Movie Poster Output (1 Viewer)

[marlon1925]

Im wondering if MP2 can have an option where it will display random movie posters (in a separate monitor connected in the same network) when there are no movies playing and when you launch a movie to play the poster will switch to a "Now Playing" mode where it will show the poster from the current movie that is playing showing the movie rating (PG, R18, etc) and the time remaning. When you press Stop or power off the player the poster display will resume showing random posters.

Please please please

 

[marlon1925]

is this possible?

 

[Lehmden]

Hi.
Displaying random Posters can probably be possible with existing plugins (AppLauncer with an external picture viewer program) but not the switching to "Now playing". In General I like the idea, but your request is a bit too special to get this done in near future by one of our few devs, I fear. In a more far away future this may be possible by the planed web- service. But this service did not exist now, not even a single line of code is done. So it may take a while until this can work without coding your own plugin.

If you can code yourself, please go ahead. Our devs will give you help as much as possible. If you can't code .NET you need to find someone who can, is willing and have the time to do it. If you do it or find someone who does, please be so kind and share your plugin with the community, thanks.

 

[kiwijunglist]

yes the first part can be done already in MP1, just point the screensaver or windows desktop background folder to the movie backdrop folder for the relevant plugin. I'm not sure if MP2 uses a specific folder with backdrops, but if it does you could do the same thing.

 

[Lehmden]

I'm not sure if MP2 uses a specific folder with backdrops

Yes, it does.

 

[kiwijunglist]

well there u go, would be extremely easy to have a monitor with random movie posters.