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m69bv3
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Hi everybody!
I plan to make a php front end for the library, in order to check the movie/tvshow I've seen in other way than XBMC.
This front end should acess to the XBMC library read and write, is it a problem to write in the library when XBMC is running? Should the modification taken by XBMC on the fly or after restart?
Thank's for your answers!
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Thanks for your quick answer!
I will keep you updated!
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This sounds interesting. Can you share some of what you have planned for this frontend?
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Will it also be a web remote? That could be pretty cool. You would have full control over the library with access to all the movie details. This would be great to have running on a web pad or small screen. You could do all of your browsing/searching until you find what you want then play it on the "big screen." This would be a nice setup in conjunction with my nokia770 and hd projector. Cheers.
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billyad has a pretty cool feature in his Media Companion program. It spits out an alphabetical list of of all your movies in html. When open in a browser each movie is also a link to it's page on IMDB. Pretty basic, but cool nonetheless. You should check it out if you haven't already.
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Ahh, yeah I wasn't suggesting that this could replace or be substituted for what you were working on. I thought perhaps you could use to see how billyad did that and modify it to auto-populate the information you will be using in your web app. I am assuming he has a script of somesort that scrapes all the names and urls from the .nfo's that are then output to html. You could use a similar script that runs either on a timer or at the user request that grabs both names and links (to Imdb or what ever scraper you use in your country, just whatever is in the database), plus it could grab posters, plot synopsis, release date etc etc and populates a "web library". Having the information generated like this might be faster on the ui side than querying the database on the fly. Just a thought.