[rolyataylor2]

I think that it would be cool to integrate the apple trailer and information in the movie section of xbmc, into the library function, make it so selected movies have all the info on the side. instead of having to download info from imdb individually. Also for TV shows, i dunno.

• ESRB rating
  
• Info about story
  
• screen shots that slide show
  
• date it was made
  
• Reviews by others
  
• maybe an online rental place if you don't have it
  

It would all be there, click a movie, it brings all the info and starts playing the trailer on the screen, and asks if you want to

• play movie
  
• continue movie
  
• add movie to playlist
  
• add trailer to playlist
  
• Theater environment on/off (plays a select number of movie trailers and some basic clips like "turn off cell phones" before playing a "now for our feature presentation" and "sound test" then the movie.)
  
• TV environment on/off (plays the movie/show for a select number of minutes or a fraction like 1/5 of the movie/show then when the movie/show reaches a couple frames of silence and solid blackness it pauses the movie/show plays 3-5 minutes of clips then returns to the movie/show)
  
• view related content
  
• view similar material
  
• buy products (merchandise or something)
  

Toggle between genre and search actors, toggle movies that you have and don't have.

hmmm could this be incorporated into a skin to bypass the xbmc video and music browser?

also with skin development do you have to use the video and music sections or could you make your own, like mc360, have a blade for music, instead of having to traverse the menus?

if so any good skinning tutorials?

I dont know im just kinda ranting, reply if you think any ideas i have are alright.

I'm sure all this could be done in a python script, i have a similar idea for programs and emulators but most all the emulators don't support executing with arguments why cant people develop programs that all run with no gui and all the editing of the settings are done through xbmc and a couple xml files.

[Gamester17]

Not all bad ideas but please respect and follow the forum rules (fifth commandment in this case)!

The 10 commandments, thou shall make the effort to follow these sacrifices before posting:

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This forum would be a mess if everyone posted every single idea they have in just one topic-thread.

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PS! Quite are few features/functions what you suggested is already supported in XBMC and many others features/functions have already been requests/suggestion, please search the online-manual (wiki) as well as this Feature Suggestion Forum and the Feature Request Tracker on SourceForge.net

[Gamester17]

...by they way, most of those features/functions you suggested will probebely never be implemented into XBMC nativly, however in those cases they could still be added via pyhon-scripts (that you and others 'non-developers' can put together yourselves), ...also note that a few of those ideas you have already available via existing python scripts, look for example at the "Kaleidascrape" script (search the Python Scripts Support and Requests and the Python Scripts Development forums)

[El Piranna]

[*]TV environment on/off (plays the movie/show for a select number of minutes or a fraction like 1/5 of the movie/show then when the movie/show reaches a couple frames of silence and solid blackness it pauses the movie/show plays 3-5 minutes of clips then returns to the movie/show)

Ads on XBMC? Oh, no!!! :p No, really, this are really good interesting ideas (Theather environment is a little surrealist, maybe), but if you were here at Spain you wouldn't suggest this (we can have up to 15 minutes of ads before the final 5 minutes of movie just to f*ck you...).

Maybe a good idea would be integrate an option to automatically launch a script you want when you launch a movie (it's said, a video file of more of x mb...). This could be useful so one could make an X10 phyton script to go out the lights and other similar things.

[rolyataylor2]

sry I didn't read the faq... my bad.

I'll have to check out those python scripts, they sound pretty cool...

thanks for the replies