MyTVSeries - Plugin that organizes TV Video Files (4 Viewers)

Should I implement an automatic file organizer to move and rename files?


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Inker

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    Inker said:
    I'll do a better sketch when I'm home.

    Ok, I'm home now. Here goes, let me explain below:

    Browse Series:


    As you can see this is basically the same as the original concept. It uses the header-bg images from tv.com as the hover image for the respective series. If no such image can be found, it should simply be read out the series name.
    I think displaying a grid of 2x3 is a good compromise, and by going with horzontal scrolling (via those left/right buttons) allows for quick selection of the correct series.
    As you select a diffferent series (hover) the info below updates, showing relevant information for that series. All the info displayed is available on tv.com and im sure is being parsed already. One thing that might be interesting to add here that is not in the concept would be fields that hold:
    Number of Episodes:
    unwatched Episodes:

    Upon clicking ok on a series above, one is taken to the following screen:


    This screen again is very easy to navigate, allowing for horizontal scrolling of seasons. Below that again, we have the individual episodes listed, again updating when the season is changed.

    What is missing here is probably a back button, to take the user back to the series selection screen. Also, maybe an indication if the episode was watched yet.

    Speaking of which, once one enters this screen, the program should probably automatically select the first unwatched episode for you, so say you add the latest lost season2 episode to your collection, once you click lost on the previous page, the tool figures out that you have seen all episodes except lets say 2x14 and initializes this screen with season 2 and automatically selects episodes 14 for you.

    As an addition thing, one could add another horizontal scroll function next to the series image header, allowing the user to change series also within that screen.

    Again, I do not claim this to be the "god" of ui, it is just a concept.

    Now, whats important here is that this is not yet possible with MP, at least not to my knowledge. But I think it would be cool and also open up more possibilities for other plugins.

    So what do you think?

    Inker
     

    LordMessi

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    Inker said:
    Inker said:
    I'll do a better sketch when I'm home.

    Ok, I'm home now. Here goes, let me explain below:

    Browse Series:


    As you can see this is basically the same as the original concept. It uses the header-bg images from tv.com as the hover image for the respective series. If no such image can be found, it should simply be read out the series name.
    I think displaying a grid of 2x3 is a good compromise, and by going with horzontal scrolling (via those left/right buttons) allows for quick selection of the correct series.
    As you select a diffferent series (hover) the info below updates, showing relevant information for that series. All the info displayed is available on tv.com and im sure is being parsed already. One thing that might be interesting to add here that is not in the concept would be fields that hold:
    Number of Episodes:
    unwatched Episodes:

    Upon clicking ok on a series above, one is taken to the following screen:


    This screen again is very easy to navigate, allowing for horizontal scrolling of seasons. Below that again, we have the individual episodes listed, again updating when the season is changed.

    What is missing here is probably a back button, to take the user back to the series selection screen. Also, maybe an indication if the episode was watched yet.

    Speaking of which, once one enters this screen, the program should probably automatically select the first unwatched episode for you, so say you add the latest lost season2 episode to your collection, once you click lost on the previous page, the tool figures out that you have seen all episodes except lets say 2x14 and initializes this screen with season 2 and automatically selects episodes 14 for you.

    As an addition thing, one could add another horizontal scroll function next to the series image header, allowing the user to change series also within that screen.

    Again, I do not claim this to be the "god" of ui, it is just a concept.

    Now, whats important here is that this is not yet possible with MP, at least not to my knowledge. But I think it would be cool and also open up more possibilities for other plugins.

    So what do you think?

    Inker

    Great idea!

    Why do you think that this ain't possible in MP currently?

    What needs to be done - to make it work?
     

    WeeToddDid

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    Inker said:
    Weetod,

    One thing about images. Did you take into consideration my suggestion for allowing the use of url's with placeholders such as www.myurl.com/[seriesname]/images/[season][episodenumber].jpg

    I know if a couple of websites for some shows (mostly small fansites) that serve episode specific images in such a way. Although we certainly dont wanna bring them down with all that traffic, so I suggest supporting this function but not including url's by default.

    Inker

    Sounds good. I'll look into it after I have made some progress with the MP GUI
     

    Inker

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    LordMessi said:
    Great idea!

    Why do you think that this ain't possible in MP currently?

    What needs to be done - to make it work?

    I don't think the current controls allow for such flexibility (such as having wide image lists (as used for series selection)) and using horizontal scrolling.

    I'm guessing one would need to add at least one addition control.

    If it is possible, then all the better. I will be happy to stand corrected.

    Inker
     

    LordMessi

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    WeeToddDid said:
    Inker said:
    Weetod,

    One thing about images. Did you take into consideration my suggestion for allowing the use of url's with placeholders such as www.myurl.com/[seriesname]/images/[season][episodenumber].jpg

    I know if a couple of websites for some shows (mostly small fansites) that serve episode specific images in such a way. Although we certainly dont wanna bring them down with all that traffic, so I suggest supporting this function but not including url's by default.

    Inker

    Sounds good. I'll look into it after I have made some progress with the MP GUI

    Also consider the option of looking for a local image - I mean...check if there's a filename.jpg/filename.png for filename.avi

    Like .srt's - same filename, but different extension.
     

    WeeToddDid

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    Inker said:
    Inker said:
    I'll do a better sketch when I'm home.

    Ok, I'm home now. Here goes, let me explain below:

    Browse Series:

    I think its great... What does everyone else think?

    Currently my HTML Parser does collect ratings, so we will have to skip that. I also don't collect the streched out version of the series. Lastly, What about the season image? Would I get rid of that?
     

    LordMessi

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    Inker said:
    LordMessi said:
    Great idea!

    Why do you think that this ain't possible in MP currently?

    What needs to be done - to make it work?

    I don't think the current controls allow for such flexibility (such as having wide image lists (as used for series selection)) and using horizontal scrolling.

    I'm guessing one would need to add at least one addition control.

    If it is possible, then all the better. I will be happy to stand corrected.

    Inker

    Could you write this down in a small document, what you'll like it to do, and perhaps a tag name etc. Attach your screenshot - and mail it to me?
     

    jawbroken

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    Personally I think that Inker's GUI idea looks great, the right combination of usability and aesthetics.
     

    Inker

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    WeeToddDid said:
    Currently my HTML Parser does collect ratings, so we will have to skip that. I also don't collect the streched out version of the series. Lastly, What about the season image? Would I get rid of that?

    Ratings of course could be done later, shouldn't be that hard to get those also. I'm not sure what you mean by Season-image? I would just get the header image as I think its probably the most represantative for a series. The other images often are just some actors or something.

    Episode specific images (if downloaded) could be displayed on the second screen.
     

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