "No Cover Available" could it at least display the file name?

Thanks,

Nick
[Android Apps and Games] MichellBak:
Hey Nick - great to hear you got around the Market issue - and thanks a lot!

Yes! The next version -- should -- change this, so it'll include the file name of the movie.

I'm very excited about the next release. It'll bring tons of features and it'll be much faster and much better for your tablet device to run. If you've got any issues with the current one, please make sure to try out the upcoming one, which I hope to finish during the next few days.
[Android Apps and Games] Submarine854:
I've just ordered Mizuu and facing some issues with it.

I've uploaded a single file to my Xoom's (wifi, US, Android 3.2) internal memory: Jagdfieber (Open Season).mp4, to folder /Movies, no second SD card installed.

When starting Mizuu it scans for files but does not find this single file. What's wrong here? I guessed that mp4 is natively supported?

Any help greatly appreciated!

Thanks

Btw, playing this video with MX Player is fine!
[Android Apps and Games] MichellBak:
Hey!

Thanks for this! Erm, are you sure the directory path is "/Movies"? If so, then that's the problem. I'm guessing Motorola changed some stuff in the newest update, and my app doesn't quite support it yet. I'll make sure it gets fixed in the next update :)

For now, if you can put a movie in any folder in "/mnt/", that'll be recognized.

Cheers!
[Android Apps and Games] Submarine854:
Actually the folder is /mnt/sdcard/Movies when searching using a file explorer. /mnt is read-only, btw. I'm rooted, however, I don't want to copy movies to a non default folder/location.

As this is the default on my Xoom, is there a chance to let the user specify any path(s) for its searching process?
[Android Apps and Games] MichellBak:
I don't understand why this is happening then. "/mnt/" and all of its subfolders are scanned by default, along with a couple of others. There is a setting to enter specify a custom path, but it's only available when you're actually inside the application and have access to the Settings view :(
[Android Apps and Games] MichellBak:
Just found the bug - sorry! This will be fixed in the next release.
[Android Apps and Games] Submarine854:
Please, please make it available very quickly as I cannot wait for trying out Mizuu ;-)
[Android Apps and Games] MichellBak:
I'll do my very best :)
[Android Apps and Games] azez1982:
Nice app

Hi greetings from another Dane here on XDA :)

Loove the app, but im (as is everybody else) interested in a feature that i could really use.

I keep all my moves in one place, so an option to only search in that folder (or maybe a few folder) would be nice.

Keep up the good works..

ps. any tips on how to easy convert movies for my tablet ?
[Android Apps and Games] MichellBak:
Hey, cool!

I'll see what I can do about that.

I use Freemake Video Converter for most of my movies. Does a pretty good job, and it's fast. When I need to make a movie absolutely perfect, I go through a long process that takes hours and hours. I'd give FVC a go if I were you :)

@all

I'm hard at work with the next release. Lots of major changes that have been taking quite some time, but it shouldn't be too long now. It'll definitely be released this week, before the weekend, and quite possibly within a few days.

Sorry about the long wait - it'll be worth it :)
[Android Apps and Games] ThaDSman:
I'm on an ASUS Transformer, running Prime 1.6r2 (Android 3.1) kernel: clemsyn blade latest

I think Im having the same problem, ever since I bought this app (skipped the free version because this looks so awesome!)

It never worked for me though all i get is the lets roll screen and it scans but finds no videos...I put two epsodes of Warehouse13 on the Micro SD, Dock's SD and the internal /mnt/sdcard/videos directory and it still doesnt find anything.
[Android Apps and Games] MichellBak:
Hey!

TV show files are ignored by default, so if your files contain SxxExx in their name, it'll ignore them, so that's probably the reason why :)

Cheers and thanks for purchasing! :)
[Android Apps and Games] nvanlaar:
+1 for Freemake. It does dvd conversions as well. Good quality and free! (As in beer)
[Android Apps and Games] MichellBak:
Hey guys

If anyone's interested in beta testing the next release, please send me a PM.

I have yet to implement all the new features, but since there's a major database change in the next release, I'd like to make sure that the upgrade works.

I'm looking to get feedback ASAP, so please send me a PM, if you're interested.

EDIT: Thanks for the interest - I won't be needing any more testers now :)

Cheers
[Android Apps and Games] innerspace:
PM sent, awaiting reply
[Android Apps and Games] basheater:
Thanks for a great app!

Sorry if this isn't relevant, I know you made this application for tablets, but I just have to ask.

As you may have heard, honeycomb just leaked for the Logitech Revue.

The first thing I did, was of course trying to install your app!

Unfortunately, it didn't work as well as I have hoped. The application just fills up about a quarter of the screen. I guess that it is some resolution problem, as I have 1080p on my tv. =)

To my question: Are you going to try to add support for Google TV in the future?

This would be a killer app, perfect for TV!

Thanks in advance!
[Android Apps and Games] MichellBak:
Hey!

Thanks a lot! As you said, I made this for tablets, and don't really have any chance of testing it on a Google TV, so I'm afraid it's tablets only at the moment.

Still can't understand why it'd only show up on a quarter of the screen, since most Honeycomb tablets er 1280 x 800 pixels.

Cheers!
[Android Apps and Games] basheater:
Hi!

It's probably a bit bigger than a quarter, here is a pic:

https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/Kh3MTG3VSXVsTolCtzxlI9jpHmk03BW6MFRb-YrTFXU?feat=directlink

I understand that you have enough to do already, but if you ever want to have it working on GTV, I will gladly beta test it for you!

Until then, I'll just use it on my tablet. =)
[Android Apps and Games] MichellBak:
Wow, that looks really weird. I'll see what I can do about GTV's, but I hope you understand that it's not a priority at the moment. Cheers :)
[Android Apps and Games] basheater:
Of course!

Looking forward to the updates, with or without GTV support! ;)
[Android Apps and Games] MichellBak:
Here's a preview of some of the cool new features of the next release:

The trained eye will notice at least three new features :)
[Android Apps and Games] MichellBak:
Here's yet another sneak peak... :)
[Android Apps and Games] brunnogama:
Really nice!!! :D

This app is the best on Android!
[Android Apps and Games] basheater:
The update looks nice!

Just got to say that I solved the resolution problem in GTV!

What I did was that I installed Spare Parts and unchecked the Compatibility Mode box.

Worked like a charm after that!

You can't choose a movie with the keyboard, have to use the mouse. The movie details page looks weird, but hey, it works!

If you are interested in how it looks on GTV =)

https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/Plg831hxG7kAYiAFNIQfd9jpHmk03BW6MFRb-YrTFXU?feat=directlink

https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/MyXA64uvIxS4p-coIKer9djpHmk03BW6MFRb-YrTFXU?feat=directlink
[Android Apps and Games] MichellBak:
Thanks! :)

I'm afraid there's not much I can do regarding GTV. It seems to be using totally different ways of scaling or building the UI :(
[Android Apps and Games] basheater:
I see, no problem. =) Looks great on tablets, and will of course continue to use it on my tab!