NPVR IVideoPlugin

[McBainUK]

Is IVideoPlugin ready for use? How does a plugin inform NPVR that it wants to be shown? Is there any user config required to enable an IVideoPlugin?

[sub]

You dont need to use IVideoPlugin, just implement your video plugin using IScreenPlugin like all other plugins.

[McBainUK]

What is IScreenPlugin:SetPluginCallback(IPluginCallback callback) for?

[McBainUK]

You dont need to use IVideoPlugin, just implement your video plugin using IScreenPlugin like all other plugins.

I'd like my plugin UI to appear like an OSD on top of the TV show. Is this possible? At the moment, implementing IScreenPlugin, it just appears in the Main Menu like a regular plugin.

[sub]

By default all IScreenPlugins are listed in the main menu, but you can untick it in the Plugins screen to have it not appear in the main menu. I'll see if I can add some mechanism for plugins to say that dont want a specific IScreenPlugin to be listed on the main menu.

You can activate your screen over video by calling PluginHelperFactory.GetPluginHelper().ActivatePlugin(myIScreenPlugin); when video playback is active. I guess the trick is determining when its appropriate to call that. I'm not sure I have a good answer for that right now.

[whurlston]

If you don't need all the functions of the IScreenPlugin, you can create a class derived from IEventNotification and it will not show up in the menu. You can then create a class derived from SimplePopup and UiButtonList.IUiButtonListCallback to display the overlay. Here's a simplified version of what I did:

Code:

public class DiscInsertNotification : NUtility.IEventNotification
{
         #region IEventNotification Members

        public void Notify(string eventName, object eventArg)
        {
            // this is empty because I'm watching for disc insert notifications and don't need NPVR's notifications.
        }

        #endregion

        // This is the function that I call to show the popup overlay.
        void ActivateOverlay()
        {
            MetadataPopup popup = new MetadataPopup(new NUtility.SkinHelper("Popups\\DVDInfo.xml"), "PopupBackground", args, null);
            NUtility.PluginHelperFactory.GetPluginHelper().ActivatePopup(popup);
        }
}

public class MetadataPopup : SimplePopup, UiButtonList.IUiButtonListCallback
{
   ...
}

[McBainUK]

You can activate your screen over video by calling PluginHelperFactory.GetPluginHelper().ActivatePlugin(myIScreenPlugin); when video playback is active

I've tried this but it doesn't show the screen over the video. What happens is that once the video has stopped the plugin screen is then visible. Any thoughts?

[sub]

hmm, it should. Thats what I do for the TV Guide. I'll check.

[McBainUK]

Did you find anything useful?

[sub]

Can you see if this fixes it?