Hi everyone,
I'm a long standing user of MyMovies on my Vista media center and have just discovered XBMC. Am loving the interface and all the skinning options but miss the Collection Management and WebService of MyMovies....
I have just over 700 movies in my collection, all added using the MyMovies collection management software which pulls the info from the MyMovies webservice and stores it in a SQL database - which developers are allowed to access on a read only basis. The advantage of the WebService is it stores a direct copy of information as it appears on the front/back of the DVD/Bluray disk and is a lot more reliable, compared than from IMDB etc..
My question is, and am going on a lot of presumptions - after XBMC scrapes whatever website you ask it to, it stores the information in an SQL database as well. How hard would it be to tell XBMC to look up the cells in the stored MyMovies database, rather than the one it normally uses?
Obviously things will be stored in different locations, but I'm hoping that can be changed as well.
What I'd like to be left with is the excellent backend of MyMovies, but the front end of XBMC with its better effects, fanart and interface etc...
Anyone know if this would be possible and suggest a good place to start? I'm not at home at the moment, but will have a look at both databases and see how similar they are...
Cheers,
Bramble
I'm a long standing user of MyMovies on my Vista media center and have just discovered XBMC. Am loving the interface and all the skinning options but miss the Collection Management and WebService of MyMovies....
I have just over 700 movies in my collection, all added using the MyMovies collection management software which pulls the info from the MyMovies webservice and stores it in a SQL database - which developers are allowed to access on a read only basis. The advantage of the WebService is it stores a direct copy of information as it appears on the front/back of the DVD/Bluray disk and is a lot more reliable, compared than from IMDB etc..
My question is, and am going on a lot of presumptions - after XBMC scrapes whatever website you ask it to, it stores the information in an SQL database as well. How hard would it be to tell XBMC to look up the cells in the stored MyMovies database, rather than the one it normally uses?
Obviously things will be stored in different locations, but I'm hoping that can be changed as well.
What I'd like to be left with is the excellent backend of MyMovies, but the front end of XBMC with its better effects, fanart and interface etc...
Anyone know if this would be possible and suggest a good place to start? I'm not at home at the moment, but will have a look at both databases and see how similar they are...
Cheers,
Bramble
