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Novice User Interface Solution
This is easily remedied if the essential functions such as full screen or changing subtitles were
located as buttons on the seek bar of the player. Also it is important that the non universal
buttons have labels on them because some inexperienced users are less reluctant of pressing
buttons they do not know their function of. Mouse over text would also be useful if it described
the function of the buttons. When in full screen mode the seek bar should appear when the
mouse is moved and disappear after a second of inactivity. The full screen button's text should
change accordingly. An example is if MPC is in full screen mode then the button should read
'exit full screen'. When the mouse is moved in full screen mode there should also be a big
button that appears in the upper right or left corner of the screen labelled 'exit full screen'. This
makes it easy for the user to recall next time they are using the player to perform the same
tasks.
Cost Estimates
For the development of the novice interface it would probably only take about 3 hours
assuming the developer is native to MPC, because it is only changing the GUI and adding icons.
The detecting of multiple display devices and muting the device inputs probably will take about
20 hours, because this type of programming requires more critical thinking. Also detecting
display devices might take some research into windows API which would take up time.
Assuming the developer makes $30 an hour the extra changes would cost about $690.