2012-06-27, 15:05
(2012-06-27, 09:46)gmk2 Wrote: If you are looking for better integration with XBMC, I would suggest looking at changing how ember integrates with the current database.
I previously looked at converting Ember to an open source ODBC driver which would allow flexibility in connecting to the existing database type or other modern database types including mysql
My idea was to change the Ember database structure to mirror the XBMC structure, once this was done its a relatively small step to actually use the XBMC database itself.
This would mean Ember could update the database directly, the only function then required is to publish the thumbs appropriately and you have a very nice integration package.
There is some validity to this, but also I think Ember is used by a lot of other folks that don't use XBMC. I think that going forward its possible to maybe work something into Ember that would allow for better support of multiple media centers and integrate more closely with them. One thing I have certainly looked into is utilizing the EntityFramework for Ember so that it would be indeed possible to utilize any ADO.NET driver for database connectivity.