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Overview
A plugin for browsing a "picture of the day", photos or albums from various source like "picture of the day"-providers (i.e. National Geographic POTD) or photojournalism websites (i.e. Boston.com The Big Picture)
More Info
For more information about the Picture of the Day plugin, see:
Details
Features
- supports various providers (similar to onlinevideos), so only one plugin is required instead having each provider within it's own plugin: sample providers
Supported Providers
- Frankfurter Allgemeine
- National Geographic
- Starobserver
Wishlist for future develpments
- Besides downloading a picture it also scrapes (if the provider supports it)
- picture title
- photographer
- picture summary / description
- category
- The usage of the content in MP2 should be configurable, it could be
- used as a background in
- the home menu only
- all menus
- used as a screensaver replacement (no analog clock anymore)
- for each usage a separated provider can be selected
- used as a background in
- it could have it's own workflow model (screen)
- allowing to open the picture using the picture player
- browsing previous days
- browsing by category
- browsing other providers
- possibility to enable/disable/hide some providers
- additional providers
- Boston.com: The Big Pictures (http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/)
- The Atlantic: In Focus (http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/)
- Sacramento Bee: The Frame (http://blogs.sacbee.com/photos/)
- Wallstreetjournal: The Photo Journal (http://blogs.wsj.com/photojournal/)
- TotallyCoolPix.com: (http://TotallyCoolPix.com)
- Time.com: LightBox - Closeup (http://lightbox.time.com/category/closeup/?iid=lb-close)
Other Resources
- MP1 plugin: Astronomy Picture of the Day
- MP1 & MP2 plugin: OnlineVideos
- XBMC addon: The Big Picture
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