LG G2 issue, some TV show display at video selection as a red "X", select it cause force close. happening in 0.70 snapshot.

Leveraging the java-anymote library from Entertainlion, add in the ability for the tablets to send url intents to the device. This is only necessary for Tablets, and should be implemented as an IntentService so it runs in the background and not on a UI thread.

There are cases like the DVD version of the Avengers which is an anamorphic encoded video, where it's stored size is 720 x 480. The problem when calculating the aspect ratio, is that it comes out to 1.5 instead of the anamorphic 1.78. The android media player doesn't report the Display size only the stored size of a video.

Plex Media server correctly records the aspect ratio as 1.78. So need to compare the two, if there is a difference being report, then use the Plex reported aspect ratio to help size the video correctly.

A simple display of recently viewed Video content and items that are OnDeck should be displayed above the main menu bar. This should change based on the Menu item choosen. If a menu item doesn't support recently viewed/ondeck, these items are hidden.

Both TV and Movies need the ability to narrow results by Category.

There is a special URL and some extra keys that need to be used in order to get a stream that transcodes from audio/video to another format. Most of this is documented here:

http://forums.plexapp.com/index.php/topic/22303-plex-transcode-api/

Also see the Roku Plex client source as well.

https://github.com/kingargyle/roku-client-public/blob/master/Plex/source/PlexMediaServer.brs

Using both resources one should be able to get back a M3U8 file for the HLS streaming.

I'm using the latest version of Serenity on a Hisense Pulse Google TV. I've entered the proper server address (confirmed by connecting to Plex web client), but when I try to browse movies I get a message indicating that Serenity is unable to communicate with the server for the reason that the elmenet Media is declared twice at line 79. When I try to browse TV shows, Serenity force closes immediately. Below are the bug files (I've redacted the machine identifier and other personal information).

From the /servers URL:

          <MediaContainer size="1">
                <Server name="myplex" host="XXX" address="192.168.2.8" port="32400" machineIdentifier="XXX" version="0.9.7.12.407-db37d6d"/>
          </MediaContainer>

From the Library/Sections URL:

        <MediaContainer size="3" allowSync="0" identifier="com.plexapp.plugins.library" mediaTagPrefix="/system/bundle/media/flags/" mediaTagVersion="1358288594" title1="Plex Library">
            <Directory art="/:/resources/movie-fanart.jpg" filters="1" refreshing="0" thumb="/:/resources/movie.png" key="1" type="movie" title="Movies" agent="com.plexapp.agents.imdb" scanner="Plex Movie Scanner" language="en" uuid="2d824c10e8dc7f3f84362a2851e041c8ea2a4140" updatedAt="1359756605" createdAt="1320001782">
                <Location path="/Volumes/USB_Storage/Movies"/>
            </Directory>
           <Directory art="/:/resources/artist-fanart.jpg" filters="1" refreshing="0" thumb="/:/resources/artist.png" key="3" type="artist" title="Music" agent="com.plexapp.agents.lastfm" scanner="Plex Music Scanner" language="en" uuid="3f5d6b0571e3a491ed03bae6595ba35afb4b064a" updatedAt="1357542503" createdAt="1357541658">
                <Location path="/Volumes/iMac/Users/XXX/Music/iTunes/iTunes Media/Music"/>
           </Directory>
           <Directory art="/:/resources/show-fanart.jpg" filters="1" refreshing="0" thumb="/:/resources/show.png" key="2" type="show" title="TV Shows" agent="com.plexapp.agents.thetvdb" scanner="Plex Series Scanner" language="en" uuid="032214e4a74e0db2d9812a21d6af3617a731de08" updatedAt="1359670205" createdAt="1320001782">
              <Location path="/Volumes/USB_Storage/TV"/>
           </Directory>
        </MediaContainer>

Add in support MyPlex logins, so shared libraries can be access over WAN.

This is an item needed by issue #39 . The sole purpose is to retrieve an RSS feed and populate it's content. The service should be passed the RSS url, and the VideoContent information populated and returned

http://player.gtvbox.net/support/api

Need to pre-cache the images when the app starts up. Particularly for the background images in the movie browsing section. Also should put any loading of an image on the background thread.

java.lang.NullPointerException
at com.novoda.imageloader.core.file.BasicFileManager.getFile(BasicFileManager.java:83)
at com.github.kingargyle.plexappclient.core.imageloader.OSDImageLoader.run(OSDImageLoader.java:67)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1081)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:574)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:1020)

Some web sites actually play nice with the web. In particular, PBS.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sciencenow/rss/

Science now provides RSS feeds that can be parsed and the URL to the video can be retrieved. As a proof of concept should try to add support for the NOVA vodcast, which contains the appropriate information. If possible integrate it using the existing MovieBrowser format.

