New Video Archive Plug-in Release

[Jeff]

The mpeg support is already in the plug-in. I store all my DVDs this way. Just specify them as DVD directories in the config applicaiton. Use the yellow button on the remote to toggle to the DVD list display. GetDVDInfo will fetch info for all the DVDs it finds and thereafter the plug-in will manage getting the info as you create new DVDs.

As for AVI support, this requires transcoding. Jorm has done something with this in XRecord which I have been meaning to look at. However since I don't have any AVI files on my machine at the moment I have no way to test it.

Jeff

[critifer]

Quote[/b] (Jeff @ Jan. 29 2005,13:04)]The mpeg support is already in the plug-in.  I store all my DVDs this way.  Just specify them as DVD directories in the config applicaiton.  Use the yellow button on the remote to toggle to the DVD list display.  GetDVDInfo will fetch info for all the DVDs it finds and thereafter the plug-in will manage getting the info as you create new DVDs.

As for AVI support, this requires transcoding.  Jorm has done something with this in XRecord which I have been meaning to look at.  However since I don't have any AVI files on my machine at the moment I have no way to test it.

Jeff

What about the support for 2 segments = 1 movie?

Is this already in there?

Thanks Jeff

[Jeff]

Soory; I misunderstood. That is not in there yet. I will add it to the list. I'll need to think a bit about the best way to implement it. One though is to define a new file type (for example .mpglist) that contains the list of files. You would have ot manually create these files or perhaps a tool could be written to create them. What do you think of this? do you have any ideas for what would be a good way to create and manage the "play lists"?

Jeff

[critifer]

Quote[/b] (Jeff @ Jan. 29 2005,13:21)]Soory; I misunderstood.  That is not in there yet.  I will add it to the list.  I'll need to think a bit about the best way to implement it.  One though is to define a new file type (for example .mpglist) that contains the list of files.  You would have ot manually create these files or perhaps a tool could be written to create them.  What do you think of this?  do you have any ideas for what would be a good way to create and manage the "play lists"?

Jeff

Jeff - I am perefecly happy with doing that (even if it needed to be a file format in each path - manually created) This way we'd be certain the play order is correct to.

(-; Jeff - while u r at it here is another cool one I've done with my other implementations. Have a global file of the same... and in this file the user can define a global trailer for their movies - then in the remote movie directory they can add the Movie specific trailer to the path. so would look like this in the file ...

x:\DVD\GOODMOVIE\BlackHawkDown.mvlst
-
BlackHawkDown.mvlst looks like ...
- BlackHawkDownTrailer.mpeg
- BlackHawkDown_1of2.mpeg
- BlackHawkDown_2of2.mpeg

THEN you have a global one in a central path (which could be optional if it exists that would play for example a .mpeg "Welcome to our Theatre" .... before anything else... (-;

All these are doing is queueing up the play order of files. Very kewl - I do this now with a few X10 light dims and such but maybe u could think about this.

Jeff - .AVI format please also. The embeded decoders support the file format and I suspect your app would play them just fine. If you could just grab one to test.

Also - do you think the ISO piece will be done soon? I know u said u had it kinda.

Let me know if I can offer any more help. I will test anything you like.

Thanks a million
Chris

[critifer]

Quote[/b] (Jeff @ Jan. 29 2005,13:04)]The mpeg support is already in the plug-in.  I store all my DVDs this way.  Just specify them as DVD directories in the config applicaiton.  Use the yellow button on the remote to toggle to the DVD list display.  GetDVDInfo will fetch info for all the DVDs it finds and thereafter the plug-in will manage getting the info as you create new DVDs.

As for AVI support, this requires transcoding.  Jorm has done something with this in XRecord which I have been meaning to look at.  However since I don't have any AVI files on my machine at the moment I have no way to test it.

Jeff

Jeff - just as a sanity check - AVI's play perfect, you'd just need to pick them up in your search.

Let me know on the ISO pieces and the playlist suggestions.

Thx
Chris

[reven]

jeff theres no easy way to do playlists in gbpvr yet, since you cant play one after another using
pluginhelper.playvideo(vid1);
pluginhelper.playvideo(vid2);
since they will both be called before the first one plays, also you cant use a thread.sleep(100000) or anything.
i tried putting it in the paint method, and wait say 30seconds after the first one starts, that way the video should have started playing by then and when it exits it, the paint method would be called, it would check to see if at least 30 secs have pasted and play the next file, but if a user stops the video, the next one would play. and well it just got messy after that.
so we need sub to create a few extra methods to allow a videoplaylist.

if you have any other idea of how to do this, let me know, but everything i thought of there were complications, and it would never work the way i wanted it to.

[PeterM]

VideoArchive does not seem to work with the new 0.90 gbpvr release. As long as the plugin dll is in the plugin directory, gbpvr will not start (uses all system memory and cpu cycles) - even if it is turned off in the config...
peter

[Jeff]

Yes, I've noticed this too. I seem to now get errors when loading the schedule; I have sent a log to sub to see if he can see anything.

Jeff

[dwestbrook]

* Added an option to display files graphically; press the unnamed remote button (Control + O).

What button is this exactly on the newer MVP remote? in another thread it said above the play button, but for me that's the (named) mute button... and all the rest of the buttons are labeled.


One other question, too -- this is from the 2004-12-28 part of the changelog on the wiki page .. is this featue still available at all?

For recordings that are in the GBPVR recordings directory, the plug-in will now display an Archive button to enable you to move the recording from the GBPVR recordings directory to the archive directory. To disable this feature, delete the <SpecialElement? name="DialogBoxArchiveButton?" line from the skin.xml file.

[Jeff]

As I understand it, the unnamed button dpes not exist on the new remote. I will have to put out a new release to handle this case. Any suggestions for a button to use that makes some sense in this context?

As to the archive function, it is still there. I take it you are not seeing the button show up?

Jeff