LDJ 0.24 Available

[brockgr]

Okay,

The wife is out - the baby is asleep. Finally I got some coding done. But keep your expectations low! :lol:

It's here http://www.netremote.org/drops/luadvdjb-0.21.zip
This is ALPHA quality - it works for me. I don't promise it will work well for anyone else.

Make sure you have the latest feedback here.

The installation for this LDJ has changed a little. There are four files, and no readme. The files are as follows:

luadvdjb.lua - Put this in your .../girder/lua directory (like the feedback .lua file)
noimage.dvd - Put this in your .../girder/lua directory too (not c:\ anymore)
[Restart Girder at this point]
luadvdjb.gml - Load this into Girder
luadbdjb.ccf - Load this into teh most recent NetRemote

It does not do:
- Filtering
- Divx files
- Daemon tools

However improvements are:
- Multi image
- Removed the "script reset" dependacies. DVD's are scanned on Girder startup.
- Used some cool new buttons with alpha transparency ( )

Please let me know if you have problems - I don't need feature requests at this point. I have a long feature request list already - I will get into that when I have all the original functionality working again.

Cheers,

Gavin

[QuickCarl]

Gavin, thanks for the work. Seems to be coming along quite nicely. I can see that it won't be much longer for your part of the project to give me what I am looking for.

Here is a peek at what mine is looking like: [edit]


Now if I get get c aouple of tips from you on how to make it do just a couple of simple things.... BINGO!

Now where is that IR passthru for the USB UIRT...LOL

Thansk again!

[brockgr]

Carl,

If you feel up to it. You probably can do that screen now!!. The screen is designed to be ripped apart.

* Put the contents of the "Selected Item" panel on the "Cover Index" panel.
* Remove the jump commands from the thumbnails (will happen automatically if you delete the "Selected Item" panel)
* Change the Up/Down buttons from 9 to the number of thumbnails you have.
* Similarly change the "Private.CoversPerPage" in the LUADVDJB.lua
* If you need "titles", grab those labels from the "Title Index". (I don't have space for thumbs and titles on the PPC).

You can still have the "A-Z" buttons if you like them (check out the buttons on the "Title Index" page. However I'm getting into these scroll bars.

Do you need any other basic interface functions? Now all I need is more cool alpha transparency effects.

Gavin

p.s. I'm a 'via-Girder' USB-UIRT user. Very few of my buttons just generate IR codes .

[QuickCarl]

Hi Gavin!

Thanks for the pointers.... but I already ripped off all of your code...hehehe

I built the screen, changed the large picture to image0 (since it was easier to navigate that way) I put an LDJ.Next(X) where is the position of the image so that if I click on the image, BAM it goes to position 0 and displays...

I guess that I will be looking into how to do the Sony Mega DVD via Girder USB UIRT...LOL.

Wondering what kinds of things we can do with the filtering....

BTW, the letter jumps from my original work just fine.

Thanks again for all the work. I really like the PPC interface and will prolly leave it as is....

[sdellutri]

I installed the .21 version of LDJ and it took some time to get it working. After some troubleshooting efforts, I was able to get it to work only after changing some of the script.

I need to change everywhere that the script was calling "LDJ_girder_feed_back" and replace it with "TriggerEvent"
As an example, below is the script code within the gml under the command for "playchangerdisk"

--------------------------------------------------------------------------
print(pld1)
if (pld1) then
TriggerEvent("LDJ_Changer_Preamble", 18)
--- LDJ_girder_feed_back("LDJ_Changer_Preamble")
for i=1,strlen(pld1)do
local digit = strsub(pld1,i,i)
print("LDJ_Changer_Digit_" .. digit)
TriggerEvent("LDJ_Changer_Digit_" .. digit, 18)
--- LDJ_girder_feed_back("LDJ_Changer_Digit_" .. digit)
end
TriggerEvent("LDJ_Changer_Postamble", 18)
--- LDJ_girder_feed_back("LDJ_Changer_Postamble")
end
--------------------------------------------------------------------------

After making these changes, it is working great on the NetRemote .99 Win32, but the PPC2k2 seems to be painfully slow. Looks like its choking on the image updates.

I have a collection of about 130 disks entered in via DVD profiler, and I am connected to the Sony 850D 200 disk mega changer by way of a USB-UIRT.

Its because of this software, that I actually got motivated to get the DVD changer!!
Thanks guys!!

[brockgr]

sdellutri,

Thanks for persevering with LDJ - I'm glad it did work (sort of).

I think you are actually the first person to use this with a DVD changer - which would explain why the code was a bit rough!! I'll put those changes back into the distro - what kind of changer was it?

The image loading is something I have worked on. The problem is that the JPEG renderer sucks on the PPC (not Ben's fault). The latest, unreleased version of LDJ uses a program to preprocess all the images and convert and resize them. This works, but means that Girder takes an age to start up (Converting 300 Jpegs is not fun).

I'll release that version soon.

Gavin

[Mastiff]

That wouldn't be a problem for me since I reboot my HTPC only when there's a thunderstorm or I change something major on it. It usually runs for weeks and weeks at a time. 8)

[sdellutri]

I am using a Sony DVP-CX850D 200 disc mega changer. (http://www.audioreview.com/DVD,Playe...9_1587crx.aspx)
Its an older model with only average picture quality, but the remote codes and changer interface is very simmilar (if not the same) as the new unit the 875P which I was thinking about getting when I fill up the 200 slots.

I am using a USB-UIRT to control the changer via Girder. The USB-UIRT is really really great!! I highly recommend it.

I have installed in my PC a Pixelview PlayTV PVR card as well which I plan to use to capture the svideo output of the DVD changer. The playTV card has very problematic software and drivers, so I have disabled the tuner capabilities and just use it for svideo capture (like an xcapture card). In addition to working with your LDJ, I am trying to see if there is a good way to integrate it with mtHTPC (www.myHTPC.net) for interactive viewing.

One of the things I am planning to change in my CCF is to limit the number of images it attempts to display at one time to reduce the effect of the performance problem.

[hgys]

I'm having a problem getting LDJ.PlaySelected() to trigger a girder event w/ version .21. Girder detects LDJ.PlaySelectdDVD_CHANGER being issued, and the dvd location is being correctly parsed from the DVD Profiler export file, but the Play Changer Disk event doesn't appear to be triggering. I've substituted TriggerEvent("LDJ.PlaySelectedDVD_" .. dvd.type,18, dvd.location) for %Private.girder_feed_back(command,payload), and nothing happens with either command. I'm using netremote .99rc8 and the win32 version does everything but trigger playing video. I haven't gotten the PPC version doing much, but have been focusing on the win32 version, since it's more convenient to play w/ right now. Are there any tips anyone can give me on getting the LDJ.PlaySelected() trigger working?

Thanks,
Henry

[sdellutri]

In my earlier post, I described that...
I need to change everywhere that the script was calling "LDJ_girder_feed_back" and replace it with "TriggerEvent"

I was having the same problem as you, but once I replaced with TriggerEvent, I was able to get it working...

Hope this helps