This will entail creating a new VideoContent service, that parses out and populates the appropriate information for the browser. Not all items may be there, but the important direct play url should be available.

Episodes need special handling for content that is returned. Plex mixes formats between Shows and Episodes so need to handle episodes specially.

There are a couple of problems that need to be addressed:

1. Progress is not updated when using the OnScreen controls for skipping Forward or Backward.
2. Code is handled in both places for keyboard events, however only the Video Player code is executed.
3. MediaController currently doesn't get focus when shown. This needs to be addressed so that it's keyboard events can be processed as well as touch events. Need to let the mediacontroller be focasable.

This needs to be fixed before going to 1.0.0 Beta.

Need to do a slight re-arrangement on the info screen. Add movie poster, and move title and summary information around.

For Google TV devices add an option to clear the disck cache. If other devices have a menu key they can get to it as well.

The simpliest method is to pass to a download manager the ability to download a URL to an external storage location that is publicly accessible outside of the app. Users can then use an external media player to play the content.

I cannot get past the "settings" stage upon install. I have read the wiki and have tried various IP addresses and ports with no resolution. I am sure my issue is a configuration issue rather than a coding issue with the program, but I need help to resolve it. I am using a home network (cisco router). Plex web address on my network appears in my web browser as http://127.x.x.x:34200/web which will not work on another computer on my network, however http://192.168.x.x:34200/web DOES work (but not on Serenity). I hope that narrows down the issue somewhat. Thanks in advance!

By leveraging code from the subTitleConvertor project, serenity could read and display subtitles from a variety of formats.

Use of the player's current position could be used to determine when to display subtitle, and for how long.

This is mainly needed for Google TV devices and versions of android before 4.2. 4.2 on wards has the ability to natively read and display .srt files.

Similar functionality for TV Show (Banners) browsing, one can narrow the shows down by Genre, Newest, Recently Added, etc. This may need some rework of this screen due to the need to allow for the placement of the Category and Secondary Filters.

internal player always fix aspect ratio at 16:9, so does ViMu. 2.35:1 are compressed, everything look thinner and top and buttom black boxes are gone.

https://sites.google.com/site/mxvpen/api

Right now, when I go to watch Young Justice, I have to scroll thru EVERYTHING with new episodes to find it. Or worse if I want to watch an episode I've already seen.

I'd love to hit they "Y" key on my revue's keyboard and jump straight the Y's. Would be great.

I know you have "view by first letter" but it has a couple of downfalls for our use:

1. It ONLY lists shows for that letter, you can't move beyond the Y's to the Z's for instance.

2. It shows ALL shows, not just unwatched ones.

Also: PLEASE increase the fonts sizes!!! At least as an option.

And, having a sidebar list of small posters/names of all your shows/movies for that subsection (all/unwatched/Alpha) in any selection screen would be helpful for those of us with lots of shows.

Thanks. :)

Integrate Search capabilities within the app for Movies.

When browsing an episode, display the air date for the episode.

People with large libraries need a way to quickly navigate through the library.

Some suggestions:

• Enable Pg/Pg down keys to skip through the gallery 10 at time or allow for user configuration.
• Enable a Filter menu option that would filter down the current list to the available items entered in from the keyboard.
• Enable quick skipping by pressing a letter on the keyboard (only applicable to google tv or devices with a keyboard connected).

Need to move all network io to a background thread. The app currently plays badly and runs network IO (even though it is quick) on the UI thread.

Open up the project to SDK versions above 13, to allow those with Android HDMI Sticks running ICS and JB, access to the application.

For Episodes add the Season and Episode number when browsing the data. Also include on the OSD next to the Title.

Trying to access server called media on 192.168.1.12. Using logitech revue. Web app works ok.

When returning from watching a video, user should have a preference option to allow the removal of the video from the list. Ideally the list would automatically refresh with the next on deck item. So maybe have a "Always Refresh On Deck" option in the preference so that Plex automatically provides the next in the list.

Along with the progress functionality, the ability to Resume a video needs to be implemented. In plex this is captured by the viewOffset attribute for a video.

      rating="9" viewOffset="18181" year="1999"

The viewOffset is stored in milliseconds from the beginning of the file.

the seekTo method of the media player takes milliseconds so this should be a straight pass through to set the new position.

Once a video is done playing and control has been returned to the browser activity. Need to update the currently selected item's meta data in the background. This is needed to get the updated Watched flag and the Progress information in case a user goes directly back to playing the video.

