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[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] MichellBak:
Yes, definitely. It's quite possibly coming today with a few other fixes. I see that some people have been experiencing force closes because they tried searching without any mounted memory media. It's a bit foolish to do that, but it shouldn't crash nonetheless :)
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] MichellBak:
Hey guys

Couldn't help myself - I've released an update, which adds support for external SD cards. Here's the change log:

Version 1.2.5 (July 25)

Added support for external SD cards

Added a new theme (Wallpaper Theme)

Minor bug fixes

If you're using the Lite version, you may not notice the added support, though.

The application prioritizes the internal memory, so if you've got eight or more movies on the internal memory, you won't be seeing any files from the external SD card.

Also added a new theme in the paid version, which will use your current wallpaper as the application background.

I've just uploaded it, so it may take a few minutes for it to appear on Android Market - please be patient :)

Hope you'll like it!
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] gniouki:
Will there be any support of .avi and .mkv files ?

Thank you !
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] MichellBak:
The upcoming version adds support for both, but it's limited support.

For .mkv files, you're required to have a third party application installed to watch the videos - or you'll watch them without sound (default Honeycomb support).

For .avi files, you'll also need a third party application the videos can be opened with.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] gloscherrybomb:
What would be great is if you could add movies that dont exist on the device. I have a number of movies on an external hard drive which i connect to my TV. Id love to be able to browse through these on my Transformer to decide which movie to watch without the movies actually being on the device.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] MichellBak:
Quick tip: Create an empty text file with the name of your movie and change the extension from ".txt" to ".mp4", and you can have just that :)

For example:

"Avatar.mp4"

The files won't play, but you'll be able to have them in your overview, watch details and trailers.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] rpavich:
Just some feedback if you don't mind:

1.) The app looks great. I love the overall scheme.

But...

1.) Could we have the ability to make the covers smaller?

2.) The app forced closed the first time I launched it.

3.) It couldn't find the cover to a TV show that I have though I had allow tv shows ticked.

4.) The information for the Hulk TV show from the 70's was incorrectly identified as the movie of the same name from the 80's.

Just a few things but if these types of things can get worked out...this will be worth paying for.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] gloscherrybomb:
This didnt work... the autosearch at the start still doesnt find any files.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] MichellBak:
Thanks!

1) I've been considering adding a gridview as an option, but not sure when this will come.

2) Can you please send a crash report if it does it again? And quite possibly a list of all video files you've got on your device - that'd really help me a lot :)

3 / 4) For movies that are identified incorrectly, use the Manual identification option (looks like a search button) in the movie details view. Here you can re-identify files. If it still can't find the cover, you can always add a jpg file with the same name as the video file in the same folder. The app will automatically use that instead :)
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] MichellBak:
Have you remembered to check off "Ignore small files" in settings? :)
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] gloscherrybomb:
i cant access the settings if it doesnt find any files on first scan.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] MichellBak:
Oh yeah, sorry misunderstood you. Well, the only thing you can do then is find a file over 100 MB, change its extension to ".mp4" and let the app use that to begin with, then change the settings and remove the 100 MB file from the database :)
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] rpavich:
Ahh...great! thanks for the feedback!
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] rpavich:
Well...after fiddling with this; trying to get it to recognize a few DVD cover jpgs.....

I have a request; how about after you name the video (allow that to be the name) and then touch the cover and be able to choose a jpg out of your files in the TF?

I have a video that is mis-titled even though I typed in the real name...there is no title to choose...or even just to allow it to be the title that I typed in.

and the cover is still blank because even though I have the movie and the jpg named the same...the cover won't appear.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] MichellBak:
I'm not quite sure I understand everything you mean, but I'll give you the basics:

Say you've got a file called "Arthur.mp4". The application will automatically recognize this file as "Arthur (1996 TV series)", which is wrong. Here's how you fix that:

In the single movie view with the plot, rating, etc., there are some buttons at the top of the screen. One of them resembles a search button - press it and it'll automatically search for all matches on "Arthur". In this case, the correct result is the second one, "Arthur (2011)", so by pressing that the application will fetch the info and update the database to match the new info.

If you're still not satisfied with the cover art, you can place a .jpg file with the EXACT same name in the same folder as your video file. In this case it'd be "Arthur.jpg". Please note that even the extension MUST be in lower case letters. Any changes made will appear the next time you update the database or exit and open the app again.

Try it out and let me know how it works out for you :)
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] rpavich:
I got a jpg with the exact file name as the movie...then refereshed...but no dice....here are a few screen shots to explain:

Here it shows the cover not being found.

