@ eriktar
I created a firefox extension that allows you to right click on a audio/video link and send it to xbmc. It also puts a new menu in 'tools' which allows you to paste the url of any media file and it will play it on the tv. When I get a chance I'll finish up the options menu (to set your xbmc's ip address) and release it for you to try out.
@bconnolly
Thanks for your feedback. I appreciate you taking the time to give me some ideas on how to improve the interface, I like a lot of these ideas, and I will try to implement some of them in a future version.
about the bug..
When the developers gave xbmc 2 audio playlists and 2 video playlists. I think you were playing music in the Audio 'Now Playing' playlist and when you load my interface automatically puts you into the other playlist stopping your song. I need to set the current playlist so the drag and drop will work correctly, so i'm not sure if there is an easy way to fix it.
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work continues on the xbmc ajax interface.
I have also added in the ability to control xbmc remotely using the takeScreenshot function and the some sendkey commands for controller buttons. Here is a sneak peek:
(IMG:
http://static.flickr.com/55/127783500_bfeeedd7bd.jpg)
It's not full motion video by any means... it updates the screenshot whenever you click a button or click the screenshot. It's been very useful for me because it allows me to do anything in xbmc without being in front of the tv.
Another new feature allows you to save the current playlist and I made a quick onscreen keyboard to type in the name to save it as. (remember this is for my touchscreen)
(IMG:
http://static.flickr.com/46/127783501_7b57ac54ae.jpg)
I would have released an update but there is still a major problem with the javacript that displays the items in the music library...
I've been stuck on the problem of 'unresponsive script' errors on directories that have 100's of songs in them. I have tried several ways of queueing the items so that it loads them in slowly, but it seems like i'm just overloading the browser with more than it can handle.
If there are any Javascript Gurus out there, I could really use some help on this one. Please take a peek at the getMediaLocation and getMediaLocationSuccess in the source code. If there is a better way to display lots of information in AJAX? This one has me spending lots of time debugging and not enough time improving the interface!
I will release beta 3 once the unresponsive script bug has been solved.
I'm glad others are getting some use out of this interface, your feedback is welcome here, keep checking this post for updates.