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Now we're already at the third release of vipla...

This new release is a complete rewrite of the code. If you look at the files, not only are there a lot more, but they are a lot more easier readable and understandable. And vipla is a whole lot faster by now!!
In the last release, the library "mediainfo" was statically included (it was assumed it is in /usr/lib/). This is now fixed, so it doesn't matter anymore, qt will search (and hopefully find) mediainfo now dynamically.... read more

And here comes the next version of Vipla!! :-

This new release brings quite a lot of changes:
- Instead of using mediainfo as external process, now the libs are used in the code. That makes it faster to scan a directory structure (though having mediainfo installed now is a must-be). I plan to do the same (use the libs) with ffmpegthumbnailer soon.
- Now an (theoretically) infinite number of source directories are posible. On the buttom right you see now only one button with the amount of videos (and amount of videos shown) displayed. A long click on this button opens a menu for managing the database, adding new directories, updating the existing database, etc.
- The toolbar got two new buttons for going forwards/backwards per click. At the moment all buttons in the toolbar are quite big. I hope to change the size of some in the next release.
- A lot of bugs in displaying the videos are fixed. Now you can use any character in the filename and vipla is able to handle them (though mediainfo currently has a bug in working with filenames containing a questionmark "?" or star "*". This should be fixed in the next release of mediainfo)
- The video frame got an alpha feature: Hiding the cursor after one second. This still works only sometimes, but I hope to get it working for the next release.
- Some shortcuts were added (see table at the end of the README file for an overview). I plan to add more in the coming release. I want vipla one day to be useable without using the mouse, but only the keyboard. It's not yet there, but it will :)
- Vipla is now available in English and German (with on-the-fly translation)... read more

VIPLA is a simple yet powerful video manager and player.

## Collection
When you start it first, vipla asks you to select a directory, which is scanned for video files. The files are displayed in a simple list with a thumbnail image and a bunch of meta informatio as tooltip.
The database can be updated/cleaned/renewed everytime with the buttons on the right in the statusbar.

The scanning process can take a while, depending on your amount of video files and your cou perfomance.
On an Intel T3200 (2x2GHz) and 2GB RAM memory it took just about 3 minutes scanning about 105 GB video file (altogether 518 video files).... read more