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<blockquote data-quote="mpsam" data-source="post: 840321" data-attributes="member: 95735"><p>On one of the Ted Talks sessions, the presenter said that one of the great things about open source collaborative software development, is that a person can contribute by fixing the one thing that is important for him/her. Normally for commercial software there is analysis, and only the features that many people are interested are implemented because of cost benefit analysis. But with open source one can fix a problem that applies only to oneself and maybe a few others and have a great return on investment. </p><p></p><p>I think that is what has occurred here. Deda said in a blog entry somewhere that he worked on the video section because that is what he used and he wanted it to be better. That is no wasted effort. That is 100% return on time invested for Deda. And, if we count the others who wanted these improvements, the return is even greater than 100%. Now I, like a lot of others, use the specialized plugins for movies and series and love them. But there is still a place for myvideos. The work that Deda has done means that my concerts, documentaries and other non movie or TV series DVDs, has artwork and metadata downloaded for them without too much effort. I appreciate that. </p><p>Thanks Deda. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big Grin :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /></p><p></p><p>We need to also remember that the video section is likely to be the first video collection portion of MP used by someone who is totally new to this software. I say this because if any of us recommend MediaPortal to a friend, we will usually tell how to set it up, if we don't actually do it. The totally new user may not know about Moving Pictures, TV Series or MyFilms. Hence, it is important that there is a good first impression. For those of us who <em>love</em> , (read <em>"are addicted to"</em> MediaPortal, we need a good gateway to attract other people to this wonderful experience. Deda's work will help to provide such a gateway.</p><p></p><p>At the same time it is becoming apparent that there is a need for something to handle the 'collection of collections' that we all have that does not readily fit into any category. JMHecker had started such a project but stopped. Looks like a lack of documentation was his reason. I suspect that documentation has gotten better over the last 2 years and it is something worth looking at again.</p><p></p><p><a href="https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/mediaportal-plugins-47/new-plugin-mediaportal-my-collection-73996/" target="_blank">https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/mediaportal-plugins-47/new-plugin-mediaportal-my-collection-73996/</a></p><p></p><p>Just my 2 cents.</p><p><strong><em></em></strong></p><p><strong><em>With Love</em></strong></p><p><strong><em>Sam</em></strong></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mpsam, post: 840321, member: 95735"] On one of the Ted Talks sessions, the presenter said that one of the great things about open source collaborative software development, is that a person can contribute by fixing the one thing that is important for him/her. Normally for commercial software there is analysis, and only the features that many people are interested are implemented because of cost benefit analysis. But with open source one can fix a problem that applies only to oneself and maybe a few others and have a great return on investment. I think that is what has occurred here. Deda said in a blog entry somewhere that he worked on the video section because that is what he used and he wanted it to be better. That is no wasted effort. That is 100% return on time invested for Deda. And, if we count the others who wanted these improvements, the return is even greater than 100%. Now I, like a lot of others, use the specialized plugins for movies and series and love them. But there is still a place for myvideos. The work that Deda has done means that my concerts, documentaries and other non movie or TV series DVDs, has artwork and metadata downloaded for them without too much effort. I appreciate that. Thanks Deda. :thx: We need to also remember that the video section is likely to be the first video collection portion of MP used by someone who is totally new to this software. I say this because if any of us recommend MediaPortal to a friend, we will usually tell how to set it up, if we don't actually do it. The totally new user may not know about Moving Pictures, TV Series or MyFilms. Hence, it is important that there is a good first impression. For those of us who [I]love[/I] , (read [I]"are addicted to"[/I] MediaPortal, we need a good gateway to attract other people to this wonderful experience. Deda's work will help to provide such a gateway. At the same time it is becoming apparent that there is a need for something to handle the 'collection of collections' that we all have that does not readily fit into any category. JMHecker had started such a project but stopped. Looks like a lack of documentation was his reason. I suspect that documentation has gotten better over the last 2 years and it is something worth looking at again. [url]https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/mediaportal-plugins-47/new-plugin-mediaportal-my-collection-73996/[/url] Just my 2 cents. [B][I] With Love Sam[/I][/B] [/QUOTE]
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