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<blockquote data-quote="Shukuyen" data-source="post: 507125" data-attributes="member: 74313">Hi,almost all the plugins I plan to develop or started to develop would like to get some more information about a file played by g_player.My thought was to extend g_player with a pretty title, description, file type (video, movie, episode, music, ...) and a thumbnail. Maybe the plugin name which started the player, too. A plugin or Mediaportal component would then supply those properties with the start method and g_player would make the skin properties available. This way all the &quot;wait x seconds then update the skin&quot; hack most plugins use would not be neccessary.While looking at the code I noticed that there already are properties vor _title and _description in the g_player class, but they aren't used anywhere.Does it make sense to code what I described above? Is it not possible for some reason? (I admit that I don't really know what's going on in the Mediaportal internals). If it makes sense, do you have any hints which places I have to touch?Thanks for all your input,Shukuyen.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Shukuyen, post: 507125, member: 74313"] Hi, almost all the plugins I plan to develop or started to develop would like to get some more information about a file played by g_player. My thought was to extend g_player with a pretty title, description, file type (video, movie, episode, music, ...) and a thumbnail. Maybe the plugin name which started the player, too. A plugin or Mediaportal component would then supply those properties with the start method and g_player would make the skin properties available. This way all the "wait x seconds then update the skin" hack most plugins use would not be neccessary. While looking at the code I noticed that there already are properties vor _title and _description in the g_player class, but they aren't used anywhere. Does it make sense to code what I described above? Is it not possible for some reason? (I admit that I don't really know what's going on in the Mediaportal internals). If it makes sense, do you have any hints which places I have to touch? Thanks for all your input, Shukuyen. [/QUOTE]

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