Reported through BugSense.

java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException: length=0; regionStart=0; regionLength=-1
at java.lang.String.startEndAndLength(String.java:583)
at java.lang.String.substring(String.java:1464)
at com.github.kingargyle.plexappclient.ui.browser.tv.TVShowBannerOnItemSelectedListener.createTVShowDetail(TVShowBannerOnItemSelectedListener.java:127)
at com.github.kingargyle.plexappclient.ui.browser.tv.TVShowBannerOnItemSelectedListener.onItemSelected(TVShowBannerOnItemSelectedListener.java:100)
at android.widget.AdapterView.fireOnSelected(AdapterView.java:892)
at android.widget.AdapterView.selectionChanged(AdapterView.java:879)
at android.widget.Gallery.selectionChanged(Gallery.java:561)
at android.widget.AdapterView.checkSelectionChanged(AdapterView.java:1043)
at android.widget.Gallery.setSelectionToCenterChild(Gallery.java:607)
at android.widget.Gallery.trackMotionScroll(Gallery.java:402)
at android.widget.Gallery.onScroll(Gallery.java:1043)
at android.view.GestureDetector.onTouchEvent(GestureDetector.java:572)
at android.widget.Gallery.onTouchEvent(Gallery.java:958)
at android.view.View.dispatchTouchEvent(View.java:7246)
at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchTransformedTouchEvent(ViewGroup.java:2168)
at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchTouchEvent(ViewGroup.java:1903)
at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchTransformedTouchEvent(ViewGroup.java:2174)
at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchTouchEvent(ViewGroup.java:1917)
at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchTransformedTouchEvent(ViewGroup.java:2174)
at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchTouchEvent(ViewGroup.java:1917)
at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchTransformedTouchEvent(ViewGroup.java:2174)
at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchTouchEvent(ViewGroup.java:1917)
at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchTransformedTouchEvent(ViewGroup.java:2174)
at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchTouchEvent(ViewGroup.java:1917)
at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchTransformedTouchEvent(ViewGroup.java:2174)
at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchTouchEvent(ViewGroup.java:1917)
at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchTransformedTouchEvent(ViewGroup.java:2174)
at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchTouchEvent(ViewGroup.java:1917)
at com.android.internal.policy.impl.PhoneWindow$DecorView.superDispatchTouchEvent(PhoneWindow.java:1953)
at com.android.internal.policy.impl.PhoneWindow.superDispatchTouchEvent(PhoneWindow.java:1405)
at android.app.Activity.dispatchTouchEvent(Activity.java:2410)
at com.android.internal.policy.impl.PhoneWindow$DecorView.dispatchTouchEvent(PhoneWindow.java:1901)
at android.view.View.dispatchPointerEvent(View.java:7426)
at android.view.ViewRootImpl.deliverPointerEvent(ViewRootImpl.java:3220)
at android.view.ViewRootImpl.deliverInputEvent(ViewRootImpl.java:3165)
at android.view.ViewRootImpl.doProcessInputEvents(ViewRootImpl.java:4292)
at android.view.ViewRootImpl.enqueueInputEvent(ViewRootImpl.java:4271)
at android.view.ViewRootImpl$WindowInputEventReceiver.onInputEvent(ViewRootImpl.java:4363)
at android.view.InputEventReceiver.dispatchInputEvent(InputEventReceiver.java:179)
at android.view.InputEventReceiver.nativeConsumeBatchedInputEvents(Native Method)
at android.view.InputEventReceiver.consumeBatchedInputEvents(InputEventReceiver.java:171)
at android.view.ViewRootImpl.doConsumeBatchedInput(ViewRootImpl.java:4342)
at android.view.ViewRootImpl$ConsumeBatchedInputRunnable.run(ViewRootImpl.java:4382)
at android.view.Choreographer$CallbackRecord.run(Choreographer.java:749)
at android.view.Choreographer.doCallbacks(Choreographer.java:562)
at android.view.Choreographer.doFrame(Choreographer.java:530)
at android.view.Choreographer$FrameDisplayEventReceiver.run(Choreographer.java:735)
at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:725)
at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:92)
at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:137)
at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5041)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:511)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:793)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:560)
at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)

Move movie title to the top.

Remove/shrink current time.

