John, you're not mad. At least, no more crazy than any of the rest of us here (I hope I can speak for everyone?)
I definitely see where everyone is coming from on this front and how this got sticky in a hurry. True, this would be a plugin for online video content (we already have a method for web radio) and as such it all doesn't necessarily fit neatly into one category. My gut instinct was this: Live streams (things handled by itv) would go under Television, while downloaded shows (vpodcast items) would be put Movies (or Video, if you prefer). If I wanted to watch a certain internet show that comes on Sunday at 20:00 and is live, I'd got to Television. If I wanted to catch up with a 'cast that was done a few days ago and I had downloaded... Movies. Basically, that TV is live and Movies is pre-recorded. Granted, if somebody wrote a system to record live webcasts (like recording live TV) and store them for later... would that go under TV in the recorded section? Uh oh... I sense this is getting complicated again... And I trust there's already a podcast plugin that downloads podcasts and stores them for you, so you can put that under your Music menu, right? If we put live video web streams under TV, doesn't that mean we should move live audio web streams to Radio? :P I'm going to stop now before I give myself a headache, but I still stand by my original idea: Live streams in TV, recorded streams in Movies/Video. And perhaps discussion on re-evaluating the categories. For a start, perhaps distinguishing between locally stored items (Movies/Music) and remotely received items (TV/Radio), regardless of the media (hard drive, DVD, CD, local network, internet, over-the-air, cable, etc). James ----- Original Message ---- > From: John Molohan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [email protected] > Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2007 10:43:06 AM > Subject: Re: [Freevo-users] itv and vpodcast > > point of view (and specifically from a new users point of view). Any > thoughts? Am I mad :) ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
