2008-06-25, 16:52
Hello,
I have been working on a PHP script that takes the artist and album information from an audio track (using the XBMC HTTP API) that is playing, and passes this info to a search of an image hosting service. This way I get "context-sensitive" imagery when the audio plays.
This all works fine when I download the images to a network share and then tell XBMC to add the images to the slideshow playlist. However, directly adding the image web url to the slideshow playlist, will not work. Even worse, it will crash the XBMC web server.
Since I want to be randomly pulling images from the web to immediately display during audio playback, first downloading them to a network share is not really the best option. So my request, in short, would be to add support for using HTTP/HTTPS source material in the AddToSlideShow command.
Thanks,
Michiel.
I have been working on a PHP script that takes the artist and album information from an audio track (using the XBMC HTTP API) that is playing, and passes this info to a search of an image hosting service. This way I get "context-sensitive" imagery when the audio plays.
This all works fine when I download the images to a network share and then tell XBMC to add the images to the slideshow playlist. However, directly adding the image web url to the slideshow playlist, will not work. Even worse, it will crash the XBMC web server.
Since I want to be randomly pulling images from the web to immediately display during audio playback, first downloading them to a network share is not really the best option. So my request, in short, would be to add support for using HTTP/HTTPS source material in the AddToSlideShow command.
Thanks,
Michiel.
