movie loader

[pBS]

was just seeing if anybody would be interested in or is already working on something to copy movies over to pch with show info and a nice html to go with? for those who wanna be able to take a few movies with pch on hard drive and go mobile...

i'm working on making a web page app that lets you see your recordings on gbprv server, and check boxes for ones you'd like to copy over to internal hard drive, when you hit submit, it will copy, and create a movie listing html with info from db and possibly thumbs,etc for viewing when unattached from home net.
[take your movies to a friend's house in HD]

any suggestions welcome..

also wondering if a 'real' web browser might be doable, like lynx or similar?
even just for the ability to browse sites,and maybe with some mods to play content on those hard to link to sites..

6-08-08: almost done with a video library version,should release in a couple days...

[dirkomatic]

I like this idea a lot.

[pBS]

so far i can do it with a batchfile.cgi and tiny web server...but i'll probably have EWA serve it up eventually...will have to come up with some nice looking web page templates, but the rest should be fairly easy...
[dynamically create listings with checkboxes and form, and then do stuff with selection results...
not sure if the myibox browser can handle checkboxes yet, wait...yep, seems so,enter checks the box.. cute...lol
oh and add a delete button to delete shows locally..

shouldn't be long now before i have something ugly but workable....

before i go to much further tho, i need some info about EWA and if it can host this page possibly..[so no extra web server needed]

also, whether this would be best run from pch? or server? [much easier on server to implement!]

[pBS]

also,i found a cute way to echo out those pesky < and > chars from dos...
use ^< and ^> !!! :eek:
makes a lot of things with html and xml easier with dos batch files...

echo ^<hello^> >file.txt
would have a result of:
<hello>
in the text file...

just a trick i found from the old dos masters..

[pBS]

i was thinking since we have the gbpvr interface already on pch, i could use video library to do it all.. and it would be available on both local and pch..

tho a simple real plugin would be much better...but that's kinda beyond my talents..with a basic framework i could work some things, just a cross between recordings screen and video library..to see info and be able to select for copy from same screen...which is how i'd do it with html...[which i suppose is also usable on both platforms ]

first i'll probably do a video library version [just a batch file that spits out html], then a html based query one, then maybe try my hand at a real plugin..

getting db info and making the pages will be easy, it's the picking of files that is hardest part...need a checkbox or similar..

anyone care to donate a simple file browser plugin with show info i could work into a transfer plugin? lol
may be something with source like Recordings2 already out there..

[psycik]

I think mcbainuk had a file transfer plugin that may be of use...

[pBS]

oh yea, for transfer to usb stick or something right? cool...thanx, will look into that..did it give show details? i thought it was just regular video library type..
[straight listings, no info]
gotta get the web page templates working first tho...

sure wish there were a list of the specs the web browser supports...
and would be totally nice if it did animated gifs, but nope..

[psycik]

No it was just library type stuff. But maybe you could ask for details as well - also not sure if the source is available...

[pBS]

oh...
now thinking i should just use dvdauthor to make little dvd's out of them, really doesn't take any extra time, and gives all sorts of extra playback options on pch...smooth rewind, chapters,[a pseudo comskip!] and menus with info..
and actually this is already built, my showburner or the real plugin, Burndvdx2
just set to output the dvd dir to your pch share and skip burn or iso creation..
tho it doesn't make a menu for *all* the dvd's on one page..but i can add that easy..

i really don't know why these playback options aren't available for regular files..? not in-progress, just regular files...

i wonder if a real vob with nav packets would allow that also?
[a lightning easy transcode option]
or just a vob with .ifo? will have to investigate..i like rewind...

[pBS]

already got the video library version working, less than a page of batch..
a nice table with thumbs and titl/sub/desc. and links...

right now, it copies any you select to the pch, then rebuilds the index there..
i added a link on my telnet page for this so when away i can just select this instead of gbpvr or browsing blind..

a bit more to clean up and add some options for alternate locations like usb..
[and lots n lots of testing] and prettying up the menu page..
right now i have same bkground as telnet page w/white text...

taking suggestions...

[btw, the links aren't underlined on pch, this is firefox, but it looks same otherwise.. plus only font on pch is arial]