Cool - maybe. I may never know. This thing only installs on Vista (at least the beta), leaving us XP masses out in the cold. No matter how cool it might be, it will never be cool enough for me to switch to that POS called Vista. And though there may be a workaround in progress, this shouldn't even be necessary in the first place. Oh well.

I agree with your comment but lets face it, those software developers are not adding to the bottom dollar for AMD. So why employ them when those salaries can go to hardware developers working in the CPU or GPU divisions.... or put them to work on driver development if they are capable of doing so.

So does this now mean that I could have a way (Via a rather nice and shiny GUI), to use my ~collection~ of DVB Cards under Windows?

As it turns out Microsoft apparently NO INTEREST in supporting anything other then DVB-T. Which as I said before is about as useful as a useful thing.

If this could run with DVB-C and DVB-S/S2 w/Common Interface / Conditional Access Module(s), this could be very interesting for me.

But then, what I'm looking for is something along the lines of a Reelbox, and I already have that (in part to the Reel eHD) and Klaus Schmidingers' VDR.
This already ticks all the boxes (Save GUI), but then which is more important nice looking GUI's or watching TV??

So... I see no reason to go back to M$ again..

Not to trash AMD, but I think they should just concentrate finishing Bulldozer.
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i think this guy is the type of the one who knows it all. the people who worked on this browser are not hardware engineers but rather software engineers. they are entirely in different division. i can't imagine what will the cpu look like if these software engineers will be in charge of the hardware research division.

For both Intel and XP instructions

http://www.brightsideofnews.com/news/2009/4/9/updated---how-to-run-amds-fusion-media-explorer-on-an-intel-cpu.aspx

Enjoy

iT PRETTY nice, JUST 6.8 MB on Vista 32, yet it takes ALL resources to run it, maybe turn off sidebar, too. Perhaps Pogo was smoother, both have limits. Like all floating libraies, Pretty COOL. STeWie Drashek

This interface is missing the point of "rich user interface".
If you start using 3D as a tool to find data, you can't do it by stuffing videos or picture on the screen. You have to help the user to match his human side intuition with the data represented by computer. For example, with deepviewer, Jerome my buddy did figure out that humans remember "fuzy days" ... so, Zooming into a calendar make perfect sense and help you finding the "wedding I went in 2006" ...
you usually remember as well where you went, so, a map was making sense too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7M3WrdDy_Dg
Just my 2 cents, UI needs to add value.

Francois

Not to trash AMD, but I think they should just concentrate finishing Bulldozer. Things like this don't directly increase their sales. Who buys AMD processors so they could use custom software?

Also, on a different note, I think AMD people should quit posting blogs and just concentrate on... again, Bulldozer. Blogs don't pay the bills. And they'd better stop whining about how Intel is just copying their architecture with i7. If there's a company who's an expert with memory controllers, it's Intel. They've been doing it since they started making chipsets in the early 90s. AMD, on the other hand, never really made a lot of chipsets (except when they were forced to come out with the first Athlon chipsts because VIA and the others didn't have their chips ready yet). So stop blogging, AMD. Start Bulldozing.

Wouldm't install on 7 beta ethier, So mes running dozen webcam balls, ALL at once, to simulate multi window media, latter on Vista, ole' Red i will report back. drashek

Casey: "Please give it a try"

No can do for many people until support for XP is added. Hopefully this is something that we can expect for a later beta or RC? Otherwise, a lot of people aren't going to be able to even try FME.

Thought I'd give it a try, and it's a Vista only. Which automatically makes it crap as CoolIris works fine under XP. Close but no cigar AMD!

Cool Iris is a cool plugin. I like it myself, but Fusion Media Explorer is very different. There may be some similarities in how they appear on the surface, but FME is a full media management system. It combines local with online, allows for live TV, surf the web while you watch TV or videos etc. The feature most people really fall for is the Facebook integration. It stores and manages your friends FB photos. In any part of the app, I can type in Sylvie's name and get to the photos she has shared on FB. All doing it in the same 3D UI and even merged in with my local photos if I like, for slideshow purposes, etc. Please give it a try, and see if you still think they are the same thing. They really are very different if you take the time to try them both.

I like to support AMD products, so that there is competition in the CPU market. Thus keeping innovation high, and prices low. But this piece of software from AMD is useless for me. Besides the fact that I run Ubuntu Linux.

I get the impression that this sort of software is for people that save or store their date and media files anywhere on their computer. With no order or categorization. So they basically have no idea where the media files they are looking for are kept. I'd hate to see how they keep their house/apartment.

I learned years ago, that if you don't keep some order to your data. You won't find what you are looking for. It's become second nature now for me to place data in it's appropriate folder with a descriptive file name and such.

Fair enough i only scanned the article and didn't catch that.my comments were not intended as criticism but more as a heads up about the cool iris program which is in fairness pretty much the same program. ive also realised that cool iris works for i.e firefox and sahara.

It only runs in the odious vista thing! (at least the beta). :\

I think its cool. Doubt i'll use it but cool.

And BTW Ryan "Actually, in our INQpinion, FME isn't particularly innovative, but it sure is exceptionally good looking and user friendly!" - Inq even said its not innovative but pretty

This program is nothing new in terms of innovation the only difference i can see between fusion media explorer [AMD] and Cooliris for firefox [Cool Iris Team]
is that the Fusion media explorer has a bend effect on the current selection set.

Check Cool Iris out at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5579