[mythtv-users] Music player + gallery playback software bounty $100 for meeting requirments

[Adam Siegel]

Robert Johnston wrote:

>On 4/28/05, Griffon -- <bushibot at gmail.com> wrote:
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>
>>Yes it has been talked about a lot, probable suggesting that it's
>>highly desired by a lot of folks :).
>>
>>This is the one thing I miss most from MCE.
>>
>>I'll go so far as to offer a $100 software bounty out of my pocket to
>>anyone (payable via paypal please) who will write/add this feature to
>>the Myth music player (maybe via the visualizer?), or a whole new
>>module or gallery (I don't care that much as long as it works right).
>>It's not much cash compared to the time but maybe it will tip the
>>bucket and push somebody who has been thinking about doing it anyway
>>into action.
>>
>>This bounty will go to the first person to meet the requirements and
>>release something stable and in good working order. This bounty will
>>remain open for Two months from today.
>>
>>Features required:
>>On demand start playback of Gallery after starting music active que/play-list.
>>Have UI elements to adjust what is the start gallery folder.
>>Recursive lookup in gallery allowing pics in sub folders to play.
>>Have UI elements for random or ordered photo play settable
>>Allow GL transitions
>>Allow music song skip/next/back without interrupting photo playback.
>>Must be reasonable simple to install/add to current versions of Myth.
>>Lets say .17 and .18. Particularly KnopMyth (it's my bounty dam it and
>>I'm no rocket scientist with this stuff :) ).
>>All the current standard music playback operations must be supported
>>(random play, repeat/no repeat etc.)
>>
>>Nice but not really required:
>>MP3 overlay tags in a corner at start and end of song Song, album,
>>artist (graphic). It's another MCE-ism but a nice touch.
>>Mapping certain play lists to certain gallery folders (ie starting
>>play list Will trigger a certain montage)
>>
>>Feels like I'm missing something important but I'm drawing a blank.
>>
>>This would IMHO take the music player to the next level.
>>
>>I'm not on the dev alias, if somebody who is would like to cross post
>>this there I would appreciate it.
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>
>Me, I'm not sure that a "Quick Fix" like this is really the kind of
>thing we want to encourage. I know that there is a new idea for the UI
>(MythUI within CVS) that uses OpenGL for drawing menus and the like. I
>think, in with this should be a fundamental change to the way
>"Plugins" work in MythTV. As it stands, when you switch to a plugin,
>it takes over (virtually) everything, and when you leave a plugin all
>execution from that plugin stops. I think what *should* happen is that
>all plugins "run" in the background at startup. When a plugin is
>selected it's "Primary" display is  shown on-screen. As part of that
>display (Within the theme) are "areas" that can be used by other
>running plugins, with their themes being placed over the current
>plugin's theme.
>
>So, say, the "Video" plugin's menu theme will have an area defined as
>"PluginStatusMenu", that will accept any plugin's secondary display
>that defines it's "View" as "Menu" (So that you can overlay the
>currently playing MP3, or a live TV thumbnail, or whichever). This
>also allows for "PluginStatusOSD", say, which will overlay a gallery
>slideshow, or a playing video.
>
>The "Status" section will be defined in an almost-HTML manner, so you
>could have:
>
><table id="MusicPluginStatusMenu">
>  <tr>
>    <td id="VisThumbnail" height="100%" ratio="1:1" rowspan="2" />
>    <td id="TrackName" width="*" height="50%" />
>  </tr>
>  <tr>
>    <td id="TimeElapsedRemaining" width="*" height="50%" />
>  </tr>
></table>
>
>So that the "Status" display can scale intelligently to fit any size
>of themed area.
>
>Bear in mind this is just an idea, but it might be a good starting point.
>
>Of course, feel free to flame if it's already been covered, or if
>anyone can think of a better way...
>  
>

I think you have the right idea.  I don't know how many times I have 
wanted to listen to music while I watch a baseball or football game with 
the volume turned down.  If an instance of the music player could run in 
the background while I was watching television that would be ideal.