onebuttonplay feature (1 Viewer)

[hanfmaster]

hi
i love the onebuttonmusic plugin, makes life easier.
is there a way to get the same idea embedded into movingpictures.
when i enter moving pictures i see the backdrop from a random movie (all movies).
and now i just want to press "play" on my remote, to play the movie of which i see the backdrop.

OR i can click down to go to unwatched; new added movies ; genre ; ...
and now i just want to press "play" one my remote, to play the movie of which i see the backdrop.

OR i can click down to go to genre, click on (OK) on my remote and i can select a genre
and now i just want to press "play" on my remote, to play the movie of which i see the backdrop.

do you know what i mean?
reason way:
when friends are over at my place and i show of with my htpc ;-) i don't know witch movie i want to show them.
but mostly when i scrolle a little bit around thay see a backdrop of a movie and say, "hey, lets watch this one".
and than i have to search for the movie...

 

[Cuitlahac]

AW: onebuttonplay feature

Sounds like a nice idea, I think. Would like to see this feature, too.

 

[adam_purkis]

yeah sounds like a cool idea, would be a nice feature to see

 

[RoChess]

I had the same problem, which is why I put in an enhancement request at #716, which resulted in:

• r1036 - moving-pictures - Project Hosting on Google Code

So you need to compile a version from trunk (I run v1.1.0:1049) and you need to adjust your skin, for example I use:

		<control>
		  <type>label</type>
		  <id>16</id>
		  <posX>627</posX>
		  <posY>12</posY>
		  <width>300</width>
		  <font>font11</font>
		  <label>#MovingPictures.Settings.BackdropMovieTitle</label>
		  <textcolor>ffa9d0f7</textcolor>
		  <visible>Control.IsVisible(51)</visible>
		</control>

Which I put in my skins "movingpictures.xml" file, right above "<!-- Dim background when movie starts -->". And I also adjusted the width of the 2 descriptions above it to 500, so that the starting X position of 627 pixels works out.

The result is that the title of the random background picture shows at the top, after which via "All Movies" and SMS-Style keyboard search I can quickly find the movie and play it.

If you do not know how to compile from SVN, then you just need to be a little bit more patient, the release of v1.0 shouldn't take much longer (crossing fingers), after which the focus will be on getting v1.1 done (which will include the above).

 

[hanfmaster]

nice to see that others also see the (small) benefit

RoChess
thx for the info

but as far as i understand it, i still have to search for the movie and can't just press "play".
so this is kind of a workaround of what i suggested.

 

[Paranoid Delusion]

but as far as i understand it, i still have to search for the movie and can't just press "play".
so this is kind of a workaround of what i suggested.

Am I being stupid, but if you want that kind of basic functionality, using the My Videos section would do what you want (no bling of course)

 

[hanfmaster]

but as far as i understand it, i still have to search for the movie and can't just press "play".
so this is kind of a workaround of what i suggested.

Am I being stupid, but if you want that kind of basic functionality, using the My Videos section would do what you want (no bling of course)

no no, i love the bling bling of movingpictures + black glass nova , the random shown movie-backdrop is a feature i really like.
it is just that that when i can just press play, i don't have to search for the movie that movingpictures randomly "suggested" me.

and especially in my case, i have seen most of the movies on my htpc, so i just pick a genre (comedy,scifi,horror) me and my frends are in the mood for.
so i go to, lets say, comedy and than the backdrop comes um and i just want to press play and the fun can begin