[mythtv] MythVideo

[Audun Ytterdal]

Johan Bellander <johan.bellander at spcs.se> writes:

> Hi All,
>
> As I said a few days ago i would spend my weekend writing a category system
> for MythVideo, said and done.. But when writing that system i felt like i
> were missing a few other features in MythVideo:
>
> - Category System (done, almost, missing a gui for adding categories)
> - Ability to browse movies by their first letter. (all movies / all movies
> in a category)
> - Ability to browse movies by their poster. (all movies / all movies in a
> category)
> - Smarter IMDB grabber (half done).
> - Possiblity to manually enter the IMDB search term.
>
> Concerning the different browsing modes I would like to have some ideas of
> how to structure the menus for it, since i would like to use the different
> browing modes with both categories and all the movies. I would also like to
> keep the current browsing method as well, so i feel that i could use some
> ideas of the GUI structure should be like.
>
> Is this something anyone else would like to have or am i aiming for the
> wrong target, what features would you like to see(in MythVideo that is.. )??

Features in Xbox Media Player:

* Name_of_Film_CD1.divx and Name_of_Film_CD2.divx shows up as one
  film, when you click it, it asks you which cd you want. 
  Fuzzy magic :-)
* A button to see all of the info from IMDB.
* Screenshot from the film as a thumbnail/cover
* Bookmarks in the movie
* Browse videos as thumbs

Features from Freevo:

* Plugin to watch trailers from Apple.com :-)

Additional features:

* Easy to remove a wrong imbd-lookup (the original does not exist)
* T9, as on mobilephones using your remotecontrol to spell/find movies

-- 
Audun