test "My Videos" plugin UI

[reven]

hey i want a few people to test out this ui ive done for my videos, i want to get this right since i will be using the same interface for a few more plugins.  its only an alpha release, and i havent yet add clickable regions on theh fill lists (is every where else thou).  only things you can do at the moment is play dvds, rip to iso, dvd-to-dvd copy, 3 different file views, sort files based on date, name, type and size; you can use folder.jpg/folder.png in icon and big icon view.  it will search gbpvr\media\my videos\[filename -minus extension].jpg for a image to display a movie poster etc for file (im still working on this to make download these things automatically).  um yeah, any skin developer, fini especially can you test this out, and see if you need any more tags in the skin file.  its tried to put as much as possible in the skin file (around 120lines i think).

heres a link its 457kb which contains the skin test i made just dump that folder into the skin you are using to test it out (havent done the blue skin yet) and just edit that skin to get the basic idea.

enjoy, oh yeah remember its an alpha (i want to put a lot more features into it, just want to get this stuff right now before i move on)

NOTE: the dvd ripper rips to iso and you must specify a directory to do this to, but this directory must also contain directories it works on this theory \DVDs\Genre so \DVDs\Comedy \DVDs\Action etc.

[darrin75]

I will most certainly look at this for you. You are making something that hits my interest...Talk to you later

[Jeff]

For my recordings & DVD manager plug-in I wrote a smal lprogram to download DVD info from IMDB and/or Amazon.com. it fetches the movie name, poster, genre information, and summary. If you'd like the source I can send it to you and you can adapt it.

Jeff

[reven]

oh sweet, i was putting the imdb thing off because i wasnt sure how to start it, ive written a xmltv tv grabber which parsers the pages, but wasnt sure if this was the best way to approach getting info from imdb, i thought it might be more like an online database and accept sql commands or something, but yeah jeff your source code would very much be appreciated. can you put it in a class, and i just pass a filename and it passes back the info (not sure if theres more than one hit thou). how does it store the image aswell? i want to put the posters in gbpvr\media\my videos\[filename-extension].jpg

cheers,
reven

oh also anyone know how you use the remote buttons in the program like case Keys.Left for left button but how do you do it for the remote keys, i want to use red/yellow pgup/dwn, green for info and blue to switch views and back for up a directory.

[Guest]

I have it in a C# class. It has methods to return the genre, description, URL for the poster image, run time, and movie name.

If you look at the source code for the Video Archive plug-in you'll see code the handles all the color keys on the remote plus the skip forward and backwards keys for page up and page down. There is also an early version of the IMDB app in the plug-in source code, although my current version does a much better job. If you send me an email I'll send them to you.

Jeff

[reven]

i sent you an email, just wondering what happens if you search something which has multiple search results eg
<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">
IMDb name and title search
A search for "buffy the vampire slayer" found the following results:

Exact Matches (3 matches, by popularity)

1. "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" (1997)
aka "Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Series"
2. Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992)
3. Buffy the Vampire Slayer (2002) (VG)
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does it just pick the first one? or returns a result array?

[reven]

hey sub ive implemented back to go up a directory, but if the user presses menu the &quot;Deactivate()&quot; method doesnt get called, and in that method i save a xml file to disk, is this just an over sight on your part or did you do it this way for a reason? (my method doesnt even get called when gbpvr exits)

[sub]

Its probably just a bug in the new menuing system included in this release. I'll take a look.

[Jeff]

Since I couldn't figure out how exactly to search IMDB I &quot;cheated&quot; and let google tdo it for me using an &quot;I feel lucky&quot; search. So, what gets returned is whatever google thinks is the best match. In the Buffy the Vampire Slayer example it would be http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118276/, which is for the TV show.

Jeff