just wanted to let you guys know that i got the quicktime dll's working in xbmc, now we can finally enjoy movie trailers with audio
i'll submit the full patch soon after i cleaned up some code and do some more testing/debugging/coding
that's great news. thanks for your work on that! you'll be making a lot of people quite happy!
ts
ok i'm know i'm not supposed to post in the development forum without having something relevant to say but can i just say one thing:
w00t!
seriously, though, well done, as tslayer says it'll please lots of people and will finally put an end to the countless questions about why people's qt trailers won't work! :lol:
(tslayer @ aug. 05 2004,20:56 Wrote:that's great news. thanks for your work on that! you'll be making a lot of people quite happy!
ts
and eliminate "spam" posts about why qt do not work with sound here and on the x-s forums.
very nice job
very nice, time to make an apple trailer browser script soon
(darkie @ aug. 06 2004,13:04 Wrote:very nice, time to make an apple trailer browser script soon
:o yes!!! that would be awsome :kickass:
do u change mplayer code? or only xbmc¿?
(darkie @ aug. 06 2004,13:04 Wrote:very nice, time to make an apple trailer browser script soon
great this works, i have many quicktime trailers, a script or a way to stream them directly form apple would be very cool...
an movie trailer section!!!
progress is going slowly but alright, due to work and hot days im not much behind my puter lately.
but ill whip up the patch in the next few days, maybe tomorrow night if time allows.
debug and testing is most likely done, fixed most bugs, i think its even bugfree now :d
it now even allows you to use the svq3 codec in quicktimeessentials.qtx, not that its very useful since mplayer has it natively but it was a feature i wanted working :lol:
also zlib support in mplayer.dll is a huge necessity, since alot of trailers have compressed headers.
i've compiled the latest mplayer (1.0pre5-3.2.3) as dll (with zlib ofcourse), but not sure if i got every xbmc specific changes, but it works, just not sure if i broke anything.
if anyone wants i can make a diff of the changes i did to the mplayer sources.
@darkie: i've been thinking about making a trailer browser feature too, but not as a python script but natively in xbmc (ala my trailers), maybe we can make one together
it would make a nice addition to xbmc i think.
@ezar2003: xbmc changes only.
take your time for it, better bug free then working with sometimes a crash
Quote:also zlib support in mplayer.dll is a huge necessity, since alot of trailers have compressed headers.
i agree on this one
Quote:i've compiled the latest mplayer (1.0pre5-3.2.3) as dll (with zlib ofcourse), but not sure if i got every xbmc specific changes, but it works, just not sure if i broke anything.
if anyone wants i can make a diff of the changes i did to the mplayer sources.
we have rather the full source, nobody likes a diff here
as you probably already know you can upload this to
http://www.xboxmediacenter.it/upload
we can then do some testing to see if it works ok, and i will check the source to see if all xbmc specific stuff is there
Quote:@darkie: i've been thinking about making a trailer browser feature too, but not as a python script but natively in xbmc (ala my trailers), maybe we can make one together
it would make a nice addition to xbmc i think.
python has one advantage, if the layout of those pages change we could update the script very easy and it will work again. besides that people can change the script to if they want (not so easely done if it's hardcoded in c++)
while we are talking about my trailers keep in mind that we still have the offer from shoutcast to get access to the streamdatabase if we want and xad already did an online database for strm files (no content yet, but it will be public so anybody can add new streams).
so maybe we should think about doing something like my streams with and online browse for shoutcast/kml, strm and quicktime trailers (itunes either?).
i think a shoutcast stream is not really the same as a quicktime trailer (you cant really stream a trailer unless you have a very good download speed)
and darkie, in your python script you are indeed parsing the website which could change over time, but take a look at:
http://www.apple.com/moviesxml/h/index.xml
or
http://www.apple.com/moviesxml/h/view1_all.xml
(set your user agent to "itunes/4.5")
sneaky eh?, xml is perfect for these kind of things
itunes uses these urls for trailers, so the format wont change or they will break their own application.
hehe :bowdown:
excellent, i have really missed this, curious how you did it, default win32 1.0pre5 doesnt support this audio either
Quote:and darkie, in your python script you are indeed parsing the website which could change over time, but take a look at:
http://www.apple.com/moviesxml/h/index.xml
or
http://www.apple.com/moviesxml/h/view1_all.xml
(set your user agent to "itunes/4.5")
sneaky eh?, xml is perfect for these kind of things
itunes uses these urls for trailers, so the format wont change or they will break their own application.
i really should search better next time cause i couldn't find these xml files....
anyway learned a bit more about python, so it was not useless :p
and since xml files are available i vote for creating my streams where you can select shoutcast streams, nullsoft streams, apple trailers and maybe more