[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Robodude288:
crazy ideas

So I've been using wvd for a while and have been through several times of it not working. Recently Ive played with mvu and it seems to me that there are a few major problems that plague this sort of program. the first and most obvious is parsing errors, usually because the site changed. i have an idea to help with that problem. this solution will also help with another problem these programs have which is site support

usually the program parses results for each site individually, everything is hard codded and if the site changes the program breaks.

my proposal is rather than having different parsing engines for each site's search results we submit one querry to a tube search engine.

caution links to adult content bellow

for porn for instance we could use nudevista this site would lend it self well to our purposes.

it has multipile ways of displaying results one of which would make it very easy for preview extraction. additionally NV hosts thumbs in a small optimized format just waiting for us to use.

example

we can query it for specific sites

tube8

we can query it for specific things on specific sites

Teens on tube8

each page displays 20 results at a time and rather than tracking in pages the syntax for advancing results via url manipulation is &start=## where ## is the first result on the page, and it advances from there.

enter a number that is larger than the total results and it returns page 1.

This would provide a simple way for us to search multiple sites easily with only one (search)parsing engine for all the sites.

all we will have to work out is ripping the file url out of the web page it gives us.

this bring me to part two of my brainstorm rather than hard coding everything. Each site should be handled via a plug-in.

I figure we could have plug-in directory that gets scanned on start-up this would allow us to upgrade each site's parsing individually and let the community write things to make new sites supported by the search engine compatible with the program.

If There's no plug-in found for the site, by default we could have it search the html for a string that looks like http://*.flv

(it really is that simple for many of less known sites supported by NV)

if it finds something, use that otherwise return an: Site unsupported; check for plug in. message

we could also implement some sort of blacklist so we dont return results for sites unsupported by the generic parser, at least until a plug-in for it is installed or perhaps we could have it open in skyfire instead?

I also did some finger friendly ui mockups sure sure its not pretty and its a little iphone-y; but I did it in paint and it's just to give an idea of my thought process its just an idea

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not sure how something like this would be implemented ui programing is a dark art to me.

another problem is memory usage I have some ideas about that as well but I'll save it for another time as just implementing the search engine idea would help since you would be pulling smaller optimized thumbnails.

well that's my bit let me know of what you think of some of my ideas let me know if you have questions or comments.

caution the above post contains minimal amounts of proof reading and as a result likely contains spelling grammer and punctuation problems. Read at your own risk you have been warned, albeit likely too late :p