At the top is the title (wrong) and at the bottom is the file name and actual title.

https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/_WVTWGxHwszpAezy92QJo4BiW7sA4mVFmknu6RhaZ1Y?feat=directlink

Here it shows that the jpg is the same file name as the movie title and yet the cover is blank.

https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/mkQI_qOAFLDTbHec1cc7l4BiW7sA4mVFmknu6RhaZ1Y?feat=directlink
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] MichellBak:
OK - no problem, found the error. Your image files have the .jpeg extension, not .jpg - fix that and it'll work.

If you want to re-identify the files and have the option to manually search for titles, hit the search button:

Hope it helps :)
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] Drybonz:
Is this a player for local video files? No streaming?
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] MichellBak:
Hey! Yes, local files only for now. I'm considering adding network support, but it's not a priority at the moment, sorry. :)
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] rpavich:
Yes...that helped a lot...I only have one problem left....the title.

The title isn't found in the list and there is no way to force it to just be the title that I typed....

So the title is wrong...is there some way to force the title of the movie to be what I want it to be and not have to choose from the list?
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] MichellBak:
I'm afraid not at the moment - I could make an option to do that though. The app will use the name of the file as the title, if no matches are found, but I can see that that's not good enough in your case. I'll keep it in mind :)
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] rpavich:
By the way...I can get a force close on the renaming screen by putting in a " as the first character....

force close every time.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] MichellBak:
Thank you, I'll be sure to fix that in the next update! Don't know why I hadn't fixed that at the same time as I fixed it with a single apostrophe (') :)
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] rpavich:
Actually, that would work just fine for me....as the title is what I want to name it! :)

I appreciate your help.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] MichellBak:
New version is out - please update and try it out:

Version 1.3.0 (July 26)

Lots of bug fixes

Improved UI

Added support for lots of file formats

Two new themes

Support for SD card in Asus Eee Pad dock

Option to use filename as movie title if no match is found
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] gniouki:
What file format support did you add ?

Still don't recognize avi and mkv for me !
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] MichellBak:
You need to go to Settings and check "Include non-supported file types". Then the application will support the following file types on your next search/update:

.3gp

.aaf

.avi

.divx

.f4v

.flv

.m4v

.mkv

.moi

.mov

.mp4

.mpeg

.mpg

.mts

.ogv

.rm

.rmvb

.ts

.webm

.wmv

.xvid
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] rpavich:
Very Good! Thanks for fixing the file name thing and thanks for putting labels on the symbols.

Nice!
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] MichellBak:
You're very welcome! The "file name thing" will appear at the bottom of the list of search results when trying to manually identify a movie :)
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] rpavich:
I noticed; it was very easy to understand and use.

Thanks again.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] Drybonz:
Ok... thanks. I just downloaded the trial version to check it out and could not believe when the splash screen said .avi and .mkv were not supported.

I think that was a good move updating the supported file formats.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] MichellBak:
Released a minor update - v. 1.3.3 - please update to it whenever you can :)
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] jwilliamf:
Hello!

Good job!!! Very good looking app.

couple thing...

all my movies are mp4 and out the 14 movies in my MicroSD, only 5 get found. Also on setting, when I checked "Use enhanced reflections", it FC. Then when I start the app again, it FC without letting me going into setting to change the setting. I have to go to the tablet setting, and wipe all app data to be able to run the app.

other than that good app!!!
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] MichellBak:
Hey!

Could you please post the list of filenames here? Perhaps some of the extensions are in capital and not lowercase letters. For now it only works with lowercase letters - I'll fix it soon though!

Also know the cause of the enhanced reflections bug, and I'm working on a fix that'll be uploaded tonight :)
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] jwilliamf:
you mean the movie titles?
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] MichellBak:
No, the names of the files you've got on your sdcard, i.e. "Avatar.mp4" :)
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] jwilliamf:
oh, ok!!!

here is the list as I have on the SD Card:

Avatar.mp4

Iron Man 2.mp4

Monster Inc.mp4

Predators.mp4

Red.mp4

The Book of Eli.mp4

The Bourne Identity.mp4

The Bourne Ultimatum.mp4

The Taking Of Pelham 123.mp4

The Tourist.mp4

Toy Story 1.mp4

Toy Story 2.mp4

Toy Story 3.mp4

Unstoppable.mp4
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] MichellBak:
Hmm, I don't see anything wrong with that. It should work just fine :confused:
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] decepticon:
Just updated, was having the Transformer reboot when watching a movie launched from Mizuu to any video player. Testing a video out now but so far no issues.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] MichellBak:
That actually shouldn't have anything to do with the application, but rather the OS deciding to do a random reboot. All my application is doing is launching an intent that the OS / third party video players handle :)
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] husher:
Awesome day one purchase sir also waiting on the tv app.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] decepticon:
It happens only when playing a movie launched via Mizuu. The first build I downloaded worked fine but the update that enabled the SD card on the Transformer is where it started going wrong. Happens with every movie I play and both with the stock video player and MX.

