Showtime

Excellent!!!

It's posible to do that with external sources (directly from imdb, thetvdb, and others)???? I'm thinking some solution with automatic download of the images, or even better, show them directly from the web.

Best regards

Jerome

Jerome Morrow wrote:

Excellent!!!

It's posible to do that with external sources (directly from imdb, thetvdb, and others)???? I'm thinking some solution with automatic download of the images, or even better, show them directly from the web.

Yes, all my images that are shown are external url links from tmdb. With the Navi-X playlist I use the following

type=video
URL=http://MYIP/disk/video/O3$51$3026515526.mkv/Aladdin (1992).mkv
name=Aladdin (1992)
thumb=http://cf2.imgobject.com/t/p/w500/oA2AY6adBYrHSrvMQSfZ14yA0HA.jpg
player=default

So the video is on my NAS and the artwork is taken from IMDB.

I had to manually do the whole playlist which was around 550 video files!! Took a while but worth it!

Ok, Thanks for the information.

For some years (2008-2011, before PS3+Showtime), I used an Popcorn Hour A110 for download, store and watch my movies and episodes. An Application called "Oversight", can to that you did (download images, info, categories, directors and actores), but fully automatic.

More infor here:
http://code.google.com/p/oversight/wiki/ScreenShots
http://www.networkedmediatank.com/forumdisplay.php?fid=107

You can also "Mark shows as watched", "Delete files", "Apply filters"....

I hope some day we can have something like this on Showtime

Best Regards

Jerome

the tmdb API within the NAVI-X plugin works similar, chooses artwork, background image, film info etc automatically too. But it only does this once you click the file. It opens a new page and then the tmdb starts to work. I've noticed that Showtime has introduced some new code regarding tmdb so this should be coming soon I think. I did ask the coder of the Navi-X plugin why can't the tmdb work on the main page with the list of videos. He said tmdb would have to gather all the images etc all at the same time, which I guess would slow the whole thing down. So he went with the option of using tmdb on a single page once the file is clicked.

So gathering all the covers, film info etc can be done. It's creating the layout (like above) is what Showtime has not got at the moment. I think it could be done as a new theme has been created. So it will just take someone to create a new layout. If I knew how to do it I would! I just about worked out how to resize the thumbnail. The next thing to look at was going to be the grid layout where only thumbnails were displayed. I was going to find the code that set the size for those and make them bigger too. But the new layout of Showtime does not have that layout anymore. I can't even work out if there is a 'close Showtime' button anymore!

Jerome take a look at this https://www.lonelycoder.com/redmine/boards/15/topics/4882