I’ve been doing lots of changes to Mizuu during the past week or so. Most of them have been changes “behind the scenes”, but some are very evident - like the change in the detailed view for TV shows.
Mizuu will now show a list of all episodes on the left side of the screen and there’s a drop-down menu to filter by seasons. As you can see from this screenshot, not everything’s ready just yet, i.e. I need to add one more button below “Actors” to even the space out - any ideas for a button? All done now - the fourth button is now an “Episodes” button that’ll hide / show the episode overview. There’ll also be a setting to set its default visibility.
Other visual changes so far include some new settings, new About menu, YouTube search in Movie Trailers (such a small thing, but it makes a world of difference), bug fixes, layout changes, library updates occur in the background and I’ve been working a lot on strings in the application - making everything easy to understand, and making sure that everything can be translated.
Anyway - at this point it’s mostly been a lot of code clean-up and restructuring to make room for better things.
Possibly a button to download the selected episode or movie to your device.
This will make sence in the v1.8 when you have NAS support. I use my device to stream content from my NAS so unfortunatly mizuu is redundant till v1.8 but cant wait till it happens. Sometimes i wish to store movies…tv shows on my tablet so it would be cool if a button could download the episode or movie from a NAS and then store in a designated folder on your tablet device. If the source was already from the device in the first place…so im guessing if the line started with mnt/tvshow…..instead of samba for example the button could be greyed out and not clickable.
Hey Dan!
Thanks for the suggestion! Only a fraction of the users would use that feature, and I’m pretty sure that it wouldn’t be a frequently used feature among that group of users, so I’m not going to add it as one of the four buttons for the most used actions. If I add it, it’ll probably be in the drop-down menu.
Having said that, I still believe there are other solutions out there - i.e. file explorers - that are better at doing this kind of stuff. And they already exist! 🙂
you should add a button that hides the big episodes list on the left and goes to the “old * ” TV show overview (from where you will get back to this new screen with the list by pressing the episodes button)
*http://mizuu.tv/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/mizuu_6-600×274.jpg
Been thinking of something similar - good idea!
Edit: Done!