Roku Developer Program

[jbrave]

You know, it's very cool that you wrote librokudev, but it really needs documentation. I would be willing to pay for good documentation of Librokudev. Maybe $35? Something like that, maybe more if necessary.

- Joel

[kbenson]

"jbrave" wrote:
You know, it's very cool that you wrote librokudev, but it really needs documentation. I would be willing to pay for good documentation of Librokudev. Maybe $35? Something like that, maybe more if necessary.

Sheesh, I would feel bad taking money to do the work on that. But the request itself may be enough to spur me into action (since I really would like to know people are using it, and the docs are probably a big hurdle). Maybe I can get some work done on that soon.

[jbrave]

"destruk" wrote:
Having it load 2000 videos, images, and data for a single selection screen sounds like too much to me.

Actually, as it turns out, the delay was on the API side not on the Roku side, using xml text files everything loads much faster. The parsing is still on the order of 900 milleseconds, but that isn't too bad. Maybe there's a faster way, as KBenson suggested, one second to parse is a long time, if so, please let me know. Here's my code:

function parsexml(xmlxfer as string) as object
timer=createobject("rotimespan")
timer.mark()
xml=createobject("RoXMLElement")
posterlist=createobject("roArray",1,true)
if xml.parse(xmlxfer) then

if xml.channel.item.count() <1 then

?"no vids in this channel"
return [{Title:"",ShortDescriptionLine1:"No Content",SDPosterURL:"pkg:/images/blank.png",HDPosterURL:"pkg:/images/blank.png",url:"",action:""}]
end if



for each vid in xml.channel.item
	group=vid.GetNamedElements("media:group")
	content=group.getnamedElements("media:content")
	tempitem=(GetVideoDataFromXML(vid))
	posterlist.push(tempitem)
next
end if
?"XML Parse Time"; timer.totalseconds()
return posterlist

end function

function GetVideoDataFromXML(video) as object
	
	vidposters=createobject("roarray",1,true)
	posterobj=createobject("roassociativearray")
	
	media=createobject("roassociativearray")
	mediaArray=createobject("roArray",1,true)
	
	group=video.GetNamedElements("media:group")
	content=group.getnamedElements("media:content")
	
	posterobj.Title=video.GetNamedElements("title").gettext()
	posterobj.description=video.GetNamedElements("description").gettext()
	posterobj.pubdate=video.GetNamedElements("pubdate").GetText()
	posterobj.video=content 'mediaArray
	posterobj.SDPosterURL=video.GetNamedElements("media:thumbnail")@url
	posterobj.HDPosterURL=posterobj.SDPosterURL
	posterobj.Action="details"
	posterobj.ContentType="episode" 
	posterobj.ShortDescriptionLine1=posterobj.Title
	posterobj.ShortDescriptionLine2=posterobj.Description
	'if posterobj.description=""
	'	posterobj.description=posterobj.ShortDescriptionLine1
	'end if
return posterobj
end function

[TheEndless]

"jbrave" wrote:
Actually, as it turns out, the delay was on the API side not on the Roku side, using xml text files everything loads much faster. The parsing is still on the order of 900 milleseconds, but that isn't too bad. Maybe there's a faster way, as KBenson suggested, one second to parse is a long time, if so, please let me know. Here's my code:

Your code looks fine to me. If the delay is on the API side, then using AsyncGetToString()s is definitely a good option for increasing responsiveness, so my suggestion above may be worth looking into. A delay or one second is bearable, so I wouldn't be concerned about the parsing time. If you're loading all 20+ rows before responding to events, however, I'd recommend doing it on a row-by-row basis, and interrupt as necessary based on user interaction.

I have a channel that's coming out soon that uses this method... I store the details for loading the row (ex. url, content type, etc.) on the row object, then have a low timeout on my Wait loop.. on "invalid" messages, I start loading rows, and interrupt on valid messages. Because I launch new screens in that same Wait loop, it blocks until the user returns to the screen, and continues loading rows from there. (I have no idea if that actually makes sense typed out :P)

[rjdjohnston]

"TheEndless" wrote:

"jbrave" wrote:

I have a channel that's coming out soon that uses this method... I store the details for loading the row (ex. url, content type, etc.) on the row object, then have a low timeout on my Wait loop.. on "invalid" messages, I start loading rows, and interrupt on valid messages. Because I launch new screens in that same Wait loop, it blocks until the user returns to the screen, and continues loading rows from there. (I have no idea if that actually makes sense typed out :P)

Do you have an example you'd be willing to share?

Having this very issue. When the user comes back it's reloading the lists which takes 20 seconds total. :?

Thanks

[RokuJoel]

I'm sorry I don't. That was a long time ago.

- Joel