Web based playlist manager (Music only)

[RoyN]

hi jlewalle, did you happen to see me post right above samuel337's? I had a few questions tht maybe you could answer?

Cheers

[jlewalle]

Hey Roy, I've added the instant play when you click on a file in the browser and would love to see an Ajax style display at the top. It'll have to be something I play with when I get some more time. I'm pretty sure we can drop Ajax.NET in and get some functionality there.... Sorry about the looks, I tend to favor simple cleaner interfaces. I'm a developer, so yeah anybody is free to include their own themes (via ASP.NET's would be nice too)

I'll have to play around with Video support a little, it's not something I'd find useful, but I'm sure some people out there would use it. Shouldn't be too hard, right now everything is done on the MUSIC playlist type, just gotta figure out how that works and make the necessary changes..

[RoyN]

Cool,

I'm going to take a look at your design style, and I'll see if I can send you something that looks abit like the themes we're used to... I had started porting some skins from the XBMC web-interface to MP, so I should have something to start with....

Tell me, do you have, in your plugin, ways of getting data like "playing state (paused/played/stopped, etc)", and sending commands "Play", "OPause", etc? If so, I'll try and add a top-bar.

My main goal is somethign to use on a small UMPC screen or PPC screen, so I'll probably favor something that isnt very cluttered...

all this, of course, if you dont mind!

[jlewalle]

All the interaction with the media playing facilities occur through the IMediaPlayerService interface, there's a property on the ASP page, WebContext, that has a MediaService property that you can use. It's got properties for playing/paused as well as methods for standard start/stop/pause, etc... Just check out the Default.aspx* pages, there's plenty in there on interacting with things.

And be my guest have a crack at it!

[mzemina]

Originally Posted by RoyN

Cool,

I'm going to take a look at your design style, and I'll see if I can send you something that looks abit like the themes we're used to... I had started porting some skins from the XBMC web-interface to MP, so I should have something to start with....

Tell me, do you have, in your plugin, ways of getting data like "playing state (paused/played/stopped, etc)", and sending commands "Play", "OPause", etc? If so, I'll try and add a top-bar.

My main goal is somethign to use on a small UMPC screen or PPC screen, so I'll probably favor something that isnt very cluttered...

all this, of course, if you dont mind!

RoyN - Have you thought about adding to your goal the ability to allow the continuing designed (still in beta) MPBlue PPC client (http://forum.team-mediaportal.com/vi...ght=ppc#102134) to use your skinning tool?

Have you been on there thread and introduced yourself?

Mike

[RoyN]

Hi mzemnia...

I have talked a bit on there.... I was actually just porting a few of the skins, I wasnt doing a skinning tool since it is just HTML....

I really dont see why creating a native PPC application is any better in any aspect than a web-based interface that can be designed for whatever format the client wishes (ppc, vga, svga, etc)....

Thats why I dont really have a lot of interest in that projhetc... I think in time the web interface will have as many functions as the mpblue, but will be able to be used on laptopt webbrowses, ppc browsers, phone browsers, anything...

[samuel337]

Originally Posted by jlewalle

Sure no problem, MediaPlayer.exe.config should be sitting next to MediaPlayer.exe, it's the standard .NET configuration settings source... also it starts up on the default of port 8080 (which you can change in the Standard.xml file that goes in plugins/process along with the webplaylistmanager assembly and webroot directories.

I think a web service is fine in that situation. Anything should be chosen over COM. COM is a developer nightmare, IMHO. Web service is far more useful in the long run.

Er... there's no file called MediaPlayer.exe in my mediaportal\plugins\process folder nor in your zip file. Did I have to compile it first, or are you missing files on the 0.2 version zip file?

There's also no standard.xml file; only a WebPlaylistManager.xml file that contains options to change port and WebDirectory.

In my mediaportal\plugins\process folder, I have:
File: ECP2Plugin.dll 28 KB 6/05/2006 1:51:21 PM
Directory: LCDDrivers 6/07/2006 2:16:46 AM
File: ProcessPlugins.dll 312 KB 3/07/2006 7:02:00 PM
File: WebPlaylistManager.ConsoleApplication.exe 10 KB 13/07/2006 11:48:00 AM
File: WebPlaylistManager.ConsoleApplication.exe.config 3 KB 25/02/2005 12:39:00 AM
File: WebPlaylistManager.dll 80 KB 13/07/2006 11:48:00 AM
File: WebPlaylistManager.xml 1 KB 25/02/2005 4:03:00 PM
Directory: WebRoot 18/07/2006 11:43:51 PM
File: log.txt 4 KB 18/07/2006 11:43:52 PM
File: log4net.dll

Was there anything else I needed to do? Any other files I needed to copy somewhere?

I tried running the console app, but I get errors in the log.txt file saying it can't find the .NET framework 2.0 assemblies, e.g. System.Web.UI.

Sam

[Lyxalig]

bleep..

[jlewalle]

Oh, MediaPlayer.exe isn't in plugins/process, it's in the top level Media Player folder, the folder the plugins directory is in.

It's weird you would get an error about .NET framework 2.0 stuff....

And my bad, it's WebPlaylistManager.xml, not Standard.xml

[BoelShit]

Originally Posted by jlewalle

Oh, MediaPlayer.exe isn't in plugins/process, it's in the top level Media Player folder, the folder the plugins directory is in.

And i guess MediaPlayer.exe has to be MediaPortal.exe? 8)