Videos co developer?

[reven]

anyone want to codevelop 'videos' with me? im going to open source it and put it into the gbpvr library and change the GPL or LGPL.

i dont have enough time to keep up with it, and if i ever decide to stop i want the plugin to continue.

and i think it would be better if more than one person was developing it as well.

ill try and get the code up in the gbpvr library asap, i just need to go through the code and remove "Reven" from it

i would love to see the gbpvrlibrary a mature library with a few rock solid plugins, ideally the following plugins
- videos
- music
- pictures/photos
all the same type of interface, and all community developed.

and hopefully this will also help with the online community thing im interesting in doing....

so any takers?

[psycik]

Not to answer your question. But I'm thinking of giving away the ML2/3 code to anyone who wants it. I don;t know if it would lend itself for inclusion to the GBPVR Library code since all the UI elements I've used are pretty much my own.

So I could look at loading it in there, or I could create a new project. It's just there are function in there that would lend itself to the library (music tag support etc)

[reven]

the gbpvlibrary has a metadatalibrary in it, which is intended on support metadata from all media types (currently it just does videos from moviedb, thetvdb, imdb - but i intended it to have support id3 tags, freedb.org, exif for pictures etc).

once videos is in it, ill compile a preview build so people can see where im going with it. i do want the core plugins to look the same, so the UI layer may have to change.

also there is a pretty good db layer ive written that uses generics and can work with any odbc db. the basic code is like

Code:

MovieInfo movie = DB.Load<MovieInfo>(int MovieID);

and that loads all the info about the movie, including a base Video class (which is in a seperate table). so it joins tables, resolves types etc all from a one line statement. PITA to code the layer, but really easy to use it.

[psycik]

I've got the tag support library for music, that uses 3 different sources of tag readers (one for just mp3, one for mp3, aac, wma pretty much all, and then the default of using WMP for wma/mp3 reading).

That probably lends itself the best to the gbpvr library....

[reven]

yeah someone just needs to port the code.

is musiclibrary 3 split out into a data layer, business layer, gui layer ? if it is, most of the code could probably be ported in a short amount of time and just update the interface (which wont take long since its all controls/lists etc)

[psycik]

pretty much. Split over a number of dll's with a common backend/db layer so that 3 different guis can use same backend code...and only the 2 plugin guis contain any GBPVR specific code.

[jezz2020]

so what primary language is being used to develop these projects ? VB, C ? Would be interested in helping out but my C skills are pretty dismal at this stage, am much more comfortable with vb.net

[reven]

pretty much every plugin is C# around here, including videos and the gbpvrlibrary

[jezz2020]

Typical ! I have been slowly getting my head around C# using the old weather plugin, and while I would like to think I could help with this project (have alot of experience with relational databases, but it sounds like you got this licked), realistically i would probably end up being a hinderance! That said, if it is open sourced I would definately be keen for a look under the hood at the least, who knows I might suprise myself and actually prove useful

[Fatman_do]

As a non-programmer, I can only applaud these recent trends to open up plugins to the community. This will only help, in my biased opinion, grow community support and features that sub may not have the time to implement (or desire) in the base version of GB-PVR.

I am always open to lend skinning support where needed.