Help Needed!

While most of the development is done by myself, there are things I can't handle. This is the place where you come into play: Got the software for free, and want to give something back? Here you go!

BiDi Support

Already for a long time I struggle with the BiDi support, trying to enable Hebrew with the application. Up to now mostly unsuccessfully: The BiDi stuff always messes some things up. The problem is, one never knows in advance where the direction needs to change - hey, everything is generated dynamically. It's not only the translations (and this is already hard to handle, not only because of the language fallback). Stored input for the movies also may contain Right-to-Left stuff - or not.

If you are experienced with this kind of problems: Please contact me and offer your help on this, it is highly appreciated! See the contact link below for details on how to find me

Translations

This is something more easy - and the project is always looking for people to update existing translations as well as add new languages. Since development is going on, new phrases are permanently added. Help for the translation work thus is always welcome!

One part of this can be done using the integrated translation editor - this affects the web application itself with its menus etc. A second playground is the online help - here are simple text files to edit. All in all nothing technically difficult - and you don't need to install anything on your computer to do the job. So why not apply for it?

Label Design

You probably know that phpVideoPro has a label printing system. To be true, there are two different label printing systems available within the application: One is based on the graphics library called GD (this is the old one), while the other uses PostScript ("PSLabels"). While the old one was designed years ago for VHS tape labeling (and was never extended/updated since), the PSLabels now start to support CD/DVD labels (not yet covers) as well with version 0.8.5 of phpVideoPro. Just a basic set of designs is shipped with the distribution - and I must admit: They work, but they could look better…

So here again help is needed. For v0.8.6 of phpVideoPro, the tables for the PSLabel system will change a little bit - for a new feature: I want to support "Label Packs". This means: You design collections of labels, I will distribute them as separate archives, and the end user can chose which Label Packs to use.

What is needed therefore? A collection of graphics. They should be about 470x470 pixels in size. The colors should be selected such that the movies information we print on top is easy readable. Motives should be neutral in so far that they match a collection of movies (i.e. they should not be special to a single movie). When you set up some of these graphics, send them to me (any graphics format, I'll do necessary conversions - prefered formats are JPeg or EPS). Of course, if you have questions and/or need closer information, please contact me.

Testing

This is always needed, and if you find something weird, please report! Currently, we'd especially like the new SQLite support be tested: Does everything work as expected? Some problems, which do not appear with the other databases?