MyTrailers (1 Viewer)

[Nephilim]

check this out: MovieTimes Stand-Alone - MTSA

This is awesome. I'd probably use this little app if I were to incorporate Apple into my plugin. You may want to take a look at some of the source armandp . . . although it is in VB

Hi LRFalk01 & armandp,

MTSA is the engine behind the MyShowTime plugin for MP.
I'm the (co)author of this plugin (MyShowTime) and i've made some code for MTSA application (including the apple trailers handling).
If you need something, feel free to contact me.

I would add italian trailers support to MyTrailers plugin, can i start from your code?

BTW, great work...

Bye,
Nephilim

 

[LRFalk01]

I'm waiting for access to the SVN for MP plugins right now to upload my current MyTrailers changes. I've messaged James this morning with the required information, so hopefully soon I will be able get be able to collaborate with Armandp with the Apple trailers portion. As of right now, I have done nothing for the Apple side of things. Thanks for your support Nephilim

 

[armandp]

i've decided to finish my own trailer plugin project first (will still be working on the AppleTrailer code though ) but i found the MyTrailer code to be to fixed to just the Yahoo Trailers and adding Apple Trailers to it would mean a lot of changes in many places. I'm going for a more generic approach with the GUI funcationality seperated from the actual trailer provider. I will wait untill i can get a first glimps at what LRFalk01 has done sofar and see if i can still get the appletrailer specific code in there somewhere

 

[armandp]

I "discovered" the JSON feeds (also easily parseable):

http://www.apple.com/trailers/home/feeds/just_added.json
http://www.apple.com/trailers/home/feeds/exclusive.json
http://www.apple.com/trailers/home/feeds/just_hd.json
http://www.apple.com/trailers/home/feeds/most_pop.json
http://www.apple.com/trailers/home/feeds/genres.json
http://www.apple.com/trailers/home/feeds/studios.json

You still have to get the exact trailer media link from the detailpage (or you can "guess" the link because there seems to be a standard naming convention).

 

[LRFalk01]

Yeah I found the json files in my discovery phase of Apple Trailers exploration as well. This would be a good way to get the lists of moves in their respective categories. It has the studio as well. You could use the title and studio to find this part of the url (for The Dark Knight):

apple.com/moviesxml/s/wb/

from json:"title":"The Dark Knight","releasedate":"Fri, 18 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700","studio":"Warner Bros. Pictures"

Base: apple.com/moviesxml/
Studio = s (genre = g)
Warner Bros. Pictures = wb
title of movie would then follow: apple.com/moviesxml/s/wb/thedarkknight
cap it off with the index file: apple.com/moviesxml/s/wb/thedarkknight/index.xml

Just a thought : )

 

[digitalfm]

How's things going with this plugin?

 

[LRFalk01]

I've been very busy this week helping my brother move appartments. I'll probably start working on this again next week. I think what I am going to do is take out the whole archive thing and put in a search feature.

 

[armandp]

For those who like to play around with unfinished (but useable) plugins...

i have parts of the Apple Trailers code ready and put it into a little tryout plugin.
The plugin shows you the trailer list from the Apple Trailer site. When clicked it plays them in the internal player.

You need the QT Lite filter installed on your system for it to work (this is not an external player, just a filter)

Remember that this is just a simple tryout plugin without any fancy stuff! ( list -> click -> play video)
If you want to watch Apple Trailers now you can try it out at your own risk

the zip includes a skin xml file that you put into your current skin's folder and the dll goes into your <MP>plugins/Windows/ folder

 

[sleepycol]

Hi Armandp,

Do you know if this works with Quicktime Alternative codec?

Cheers,
Colin

 

[armandp]

Hi Armandp,

Do you know if this works with Quicktime Alternative codec?

Cheers,
Colin

QT Lite is Quicktime Alternative

(oops misclicked quote and thanked you )