2009-09-30, 06:40
cyberwizzard Wrote:Slightly off-topic but maybe relevant to the idea: I've been hacking/poking at the Crunchyroll site for a while now and unfortunately they have the whole thing locked up by encrypting the subtitles making the direct playback of movies on that site impossible or just to much work.
If I had a webkit engine (or similar) with Flash support however, it would probably be possible to control the native CR movie player from XBMC (using JS to glue the 2 together)...
Or am I missing something vital here?
On a side note, since this is in the dev section: is there actually a semi-working XBMC version where I could attempt something like this or is it too buggy to even contemplate running JS and Flash?
Pure speculation, but the components (in order of importance would be if not difficulty) would possibly be:
Browser w/ Alpha Layer (skin) adaptation (since XBMC can already launch external apps this is where the magic is)
Extended HTTP-API controls or a completely novel interaction model (an xml schema +JS? as you suggest)
File/stream type associations
Possibly sync with other player components
What I'm really interested in is seeing how synergistic skinning can be made with standardized browser kit like JS and CSS3 (and now HTML5). It would be pretty awesome (although quite superfluous) to have the skinning system completely "browserfied", in the minimal sense have an ability to push CSS to it. But I digress....
