Hi,

It has been a few to 6 months since last time I released or posted something here, no to tell the reason.

I have been working on a software which would somewhat replace the KODI software for my HTPC as the system seems to be low on resources – the KODI is just unable to present suitable video playback.

So as a solution I started creating a new software – as there is no other way to fix the problem (of course) 😀

To create a new HTPC solution from scratch is somewhat time consuming.. 🙈

The recipe goes as follows

• Find suitable libraries for video and audio playback
• Find suitable libraries for full screen web browsing
• Do code as a maniac
• Do remember to relax
• And do think what other users might have to expect for the software to do
• Use the “nightly” release to do what you might expect and be prepared for a catastrophic disappointment 🐣 😢 🍺
• The name of the software to become, I decided to name it as vamp# (video amp) as the audio software this is using via WCF will be the amp#

The project seems to be creating a lot of side projects – with Windows.Forms, reminder: Learn something more efficient 🐌 ..

 

So to the conclusion, it might take another six months before this project will released as I’m doing this as a hobby, not as work.

By the way I try not to release any beta version of any software, so just email me or contact me other way if you found more bugs on the previously released software however I use my laziness as an excuse to do nothing.

A teaser 😾:

The most time consuming issue seem to be a license compatibility with the GLPv3 – someone (hopefully not me) should construct a mind-map or a software to see the compatibility with the selected license :innocent:.   

TODO

• Make it work
• Have the time to make it work
• Release the updated projects such as amp# before releasing this project
• Lot more of of this hobby
• Duplicate the amount of swearing out loud :mega:

I have not spared any resources on this one, all the images used in the software are PNG images sized enough to scale to a 4K television and this is made possible by the openclipart.org with an excellent selection of image as I don’t have any visually artistic talents.

The resources

As I mentioned before I have spared no resources – first the working directory

NSIS creating an installer with the best compression (took about 7 minutes with a Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4770K CPU @ 3500 GHz whit a SSD drive):

Surprise, the size is now a lot smaller 💽 !

See you all at the next time (TODO:: update the manifesto of something to support the GDPR).. 💖😘