Hey there, i'm using Elisa on Intrepid, installed it from the PPA. Is there a way to test the Plugin without setting up a development environment?
Keep up the good work, Chris 2009/2/2 Philippe Normand <[email protected]> > Hey Matej, > > I integrated the 2 resource_providers and did backend and UI work for > the video library section on that branch: > > lp:~elisa-developers/elisa/tv_movie_db > > You can test it, with a fresh elisa.db file.. Once the media scanner has > finished its work, go in Videos > Video Library and there you should see > one menu for TV Shows, one for Movies and one for "unclassified" videos. > > The plan for unclassified videos is to be able for the user to manually > dispatch them to TV Shows or Movies sections, but it's not implemented > yet ;) > > Philippe > > Le dimanche 01 février 2009 à 23:02 +0100, Matej Konecny a écrit : > > Hi Philippe, > > at lp:elisa-plugin-movie-library you can find the source of the > > plugin. It's only an import of my branch. > > I took a quick look on the moviedb/tvdb branch. If I get it correctly, > > those are only two resource providers, so nothing is exported/shown to > > any decorator? I didn't know about these websites actually, I like the > > `backdrops' images (integration with elisa??). What was your idea on > > the integration with the movie library? > > You've mentioned some changes in the DB but I haven't notice any > > change in the .db file (just quickly checked with sqlitebrowser). I > > think we need to be able to divide "videos" in movies, series, rest. > > You can do it plugin-based (as in my plugin), but I think it should be > > something in the database. I understand this may take time until it's > > changed in the mainstream though. > > Cheers, > > Matej > > > > > > On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 11:02 PM, Matej Konecny > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Philippe, > > > > On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 5:46 PM, Philippe Normand > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Heya Matej, > > > > I've managed to get some work done on the Video > > section revamp. You can > > test the branch there: > > > > lp:~elisa-developers/elisa/tv_movie_db > > > > sounds good, I hope I'll have time to look on it this w-e. > > > > > > You'll need to backup/remove your previous elisa.db > > file as the schema > > has changed a bit and the migration of the videos is > > not handled. > > > > We're quite interested on the imdb plugin. Would you > > like to create a > > new project in the Elisa universe on LaunchPad and > > maintain that plugin? > > We'd be glad to co-maintain it and publish it in our > > community plugin > > repository. > > > > I've already created this project when I was releasing the 0.1 > > of the plugin > > (https://launchpad.net/elisa-plugin-movie-library). There is > > no code yet, I'll have to extract it from my elisa branch and > > push there. I can maintain the plugin but I am quite busy > > during the week, so updates might go a bit slow. Patches and > > merges from other branches can be solution for some new > > features. > > > > > > The plugin we have for themoviedb.org is nice but > > there's more stuff on > > imdb so if we could support both it'd be great. > > > > Sure, I think it's possible to extract the resource provider > > or merge our 2 plugins together... I don't know what is better > > solution. > > > > Matej > > > > > > > > Please have a look at the branch linked above, it will > > hopefully soon be > > merged and released. > > > > Philippe > > > > > > Le mardi 20 janvier 2009 à 11:32 +0000, mato konecny a > > écrit : > > > > > > Please keep the mailing list in copy of the > > mails. > > > > > > > > > Le lundi 19 janvier 2009 à 18:07 +0000, mato > > konecny a écrit : > > > > Hi Philip, > > > > Hi Mato, > > > > > > > > That's a nice initiative you had, thanks > > for the effort! > > > > > > > > Could you push the code in a bazaar branch > > too? > > > > Done, code is pushed > > lp:~konecm/elisa/movie-library. Do you > > > know how > > > > to publish the branch on the website of > > the plugin? I mean, > > > instead of > > > > having to checkout the whole branch in > > elisa, I would like > > > to have > > > > 'selective' branch (maybe mirrored), which > > contains only the > > > plugin. > > > > Something similar is done with weather > > plugin. > > > > > > Use this link: > > > > > > https://code.edge.launchpad.net/elisa-plugin-movie-library/+addbranch > > > I'll look into extracting just the plugin and > > registering a branch for > > > it. > > > > I tested the plugin but it showed always > > the same > > > > artwork/metadata for > > > > all my videos. > > > > Could you elaborate on this a bit? What > > was the folder > > > structure? Were > > > > there any exceptions in the log? I know > > this should have > > > been caught > > > > by unit tests, but I actually didn't know > > how to create them > > > for the > > > > UI/controller parts. > > > > > > I'll try to find some time to test further > > today. In my Videos > > > directory > > > I have 2 symbolic links pointing to > > directories containing > > > videos. In > > > most of all the items of the grid the same > > (not generic) cover > > > was > > > displayed. If I tried to change the cover of > > one movie (glass > > > icon), it > > > changed for all the others. > > > I haven't