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<blockquote data-quote="twemperor" data-source="post: 692868" data-attributes="member: 102917">Re: Re : My Score Center - version 1.3 - 1 Nov 2010I agree that this configuration is what's going to be kind of hard. Plug-ins in MediaPortal seem very loosely connected. I'm sure there's lots of EPG data in the TV plug-in that could make it somewhat easy to pair up a recorded game with team/score information collected from the Web, but I don't know how much of that data is available to other plugins.I started to prototype my own plug-in to do this.&nbsp; A team name and date would seem to be sufficient information to link the video file with the score/team information.&nbsp; Sport and opponent would be good information to guarantee uniqueness.&nbsp; In my prototype, I just used the file name of a recorded video to get team name and date information.&nbsp; I wrote my own scraper for ESPN Mobile to get the team schedule.&nbsp; The plugin listed the schedule, and if a video file existed for the given date of the game, then the user could select the game and watch it.&nbsp; As you point out, score information would be available as soon as the recorded game would be available.&nbsp; If the game is unwatched, then we would probably not want to display the score (just the teams and game time).&nbsp; If the game is watched, then the score (and perhaps a game summary) could be displayed.When I wrote my prototype, the format of ESPN Mobile sports site changed several times and I quickly realized that your plug-in's score collection engine would be ideal for this part.&nbsp; The functionality in the Moving Pictures plugin to recognize video files and add them to a database appears to have been abstracted into some kind of <a href="http://code.google.com/p/moving-pictures/source/browse/#svn/trunk/Cornerstone" target="_blank">CornerStone Framework </a>that could be re-used here to identify games and link them with score information.I wish I had more time to work on this, but hopefully I'll have some time around Christmas to start coding something up.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="twemperor, post: 692868, member: 102917"] [b]Re: Re : My Score Center - version 1.3 - 1 Nov 2010[/b] I agree that this configuration is what's going to be kind of hard. Plug-ins in MediaPortal seem very loosely connected. I'm sure there's lots of EPG data in the TV plug-in that could make it somewhat easy to pair up a recorded game with team/score information collected from the Web, but I don't know how much of that data is available to other plugins. I started to prototype my own plug-in to do this. A team name and date would seem to be sufficient information to link the video file with the score/team information. Sport and opponent would be good information to guarantee uniqueness. In my prototype, I just used the file name of a recorded video to get team name and date information. I wrote my own scraper for ESPN Mobile to get the team schedule. The plugin listed the schedule, and if a video file existed for the given date of the game, then the user could select the game and watch it. As you point out, score information would be available as soon as the recorded game would be available. If the game is unwatched, then we would probably not want to display the score (just the teams and game time). If the game is watched, then the score (and perhaps a game summary) could be displayed. When I wrote my prototype, the format of ESPN Mobile sports site changed several times and I quickly realized that your plug-in's score collection engine would be ideal for this part. The functionality in the Moving Pictures plugin to recognize video files and add them to a database appears to have been abstracted into some kind of [URL="http://code.google.com/p/moving-pictures/source/browse/#svn/trunk/Cornerstone"]CornerStone Framework [/URL]that could be re-used here to identify games and link them with score information. I wish I had more time to work on this, but hopefully I'll have some time around Christmas to start coding something up. [/QUOTE]

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