On Sun, 20 May 2012, Craig Rosenblum wrote: > Okay If i talk about what I am working on? Or would that bore you? It wouldn't bore me at all. I spent loads of time on similar kinds of systems for organizing my photos. I now have a bunch of DVD ISOs that I would like to make easily accessible using some kind of system of HTML pages, so this is definitely a project I want to get into. > This is all in bash, html and jquery > > 1. Using a bash file to parse all my movie folders I don't know what kind of parsing that is, but maybe it won't matter to my case. I put files in directories by genre (Family, Comedy, Drama, etc.). > 2. Grab imdb data via json api to get correct names, years, imdbid, > posters Now that is huge. I've never heard of json api. When I look it up it says it's about wordpress blogs. I guess it works with IMDb, too. But how are you telling json which IMDb page to go to? I wrote a little script that reads in a DVD ISO filename, which for me is a movie title with a year, and it creates an IMDb query string, launches firefox and shows the result. It does pretty well at that, but I have to make sure it grabs the right page. To do what I think you are doing, I guess I would just need to supply a list of IMDb accession codes in a hash table with the filenames. But then there is the tricky part of parsing the IMDb pages. I did a lot of that with allmusic.com data using bash scripts (that had a lot of perl code inside). > 3. Create html page that will display movie data via json as wall of > polaroid movie poster effect, so that you can move around all the > posters and then pick a movie to play That sounds great. > 4. Play movie with in the browser I would like the browser to call VLC, which is what I use to watch these DVD ISOs. There are some problems with watching them in the browser, at least for me. I have two monitors, one is a 42" HDTV, and the browser doesn't maintain fullscreen mode when I move the cursor to the other monitor. VLC has no such problem. > Here is are the teaser screenshots: > > http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/651/polaroidscreenshot.png/ > > http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/205/playerscreenshot.png/ Wow. The first one shows images that look like a pile of photos. Do you just push them around with the mouse as if they were a pile of photos? That's amazing and kind of fun, but I think I would just tile the images on the screen, boring as that is. Mike