tested symlinks, but there shouldn't be > > any issue here. > > > Paths to my movies were something like: > > > /media/disk/Movies/Lord Of The Rings/lotr-rotk.avi > > > I extract the last directory section in the URI > > (thus, movie_dir = > > > Lord Of The Rings) and this is used in IMDb query. > > The found result is > > > cached in <ELISA CONF>/movie_cache/ > > md5_hash(movie_dir).dat (.jpg for > > > covers). Indeed, if you have movies in path > > > like /media/Movies/lotr-rotk.avi, then changing the > > cover for a > > > "single movie" results in changing it for all movies > > within > > > "/media/Movies" folder. > > > > One little suggestion too, when pressing > > that new glass > > > > button, you > > > > could display the search results of imdb > > in a list so that > > > the > > > > user can > > > > directly see what was found on imdb. > > > > Yeah, that was my initial idea as well, > > but then I was quite > > > lazy to > > > > create a extra widget for that. Probably > > there is something > > > like that, > > > > but I have to admit I hate looking through > > all pigment > > > classes, I am > > > > unable to find any documentation so > > everything is > > > trial-error. There > > > > will be some refactoring necessary, so > > maybe in some future > > > versions > > > > it will come ;) > > > > > > Hehe yes it's not always easy to dig in the > > mass of widgets we > > > have > > > spread in some places ;) This is something > > that will change as > > > we get > > > more contributors doing UI stuff. > > > > > > > I started working on a very similar task: > > a revamp of the > > > > Video library > > > > section. The spec is there: > > > > > > http://elisa.fluendo.com/wiki/Specs/VideoSection > > > > > > > > Currently I can make some cleaning in the > > video filenames > > > and > > > > somehow > > > > make the difference between TV shows and > > other videos I use > > > a > > > > resource_provider to lookup for movies on > > themoviedb.org > > > > website. > > > > That sounds cool. In XBMC it's handy that > > for each 'media > > > source' you > > > > can select 'scraper' (resource provider), > > so you don't have > > > to do that > > > > sort of 'patching' as I did in the config > > file. Maybe it's a > > > way to > > > > go. > > > > > > Yeah well ;) As a first step I think I'll > > continue in the > > > "filename > > > cleaning" + regexes match direction. But > > you're right, maybe > > > in the next > > > step it would be interesting to allow the > > user to directly > > > select the > > > kind of content in his media-sources > > directories > > > Actually, I'm doing it already, but from a different > > end - I tell my > > > "plugin" where it should look for it's sources. It > > works, but is it > > > logical? ;) > > > > I think you you might be able to reuse > > some parts of my UI > > > (maybe the > > > > previewlist with description). > > > > It would be very cool to somehow merge our > > work ;) We could > > > > use the imdb > > > > resource_provider and probably some of the > > UI stuff you did! > > > > I'll push > > > > my WIP branches on LaunchPad. > > > > Sounds good, I hope I'll be able to fix > > the issue you had > > > BTW I have > > > > included BeautifulSoup in my plugin, might > > that be an issue? > > > > > > > > > > I don't think that's an issue. > > > > > > > Cheers, > > > > matej > > > > > > > > Philippe > > > > > > > > Le lundi 19 janvier 2009 à 15:19 +0000, > > mato konecny a > > > écrit : > > > > > Hi everyone, > > > > > > > > > > I've finished the initial release of > > 'movie library > > > > plugin' (Angband). > > > > > It can be downloaded from > > > > > > > > > > > https://launchpad.net/elisa-plugin-movie-library/trunk/0.1. > > > > > > > > > > This plugin is based on Trey Tethridge's > > IMDb.com plugin, > > > > which is > > > > > used as resource provider (in slightly > > modified form). You > > > > can use > > > > > config parameter to set wildcards for > > matching the video's > > > > file_path > > > > > property. I've chosen this because my > > camera videos were > > > > also shown in > > > > > 'Video' section and I needed to exclude > > those > > > > > > > > > > If you want to use 'custom' poster > > image, just add > > > > poster.jpg or > > > > > cover.jpg in the movie directory (this > > isn't configurable > > > > yet). > > > > > > > > > > Currently, no special logic is taken > > when guessing the > > > movie > > > > name. The > > > > > folder, in which movie video is located, > > is used in IMDb > > > > search. > > > > > Sorry, no cleaning up of releases, > > -xvid, -repack etc. :). > > > > In the > > > > > 'grid' view there is an extra button > > (magnifing glass) > > > which > > > > skips to > > > > > the next movie found during the search > > query (useful if > > > the > > > > guessing > > > > > didn't work properly, for example for > > movie name "Earth"). > > > > > > > > > > I have tested this plugin only on two > > configurations, > > > there > > > > might be > > > > > some glitches (as always...) > > > > > > > > > > Cheers > > > > > Matej > > > > > ---------- > > > > > www.inpage.sk Domena, webhosting, e-mail > > a seo od 3 > > > > Sk/denne. > > > > > > > > ---------- > > > > www.inpage.sk Domena, webhosting, e-mail a > > seo od 3 > > > Sk/denne. > > > > > > ---------- > > > www.inpage.sk Domena, webhosting, e-mail a seo od 3 > > Sk/denne. > > > > >