Add Poster art if it exists.

java.lang.IllegalStateException
at android.media.MediaPlayer.getCurrentPosition(Native Method)
at com.github.kingargyle.plexappclient.ui.video.player.SerenitySurfaceViewVideoActivity$SerenityMediaPlayerControl.getCurrentPosition(SerenitySurfaceViewVideoActivity.java:378)
at com.github.kingargyle.plexappclient.ui.video.player.MediaController.setProgress(MediaController.java:442)
at com.github.kingargyle.plexappclient.ui.video.player.MediaController.access$200(MediaController.java:75)
at com.github.kingargyle.plexappclient.ui.video.player.MediaController$1.handleMessage(MediaController.java:428)
at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:132)
at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4196)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:491)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:841)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:599)
at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)

Movie posters width is squished on 1080p screens. Similar problem that was occuring with TV Show bannners. Use the getDPI method to correctly calculate the size.

Some users would like to have the Poster layout for TV Show browsing as they do in the Movie Browser. Make this an option, and create a different layout to be used if the preference setting is checked.

Some banners on 1080p resolution can look stretched veritically. May have to check the resolution of the screen being displayed and the dp density, and adjust the width and height, trying to keep the same aspect ratio. Look at the video code for aspect ratio calculation formulas.

Reported in the following Google Plus thread:

https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/100427843958963974912/100427843958963974912/posts/h7TP2YmLoPb

Need to Implement the SharedPreferences interface so that basic information like Server address and port can be saved.

A special url is used to update progress information on the plex media server for a video/tv show.

/:/progress?key=2288&identifier=com.plexapp.plugins.library&time=77357

Where key is the metadata key for the item, and time is the new position in milliseconds.

When the video completes the following should occur:

1. Any updating background tasks should be killed or stoped.
2. The activity needs to return to the prior activity screen.

library/metadata/166/allLeaves?unwatched=1

The key there should always return Unwatched episodes only. Choose a small set of episodes, i.e. FireFly, and watch a few episodes. Go back to the TV Show Browser, select the category Unwatched. Should show FireFly, browse into the FireFly, and then select All Episodes. That should only display unwatched episodes, if it is display all episodes, there is a bug.

This was reported on the Google+ page for serenity so should be part of a bug fix release. Targeting for 0.9.1

There is a special url and format that needs to be called to set the watched and unwatched status for TV Shows and Movies.

From the Plex Developer's forums:

You can changed the watched/unwatched status via following URL:

Set Watched: http://:32400/:/scrobble?key=&identifier=com.plexapp.plugins.library
Set UnWatched: http://:32400/:/unscrobble?key=&identifier=com.plexapp.plugins.library

where the = the number from the key attribute return from PMS.

eg if key for a movie was /library/metadata/554 then =554

then use
Watched: http://:32400/:/scrobble?key=554&identifier=com.plexapp.plugins.library
UnWatched: http://:32400/:/unscrobble?key=554&identifier=com.plexapp.plugins.library

NetCasts is a term coined by Leo Laporte of TWiT fame.

For Serenity, NetCasts will include a mixture of pre-defined channels, and user selected channels. Since the video portion of the app is already done, and we have a good basis around that, we'll concentrate first on providing Video support. This relates to issue the issue for adding RSS feed reading ability.

We may need to back this with basic information to start off with, like an XML file that contains the feeds that are always available. This should be enhanced with a simple SQLite database for user defined feeds and content.

Plex may not be supported, the main reason is the legal gray area that it it's channels option provides. So we want to try and stick to feeds that offer an RSS or ATOM feed format.

Information around supporting TWiT:

http://wiki.twit.tv/wiki/Developer_Guide

Users should have an option to choose which built in channels they see.

Need to set a fixed width on the menu TextViews so that extremely long menus titles don't lock up the gallery viewer. See the following Plex Forum post for more details.

http://forums.plexapp.com/index.php/topic/61196-serenity-for-google-tv/page__view__findpost__p__360135

On the Sony GS7 Movie section gives error Unable to communicate server. TV section has no issue with communication.

http://ableremote.com/developers/

For tablets it would be nice to long press a poster in one of the browsers, and have this trigger a share to be played back on google tv using a supported player.

Eventually the VideoPlayer for Serenity needs to be able to respond to these intents, but to start with could send just the video url, and have Google TV use whatever player is capable of playing the video.

This should only be enabled if Able remote is installed on the device.

There are multiple ways to discover plex media servers.

1. Proprietary Plex UDP protocol.
2. DLNA protocol
3. Bonjour (deprecated in Plex).

The goal is to make it easier for new installations to get going. If the IP address is already known, then we don't need to auto discover. If it is NULL then try to auto discover using DLNA as the protocol. Will need to filter out all other DLNA servers for the time being.

Cling is an open source DLNA framework that already has built in Android support so will look at using this.

http://4thline.org/projects/cling/core/manual/cling-core-manual.html#chapter.Android

Keep the option to allow user to manually enter the ip address, they could have DLNA turned off.