2011-07-20, 21:32
I have pretty large (and growing) DVD and Blu-Ray collection. I have ripped these all to disc and like a lot of others in my situation, I have a LARGE amount of movies on both DVD (DVD) and Blu-Ray (HD). I have both version of the movie ripped and using the built in scraping that XBMC provides, I get two copies of each paired movie in my library listing.
I'm proposing that the HD and SD version of the movie be combined/stacked/paired together and a small dialog be displayed to the user to pick which version they would like to play. The process would be similar to the current method of picking a multiple disc movie with the current stacking system.
This could be further extended to support other stacking possibilities like theatrical/extended/directors cut versions of the same movie and other things we haven't thought of.
My idea, is to simplify development by leaving the scraping and inserting of movies/TV episodes into the database alone, and only changing how the database is read and displayed to the user. Changing the select statement to group movies that are the same (Either by the movie name, imdb id or whatever) and then provide a modal dialog box to show whatever is decided to be the key field to differentiate the two. It could be the HD/SD flag (Could be facilitated through XBMC's built in metadata extraction), it could be Theatrical/Extended Version portion of the name (This could be controlled via regex stacking).
What do you guys think? I have already submitted it to Trac as a feature request, but I figured it could use some discussion here.
I'm proposing that the HD and SD version of the movie be combined/stacked/paired together and a small dialog be displayed to the user to pick which version they would like to play. The process would be similar to the current method of picking a multiple disc movie with the current stacking system.
This could be further extended to support other stacking possibilities like theatrical/extended/directors cut versions of the same movie and other things we haven't thought of.
My idea, is to simplify development by leaving the scraping and inserting of movies/TV episodes into the database alone, and only changing how the database is read and displayed to the user. Changing the select statement to group movies that are the same (Either by the movie name, imdb id or whatever) and then provide a modal dialog box to show whatever is decided to be the key field to differentiate the two. It could be the HD/SD flag (Could be facilitated through XBMC's built in metadata extraction), it could be Theatrical/Extended Version portion of the name (This could be controlled via regex stacking).
What do you guys think? I have already submitted it to Trac as a feature request, but I figured it could use some discussion here.
