Auto-billboard (auto-panneau d'affichage) and synopsis (movie summary - Résumé du film)

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Auto-billboard (auto-panneau d'affichage) and synopsis (movie summary - Résumé du film)

Postby MrMister » 09 Oct 2016 17:38

Hello
I have a friend that love movies and have in a folder 317 movies, pending to watch. He use always VLC Media Player.
The problem is, after 1 month you don't remember well the summary of the movie and you need help.
I think, VideoLAN could try to find and automate this information.
Let's imagine I have the file...

El asedio de Jadotville

Observe, I am giving you the title of the movie in Spanish, in a complicated way ;)
Okay... to get the international title you only have to search in Google

El asedio de Jadotville imdb

If your search include the words imdb (internet movie database), automatically you get the international title

The Siege of Jadotville

If you do the same in french...

Siège de Jadotville imdb

Automatically you get the movie title in english...

The Siege of Jadotville

With this information, you can access directly to the imdb website, and download:

Movie summary
Picture
And movie cast (actors working in it)

It would be amazing I could activate an option in VLCMedia Player that says
[ ] Find bill-board and information

Automatically, when you double click in a file, for example: Siège_de_Jadotville.mp4 or Siège_de_Jadotville.avi
VLC Media Player takes the file name, search it in imdb and get the information. So you can decide if you will like the movie to watch it today or not ;)

This feature is like many audio players, downloading the covers for the music automatically, however, here we do it with movies and also showing information.

Cheers

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Re: Auto-billboard (auto-panneau d'affichage) and synopsis (movie summary - Résumé du film)

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 11 Oct 2016 23:29

Yeah, we're working on that. It's quite hard.
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