Re: [Banshee-List] video player

[Buyongo Phiri <devicehandler gmail com>]

Cool! I would like to see what you come up with I would like to see
how it can be incorporated with the mockups I came up with. I waiting
with great anticipation!
Buyongo

On 1/12/11, zekopeko <zekopeko gmail com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 9:51 AM, olivier dufour <olivier duff gmail com>
> wrote:
>> Hello,
>> First, happy new year to all and sucess for banshee ;))
>> I have got hard time to fall asleep so I am wake up this morning and
>> everybody sleep in the house.
>> So, I have start to refactor video source.
>> First by embedded it in an extension.
>> Now I have setup regexp to get season and episode of the video from file
>> name.
>> I store it in externalObject of trackinfo.
>> But now, I want to have a custom SourceContent which will show
>> movies/tvshow
>> covers to replace the track list....
>
> Awesome!
>
>> But before going further, I want to know if my mokup idea is good...
>> We will have a grid as in podcast or album view with cover or name of the
>> movies/tv-show.
>> For tv-show, we only show one cover and if user click on the cover we show
>> a
>> context pannel with the list of episodes in this tv-show.
>
> How about:
>
> In the sidebar we have Movies, TV Shows, Unsorted videos. Each one has
> their own playlists.
> Clicking on the Movies/TV Shows show the cover grid that takes all the
> space left of the sidebar.
>
> Then you mouse over the cover you get an overlay over the cover with a
> play button and and info button.
> Clicking the play button immediately starts playing the movie or the
> tv show from the last time you watched it.
>
> Clicking the Info button replaces the cover grid with a screen similar
> to the one in Ubuntu Software Centre when you look at an app.
>
> I'll try and mockup this screen (lets call it TV/Movies info screen)
> so you get a better sense of what I would like.
>
>> I have no filter for season, do you need it? else have to add a dropdown
>> list or do you prefer a panel as the one of artist ?
>
> Yes for season filters. I would add it to the above mentioned
> TV/Movies info screen.
>
>> The second issue, is to get cover, I have few api on web but nothing so
>> good...
>> - IMDB limited to 30 requests by hour a light api with no covers but text
>> metadata and url of page on imdb
>> - freecovers have covers but no metadata
>> - thetvdb seems good for tv show with metadata and image but it is not
>> cover, it is a banner... and of course not for movies ;(
>> someone know another db?
>> Show informations (actors, summary,...) about the movies :
>> - in context pan when selected
>> - with a getinfo item in context menu and show in popup window
>> I prefer the second option because it will make naviguation easy by
>> keeping
>> a big place for grid.
>
> Please no pop up windows. It looks less integrated. The context menu
> should be avoided if possible.
>
>> For dvd source, I think to show the page of imdb of the movies to replace
>> the single lined track list.
>> But, what can we do if no connection, or custom dvd witch is not on imdb ?
>> I really want to make banshee a cool video player. So I need feedback
>> answer
>> about my concept/idea.
>> Olivier Dufour
>
> For movies you can use: http://www.themoviedb.org/
>
> Thanks for working on this. Now lets just make it awesome! I'll try
> and post some crude mock up later.
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