Interest in iMovies for Default STV?

[tmiranda]

I have had a request to port iMovies for SageMC to the default menu. The port will take a fair amount of time so before jumping in I'd like to gauge how much interest there is.

Link to the SageMC version: http://forums.sagetv.com/forums/down...do=file&id=317

Anybody interested in this?

[PGPfan]

Yes, please! I'd be very interested!

[wubdich]

Uuuuhhhh - would be great !

[Tiki]

Tom,

I ported the iMovies STVi to the default Sage back in March (Based on iMovies 1.0). I got permission to port it from jvl711, but I never posted it because there was still some work that I wanted to do on it. But, if you like I can post what I've got to get you a quicker start... I've been using it with the last couple of versions of Sage with no problems.

I added one feature that wasn't in the SageMC version - you can specify a filter when you call the menu using Dynamic Menus to either exclude a specific folder or include only the specified folder. If you specify a filter in the dynamic menu, it disables the filter menu in the iMovies screen so someone can't "un-filter" the screen. Here is the sample code for the dynamic menu XML file:

<!-- -->
<internalScreenMenuItem screen="iMovies" title="iMovies1">
<evalExpression>AddStaticContext("PassedSelectedFolder", "E:\\My Hidden Videos\\")</evalExpression>
<evalExpression>AddStaticContext("PassedIncludeSelectedFolder", false)</evalExpression>
</internalScreenMenuItem>
<!-- -->
<internalScreenMenuItem screen="iMovies" title="iMovies2">
<evalExpression>AddStaticContext("PassedSelectedFolder", "E:\\My Hidden Videos\\")</evalExpression>
<evalExpression>AddStaticContext("PassedIncludeSelectedFolder", true)</evalExpression>
</internalScreenMenuItem>
<!-- -->

In this example, you will get two menu items: iMovies1 will hide all the videos from e:\My Hidden Videos, while iMovies2 will show only the videos in that folder. This mechanism would be useful if you wanted to separate adult movies from kids' movies, or home movies from DVD Rips.

The items that I planned to do but never got done were:
1) Add another variable that can be passed from the dynamic menus to choose whether or not the filter can be modified instead of just locking them down.
2) Add support for using the "Poster" type fan art if available rather than just the default thumbnails and folder.jpg images.
3) Add support for filtering out more than one directory.

Also, I think a newer version of iMovies for SageMC was released after I made my port, so I don't know if there are any useful features that I missed.

Anyway, if you are interested, let me know and I can email you the code or post it here.

[tmiranda]

Better yet, since you have a head start can you do it? I don't really have the "fire in the belly" for it right now.

[wubdich]

Sorry for my delayed response (I was on a business tripp) - would be great if you could post your code here !

[fdnyfish]

Interested in the imovie default stv

[Tiki]

Sorry, I didn't see the earlier post that anyone was interested in what I had...

Anyway, I resurrected this project this weekend and am very close to having something that I consider "good enough" for release. Since I'm close on the re-write, I decided not to release my "old" code.

Here's what I've done so far:
1. Made sure the old import works with the latest Sage release.
2. Updated to use phoenix APIs to search for "Poster" and "Background" fan art (will display poster if avaialable, otherwise background, otherwise default Sage thumbnail, otherwise generic DVD icon). "Default Sage Thumbnail" is folder.jpg if found, otherwise auto-generated thumbnail from first few seconds of file.
3. Then I grabbed the latest version of iMovies for SageMC (latest is 1.2, my import was based on 1.0) and went through it to see what had changed. Unfortunately because of the differences between SageMC and the default STV, it is a fairly labor-intensive manual process to go through all the changes.
4. Then I started re-working the code to make things work properly with default STV.

Almost there -just have a couple more broken links to fix, and a little more testing to do. Hopefully, I can post something tomorrow.

[fdnyfish]

Great

[PGPfan]

Originally Posted by Tiki

Almost there -just have a couple more broken links to fix, and a little more testing to do. Hopefully, I can post something tomorrow.

Awesome news, Tiki!

Can't wait to try it out. Thanks for putting in the work to get this up and runnin!

-PGPfan

[Tiki]

OK, it's up on the download page now. Here's a link to the support thread. There are links at the top of that thread for the download page and the notifications thread.

Give it a try and let me know how it goes. Post any future comments in that support thread.