DigiNews
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
<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
http://hostwebsite.com/search_xbmc.php?query=%S
And the category system could work mostly the same with a header on the main feed something like
http://hostwebsite.com/category_list.php
[viewcatcontents]http://hostwebsite.com/viewprograms.php?category=GIVENCAT[/categorylist]
Of which that page would return something like
Home Movies
3x Movies
<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
http://hostwebsite.com/search_xbmc.php?query=%S
And the category system could work mostly the same with a header on the main feed something like
http://hostwebsite.com/category_list.php
[viewcatcontents]http://hostwebsite.com/viewprograms.php?category=GIVENCAT[/categorylist]
Of which that page would return something like
Home Movies
3x Movies