What feature would you like to see in the next xbmc version?

This is one thing i'd love to see in XBMC.

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid...season.nfo

I'd just like to note that take anything you see in the trac roadmap with a grain of salt. Not many folk on the team bother with it, so it may be wildly inaccurate (or wildly accurate) depending on who last went there

XBMC developers typically work on what they feel like it. Obviously we care about what the community wants, and that tends to shape our ideas as to what to work on, but we're also aware that folk that come to the forums are a small, likely unrepresentative, sample of our userbase, so we have to be careful that we don't spend too much time on things that forum users demand, yet may not be used at all by other users.

(2012-03-26 20:18)ghostelement Wrote:  XBMC Server integration built in. All media, art, metadata, and settings are stored on a central server. Your client XBMC boxes will all show the same information no matter what because they are all accessing it from the same central point. Things like themes or playlists can be changed on the client boxes, but everything is pretty much synced. When you install an addon on one computer, it will install it on all of the clients. It will ask you if you want to enable that addon for all clients, or just this one you're currently on.

(2012-03-26 20:34)DDDamian Wrote:  - addon repos arranged by XBMC version compatibility

(2012-03-26 21:14)Tight_wad Wrote:  4) Anything that will improve the speed of shared database and shared thumbs

I'll +1 the above requests, and add these:

1. While I'd certainly prefer a distributed approach to ghostelement's request, anything that helps mutli-XBMC-per-LAN configurations would be my most desirable feature request.
2. Allow add-ons to integrate into the library. For example, I would love to develop various AddOns that integrate external web VODs/etc into the normal TV Shows interface, but this is not allowed. As a simple example, the Day[9] Daily plug-in worked well, but since it can't be accessed in the 'TV Shows' interface (which could also keep track of which episodes have been watched), I found it much easier to not use the plugin and just watch/track the show outside of XBMC. This is becoming more and more common as shows become available online, and maybe of the Video plugins express this need.
3. Performance boasts come next, although in the 10 minutes I've used XBMCv11, I have been impressed on this front already.
   

Any of my other ideas would have to involve me learning and improving the SQL database directly so I won't post them here.

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...

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.

Possible to make separate moviedb.
Kids/main movies not the cripled smartlist of profiles way.
That's still 1 big miss with xbmc where wmc+mb made it better with databases and entry points.

Ok here are my wishes

1. a better parent control. Profiles or master user are ok but the select profile window or the password prompt must come after suspend. I think many users use the suspend function to start there xbmc over a remote control.

2. rating and votes update without new scan

Otherwise is the rest of xbmc for me perfect.

Greets
Eisi

(2012-03-27 07:54)bossanova808 Wrote:  Abstraction from specific file names/paths - moving to using the logical entity instead.

Oh how dreamy, I fantasize about this feature weekly ;-) But alas it would require significant DDL changes and would complicate the schema a bit.

(2012-03-27 07:58)jmarshall Wrote:  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.

jmarshall, an alternative approach would be the separate the logical identity of the abstract media element and the media file(s) themselves - you would not need to use file hashes to detect dups, nor care if files are moved as long as the new location gets scanned. This forum probably isn't the place for such technical discussions, but if you are interested I'd be happy to talk through what I mean by this via PM or gChat.

(2012-03-26 15:46)amet Wrote:  

(2012-03-26 15:42)zag2me Wrote:  - XBMC social network

yeah right, like that will ever happen

If it ever did happen, I think it would be time to look for a new media center

(2012-03-27 15:45)Mudislander Wrote:  If it ever did happen, I think it would be time to look for a new media center

and I agree