When I play a movie through Root Explorer or the Gallery it works regardless of which player used.

The issue is that it will either reboot completely or freeze with a buzzing sound and I have to hard boot it.

Running Prime 1.6 if that's relative.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] MichellBak:
All right, thanks for the feedback. Very sorry to hear that you're experiencing problems with it. I'll try to see if there's anything wrong with the code I'm using to play a video.

Cheers!
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] decepticon:
No worries man, it's a young app and you are building it on an Acer so of course I expect some issues. Keep up the great work I still love the app regardless.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] adiliyo:
i'm having similar issues, but i can't pinpoint if it's the app or not, but i didn't really notice it before i installed it.

i'm on prime 1.6 as well with v17 or supercurio's(sp?) kernel OC to 1.4.

i'm going to flash to revolver 1.1.3 to see if that changes anything.

what kernel are you using atm? OC?

i'd try to get a logcat, but i don't know if it will show anything since the TF freezes and needs to be hard reset to unfreeze...

the app otherwise, it excellent, it actually got me to want to put more movies on my transformer just so i could browse them through the app. being able to pull from a network share would make it eleventy billion times more awesome. :)
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] MichellBak:
Cheers, guys - thanks for your understanding. Please do report back regarding the ROM to see if that changes anything :)
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] jhanford:
Just so I understand correctly: your app doesn't actually play the movies, it just launches them via Intents.

Just thinking off the top of my head, could it be some leak whereby your app is still receiving event calls even though it's not the top of the call stack anymore?

EDIT: I can't seem to get your big widget. I only have a 2x3 which appears to be the smallest widget.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] adiliyo:
so after a data wipe and loading revolver with its stock 1.1.3 kernel everything seems okay so far, i'll check it out some more when i get home.

not sure if it's related to the rom, app, or kernel yet, but it's a step in some direction i hope :)

i didn't even realize there was a widget until the last post, awesome work!
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] jwilliamf:
the only one that were found are:

The Book of Eli.mp4

The Bourne Identity.mp4

The Bourne Ultimatum.mp4

The Taking Of Pelham 123.mp4

Unstoppable.mp4

really weird that none of the other one are been found. I did the lates update and reset the database but same problem.

I will remove the app and then re install to see if that help.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] MichellBak:
I don't think it does, but I'll make sure to check it again!

Regarding the widget, I changed the SDK target in v. 1.3.5 to Android 3.0 from 3.1, and this - unfortunately - removes the resizable widgets. I could, however, create a few widgets of different sizes if that would help? :)

Thanks, please do check it! I'm pretty sure it has nothing to do with the application, but I'd love to be made 100 percent sure of it.

Cheers!

That is quite strange, yeah. You're sure that all the files are in the same folder and no other files are found? Can you please send me a PM with your e-mail address? I'd like for you to try the full version and see if that changes anything. Cheers!
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] adiliyo:
so far i haven't had the issue yet, so it doesn't seem to be the app, but rather a kernel/rom issue.

for others that may be having the issue, maybe try to flash the netformer or stock kernel if you're on prime and see if that helps
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] MichellBak:
That's more or less my conclusion as well. Couldn't find any errors in the code :)
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] jhanford:
Not sure about that. The SDK clearly shows that resizable widgets were introduced with 3.1: http://developer.android.com/sdk/android-3.1.html#resizewidgets
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] MichellBak:
Yes, I know - that's pretty much what I just said :)

The app was targeting Android 3.1 previously when it supported resizable widgets, but I had to remove the support for resizable widgets when I changed the target to Android 3.0.

The widget was using quite a bit of memory, too, because the covers had to look good even if you resized it to its max size. I'll add some more widgets in different sizes in the next update.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] Bazzz66:
Hello, I want to try out the light version, but the market says that is not compatible with my tf :confused:
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] MichellBak:
Something's wrong with Market at the moment, I think. Some can't even find it. If you're using market on your tablet, please search for "Mizuu" and be sure to select "All applications" next to the search bar and try again.

Can you please try and see if that works?
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] mothy:
I still cant get it to scan my external microsd card on my transformer (no dock), is that an option yet?
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] MichellBak:
Are you using a custom ROM?

