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- digitalhigh - 2009-06-21
bidossessi Wrote:seeing as his manager is probably the most used around, it feels only natural. but has anything been decided at all, concerning db support, platform support? Lots of people are reinventing the wheel when the only changes needed should be cosmetic.
Maybe skinners should post the detailed media structure required to take full advantage of their skins somewhere in their own subforums; so the UMM can be more than these Aeon-centric MMs we see around.
I think that this discussion here would be a very nice set of ground-rules. Analogkid has put a lot of thought into coming up with a more universal set of media names that applies to all media, and encompasses a lot more types of images.
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=49801&page=6
The only problem is that it would need to be added to XBMC first. However, I think it would be the right way to go if we're trying to make a new media manager that really hits upon everything at once.
And...do you mean to tell me that there are other skins out there besides Aeon? Really? Wow...ida never thunk it.
- bidossessi - 2009-06-21
digitalhigh Wrote:And...do you mean to tell me that there are other skins out there besides Aeon? Really? Wow...ida never thunk it.
Mouahaaahaa
- tetsuo55 - 2009-06-21
Oh and i almost forgot,
the tool should have full unicode support, so files with any font/glyph can be handled
- rernst - 2009-06-22
Where I come from someone would produce a document with requirements specs. It would be peer reviewed and approved (or reworked), followed up with a specs paper. Once the specs have been nailed down you produce detailed specs documents for the various areas.
Once that has been approved you dole out the different tasks to different people.
For that you need a core team of reviewers and approvers.
How do you guys envisions this proceeding?
- mediajunkie - 2009-06-22
Hello UMM-Team,
in the last few weeks i tought about the exact same issues. There are many Programs like MediaMonkey, TagScanner which all do thier job, but they are not really a solution for the whole problems that we have with mediafiles.
Now, after 2 weeks of Brainstorming i have some ideas and i want to share it with the dev-team. So, i think it would be better, if i post my ideas in the internal forum, where the devs will take a look. Or what do you think?
And please: The Target shouldn't be only a Programm which tagging some mediafiles. We need a complete solution for managing Mediafiles, includes Storage, Database, Tagging, Sharing for MediaCenter-Software, Useraccounts with Rightmanagment, Rating, etc. etc. And finally, it should improve and especially speed-up the navigation in our media collections.
And sry for the bad english
- mediajunkie - 2009-07-03
Are there some new informations about the project?
- digitalhigh - 2009-07-04
To whom it may concern -
Can I be granted access to the internal discussion? I know I'm not a programmer, but I think I've got some pretty good insights into this project...
- Bengualas - 2009-07-04
I ask for access to the forum too. I'm a java & gui's programmer and want to help (if possible) with this project.
Regards
- csmcdem - 2009-07-05
sounds like a great project. unfortunately i don't really have many skills to offer
other than photoshop, or webhosting.just wanted to request a feature: blu-ray iso support
not sure if it can be done, but it'd be cool.
- slash - 2009-07-05
Hi all,
I'm jumping in a bit late on this thread but I started to build a web application that manage my medias directly from XBMC database. here are some infos and screenshots. Let me know what you think.
- All javascript (ExtJS)
- Cross-platform via browser http://<xbmc-ip>/<mywebapp>
- Uses JSON for data access
- compatible with SQLite (XBMC DB) and XML files (NFO)
- Will be compatible with XBMC DB evolution (MySQL or CouchDB)
Allows :
- View current XBMC database infos per media
- group view
- change field values
I mostly did this Web App to change genres and some other fields without using NFO files and also to learn some web dev.
I have it working for movies only but I plan in the next few weeks to add:
TVSeries and music.
- rernst - 2009-07-05
Wow,
this looks, really, really cool. I must admit I did not look into the Web API but did you have to modify the XBMC code or did you do this via http only?
slash Wrote:Hi all,
I'm jumping in a bit late on this thread but I started to build a web application that manage my medias directly from XBMC database. here are some infos and screenshots. Let me know what you think.
- All javascript (ExtJS)
- Cross-platform via browser http://<xbmc-ip>/<mywebapp>
- Uses JSON for data access
- compatible with SQLite (XBMC DB) and XML files (NFO)
- Will be compatible with XBMC DB evolution (MySQL or CouchDB)
Allows :
- View current XBMC database infos per media
- group view
- change field values
I mostly did this Web App to change genres and some other fields without using NFO files and also to learn some web dev.
I have it working for movies only but I plan in the next few weeks to add:
TVSeries and music.
- slash - 2009-07-05
I didn't touch the code at all.
Most of it is just by querying the Database using JSON and javascript.
I will make it available soon (need to fix some bugs).
I'm also planning to:
- use the HTTP API to run the XBMC scraper
- import and export support (should not be hard)
- integrate the flagging infos
Thanks
- Gamester17 - 2009-07-06
slash Wrote:Hi all,Very cool! Too bad it uses ExtJS as a framework, otherwise it could have been included with XBMC. See this discussion:
I'm jumping in a bit late on this thread but I started to build a web application that manage my medias directly from XBMC database. here are some infos and screenshots. Let me know what you think.
- All javascript (ExtJS)
- Cross-platform via browser http://<xbmc-ip>/<mywebapp>
- Uses JSON for data access
- compatible with SQLite (XBMC DB) and XML files (NFO)
- Will be compatible with XBMC DB evolution (MySQL or CouchDB)
Allows :
- View current XBMC database infos per media
- group view
- change field values
I mostly did this Web App to change genres and some other fields without using NFO files and also to learn some web dev.
I have it working for movies only but I plan in the next few weeks to add:
TVSeries and music.
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=51596
ExtJS is not compatible with GPLv2 which the XBMC project uses:
http://www.yui-ext.com/company/dual.php
http://www.yui-ext.com/products/license.php
...any chance of porting it to an fully open source framework?
Maybe work together with Kabooga to join these two projects?
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=51596
PS! You should now have access to the UMM forums as well:
http://forum.xbmc.org/forumdisplay.php?fid=107
- rernst - 2009-07-06
Gamester,
is there any reason why the API only allows for queries? Why not post info directly into XBMC instead of going the route of this nfo business (making it a pain to get XBMC to pick up the new info). Or at least initiate a rescraping?
Gamester17 Wrote:Very cool! Too bad it uses ExtJS as a framework, otherwise it could have been included with XBMC. See this discussion:
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=51596
ExtJS is not compatible with GPLv2 which the XBMC project uses:
http://www.yui-ext.com/company/dual.php
http://www.yui-ext.com/products/license.php
...any chance of porting it to an fully open source framework?
Maybe work together with Kabooga to join these two projects?
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=51596
PS! You should now have access to the UMM forums as well:
http://forum.xbmc.org/forumdisplay.php?fid=107
- Bram77 - 2009-07-06
Maybe ExtJS is willing to provide us with a license?
I'm working with the library and have worked with several other libraries...there really is no alternative that works so well in all browsers.