NOVITE Devlog #1

Alright, so NOVITE actually works now. For anyone just joining, it’s a little media player I’m building in Python with ffmpeg and Qt. It can open any video file you throw at it and there’s a slider so you can skip around instead of watching everything from the start. That’s all it does so far, but it does it.

The video wouldn’t show up

This one annoyed me for a while. The file loaded fine, no errors, just a black box where the video should be. Turns out I was using “SP” when passing the frame to Qt instead of the proper format constant, and PyQt6 just quietly said no. ffmpeg was innocent the whole time, it was totally my fault. Changed one line and boom, video. An hour of my life spent blaming the wrong thing.

The slider was decorative

Yeah. The slider was there, it even moved with the video, but you couldn’t actually touch it. Clicking did nothing, dragging did nothing. Just a progress bar cosplaying as a slider.

The reason? I forgot to hook it up to the media player’s position. That’s it. That was the whole bug. Connected it and suddenly it works like a real seek bar, click anywhere, drag it around, the works.

What’s next

• Volume control. Should’ve been in from the start, honestly. Right now it’s loud and you just deal with it.
• Replay/loop button. For when you want to watch the same thing again without clicking anything.
• Make it not ugly. It’s very gray and default right now. I’m thinking dark theme, nicer sliders, some personality. NOVITE sounds like it should look cool, and right now it does not.

That’s the update. I’ll write again once volume exists and the app stops looking like a school project.