[Proposal] Playing on the big screen? (1 Viewer)

[kiwijunglist]

when you go into web-mp or ampdroid, don't you select which client you want to connect to (or has that changed?), I suppose you could create some more logic that turns the currently selected media in the current database into a search string, that is subsequently used to search the database on the other client for a match, then play that match.

 

[mbuzina]

Ah, now I got you.

For me I do not care too much about when I select the client to play to, but it would be a nice feature for the people (I guess most) that have somehow unified the available music/movies/series on their network. Synced database etc.

If a play feature could be done - great. If a play to could be added - better. If a play in sync could be added - best ;-)

 

[kiwijunglist]

Yea, because each client has a separate database for moving pictures etc, you can't be browsing one database then tell a separate client to play the same movie, because the database are not the same. You have to somehow link the the individual entry in two separate databases together using a unique identifier, eg. the IMDB ID# or search string or something like that. I think it's definitely acheivable if there was a lot of desire, but the developers would just have to do some magic

 

[mbuzina]

Sure, that's all in a devs job ;-)

I guess we all use UNC paths for all systems, then this would be easy, just search for the path & play the file. But yes, I would like some magic. Esp. on the synced playback ...

 

[Brownard]

It's not too difficult for movies and TV series' as the latest Wifiremote allows playing by movie title or TV series/episode number - TV is already easy as all clients share channels/recordings. I actually have this feature working quite well on a web app I am messing around with, it does rely on all clients having a similar DB though (i.e. pointing to the same folders).

 

[Oxan]

Yes, it's certainly possible. The easiest implementation is probably just to play the media on the same PC where we get the database from, so you don't have to worry about paths/ids not matching. However, I'm personally not interested in implementing this in WebMP, so you're going to need to find another dev to get this implemented.