Edit -- I forgot the most important part of this:
Thank you voinage for another excellent & useful Plugin.
slippy Wrote:Voinage. Making all these plugins. I am left wondering with all this talent. Why release all these plugins for all these different sites. When you can create one universal one which does it all.
You absolutely cannot do this. For the reason smcnally75 says and more. It would be a huge undertaking that would only result in fail.
Voinage is a good programmer and python is a good language, but neither are magic workers.
slippy Wrote:Now please just hear me out, I have two last ideas.
TWO ideas in one post!?!? Holy **** man you might be making progress after all.
slippy Wrote:But then I noticed 66stage does not show any ads. So I wonder how they can keep their site going with no money from ads. As they have no ads maybe they would be interested in supporting xbmc. I could talk to them as they would have nothing to lose.
Scratch what I said about progress.
Please look at the site. There most certainly are ads on it.
slippy Wrote:Okay the second idea and probably the best idea.
You know the apple movie trailers script
Well that already has about 3000 trailers (the last time I counted) and movie info such as run time, cast info, plot info, certificate rating, cover art. What would be awesome would be if voinage or someone else could create a patch to the script that the user can use if they want. Which would link every trailer to the url of the divx streaming sites movies. The patch would create an extra menu option (you know when you right click and press movie info on the trailers) you see that menu come up which shows 'cast, play, fanart, thumbs, trailers'. Well add to that 'play full movie'. Then you can click it to play the full movie.
YOU (and I do mean YOU, slippy) can do something very similar to this, all by yourself. It will take some time, you'll have to play with python (though probably not actually 'learn' it) You can use the command addContextMenuItem(...) to add an item that will launch the apple movie trailers script with arguments to play the correct trailer.
However no one will hold your hand... 1000 posts in the pthon dev section will get you no where.
Specific questions are always welcome.
slippy Wrote:Then it would be cool to patch the trailers to show up in wall mode, poster mode, list mode in say your aeon skin.
This way we never need to contact the divx streaming site. When the streaming site in the future starts to add divx 2 CD ac3 5.1 releases. Then this patch to the script could then show both movies stacked as 1 file.
This is would require an XBMC patch, not a script patch.
It would be way more complicated than you think, and the devs have already stated at some point or another that they have no interest in adding streaming stuff to the library.
slippy Wrote:Now either that above scenario or a divx streaming site could create their own script for xbmc. With all the features I mention. As well as embed their own ads such as google adsense, textual ads, banner ads into the script. To play before and after each movie. This way they can make money to keep their site going.
!!!!!!!
How do you think we're going to click on these ads inside of xbmc? [most] Sites don't get paid just for showing ads, people have to actually click them.
Please, please, please, please think for TWO F'IN seconds before you spew this crap out.
Your thought process should be "wow, I have a good idea... but how would it realistically work? well... I can't think of how it could work, so I better keep my mouth shut"
slippy Wrote:But the best would be to go ad free and not tell the streaming sites and just create the patch to the apple movie trailers. As all the cover art is already there. You only need to take the movie url links and assign them to the movies in apple movie trailers.
Please, please consider this. I should think this is not so hard to do for a talented programmer like voinage or any one else.
Many thanks in advance for reading
No idea what that last part is about. No ads, just use trailers? Huh?
I'm sorry if I sound harsh, but I hope my messages get through:
1) Not everything is possible/doable just because you think it would be neat
2) Try and figure out the logistics of requests before you ask them, so that #1 won't be as much of an issue.