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So now the Eden final has been released, I guess new features can be worked on again.
So what features would people like to see in the next xbmc releases?
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you asking because you're gonna code them ? :p
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2012-03-26, 16:07
(This post was last modified: 2012-03-26, 16:07 by zag.)
I guess with trakt.tv and last.fm features these days its not such a priority. I have movie plays linked to facebook now and always get a few comments from friends about if the movie was any good or not.
I always did think it would be nice to make more of a feedback loop for media though.
Just playing tvshows or movies isn't really what home theatre should be about, it should be more social.
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A couple of wishes for future releases:
1) Add menu button + submenu directly through the user interface, without having to edit in code.
2) Slingbox add-on.
3) Easy way to costomize icons for programs/add-ons.
4) Easy backup functionality of user settings, etc.
5) Through ATV remote - hold down menu button and return to home screen.
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Thumbs are being merged to the textures.db after Eden, so that helps.
- a migration tool - simply updates paths in SQLite or MySQL databases to make moving media painless
- AE finally integrated for HD audio & 24-bit playback, upmixing, etc.
- SACD decoding
- binary addons
- named booksmarks for chapters in non-MKV containers (think concerts and set lists)
- addon repos arranged by XBMC version compatibility
System: XBMC HTPC with HDMI WASAPI & AudioEngine - Denon AVR-3808CI - Denon DVD-5900 Universal Player - Denon DCM-27 CD-Changer
- Sony BDP-S580 Blu-Ray - X-Box 360 - Android tablet wireless remote - 7.1 Streem/Axiom/Velodyne Surround System
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Here is what I would like to see happen in the next few months.
1) All the skins seem to like to display the ratings and votes, so lets have the ability to refresh any/all movies without effecting the order of the the database (doesn't change the recently added movies).
2) Make the Movie Sets Addon part of XBMC.
3) Get rid of the outdated way using the actors, and make Metadata Actors part of XBMC.
4) Anything that will improve the speed of shared database and shared thumbs
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Abstraction from specific file names/paths - moving to using the logical entity instead.
So Donnie Darko (2005) or Mad Men S05E02 - but not tied to the actual path/file so that if you change serving methods, move files etc, it can just re-jog the reference to where the file is, without having to re-do/scan all the metadata/watched statusses etc. This means you could, for instance, fairly easily try NFS vs SMB vs FTP etc etc. on different platforms and avoid the fairly significant perfomance penalty that seems to come with path substitution...
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OzWeather (Australian BOM weather) | Check Previous Episode | Playback Resumer | Unpause Jumpback | XSqueezeDisplay | (Legacy - XSqueeze & XZen)
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The problem with that one is you have to know where the file is. The trick is to use a hash of the file to detect dupes on scan (in case user scans new location) and if the file isn't there, check whether it might have moved (eg is the source gone as well?) and ask the user to correct things. The latter is something that wouldn't take too much to do right away - an ideal project for someone wishing to get their feet wet. The second would require some changes in the db which would be slightly more work.