Broad Overview
- A useful, functional, tested product by the end of Spring Term.
- Clever installation tricks and extensions after exams.
Requires
- 25th February
- General Query work
- GenericQueryView, ListingsView and ChannelView displaying properly
- Basic DetailsView
- Very basic Config
- Query work in place, Config work behind schedule. ListingsView complete, ChannelView caught up slightly.
- 4th March
- Continue investigating optimising recording performance.
- Parsing of XML listings from arbitrary URL into attributed files.
- Annotating listings entries with requests to record, etc.
- Full DetailsView and working (local) searching
- Local searching not in place. Parsing of XML done. ChannelView complete, waiting on a richer SingleProgrammeView to be more useful. Things progressing appropriately to catch up this weekend (10th).
- 11th March
- Focus on improving recording app, querying listings files and quality thresholds.
- Work on invocation of Player app (relatively simple)
- Server-side work on collating behavioural information. Put calls to Collaboration Server in videdot App.
- 18th March
- Clean up remaining interface. Presentable interface to extended Config.
- Simple Network Searching
Some lee-way is left towards the end of term, to account for delays and difficulties.
This leaves us with a reasonable implementation by the end of term, which broadly covers the intended aims of the project. The install-time configuration is left to be implemented next term. Further enhancements next term would include subtitling, set-top-box support and enhanced collaboration features.