MP2 - V2.4.1 Cinema (3 Viewers)

[BigGranu]

@Lehmden New Version for the 10 Anniversary in First Post. https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/attachments/cinema-zip.148919/

 

[jehe]

Hi BigGranu,
You have created a nice plugin, thanks.

 

[morpheus_xx]

@BigGranu I really like your plugin and use it (more or less) often to watch trailers of currently running movies and to check playtimes.

One thing that is a bit "annoying" is the initial loading of programs. Although I have a good internet connection (16Mbit), this loading can take up to one minute, where you are not able to use the GUI.

Is it possible to do some/all loading asynchronously? This would improve the user experience quite much

 

[MJGraf]

Or Even better: move "loading" into a MetadataExtractor, store play times and links to trailers in MediaItems and just show them when entering the plugin. I recently gave some thought to user management, access restrictions and "parental control" and I think we should implement this right above the MediaLibrary so that users with insufficient access rights do not get all the results from a MediaLibrary query. If you want to benefit from that access control (e.g. For horror movies) make heavy use of the default MediaItem system...
Just a thought...

 

[MrTechno]

Presumably the MDE would need to remember the cinemas you'd previously asked for, or keep a favourites list or something like that. Fetching all the film times for every cinema in the world is going to take aaaaages

 

[BigGranu]

I believe there are various problems. (Loadingtime, Mediaitem)
As soon as I have time, i will take a look at this.
We have a Taskplaner in MP2? So i can once-daily make a Update in background?

 

[morpheus_xx]

Yes there is a scheduler, we use it to refresh mediashares every night. If you create a MDE, you profit of the logic already.
But you can also easily add your own tasks

 

[BigGranu]

I take a short look at the MDEs, but i had not understand it.
If i go this way, I need many help.
Theoretically I need 2 different MDEs.
1. Cinemas, Showtimes ...
2. Movieinfos, Trailer ...
Is that correct?

 

[morpheus_xx]

You can do this with one MDE only.

But you need to define your MediaItemAspects like:
- CinemaAspect: Name, Location, Showtimes (if no further query is needed, you could save serialized objects as string)
- CinemaMovieAspect: Name, TrailerUrl,..

Then loading Cinemas would use MediaLibrary and include MIAs [MediaAspect, CinemaAspect] in query. I didn't do this myself yet for "non file items", but it would be a good usecase to test this

 

[BigGranu]

In the Moment i cant use MDE or Taskscheduler.
I have not enough time to understand this.

I have it now but solved differently.
New Version In Plugins. https://www.team-mediaportal.com/extensions/mp2-plugins/cinema