On Wednesday 11 June 2003 00:35, Aubin Paul wrote: > > > The sorts of things I'd like to see have a nicer interface include: > > *Simple Creator/Editor for XML files (for grouping files, associating > > thumbnails, setting prefs, etc...) > > Can you elaborate on what you mean? I think calling something an XML > editor is probably wrong, maybe some way of tagging files and then > calling an action to group them, or associate a cover might make more > sense.
Oh hell, no. Don't want a full-on XML editor - but something that can edit the XML files associated with customising Freevo. Grouping files into play-lists, assigning images, plus media-specific options such as aspect ratio (or other mplayer settings) overrides for movie files, etc... > > *File Management: moving/copying files around the place > > That could be a huge project or a small one, can you elaborate on what > the requirements are? The capability to easily move or copy one or a group of files from somewhere in the Freevo "directory" to somewhere else. One "vision" of it would be to be able to navigate the Freevo directories as per usual, and when hilighting a file, press another button to tag that file, so internally, a list of tagged files is built. (Sorta like an online Shopping Cart). You could do it split-view, with one column being the main dir browsing, and the other showing the list of tagged files). Or you could limit 'tagged' files to a single directory, and just hilight them in the directory listing, rather than cluttering up the screen with a second list. Once you have your tagged selection, you could then: *Select a target directory to copy/move them *Delete them *Save them as a Play-list somewhere *Generate other grouping/XML options file. etc... I think it might be a little complex (but not impossible) to do this within Freevo itself. If done as part of the webserver, it would be even easier, and you could then be able to more easily type in filenames (for renaming), options, etc... > I like the web interface, but I don't want to focus any energy on > things that can't be done without network access, personally. What about Local access? The Media Box I'm setting up has Apache, and other apps (such as Mozilla) on it, so regardless of whether it's Networked, you can fire up a web browser and access the Freevo related web stuff. Now if Freevo could launch a web browser, or even integrate one within itself, that'd open up all sorts of possibilities for both advanced configuration, and browsing from the same box. As I think I mentioned previously, I'm a Web Apps person by trade, so when I think of Freevo, I get the impression interface forms and stuff is quite complex - but that sort of stuff is easy to do in HTML. Similarly, I tend to think of Freevo itself as Keyboardless, and the Web interface for more wordy stuff, such as advanced configuration. -- . Trevor Phillips - http://jurai.murdoch.edu.au/ . : Web Technical Administrator - [EMAIL PROTECTED] : | IT Services - Murdoch University | >--------------------------------------------------------------------< | On nights such as this, evil deeds are done. And good deeds, of / | course. But mostly evil, on the whole. / \ -- (Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters) / ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Etnus, makers of TotalView, The best thread debugger on the planet. Designed with thread debugging features you've never dreamed of, try TotalView 6 free at www.etnus.com. _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
