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
> >                 >         > > ----------
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> >
> >
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