Re: [Android-tesla-devel] android-vlc-remote

[Sean H. <sea...@go...>]

2009/10/14 Peter Baldwin <and...@pe...>:
> Hi,
>   I read about your project and wanted to let you know that you're welcome
> to borrow any code you might find useful from my project at
> http://code.google.com/p/android-vlc-remote/
>   If you need to scan for media servers on a LAN, you might find this
> Activity useful.  If you find a nice way to reliably fetch album art or a
> way to do dvd navigation, please let me know! :)
>
> ~Peter

Hello Peter,

Thanks for getting in touch, I've been aware of your project for some
time now and would be happy to cooperate on features. There are some
neat characteristics in android-vlc-remote that this project has
turned to as a reference already. I'll be sure to check out the server
scanning activity soon, it may prove very useful.

Fetching artwork and DVD navigation are definitely on the high
priority list at the moment, and I'll keep you up to date on progress.
At this point, I've got music artwork collected from Last.fm on the
fly, and it seems to work very reliably. From a cursory glance at your
code, it appears you are getting the artwork from VLC itself. Your
approach would probably provide more accurate matches (as the user may
have organised their music collection), but I guess you might be able
to fall back on the Last.fm API if the artwork is not available on the
local machine.

You can see the main section of my implementation here:
http://github.com/seanhodges/Tesla/blob/master/src/tesla/app/mediainfo/provider/LastfmProvider.java

I also have some code that integrates with flicklib to collect artwork
for videos, but it's incomplete right now. I'll point you to it when
there is something to see.

Cheers,

Sean