Advanced Micro Devices has released a beta version of their Fusion Media Explorer (FME) a 3D Immersive Social Media and Digital Media Browser. Designed to take advantage of AMD CPUs and (ATI) GPUs, AMD's FME combines a user’s local media items, plus related online content from Flickr, YouTube, and Microsoft Live. It also includes Facebook integration allowing users additional options for posting or interacting with their favorite photos.
Casey Gotcher, Director of Product Marketing at AMD, said on the AMD FME Blog described the goals of FME:
Explore - Explore your digital media content, from multiple local and online sources, in a quick and easy to use browser.
Experience - Experience your media in a more exciting 3D, immersive application
Discover - Discover new related photos, and videos, pertaining to what you are currently looking at or listening to.
Though this is technically a public beta, Casey is calling this "a special build of Fusion Media Explorer for friends and family members" which will superseded the public beta by a couple of weeks.
The "friends and family" beta can be downloaded here. only Windows Vista Home Premium and Vista Ultimate are supported. Windows XP, Windows 7, OS X, and Linux are not supported. Additional information is available on the AMD Blog and release notes.
So.....Is this basically a fancier interface for all your media then (sorta like WMP's Library Function)? Seems like it also connects to the net and finds related items?
Might be a nice thing...
I think I might wait to see what other people think (I do have Home Premiumm, so I can use it, though I don't have an AMD processor).
Wait... is this actually new or is it a rebrand of the AMD Live! Explorer that came out a year ago? if it really is just a rename of an existing beta then really that's just pathetic.
I'm hoping it can play many different types of video files or else it will be useless for me.
If it is a renamed version of Live Explorer that they did before then its basically a wrapper using WMP as the base player. If you have ffdshow and whatnot installed it'll play most of those files. It's more or less just a fancy catalog system. kinda got boring after the 5th or so use.
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Might be a nice thing...
I think I might wait to see what other people think (I do have Home Premiumm, so I can use it, though I don't have an AMD processor).