AMD Fusion Media Explorer
A Better Media Experience
My name is Casey Gotcher, and this is my first official blog on AMD’s behalf. I chose to wait a while, specifically to speak to this particular topic. We have been working diligently for over a year now on this product, and I am very excited to finally take the wraps off of it publicly
What is AMD Fusion Media Explorer?
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The AMD Fusion Media Explorer (FME) is a new 3D Immersive Social Media and Digital Media Browser, built and distributed by AMD. In addition to enabling unique multimedia and social media experiences, FME does a great job of showcasing the power of AMD CPUs and GPUs. This application demonstrates what our platforms are capable of when the software is designed to take full advantage.
AMD Fusion Media Explorer combines a user’s local media items, plus related online content from providers such as, Flickr, YouTube, and Microsoft Live. In addition, FME has Facebook integration which gives our users even more options for posting or interacting with their favorite photos or friends’ photos. All of this is managed by an integrated search engine, that makes it very easy to quickly locate what you are looking for.
I like to put the goals of the AMD Fusion Media Explorer into these 3 buckets:
- 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.
Primary Features of Fusion Media Explorer
Photos
- Find and View photos from your local hard drive, removable USB or SD cards, and online sources, such as Flickr, Facebook, and Microsoft Live.
- View related photos and videos from some of these online sources, which pertain to what you are looking at in the main viewing area. For example, if you are looking at your photos of Paris, you might also be presented with other users’ photos or videos from the same area.
- Upload your photos to your Facebook or Flickr account with a simple button click. This is often much faster and easier than going through the Web UI’s for these services.
Music
- Easily find and listen to your favorite music with our integrated search engine or 3D Ribbon.
- Use our AutoDJ feature to automatically queue up playlists for you from the same genre or artist you are currently listening to. Click on one song and AutoDJ will take it from there.
- Be presented with related music videos or other clips while you listen. For example, if you are listening to U2, you will likely be presented with some of their music videos to the right in our related media bar.
- As was the case with Photos and Music, easily find the video, movie, or TV show you are looking for with our integrated search engine or 3D Ribbon.
- See your video collection come to life as FME will actually start playing multiple videos in the ribbon, while you browse, making it easier to find what you are looking for. The better the performance of the machine, the more videos FME can play simultaneously.
- Watch full screen or send to the integrated Mini player so you can surf the Web while you watch a movie.
- Be presented with related YouTube videos pertaining to the content you are currently watching. For instance you might see cast interviews, bloopers, and sometimes even full episodes, depending on what FME can find on YouTube that relates to what you are watching.
Some other details to note about FME… It has been developed for our notebook platform technology, “Puma” and desktop platform technology, “Dragon.” It will be provided free to our customers, via download from www.amd.com, or in some cases may come pre-installed on select AMD-based systems.
Concurrent with the posting of this blog, I am releasing a special build of Fusion Media Explorer for friends and family members. This will supersede our public beta by a couple of weeks. If you are interested in giving it a try, you can find it here, www.amd.com/fmepreview or find me on twitter at www.twitter.com/caseygotcher if you need the link or (especially) if you have feedback on the application.
* Internet access is required to take advantage of the online search / retrieval functions.
Casey Gotcher is Director, Product Marketing at AMD. His postings are his own opinions and may not represent AMD’s positions, strategies or opinions. Links to third party sites are provided for convenience and unless explicitly stated, AMD is not responsible for the contents of such linked sites and no endorsement is implied.
POSTED IN: Home Theater
TAGS: 3D, AMD, Fusion, Fusion Media Explorer
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COMMENTS: 44
To devs: just make sure you do something about preview crashing. A lot of apps today crash when they try to preview a file that’s not 100% supported.
it dosnt run on windows 7
AMD FME works on XP without any problems. The same thing is about Win 7. I Have FME on both systems and it works very well. Here is my instructions from another site:
“Hi!
From some days I try instal FME on my WinXP SP3. And all my work go to nothing. But today I found this article and it inbreathe me.
If you want instal AMD Fusion Media Explorer on XPPROSP3 you must do ONE SIMPLE MOVE. Download SuperOrca
Empty your TEMP folder C:/Docs & Set/(Username)/Local Data/TEMP
Begin normal instalation of FME but DON’T CLICK OK When you see INCORRECT OPERATING SYSTEM
When you have open this error window go to TEMP folder and copy on your desktop THE ONLY FOLDER on TEMP directory.
Open SuperOrca and than open SETUP.MSI file in it.
On LAUNCH CONDITION you have VersionNT>=600, click on it RMB and choose ALTER ROW
Than you see edit box, ther change THIS SIGN=> “>” to THIS SIGN=> “<”. It mean instalation WANT Windows version LESS THAN VISTA. Probable you can than instal it on Win 98 :LOL:
Gratings from Poland
MasterOfDisaster
(Sorry for my English)”
This is about WIN XP. If you want to run it on Seven you must instal NET.Framework 3.5 and the newest Flash Player. After instal restart your PC and enjoy
(Sorry for my Eng ;/ I’m from Poland)
Will mkv video files be supported in the future?
XP is obsolete I have been using win 7 beta since it
came out and its less buggy than vista (horrible) and xp sp3. not only that xp is rarely supported by most new software now days. Get over xp go win 7 it pwns
Problems selecting network shares as a watched folder.
All of my music and pictures is stored on a NAS. I am not able to watch these folders. When I attempt to add the location in FME I get this error: “Z:\ can not be selected, please select another location and try again”….I have no problem sharing this music share with other application such as tversity, media center,etc.
Any suggestions:
System details:
AMD PII 955BE
8GB Ram
ATI 4870 1GB CF
Vista Ult 64bit
er someone said it wont work on Windows XP and she was all like, “wait.. what?”
Well for me the good news is just last month I finally managed to figure out how to get ATI Multimedia Center pre-R300 working properly in Windows XP on my AIW7500! I think I tried off an on for atleast 5 years.
I wish they would get the same caliber of engineers to write the software as they get for making the hardware!
What a find. Clean, intuitive, quick. I will watch this thread. I only wish it had 1 thing: an Equalizer. When we run media players on a pc, it’s difficult to get the sound just right, and having an eq before sending it out to the speakers would be the ticked to make me switch from MS player to this. Who designed this UI? Smar, smart, smart. Can you let me know if/when it will have eq? Best of success.
I have the same issue with browsin media from NAS. I have all my pictures and videos stored on NAS and have no problem to use from many different clients like Windows Vista/7 Media Center, linux, Playstation 3. Only FME give this error: “M:\ can not be selected, please select another location and try again”…. I tried it on my new laptop Gateway NV53.
hey im just asking how much longer for it to be out of win7 because this is one of the best apps i have ever used and i want to be able to use it on my new computer