2008-11-19, 03:28
I've been thinking for quite a while now (heck I'm a slow person!) why not create a universal playlist format that a single plugin could use? I'm not sure there is one at the moment. So for example as a webmaster sites I make could have a rss feed and a XBMC feed. The XBMC feed contains elements such as
Etc. Then it would also open up avenues in the regards to allowing anyone to knows some basic PHP skills to create 'addon' plugins. As I understand it I don't think (touch wood) it would be too hard to code the python side of the code, the top of the XBMCfeed could have header information such
And the category system could work mostly the same with a header on the main feed something like
Of which that page would return something like
Quote:<showtitle>The Fake Clipshow</showtitle>
<showthumb>Show Thumbnail</showthumb>
<showwatchurl>http://whatever/as.wmv</showwatchurl>
Etc. Then it would also open up avenues in the regards to allowing anyone to knows some basic PHP skills to create 'addon' plugins. As I understand it I don't think (touch wood) it would be too hard to code the python side of the code, the top of the XBMCfeed could have header information such
Quote:[Searchurl]http://hostwebsite.com/search_xbmc.php?query=%S[/searchurl]
And the category system could work mostly the same with a header on the main feed something like
Quote:[Categorylist]http://hostwebsite.com/category_list.php[/categorylist]
[viewcatcontents]http://hostwebsite.com/viewprograms.php?category=GIVENCAT[/categorylist]
Of which that page would return something like
Quote:[Category]Home Movies[/category]
[Category]3x Movies[/category]