NetRemote and MC9 as a slideshow viewer?

[K-Wood]

One my main uses for my HTPC is for viewing digital slideshows. I usually use the slideshow viewer built into Windows XP. This works great, but it requires me to drag out my keyboard to navigate to the correct subdirectory where the files are located, launch the viewer function, and then control the slideshow playback with keystrokes. There has to be a better way. If I could somehow get control of the Windows Picture Viewer app with Girder, then I'd be off and running.

Another alternative might be the image viewer functions in MediaCenter 9. If I could tap into NR's WebRemote functionality, I guess I could pull up a directory of images and "launch" those files as a slideshow in MC9, just like we currrently do with music playlists.

Has anyone tried this? Would it even require any additional programming? Or would it merely require building a media library in MC9 with the stored digital photos, and then creating "playlists" of photos?

Thanks,
Ken

[maxtrash]

I'm also very interested in displaying my collection. I was actually thinking that a LUA script, similar to the LUA DVD Jukebox might work, using zoomplayer to show the images. It would be very cool to be able to show thumbnails of the images in netremote!

I will start exerimenting, but don't hold your breath. My LUA skills are non existent.

[JimH]

...would it merely require building a media library in MC9 with the stored digital photos, and then creating "playlists" of photos?

Hi Ken,
Images in J. River Media Center can be treated just like audio tracks. In other words, you can make playlists with them. So I'm sure you can launch an MC playlist from NetRemote. I'm not sure what will happen.

Draft instructions on "Image Playback" in MC are here:
http://www.musicex.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=beta;action=display;num=1036084624

Jim

[brockgr]

My only concern for "screensave like" behaviour on the PPC would be that it needs to dissapear on action. My original thought was something like:

- Girder waits for NetRemote inactivity (this is the hardest part to code)
- Girder tells NR to go to the ScreenSaver Device panel
- The ScreenSaver device consists of one (or more?) image feedback buttons.
- Pressing a button preforms a "back" panel jump and sends activity to girder. (Does a "back" really go back to the last used panel?).

There are rather a lot of unknowns in here. I guess the MJ plugin could achieve something similar.

My only concern is not to give Ben too many feature requests specific to one objective.

Cheers,

Gavin