[RELEASE] PicasaWeb - Picasa Web Albums Image Plugin Addon

Just a quick post to let you all know that I've updated the app to Eden and also fixed the captcha bug. Just a few more tweaks and I'll post a zip for testing.

ruuk Wrote:Just a quick post to let you all know that I've updated the app to Eden and also fixed the captcha bug. Just a few more tweaks and I'll post a zip for testing.

Looking forward to this, just recently started using Picassa and really like it, Many thanks!

Here's it is. Please test it and let me know how it goes. You have to open the settings and set your email and password if you want to do anything other than search Picasa.

Get it here:

http://picasaphotos-xbmc.googlecode.com/...-0.8.6.zip

Keep in mind that I don't use Picasa, I use flickr. So when you complain about bugs you gotta be extra nice, 'cause this addon is apparently done out of the kindness of my heart or something

Looks to be working fine. Only issue I see is when selecting a video it only shows a thumbnail of the video and does not play the video.

kricker Wrote:Looks to be working fine. Only issue I see is when selecting a video it only shows a thumbnail of the video and does not play the video.

That's probably because I didn't account for there being videos on Picasa
Pegged to the TODO list.

Hello ruuk,

Great job, thanks a lot for developing this, especially as a Flickr user. Hopefully this gives you lots of good karma points !

I tested the plugin on ATV1, connected to full HD TV, running an Eden based Openelec release. Playing around with it, everything seems to work pretty good. Very stable, no crashes.

But I noticed that the quality of the pictures is pretty low. They look grainy as if low resolution images have been scaled up.

When I watch the same pictures from my network drive (the source pictures which were uploaded to Picasa with resolution of max. 1280 pixels wide), they are crisp and sharp as I would expect. And watching them in Picasa on a Desktop or Laptop they look pretty good too.

Here's an example of one of my public Picasa folders.

I didn't find any option to configure the picture quality. Does your plugin have any influence on that??

hjt61 Wrote:.....
But I noticed that the quality of the pictures is pretty low. They look grainy as if low resolution images have been scaled up.

When I watch the same pictures from my network drive (the source pictures which were uploaded to Picasa with resolution of max. 1280 pixels wide), they are crisp and sharp as I would expect. And watching them in Picasa on a Desktop or Laptop they look pretty good too.

Here's an example of one of my public Picasa folders.

I didn't find any option to configure the picture quality. Does your plugin have any influence on that??

Same here. I didn't notice earlier as my XBMC was quite small. But they do appear to be the thumbnails scaled up.

Changes:
[INDENT]Handle videos
Fix a bug where some private images would not show even when privacy filter allowed private[/INDENT]

Get it here:

http://picasaphotos-xbmc.googlecode.com/...-0.8.7.zip

I'll look at the image quality. Man if it's not one thing it's another

Videos are working fine now. That was fast.

My private albums were working before and still are, so that's good too!

I double checked the image quality and there is definitely something going on there. I viewed the same image using the add-on "Picasa Web Albums" to compare.