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What does the team think about adding some additional default sources for new XBMC installations?
What I'm thinking is basically adding the following browser/auto-discovery sources right off the bat, so that most network file shares can theoretically be accessed without having to actually add a video source. This is something I often see in other video players on Mac OS X, iOS, and Android. (haven't used Windows in a long while):
SMB
UPnP
Zeroconf
You can already test how effective this is by just adding sources with only "smb://", "zeroconf://", and "upnp://" in them. Between those three you can automatically find most of the common servers that our users use, with very little effort.
Users can still remove them and add more specific shares if they wish, and it would only effect new installs. It would be a great user friendly tweak, and help promote XBMC's existing features like UPnP library sharing.
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2013-11-09, 08:16
(This post was last modified: 2013-11-09, 08:36 by Ned Scott.)
Here's an example of nPlayer for iOS that made me think of this:
VLC for Mac OS X:
Archos Video Player for Android (for use with set-top-boxes):
How nice it looks in XBMC:
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OS X does have some folders like that :)
~/Movies - iMovie stores videos here. Not sure if other apps do. Mine only has stuff from iMovie.
~/Music - which, for some reason, also contains movies and TV shows that are managed by iTunes, but those are mostly DRM'ed videos from the iTunes Store. (music from iTunes Store doesn't have DRM, though)
~/Pictures
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Those ones are already added by default on OSX.
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(2013-11-10, 03:32)jmarshall Wrote: Those ones are already added by default on OSX.
I thought they were too, but when I tried with a fresh install of Frodo (12.2, pre12.3, even 12.0) all three didn't show up in their respective sections. I redownoaded Eden just now and tested that, and there they all show up on a fresh install.
Looks like they got lost in Frodo.
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(2013-11-11, 10:27)topfs2 Wrote: Perhaps we should gather the suggested packaging defaults for the different os's somewere nice? wiki? here?
Default media locations (wiki)
It looks like the default Mac OSX locations are back in nightly builds, so either someone fixed it, or I was just crazy :)
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Putting aside the per-OS sources, are there any objections to adding these three network locations by default?
smb://
upnp://
zeroconf://
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ubuntu only has those folders on a desktop installation.
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there is another issue with this on ubuntu:
we don't know which user is running xbmc, but those folders are user dependent.
I guess ~/Videos won't work in sources.xml?
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2013-11-30, 01:38
(This post was last modified: 2013-11-30, 01:45 by topfs2.)
Hmm
Id assume normal POSIX file operations would understand it on Linux? If not, we do know it at startup as we copy stuff to .xbmc so we should be able to do some special path at least.
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