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A mad user's whishlist - ztripez - 2012-03-28 XBMC is a living proof of the great achievements the open source community can do. I've been using XBMC since back in the old day where you had to find a precompiled binary "somewhere else" for your XBOX classic. With the release of Eden a lot of nice features have been added and my living room experience even better then before. XBMC is truly a marvelous piece of engineering and all you developers, addon creators, skin designers, translators and supporters should be really proud of yourself. Since I've been following this for a very long time (and even contributed now and then). I have done a lot of thinking on how to make XBMC the ultimate media companion. This is my list, it's long, it's somewhat far fetch and I'm totally aware that most of it would never been implemented. But you can dream eh ;D Database Todays database schema is old and outdated. A lot of things have changed over the years.
Backend/Server
Addons Addons gets more and more popular but I think they have the wrong focus today. As an expample: I subscribe to alot(!) of youtube channels. I want the addons to be able to tell me when a new video is avaible just as XBMC is able to tell me today when a new episode/move has been added. And be implemented in a nice way to my library.
Front-end
I hope you find some of my ideas interesting. RE: A mad user's whishlist - RandomNinjaAtk - 2012-03-28 +1 Some great ideas you have RE: A mad user's whishlist - ghostelement - 2012-03-28 Another +1. Lots of great ideas. RE: A mad user's whishlist - skyking376 - 2012-03-28 +1 from me. RE: A mad user's whishlist - Ned Scott - 2012-03-28 About the server/client/transcoding/model, for the vast majority of devices this is just pointless. Almost every android phone, iOS phone, tablet, whatever, has hardware decoding. There is nothing stopping the device itself from taking the full task of being XBMC without the assistance of a transcoding server. ARM is the future in so many ways. Try to use a transcoding server on multiple devices at once, or use it over a poor network connection, and compare it to what we can do today by running XBMC directly on ARM platforms. I just don't see why we would take that kind of step back. Now, a centralized server for keeping track of the library, acting as file server, and transcoding for the sake of connection speed, that in itself is not a bad idea. Sounds like the same idea, but there's actually a lot of different ways to approach it from a technical standpoint. RE: A mad user's whishlist - Powderking - 2012-03-29 I love your ideas, ztripez! At the moment XBMC is designed to be one standalone player. The MySQL and imagefolder solution doesn't feel like a proper solution. I used MythTV for some time and like the way they did the backend/frontend parts. The only think I didn't like about XBMC was the look of the frontend. Still I would like to add one point: Multiuser support. If one family member watches a show maybe another one still wants to see it too. Or maybe not everyone is interested in Top Gear, etc. RE: A mad user's whishlist - Robotica - 2012-03-29 Great idea's, most of them are known. But the most important thing is full ARM support (besides all cpu's also all GPU's like Mali, Ardeno, PowreVR). Many devices already are on the market but the can only run xbmc for the advanced users, if possible. In order to support ARM devices lot's have to be change and improved: Gstreamer, openmax and the way DVDplayer etc. works. This needs great efforts (some already started) and takes time to find it's way into mainline trunk. It's more important than any other feature since this will greatly lower htpc prices.. RE: A mad user's whishlist - robweber - 2012-03-29 (2012-03-29, 15:54)Powderking Wrote: Still I would like to add one point: Multiuser support. If one family member watches a show maybe another one still wants to see it too. Or maybe not everyone is interested in Top Gear, etc. XBMC does have multiuser support - only it uses the term Profile. It allows different users to have different media libraries for each user and even customized views or different skins. http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Profiles RE: A mad user's whishlist - Powderking - 2012-03-29 (2012-03-29, 16:14)robweber Wrote:(2012-03-29, 15:54)Powderking Wrote: Still I would like to add one point: Multiuser support. If one family member watches a show maybe another one still wants to see it too. Or maybe not everyone is interested in Top Gear, etc. That's great! Thanks for the info But I thought of multiuser support directly in the db. So that if one user adds a movie it is already present when the next user comes. Only the watched status is separate. Re: A mad user's whishlist - robweber - 2012-03-30 If you setup the same sources for each profile, that is exactly how it would work. Each video DB would be separate (like the watched status), but there is no reason they can't share sources. RE: A mad user's whishlist - Powderking - 2012-03-30 Yes, I understand. Still the two separate DBs have to be filled separately by the scraper. But if they were in the same DB like in MythTV only one scraping would be needed. How about the fanart and covers? Are the filenames for the same DB entry identic and can the different users share the same Thumbnails directory? RE: A mad user's whishlist - michaelrtm - 2012-04-03 Quote:Continue play at.. be able to select send what you are currently looking at to another frontend. I have a couple of XBMC’s and it’s often that I’m watching something in the liviingroom and it’s getting late. To be able to send what I’m looking at and the time state to my bedroom would be nice. http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=HOW-TO:Sync_multiple_libraries |