On Sat, 22 Mar 2003, Dirk Meyer wrote:
> > I wonder if it is possible to generate a XML-info (.fxd) file
> > for a directory with serveral movies? (i.e TV-series)
>
> Great idea. We have a file called skin.xml for folder specific
> settings right now. In my new skin the file is called folder.fxd. This
> sounds like the place to store that informations.
>
> > This is why I'd like to do that:
> >
> > 1) I'd like to use the same "<mplayer-options>" setting for a whole
> > directory of TV-series episodes with out the need of generating one
> > file per movie file.
>
> Let's do a brainstorming what is file should contain:
>
> - mplayer-options
> - folder info (can be tv series plot info)
>
> > 2) It would be nice if it was possible to write some short description
> > aka "<plot>" of the series as whole.
>
> That's something I would place somewhere else. If folder.fxd contains
> mplayer-options, it should pass to all items in this directory. But
> the info should be folder specific.
>
> BUT: we have image support for tv shows (or tv series, what's the term
> you use in USA/England?). Put an image in the directory TV_SHOW_IMAGES
> to use it. Maybe we should rename it to TV_SHOW_INFO to store the
> images _and_ fxd files for the show. This fxd file can contain:
>
> - name (maybe the filenames are shorten)
> - all the infos we have about that kind of show, like imdb infos: plot,
> tagline, rating, etc.
> - mplayer-options (here again, why not)
> - episode specific plot. Maybe someone writes a script to parse an
> episode guide and has informations about a specific episode
>
>
> Comments please (and maybe DTD suggestions)
I see three new things out of this. (They overlap a little bit, but each
serves a special purpose)
1) A new type of file "folder.fxd" which would be applied on each file
in the folder as a default, if not a specific file would match.
This file should only be used as a default for another file and not
be "playable" by it self. It could contain:
- name of the folder
- all the infos about a collection of movies, or info about the
TV-show, CD or whatever is stored in the folder. (Like plot,
rating, tagline etc)
- Default mplayer-options
- Cover-picture to show before one has entered the folder
(The same way as movies)
2) A possibility to store .fxd-files in the TV_SHOW_IMAGES directory.
This files coud contain the same information as a normal .fxd-file
But would be applied by the regexp of the episode. Exactly the same
way that TV_SHOW_IMAGES is applied to day.
Perhaps, you could extend the DTD to include some episode specific
info, like episode plot (as you suggested Dischi) but I think that
it would be easier to just do a "normal" .fxd-file for that specific
episod then.
3) Perhaps also a possibility to put the .fxd-file in #2 above in
the folder it self, put I think this is rather confusing. The
difference between this and #1 would be that this is only containing
information about the folder, and does not serve as a default for
the underlying files.
Either way. I'd be happy if I could just store the mplayer-options
for a folder in some way.
Thanks,
/LM
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