It'll be fixed in the next version, which should support all storage directories and with an added option to specify a custom directory, like a mounted drive.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] mothy:
Yes Im using Prime 1.5 (sorry didnt know if it mattered). Thanks and cant wait.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] MichellBak:
Yeah, some of the custom ROMs are using custom directories for things like the external SD card. The approaching I'm taking with the next version is much better and should work with all custom ROMs :)
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] jhanford:
Haha! Yes, sorry. I read your FROM and TO the wrong way around.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] mothy:
Hey hanford, nice to see another Nothern Coloradoan on here!
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] jwilliamf:
ok! I uninstalled the app, data associated with it and i went into recovery and wipe cache and wipe dalvik cache. Re install the free version and Bingo!! that did it. The 8 movies allowed for the free version.

Since it work fine, I went ahead a bought the paid version and now all the movies are shown.

I will play around with it and post suggestion later.

Thank you!!!
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] Bazzz66:
Works now, it appears now in the market.

Tnx
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] sasha101:
App keeps forceclosing for me. The lite version worked when I was on Prime 1.5 but I just upgraded to prime 1.6 and no dice. It keeps forceclosing and I just paid for the full version. I tried different kernels and it still didnt work. help please?
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] MichellBak:
Hi Sasha,

Please send any crash reports, so I can have a look at it.

The custom ROMs are using custom directories for stuff like the external sd card, but the upcoming v. 1.4.0 should fix that. I'll publish it in a few hours.

Cheers!
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] wollyka:
bought the app and it is working great on prime 1.6 rom

Is there a way to only let the app update newly added movies and not try to identify all the movies including the old ones that were already identified? Thanks
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] adiliyo:
maybe try to uninstall and reinstall the app?
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] MichellBak:
I will add this in a future release. Currently, the update feature wipes all of its data and starts with a fresh search.

Cheers! :)
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] MichellBak:
The new update is out! 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

Go and get it! :)

NOTE: It may take a few minutes for the update to appear on Market.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] Walvater:
Nice concept!

I tried it yesterday, but I was kind of disappointed :-(

- Please add LAN support! I wanna see my movies from my NAS ;-)

- Please add support for additional containers (.avi, .mkv) and codecs

With this two point corrected, I could probably lay aside my iPad with XBMC...
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] MichellBak:
Hey!

The new update adds support for custom directories, so if you've got a third party app installed that can mount your NAS, you can use it that way.

The app supports those containers (and lots more), but you'll need a third party player, like Moboplayer, to play them, as they're not natively supported in Android.

Cheers!
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] Walvater:
Cool! Thanks for the fast answer! I gonna check it out today :-)
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] wollyka:
With the new update I am getting FC whenever I click on a movie
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] MichellBak:
Can you please send the crash report? How many movies do you have in the library? Any with custom nfo tags?

Thanks,

cheers!
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] wollyka:
I tested with one movie only without bro

Sorry but how to send the crash report? Where is it located?
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] MichellBak:
When the crash dialog appears, you can send a report :)
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] wollyka:
I am only getting a fc without the dialog box, only the option to close the app.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] MichellBak:
All right, can you please post the filenames of the movies you have on your tablet? I'd like to make sure that it's not an issues with the names. Also, are you using v1.4.0?
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] wollyka:
I found out the problem, by mistake I also copied a nfo from xbmc to the directory.removing it solved the problem so thanks for the help. Ian using 1.4 btw
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] MichellBak:
Oh, well it shouldn't happen nonetheless. Can you please post the nfo file, so I can examine the issue? :)
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] wollyka:
sure here it is
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] MichellBak:
Thanks a lot, I'll analyze it later and check for any errors in it or my code.

Updated:

Looks like you weren't using all the correct tags, so the error is partly my fault and partly yours. I - for some reason - didn't initialize the tags, so they'd just get nulled if no data was set, and your nfo file used <releasedate> instead of <premiered>. The next version introduces support for both and initializes the tags, so don't worry about that any more :)

@All

The next version will be a rather major release, and it'll take some time to code it. Much faster, uses a lot less memory, and there'll be lots of new features. I plan on releasing it at the same time as Mizuu TV Shows, which I'm currently also working on (it's capable of identifying episodes now, yay!).

Cheers! :)
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] adiliyo:
awesome!

i just wanted to point out, the app seems to run fine in 3.2. :)
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] wollyka:
Thanks the help btw the nfo was generated automatically by xbmc scrapper
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] MichellBak:
Oh, alright. I had just found some other nfo tags, but I've added support for those in your nfo file as well now :) Coming in the next update.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] D4rkShaDoWz:
Just download this app and I love it! Exactly what I was looking for - a couple of things I'll be looking forward to in future updates:

TV shows - but not in a seperate app, linked within movies in a new tab

different view styles - list mode, smaller thumbnails

option to show other review sites - RottenTomatoes and Metacritic

Otherwise, this is perfect! :D