From Dgplug

Project name	Movie Collection Catalog
Participants	spechard, sunny_slls

Here is a simple page to collect information, feedback, ideas and major avancement for the Summer Training 2009 Movie Collection Catalog project.

Anyone who wants to join me is welcomed. Ideas/critics/mashups are welcomed as well!

The name of the program is MediaSpy!

Contents 1 Features 1.1 Basic features (for v1.0) 1.2 User-oriented features 1.3 Plugins (towards upper versions) 2 Programming environment (that may varies) 2.1 Tools 2.2 Programming features (I'd like to use) 3 Related Programs and Features, aka "Inspiration" :-) 3.1 Desktop software 3.2 Online software 3.3 Reviews websites 4 More

Features

Basic features (for v1.0)

• scanning user-chosen directories to find media files (films in a first time)
• extracting film titles from file names (tough one if files are not properly named)
• create a list of these names in a database
• get films information (duration, plot, cover) from imdb
• display films list and information of the selected one
• basic settings handling
• clean and simple gui
• basic filtering
• internationalized code (english as primary language)

User-oriented features

• browsing and searching film database (+ adding/deleting obviously)
•  ?

Plugins (towards upper versions)

• subtitle downloader
• playlist manager
• get bigger covers than imdb
• loaning manager
• stats collector (total duration, which one has been already seen, etc.)
• import/export filters
• automatic new files inclusion (directory survey)
• music album and video series handling
• dvd handling

Programming environment (that may varies)

Tools

• GPLv3 licence
• Qt as programming framework (C++ as language obviously)
• QtCreator as IDE (Vim enthusiasts are warmly encourage to stay with Vim :-) )
• git as versioning program
• sqlite as database software
• documentation generated by doxygen

Programming features (I'd like to use)

• MVC structure (easy with Qt)
• unit-testing (something I know quite nothing about)

Related Programs and Features, aka "Inspiration" :-)

Desktop software

• http://www.sivachandran.in/index.php/projects/catalog-builder
• http://www.griffith.cc/
• itunes
• rhythmbox
• subdownloader
• miro

Online software

• http://www.movieab.com

Reviews websites

• netflix
• imdb
• rotten tomatoes

More

More info are on spechard's blog: http://spechard.wordpress.com/