2014-04-09, 10:01
Dear XBMC
let me start with some facts,
XBMC is now used by all members of a family
- kids
- parents
- visitors
- young and old
it's there in the center of the living room on an HTPC of some sort
and linked to a Network attached storage of some sort with lots of Terabytes ( Synology NAS is great )
has access to thousands of Movies and tens of thousands of TV show episodes
now , someone wants to watch a movie
has to scroll through all those movies to find a certain cartoon for the kids !
or an action movie to watch with the guys !
filter by genre is good but it would bring old and new movies !
still no cartoon genre !
my point ,
search should be better , user should be able to combine filters
years + genre + actor ... for example
also an idea , similar to movie sets , of sort , it lets you group several movies by locations on the drive
example :
\\xbmc\
\\xbmc\movies
\\xbmc\tvshows
\\xbmc\movies\action\mov 1
\\xbmc\movies\cartoon\mov 2
\\xbmc\movies\mov 3
\\xbmc\movies\mov 4
\\xbmc\movies\mov ... n
when user selects movies you see mov 1 to n
also possible to select movies by root folders under movies
so when user selects movies , you see
[ Action ] ... [ Cartoon ] ... [ Others ]
this will display a subset to scroll through and use filters on
same goes for TV series, categories them by root folder name
also possible to include a password/pin code to view contents of certain folders
if they contain movies not suitable for kids for example
navigating and access content should be enhanced
it's not a problems for someone with a small library
but when your NAS has 24 TB of content , you need to have better search and access control
thank you in advance
let me start with some facts,
XBMC is now used by all members of a family
- kids
- parents
- visitors
- young and old
it's there in the center of the living room on an HTPC of some sort
and linked to a Network attached storage of some sort with lots of Terabytes ( Synology NAS is great )
has access to thousands of Movies and tens of thousands of TV show episodes
now , someone wants to watch a movie
has to scroll through all those movies to find a certain cartoon for the kids !
or an action movie to watch with the guys !
filter by genre is good but it would bring old and new movies !
still no cartoon genre !
my point ,
search should be better , user should be able to combine filters
years + genre + actor ... for example
also an idea , similar to movie sets , of sort , it lets you group several movies by locations on the drive
example :
\\xbmc\
\\xbmc\movies
\\xbmc\tvshows
\\xbmc\movies\action\mov 1
\\xbmc\movies\cartoon\mov 2
\\xbmc\movies\mov 3
\\xbmc\movies\mov 4
\\xbmc\movies\mov ... n
when user selects movies you see mov 1 to n
also possible to select movies by root folders under movies
so when user selects movies , you see
[ Action ] ... [ Cartoon ] ... [ Others ]
this will display a subset to scroll through and use filters on
same goes for TV series, categories them by root folder name
also possible to include a password/pin code to view contents of certain folders
if they contain movies not suitable for kids for example
navigating and access content should be enhanced
it's not a problems for someone with a small library
but when your NAS has 24 TB of content , you need to have better search and access control
thank you in advance