Our development team has been focused on trying to make sure new versions of Democracy Player work exactly as they are supposed to, no more, no less. A big part of doing this is making sure the testing process is thorough and expansive, which is to say that a command-line based front end for Democracy Player is much needed.
A command-line front end is less complicated than the graphical front ends for Windows and Mac. You might be interested in helping us make a command-line front end if you want to see Democracy Player for other OS platforms that don’t take to embedded web browsers, create a more flexible Democracy Player or want to be able to use Democracy Player in the background of your MythTV box.
If you’re interested in making a simple but really important contribution by taking this task on, please email me directly at tyc at pculture dot org. Our development team and I would love to talk more about this.
a myth plug in would be sweet…
Actually I was just thinking about doing this before I clicked on the blog here.
In my house we dont actually have normal television anymore, the satellite box hasnt had its subscription updated despite the fact that we have 3 really good televisions in the house. At the moment I am getting all my content from the internet and I am in the process of creating a server that will hold all the media and also grab it from the internet.
A command line tool will really help as obviously this doesn’t need to do anything except sit there grabbing content that will later on be watched on another device on a plasma or bedroom TV.
I will be checking out the code soon!
A good example of why this would be of great use in spreading the meme is Bashpodder, a podcatcher done all in about 40 lines of bash.
It would be great to have a common set of simple cross platform scripts, say like in Bash, that would handle the rss feeds for getting new content, putting them in proper directories and launching a configurable set of players (based on what platform is in use) to show the goodies.
I have not peeked at the rss specs for democracy, maybe now is a good time to do that. If anyone is working along similar lines please post up here, dupilcation of effort cuts into my beer drinking time.
-tomhiggins
i’d love to help get this going!
XBMC! that would be kuwl
I would actually be very interested in this, and would be willing to help. I do most of my hacking in Python these days, so hopefully I’d be of some use…*grin*. I’ll send you an email separately, Tiffiniy.