Need to Modify SDK Videoplayer to Allow Display of Image

Take a look at the function showDetailScreen in the file appDetailScreen.brs

find this spot:

           if msg.GetIndex() = 1
                    PlayStart = RegRead(showList[showIndex].ContentId)
                    if PlayStart <> invalid then
                        showList[showIndex].PlayStart = PlayStart.ToInt()
                    endif
                    showVideoScreen(showList[showIndex])
                    refreshShowDetail(screen,showList,showIndex)
                endif
                if msg.GetIndex() = 2
                    showList[showIndex].PlayStart = 0
                    showVideoScreen(showList[showIndex])
                    refreshShowDetail(screen,showList,showIndex)

what you would want to do is add some logic to check for an image and then write an image display function that would display the image, otherwise, play a video.

For example, in your xml, you could set <contentType>image</contentType> and or <streamFormat>.gif</streamformat>

Then in the above function you could have:

               if msg.GetIndex() = 2
                    showList[showIndex].PlayStart = 0

               if Showlist[ShowIndex].streamformat=".gif" or Showlist[Showindex].StreamFormat="image" then
                    showImage(showlist[showindex])
               else
                    showVideoScreen(showList[showIndex])
               end if

               refreshShowDetail(screen,showList,showIndex)

- Joel