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English => Feature requests => Topic started by: amnesia on June 28, 2006, 04:11:19 PM

Title: very simple menu change!
Post by: amnesia on June 28, 2006, 04:11:19 PM

i would like the "PREVIEW" option to be available for ALL files, not just video files.

this is because many times i wait for days downloading a piece of software that ends up being porn... it would be nice to test .rar, .iso, and other files without having to wait until they are complete.

Title: Re: very simple menu change!
Post by: GonoszTopi on June 28, 2006, 04:28:52 PM

Yeah, the menu change is simple.

The more difficult part is to set up preferences for each file type to preview with what.

Title: Re: very simple menu change!
Post by: amnesia on June 28, 2006, 09:15:06 PM

You misunderstand - same player for all files.  I'm just saying don't grey-out the "preview" option for non-video files, so that a user can test to see if any given file is actually a video.

Title: Re: very simple menu change!
Post by: Vollstrecker on June 28, 2006, 11:15:34 PM

You don't understand. You have to specify the app to preview for each filetype, and that's not a simple change.

Title: Re: very simple menu change!
Post by: Kry on June 28, 2006, 11:30:30 PM

No, he wants to preview them using the VIDEO player.

Title: Re: very simple menu change!
Post by: Vollstrecker on June 28, 2006, 11:44:54 PM

k, then good luck.

Title: Re: very simple menu change!
Post by: amnesia on June 28, 2006, 11:58:03 PM

Yes, Kry understands.   It should not be more involved than commenting out one or two lines of code.

Other than that, it's a wonderful piece of software!

Title: Re: very simple menu change!
Post by: Kry on June 29, 2006, 12:16:59 AM

I could add an "OpenWith"

Title: Re: very simple menu change!
Post by: Vollstrecker on June 29, 2006, 12:33:40 AM

amnesia: Which codec do I have to install in mplayer to view rar-files?

Title: Re: very simple menu change!
Post by: amnesia on June 29, 2006, 12:38:40 AM

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Originally posted by Kry
I could add an "OpenWith"

Whatever suits you, seems like it would be easiest to simply not grey-out the menu option.

Title: Re: very simple menu change!
Post by: amnesia on June 29, 2006, 12:57:13 AM

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Originally posted by Vollstrecker
amnesia: Which codec do I have to install in mplayer to view rar-files?

Look it's not that hard to understand.  Have you ever downloaded a large rar and when you go to unarchive it you get "Invalid archive"?  Chances are good that it's a porn movie that has been renamed to whatever you think you're downloading.  If you play it in mplayer you can view it.

So instead of waiting for days for a large archive to finish downloading,  it would be nice to simply use the video preview option - if it shows a video obviously the archive is fake.

Title: Re: very simple menu change!
Post by: kreegee on June 29, 2006, 01:38:07 AM

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Originally posted by Vollstrecker
amnesia: Which codec do I have to install in mplayer to view rar-files?

side-note: VLC plays them, even if parts of a multi-span archive are missing or the archive is broken. (and even if there's a iso of a dvd in the missing/broken rars  :P)

Title: Re: very simple menu change!
Post by: GonoszTopi on June 29, 2006, 05:07:42 PM

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Originally posted by amnesia
Have you ever downloaded a large rar and when you go to unarchive it you get "Invalid archive"?  Chances are good that it's a porn movie that has been renamed to whatever you think you're downloading.

I use File Details to check other file names. If most of the file names are of something different than what I think, chances are high that it is fake.

Title: Re: very simple menu change!
Post by: vdb on June 29, 2006, 06:25:23 PM

Ah, yes, file details, if only that was available from the daemon/gui combination.

But come to think of it, neither is preview, so this thread does not apply to me anyway....  ;)

Title: Re: very simple menu change!
Post by: GonoszTopi on June 29, 2006, 07:47:34 PM

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Originally posted by vdb
Ah, yes, file details, if only that was available from the daemon/gui combination.

Will be. "Soon."