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smithga2000 · (04-29-2010)

Hey everyone! I've been using a popcorn hour for a while now and was frustrated at the interface and available jukeboxes. As a developer I figured i'd write my own so that's what I did. It's called "Genesys Media Center" and here are some of the features:

Music
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-Cover Art for albums
-Shuffle album
-Shuffle artist
-More albums by artist
-Playlist support via your remote!

Movies
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-cover art downloaded from themoviedb.org
-movie details/actors/etc downloaded from themoviedb.org
-UI completely browsable from your remote.

TV
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-series banner art and description downloaded from thetvdb.com
-season thumbnails
-episode thumbnail/synopsis downloaded from thetvdb.com
-shuffle series
-shuffle season

General
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This is a live application - not a bunch of static pages. As you drop media into "monitored" folders, it is added to your library and content is downloaded for you automatically.

If you want more information you can check out some videos i made on youtube:

Music: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcsm4I58-Eo
Movies: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yLaQaXII...re=related
TV: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9apdAF0U1...re=related

Cheers!

ErikvanderVen · (This post was last modified: 04-28-2010 10:22 PM by ErikvanderVen.)

This looks very nice! Congratulations on your programming job. Cool

I do agree you, all those static pages are not convinient. I will try to install it for sure.

I can't wait until it's released ;-)

accident · 04-29-2010, 12:39 PM

nice first release, do you happen to automount shares as you go to play videos?

smithga2000 · (This post was last modified: 04-29-2010 03:38 PM by smithga2000.)

(04-29-2010 12:39 PM)accident Wrote: nice first release, do you happen to automount shares as you go to play videos?

Cheers! During testing i've been using a predefined smb share on the device. I have two DNS-323's that contain my media.

smithga2000 · (This post was last modified: 04-29-2010 08:57 PM by smithga2000.)

(04-29-2010 02:50 PM)smithga2000 Wrote: Cheers! During testing i've been using a predefined smb share on the device. I have two DNS-323's that contain my media.

UPDATE: Today I implemented the automounting of multiple smb shares. I have two DNS-323's on my network with media split across the 2. Like others I had the issue that only 1 share can be mounted at a time. I implemented a workaround where the application keeps track of what share is active and if the media requested is on a different shares, it will automatically mount it for you! This essentially removes the need to define your shares on the device itself as the application can create them dynamically as required.

antherion · (This post was last modified: 04-30-2010 05:17 AM by antherion.)

Hi!

Nice to see one more dynamic juke box in development. When you think you can open it for user testing?

accident · 04-30-2010, 05:55 AM

(04-29-2010 08:35 PM)smithga2000 Wrote: UPDATE: Today I implemented the automounting of multiple smb shares. I have two DNS-323's on my network with media split across the 2. Like others I had the issue that only 1 share can be mounted at a time. I implemented a workaround where the application keeps track of what share is active and if the media requested is on a different shares, it will automatically mount it for you! This essentially removes the need to define your shares on the device itself as the application can create them dynamically as required.

A potential disaster this might cause is if you go to monitor check the opposite share while watching a video..

smithga2000 · (This post was last modified: 04-30-2010 01:57 PM by smithga2000.)

(04-30-2010 05:55 AM)accident Wrote: A potential disaster this might cause is if you go to monitor check the opposite share while watching a video..

Not sure exactly what you mean but here's how it works:

When you request to watch a movie/tv show GMC will check to see where the media is located (which share) and what the last share that the PH had mounted. If they are different then it will instruct the PH to mount the new share, then stream the media.

Cheers!

(04-30-2010 05:16 AM)antherion Wrote: Hi!

Nice to see one more dynamic juke box in development. When you think you can open it for user testing?

I'm hoping to have a public beta in May. I still have a couple of features I want to finish off and I need to "harden" the install and configuration procedure.

I'll be setting up a website shortly to update my progress. I'll post it here once it's ready.

Cheers!

accident · 04-30-2010, 01:57 PM

when you collect the data, does the pch do it or does it run from a computer?

smithga2000 · 04-30-2010, 02:00 PM

(04-30-2010 01:57 PM)accident Wrote: when you collect the data, does the pch do it or does it run from a computer?

There is a process that runs on a computer. There is nothing installed on the PCH. This works better for me since I have 2 PCH's. I didn't want both of them to be crawling my media independently.

accident · 04-30-2010, 02:13 PM

makes more sence...

Suge_K · 04-30-2010, 04:26 PM

Looks impressive, might be worth speaking to some of the designers on here to help make it look beautiful, it looks a little plain at the moment, but once the backend is right stuff like that will follow...

S

smithga2000 · (05-04-2010)

(04-30-2010 04:26 PM)Suge_K Wrote: Looks impressive, might be worth speaking to some of the designers on here to help make it look beautiful, it looks a little plain at the moment, but once the backend is right stuff like that will follow...

S

Thanks for the feedback. I'm working on "prettying" up the UI prior to the Beta release. I've also integrated MediaInfo so the worker can inspect the video files to determine 1080/720/p/i as well as dd, dts, stereo, etc... I'm hoping to have the Beta ready for public consumption in the next 2 weeks.

scubix · 05-08-2010, 08:06 PM

Looks great. This is starting to look more and more like the XBMC functionality i like the most. Just one thing missing now for me. That is keeping track of what episodes/movies i watched already. XBMC has the ability to only show the episodes i have NOT watched yet. Once watched,it dissapears from the list. You can always toggles a switch to show watched episodes in the list too ofcourse. Any chance youcan make this happen for GMC too ?

smithga2000 · 05-08-2010, 09:15 PM

(05-08-2010 08:06 PM)scubix Wrote: Looks great. This is starting to look more and more like the XBMC functionality i like the most. Just one thing missing now for me. That is keeping track of what episodes/movies i watched already. XBMC has the ability to only show the episodes i have NOT watched yet. Once watched,it dissapears from the list. You can always toggles a switch to show watched episodes in the list too ofcourse. Any chance youcan make this happen for GMC too ?

That's a good feature! I'll definately put it on the roadmap. Thanks!

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