movies

[Jeff]

The video archive plug-in (and commongbvrutilities) provide methods to both do the lookup on imdb (with amazon.com for a fallback) and store the image and information in the database. Since you are using the commongbvrutilities, if your open to the idea, I'd like to work with you to store and access the information using the commongbvrutilities database methids so that we don;t end up with yet another database storing the same information.

Jeff

[jh61408]

[quote=navyguy]What it does is query imdb with the movie title that you provide, then it pulls the first popular title that returns and uses that to provide all the information. That's why the title is important if it returns no results then it won't get anything.



BTW, does it actually play the .iso files? Like I said I don't have my gbpvr setup with the daemontools to do that with so I'm curious if it will play them or not.

It seems that it does not play the file, I used Daemon Tools. I am not sure that it using that application to read the file. jh

[navyguy]

The video archive plug-in (and commongbvrutilities) provide methods to both do the lookup on imdb (with amazon.com for a fallback) and store the image and information in the database. Since you are using the commongbvrutilities, if your open to the idea, I'd like to work with you to store and access the information using the commongbvrutilities database methids so that we don;t end up with yet another database storing the same information.

Jeff

I wouldn't mind using a common database. In actuality I view my app as kind of a step between what GBPVR provides "out of the box" and the Video Archive plugin. Which is why I made it for myself basically, I wanted more than the basic functionality but yours was more than I need. A seamless upgrade datawise from my app to yours I think would be fantastic for the end users. So I have no problem with sharing a common database, I'll take a look through yours and see what that would entail.

The only question I have is how do we work out the problem of us both distributing a common database with our plugin? Who controls the schema etc.? Do you want me to just use what you've got? Or do we come up with a GBPVRCommonVideoDatabase and go with that?

[navyguy]

It seems that it does not play the file, I used Daemon Tools. I am not sure that it using that application to read the file. jh

I kind of thought it might not work, since GBPVR doesn't play iso's by default plugins need to know what to do with the iso's and I hadn't even thought about it when I was originally coding my plugin. I'll stick that on my list and investigate what it'll take to make them work.

[Jeff]

I wouldn't mind using a common database. In actuality I view my app as kind of a step between what GBPVR provides "out of the box" and the Video Archive plugin. Which is why I made it for myself basically, I wanted more than the basic functionality but yours was more than I need. A seamless upgrade datawise from my app to yours I think would be fantastic for the end users. So I have no problem with sharing a common database, I'll take a look through yours and see what that would entail.

The only question I have is how do we work out the problem of us both distributing a common database with our plugin? Who controls the schema etc.? Do you want me to just use what you've got? Or do we come up with a GBPVRCommonVideoDatabase and go with that?

Right now all the database access in the video archive plug-in is via the commongbpvrutilities.dll library. I don't access the DB directly. There are methods for opening the db and reading and writing records much like there are for the main gbovr database.

Jeff

[jh61408]

I like the Interface of the plugin It shows the Image of the Iso and description of the movie. I hope you do work on the playing of Iso's as this would be a great
sub for my vidoes 5. jh

[navyguy]

I like the Interface of the plugin It shows the Image of the Iso and description of the movie. I hope you do work on the playing of Iso's as this would be a great
sub for my vidoes 5. jh

No guarantees but I am going to give it a shot. Let me chew on it a few days and I'll see what I can come up with. I'll be a bit pressed for time the next few days but that's the next thing on my list to add in.

[jh61408]

Thanks Jh

[navyguy]

Thanks Jh

Good news, it now plays .iso files. You'll need to have daemon tools installed and properly configured in GBPVR. I'll have an update with that and a few other changes posted towards the end of this week I think it should be ready.

UPDATE: I went ahead and released Beta v2, got everything done that I had planned for this rollup, it's on the wiki if you're still interested.

Navyguy

[hick]

This new movies plugin looks clean, simple, and I think it will be a great way for me to keep a database of all of the movies I own (not just on the computer, I'll create an empty .iso file for each movie I own) that I can browse through. I'll have to try this one out!