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+ | ====== Movie Cover Browsing ====== | ||
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+ | {{: | ||
+ | The iStar NMT software as this point in time does not provide the ability to browse your movie collection by cover art. It does however have an embedded HTML browser which can use a limited set of HTML/CSS commands. | ||
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+ | * [[http:// | ||
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+ | There are a number of software solutions that will stream a movie via HTTP and provide some sort of Movie Browse Mode. However none of these where suitable to my needs, I didn't want more computers running just so I can watch a movie, so I decided to build a solution that would work standalone on the iStar. | ||
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+ | First off I must mention that these templates where designed for an SD TV. So if you have HD you will need to adjust the images sizes and possibly the templates. | ||
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+ | ===== What you will need ===== | ||
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+ | These templates have the following pre-requisites and/or assumptions: | ||
+ | * You have an SD TV attached to your iSTAR. | ||
+ | * You have a copy of < | ||
+ | * You have a SATA drive attached to your iSTAR. | ||
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+ | A free trial copy of movie collectorz can be downloaded here. I know I'm pimping software but for the money you couldn' | ||
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+ | < | ||
+ | <a href=" | ||
+ | <img src=" | ||
+ | </a> | ||
+ | </ | ||
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+ | Download these {{: | ||
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+ | {{: | ||
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+ | ===== Attaching movies in Movie Collectorz ===== | ||
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+ | Movie collectorz provides the ability to attach arbitrary files to a movie in your collection. | ||
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+ | First you need to MAP the iStars' | ||
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+ | < | ||
+ | {{: | ||
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+ | Now open Movie Collectorz and Edit a movie navigating to the **Links** tab | ||
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+ | {{: | ||
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+ | The following dialog will be shown | ||
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+ | {{: | ||
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+ | From your mapped W: drive drag and drop the matching movie into the bottom panel. | ||
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+ | Don't worry about what drive letter you mapped the iStar drive to this will be automatically removed and remapped to an internal path by the XSL stylesheet. | ||
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+ | < | ||
+ | z: | ||
+ | will become | ||
+ | file:/// | ||
+ | </ | ||
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+ | This mapping is what would need to be modified if you have your collection on an network SMB shared or an attached USB drive. | ||
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+ | You may also drop an .ISO file here and the template will take care of the producing the correct launching HTML code. | ||
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+ | ===== Generating the HTML ===== | ||
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+ | So you've got this far and now your ready to export your collection into HTML for use with your media player. | ||
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+ | This is where things get a little funky. | ||
+ | <note important> | ||
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+ | Now we select a Custom INDEX template. | ||
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+ | {{: | ||
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+ | {{: | ||
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+ | Now press the **EXPORT** button and your movie HTML pages will be produced. | ||
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+ | {{: | ||
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+ | Now all you need to do is copy this **export** directory to your iSTAR mapped drive and point your iSTAR at the **INDEX.HTML** file using the browser mode. Don't forget to also copy across the **icon** directory from the **Templates** directory. | ||
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+ | ====== Some Gory Detail ====== | ||
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+ | Some of deeper aspects of the templates are explained in this section. | ||
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+ | ===== Design Adjustments ===== | ||
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+ | Some things off the top of my head that you might want to adjust. | ||
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+ | ==== Cover Indexing ==== | ||
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+ | I found that with a large movie collection 300+ the default way of creating an alphabetic index such as **Abc...Het | ||
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+ | // | ||
+ | <code xml> | ||
+ | <!-- on an SD TV space is at a premium, for HD you can remove the substring wrapper --> | ||
+ | < | ||
+ | </ | ||
+ | |||
+ | will simply become | ||
+ | <code xml> | ||
+ | < | ||
+ | </ | ||
+ | |||
+ | ==== Location of Movies ==== | ||
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+ | If you don't have a SATA drive attached to your iSTAR or you also which to produce an index for movie on your SMB drive. | ||
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+ | **exportdetails_ISTAR.xsl** | ||
+ | <code xml> | ||
+ | < | ||
+ | </ | ||
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+ | See the section on HTML movie linking on details of how to change the above linkage. | ||
+ | |||
+ | ===== DIV vs SPAN ===== | ||
+ | |||
+ | Now this is really annoying feature of the HTML browser implementation on the iSTAR. | ||
+ | |||
+ | So when wrapping HTML blocks on the iSTAR make sure you use a < | ||
+ | |||
+ | ===== HTML links to MOVIES ===== | ||
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+ | When creating the HTML there is a syntax that you need to understand when linking files. | ||
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+ | For example if you are exporting a share say | ||
+ | < | ||
+ | // | ||
+ | </ | ||
+ | |||
+ | To understand the direct link that is required you can [[: | ||
+ | |||
+ | ==== HTML Video file linking ==== | ||
+ | |||
+ | The the syntax that you will need in your html will be. | ||
+ | <code xml> | ||
+ | <a tvid=" | ||
+ | </ | ||
+ | |||
+ | The VOD attribute is a documented in the NMT html guides. | ||
+ | |||
+ | ==== HTML ISO file linking ==== | ||
+ | |||
+ | The the syntax that you will need in your html will be. This snippet was taken from a working example. | ||
+ | <code xml> | ||
+ | <a tvid=" | ||
+ | </ | ||
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+ | The ZCD attribute is an undocumented attribute. | ||
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+ | ====== Media Streaming Software ====== | ||
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+ | A nice round-up of these options can be found on a this [[http:// | ||
+ | |||
+ | * [[http:// | ||
+ | * swisscenter | ||
+ | * myihome | ||
+ | * gb-pvr | ||
+ | * Oxylbox | ||
+ | * wizd | ||
+ | * Collectorz Movie (http:// | ||
+ | * http:// | ||
+ | |||
+ | * http:// | ||
+ | * http:// | ||