Moving Picture Public Beta: 0.5.4 (2 Viewers)

[revs]

Another request by me: Custom Filters.

e.g. "All action staring Bruce Willis"
"All Animations from 2006"

etc

 

[piranha]

Another request by me: Custom Filters.

e.g. "All action staring Bruce Willis"
"All Animations from 2006"

etc

That would be Implement Filtering Subsystem.
You can place your additional comments to those requests there.

 

[fforde]

Hi fforde,

First, thank you for the hard work your putting in this. I very much apreciate it. The plugin is getting better and better, and I like it very much! Thank!

Now a question:
- Is it possible to set a default backdrop image? I find that, whith some old movies which dont have this backdrop image yet, the screen is too clean/empty. Maybe even an option to select local backdrop images like the cover-art option.

Yes, that's possible, but I think that requires a skin modification, that doesn't have so much to do with the plug-in. Any skinner's want to comment?

 

[revs]

Another request by me: Custom Filters.

e.g. "All action staring Bruce Willis"
"All Animations from 2006"

etc

That would be Implement Filtering Subsystem.
You can place your additional comments to those requests there.

Cool - I did a search but missed that somehow!

Does the Moving pictures keep track of how many times a Film has been played? if not - thats one to add - Play Count! Last Played too

I haven't yet installed the plugin, so not 100% sure whats already possible.

 

[Darre]

Hi fforde,

First, thank you for the hard work your putting in this. I very much apreciate it. The plugin is getting better and better, and I like it very much! Thank!

Now a question:
- Is it possible to set a default backdrop image? I find that, whith some old movies which dont have this backdrop image yet, the screen is too clean/empty. Maybe even an option to select local backdrop images like the cover-art option.

Yes, that's possible, but I think that requires a skin modification, that doesn't have so much to do with the plug-in. Any skinner's want to comment?

Yeah thats not a prob, the default background can be set in the .xml, and you could even set it to be a multiimage, taking images from a folder of moviebackdrops. Only limitation is that this folder should prefably be located within "yourskin\media\animations\yourfolder". In aeon and titanium this folder is allready there; "aeon wide\media\animations\movies".

Don't think I would want this as I stribe to get backdrops for all my movies, and with 80% of them having backdrops I'd hate too see some random ones in between all the correct ones. But its quite easy to do.

 

[fforde]

I am surprised skinners don't have easy access to the thumbs folder. That would make it difficult for a skin like Aeon to use the downloaded backdrops from Moving Pictures as a part of the slow rotation on other screens.

 

[gibman]

the imdb lookup lacks a blank item in the dropdown.
what if any of the found movies in the drodown do not match at all?

 

[fforde]

Does the Moving pictures keep track of how many times a Film has been played? if not - thats one to add - Play Count! Last Played too

I haven't yet installed the plugin, so not 100% sure whats already possible.

I added that to the watched flag tacking issue. These extra metrics probably wont be usable by the user (except for educational purposes ) until filtering is enabled, but I put it down so it will get added.

 

[fforde]

the imdb lookup lacks a blank item in the dropdown.
what if any of the found movies in the drodown do not match at all?

Actually it pulls from movie-xml.com, a community driven website. The best solution to this situation is to goto movie-xml.com and add the movie yourself. You would be manually entering movie details either way, so you might as well do it in a place where everyone benefits. Actually though there is currently no way to manually add unlisted movies in Moving Pictures. So for the time being, adding it to movie-xml.com is your only option.

In the next version though there will be an IMDB scraper (plus a few others) used as a backup for when movie-xml.com does not have what you are looking for or has gone down.

Check out this thread on the community nature of Moving Pictures though.

 

[gibman]

nice...

will u r at it.
auto download subs too based on lang. defined by user.;

OpenSubtitles?.org has a public API with which you can search based on a file MD5 checksum.

Subtitles - download DivX subtitles from the biggest open subtitles database

sounds cool ?


Also I think I'm going to miss the ability to categorize large amounts of movies.
Folders I use in myvideos.
* movies with subs
* kids movies
* new stuff
etc.

All this will get mixed with database driven view I guess...
forcing me to use a fair amount of time finding my files.

/gibman