Media Browser - Thunder Blade 2.2.2.0 Now Released
A call for sponsors!
Media Browser is looking for sponsors, if you or anyone you know would like to sponsor the Media Browser project please contact sam.saffron<at>gmail.com. We would love to have a page on our website dedicated to thanking our sponsors.
We are now taking donations!
The Media Browser project started taking donations, don’t be shy, all the money we raise will go to ensuring the awesome that is Media Browser continues.
Special Thanks
Special thanks to all the developers, testers, and users who posted feedback in both the forum and here on the community tracker, and anyone else whom I've missed that contributed on this release.
As a standalone release this is a significant one for Media Browser. A great deal of work has taken place in refining our backend plug-in architecture and creating standards that benefit not only developers but ultimately you the consumer. Its now easier than ever to create a plugin to Media Browser which should allow for talented developers to really put their own spin on Media Browser.
On a somewhat personal level the ThunderBlade release validates the direction we've done for the past 3 / 4 releases and takes it to another level (I'm a bit excited …). So I've rambled on long enough there is only one thing left to say – enjoy!
Download
http://code.google.com/p/videobrowser/downloads/list
Release Notes
To get a full list of changes click here: Changelog: Media Browser 2.2.2 (codename Thunderblade)
We would also like to call out the following changes:
- Much has been said about Media Browsers memory usage, we have taken the plunge and added setting that minimizes memory usage (and in turn take up more CPU) to enable this setting have a look at: Memory usage of MB is really high. In particular there is a new setting in the configuration file that can be set manually: called CacheAllImagesInMemory when set to false, memory usage goes way down.
- Local trailer support is pretty cool very high WAF see: Local trailers support
Posted by soultaker on February 22, 2010
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February 22, 2010
Congratulation to the entire team, all other developers and the community members that have contributed to this latest release!
February 22, 2010
Congratulations to all involved. To those who haven’t used a build of Thunderblade yet, well you're in for a treat, have fun :)
February 22, 2010
Excellent work guys – it’s a superb release
ps..
I forgot to ask last time we spoke Jas,
Is the SQLite feature still available? (I think I saw something about this being disabled during testing)
Cheers Tylor :–)
February 22, 2010
SQLite was still available throughout the alpha testing so I imagine it has remained for this release.
February 22, 2010
Still available. I think you may have got confused when I said I normally disable that option (I'm not brave enough to use it … hehe).
February 22, 2010
Excellent! Absolutely excellent!
February 22, 2010
GREAT WORK DEVS I've been looking forward to this for sometime.. now off to play! ;)
Thank you to the Devs and the Entire MB Community..
-Matt
February 22, 2010
Another great release. I love the new plugin window, makes installing plugins really easy. Thanks for all your hard work guys. Its appreciated.
Rene (Virtual_Nobody)
February 22, 2010
Can’t wait to get home and try this. Upgrade or clean install? Any recommendations?
February 22, 2010
Upgrade should work perfectly well, I've not done a clean install throughout the alpha testing or a long time before then.
February 22, 2010
Upgrade works perfectly! no issues here.
February 22, 2010
Awesome!! Thanks!!!
22 minutes and I'll kick this place like a bad habit and head on home to Media Browser bliss!!!! :D
February 22, 2010
Thanks to all involved. I've been looking forward to this release for some time and can’t wait to see it installed.
Keep up the excellent work. It’s much appreciated.
February 23, 2010
Fantastic work guys! Downloaded and will be installing this when I get home from work. :)
February 23, 2010
I'd like to thank the DEVs, testers, and the community. This thing just keeps getting better and better!! Funny thing is, I've been doing nothing but reading, and posting all night. I'm still running RC4!! HAHA, off to download Thunderblade.
Thanks again,
Xzener
February 23, 2010
Be carefull with this install, i would give it some time before installing as it has broken my media center, I get INVALID APPLICATION unable to launch “media browser” with an option to disable it. I get it randomly, sometimes as soon as i open any entry point and some times while moving thru the menus. The backdrops are also not showing on the tv shows selection menu etc also episodes done appear without changing the view a few times.
Update: although not 100% fixed installing the diamond plugin has helped. I think the issue is that in the previous version i had options selected that have been removed.
February 23, 2010
Many thanks for this new release!
I made a donation but unless I'm doing soomething wrong one can only donate in australian dollar?
I've been following the progress on thunderblade. I installed it yesterday and am using chocolate theme. except for the configurator plugin part, I'm not noticing anything new? normal?
@ michaelv: I'm also experiencing ‘invalid application unable to launch mediabrowser’ randomly
February 23, 2010
@michaelv & ehgeahrev: please post your issue in a seperate topic on the tracker. It’s impossible to follow up on it here in blog comments.
ps: it might very well be that it’s the chocolate theme. I don’t know if it’s updated specifically for Thunderblade.
March 08, 2010
I was having problems the other day with Media browser 2.2.2 freezing on the t.v. Just a blank screen. Any one else? It has never done that before. Media Browser was the only program running, I mean nothing else was taking up CPU or anything. What do you think Jas? I down graded my Front room HTPC to Media browser Firestorm. But I miss the Thunderblade on the big screen.
Also Jas is it possible to make the green buttons for the Config disappear after a while instead of staying on the screen? Thanks man!