Serviio

Just a thought, but with the release of OpenGraph Beta and the Timeline Profiles.

Why not have an application that shows on the profiles and displays:

*User* is watching *Show Name*
*User* has watched *Show Name*

etc

I wanted to do this a long time ago. Recently I became a bit skeptic, what do you guys think? Would you use this feature?

Pros:

• can be useful for recommending movies to people, could link to imdb ot themoviedb, things like: Most watched genres, Most watched series, etc
• could be particularly cool for online feeds as anyone could watch that immediately as well
• adds social networking aspect to Serviio and can be extended in future, e.g. linking to online stores to buy the DVD etc

Cons:

• breaches privacy
• might be embarrassing when you start watching 'a dodgy' movie by mistake and it gets sent to your profile (although Facebook would be contacted some time after begging watching the show)
• would have to deal with multiple users using single instance of Serviio

I don't know if you've reviewed the new OpenGraph from F8 2011, but it lets you do a lot of configuring etc now. I won't bore you with the details as you can find a lot more information here : https://developers.facebook.com/docs/beta/

But here's an example:


As for your Cons:
breaches privacy
I'm not sure how I understand this would breach privacy? It would require a user to login to Facebook from Serviio, authorise Serviio to connect to Facebook and the user would have too accept what they are letting Serviio do. As long as you use the correct permission requests then officially, this isn't a breach. Your using the new OpenGraph platform as intended.

might be embarrassing when you start watching 'a dodgy' movie by mistake and it gets sent to your profile (although Facebook would be contacted some time after begging watching the show)
This isn't your fault If someone has dodgy shows on the DNLA Server then they're asking for it one day What I could suggest though is that users have the ability to block movies depending on their file name, actors etc. Perhaps even a GUI option so they can select ones they don't want to share? Or maybe a folder that has a specific naming convention - all files in there will be ignored by Facebook, however still appear in the DNLA server as usual.

would have to deal with multiple users using single instance of Serviio
This one could be a little tricky to get around. However, perhaps if Serviio detects multiple users (Facebook), then it will bring up a set of folders before each container of movies etc with Facebook user names. If someone plays it from a folder, it gets posted to that persons Facebook App. The only downside to this method is that you could tell Serviio to post all dodgy films and then play the dodgy films from someone elses Facebook

You could also have it setup based on Mac Addresses? So my PS3 in my Facebook account, my brother PS3 his is etc etc

I hear you man. But do you think people will spend all the time to set up folders, users and their access right, etc. just to share some info on Facebook? I'm not saying they won't, I just want to get some feel what people are willing to do.

If they want the feature enabled but don't want people to know their watching their favourite fetish videos im sure they would

wouldnt want everone knowing what porn i as watching thanks.

So edit them out in the settings

it was a retorical statement.

I don't use facebook, do use twitter but even so why do I need to broadcast what I'm watching. Seems a silly feature to me. Also we've got several users on the network at once, how do you start specifying which one is doing what? Just seems like wasted effort to me...

lol that what i was saying but trying not to be the blunt one for once lol

Snigger.....well Zip asked for opinions, my hate is facebook not serviio

Personally, I still have trouble with Facebook, I don't see the point of this application for me.