so far so good

Hi all,
if you been reading the blog so far I've figured out the steaming part to some extent, and I'm working out the presentation part. I went back to the drawing board and did some surfing on the ps3 just to see what type of content it can handle. I'm running the latest firmware and thankfully sony decided to include flash 9 support. From there I began to focus my search on flash websites. The bulk of the content was slow and laggy but I did catch a break on some pages. As long as content was presented without too much animation or scrolling, the ps3 was able to keep up. I then began looking for free flash templates and came across flashmo.com there was a nice template there that did kind of what I wanted. This is the one I grabbed..



Yippie, now its time to learn flash, luckily I have access to such things and began to get to work... After getting a handle of the basic structure/layout and programing structure I was able to break down the components and how they function. In a nut shell, the template was pulling content from a XML document mapping where the photos are stored and contained for each image (root). There was a seperate folder for the actual displayed images. If you go check out the free flash site and look at the template you will know what I'm talking about. After several days of work where am I at? heres the new screen capture....
The covers I searched around the internet for, if you look you will find them. Now what I have after revising the code (genre sorting/directory listing) and updating some images/effects from the template we now have something more respectable. I may still revise some of the interface, I like buttons that fly around. As a side note, I had to write a program to build the xml doc, I can do the leg work to get covers but I needed a way to populate the xml with my directory listing/genre/description its now working like a champ. Now I am almost finished, when I do get this done, since its built from a free template, you will get this free as well. oh and by the way this works great on the ps3 and since its web based it works on any pc/mac connected to your network.
stay tuned, a release is pretty close.
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