I have 2 seperate ways of accessing the imdb data. The 1st one isn't 100% foolproof, as it has problems with data with comma's in it. And I didn't write that part, just put it together. If you go to http://www.imdbapi.com/?t=movie name it returns the result as a json data set. jQuery for those of you who don't know is a very powerful javascript library for manipulating all kinds of web related features, data etc. One of the thing's it's great at is sending/receiving data in different formats on a web page. Such as xml, json, csv's, etc. So i have to have different times i need to access the imdbapi site, one in the bash file to get the correct movie title, year and poster url, then in the player.html page which grab's the imdb data again to make sure i didn't miss anything in the bash and then displays all the up to date, imdb data. On the wall page, I am using a jQuery polaroid wall plugin/effect that enables me to drag n drop the movie poster's around, altho after I added the click event, so that when you click on a movie poster it goes to the player page, to play it, the drag and drop doesn't work so well. I have 2 major problems that i am trying to figure out lol. 1. How to get the video page to play a local file:// video/movie 2. How to store the data for all the movie posters, in a way that is accessible on all the html pages. After I figure both those out i plan to finish tweaking the layout and design of the player pages. This may end up being a waste of time if the browser can not or will not playing video files that are stored locally. In the previous version I just used the bash file to fully generate the wall.html with all the div's full of the movie data, and that worked, but I also want to have access to the same data on the player page, but in a different way, such as a scrollable thumbnails that let you choose a different movie. Anyway's that's what i'm working on. On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 3:46 AM, Mike Miller <mbmiller+l at gmail.com> wrote: > 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/651/polaroidscreenshot.png/> >> >> http://imageshack.us/photo/my-**images/205/playerscreenshot.**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 > ______________________________**_________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/**mailman/listinfo/tclug-list<http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list> > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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