I was lucky enough to be included in a very small group of alpha testers for the upcoming meta 2.0 metadata manager – ‘lucky’ being an understatement as this application is going to astound you.
My initial look came around 2 months ago and it was pretty rough around the edges and had very little functionality. I saw this change dramatically over the following few weeks, up until today, where it is finally available in a state that I have been allowed to write about.
I was messing around with my codecs this morning and decided to update my ffdshow installation to clsid’s revision3291 (32-bit). I don’t remember the last revision I had, but I know it did not have the new DXVA decoder available for h.264 and VC-1 sources. What really piqued my interest, was that it included settings for subtitles. DXVA+subtitles+ffdshow? I had a hard time accepting it, but I was interested enough to give it a test run.
Just saw the update…Media Browser Thunderblade has just been released. Read about it and download here.
I knew it was coming, but for those of you waiting on pins-and-needles for the Thunderblade release are going to have to wait another week. A few things are taking the devs a bit more time to finish up than initially thought. It’s a very good move since these aren’t the type of things you sweep under the rug for later – primarily dealing with resource usage and playback annoyances.
The new release date is for next Monday, February 22nd.