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Obviously neither are associated in any shape or form with VRChat Inc. !

An incredibly based person that would prefer to stay anonymous donated vrcwat.ch to me after i reached out via mail, as lots of people we tested with kept misremembering vrwatch as vrcwatch. Working on the ability to mount your own Network storage btw, so that you can watch your own media easier! same systems, different infrastructures, high availability x3 just have to see if i can set it up that they auto fail-over to each other if one dies for some reason? shouldn't be too hard as they talk to each other already..

i love photomode way too much

Proper UI is almost ready! Just have to wire up the new seasons / episodes UI and the popularity score c:

we got a working proof of concept! *obviously all data shown in this video is just "dummy" data cause copyright and things like that :p

@TheEdenApis @hintswen yeah basically but in a stupidly complicated setup to acchieve many of the things that would require copy pasting url around normally. not hard, just tedious to set up (at least the vrc side)

@itsVeeVR @hintswen Just so I understand, a worlds would need to be made specifically for that system by pre-populating a bunch of vrcurl with various IDs, which can then be associated with movies once the library api replies to you with all the movies? movies are given random ID from api? cool! :P

Hi, i'm alive! Spent the last two days absolutely locked in to the point i didn't even check non-work DMs, sorry.. Anyway, fuck p*pcorn, i have my own media library in my homeworld now! The lovely team from nya llc gave me access to their VRC API so that i can poke around and i did just that: First step was obviously taking apart their API, solid one btw if you need only basic media data! Only Movie names + basic meta data was obviously not enough for me, so i wrote my own resolver to sit between their API and mine. My resolver does a lot of heavy lifting! * cross world favorites / bookmarks * media covers * subtitles Works like a charm so far, gonna do some more in depth work on it though to make it faster as it dynamically fetches, compresses and encodes the covers for downloading via string together with the media name and other meta-data! We store the covers and subtitles on the server-side so that the next one searching for that media does not have to wait for our cover generation to complete. On the world side i then split up the string into meta-data and covers. Covers get reconstructed into an image based on things i learned from @Vowgan`s image batcher and the UI gets built dynamically to display all the covers, meta data and similar things like rating from TMDB! When you hit play many things happen. I fetch the media from Nya's API, fetch the subtitles and convert the subtitles string into actually usable subtitles. Finally, the media starts playing lol. Next thing i wanna do is a more user friendly UI and i will give my research to Nya too soon, so they can see if / what they want to use for their own api. NGL quite proud of this little sidequest lmao And the best part? Nothing stored in the world, so no fear of my homeworld getting taken down :p Realisticly i could even load your private media library if i write my own media provider!

@shinyflvres @HighOldFool MAYBE one day a movie world that's less obnoxious than PP, but no plans of that kind for now

@shinyflvres @HighOldFool i won't make it public. it will be hand selected worlds by creators i trust to not share it around. partially to not get my API DOSed by children wanting to watch cocomelon (joke) but mostly to keep it special.

Proof of concept is done! did have some scope creep so i'll have to remake the in-world UI and backend but it's good enough that i can head into VR and watch a movie. Being able to manage my lib from the web is incredibly practical too. After a nap i'll probably throw up a test world. who knows :) ...Honestly mostly depends on if i can be arsed to model a cozy lil cinema, cause i'm not gonna hand out my homeworlds link :p search works, managing favorites works. you can even share a link to a movie so that the homie that manages the movie night can easily add it to their favorites!

anyway now i can watch funny things while getting ruined by a dominant lady :)

song: Terror - Morning Sun (Etherwood Remix), an absolute banger

@shinyflvres not having to rely on popcorn is such a nice thing, isn't it??

@itsVeeVR Made this months ago :)…

ngl its neat to manage my favorites from the web, no need to type shit in vr LMAO

wanted to be able to manage my favorites and check if i can watch a movie before getting into VRC so i made netflix at home LOL

@hintswen yeah i went world specific as it's for my homeworld, making it mobile was never the intention. Nya LLC who gave me access to their API so that i do not have to go trough the headache of making a full media provider do however have urls you can just copy paste in!

@itsVeeVR That requires using a world specifically setup for it though right? Whereas my solution involves just a regular url I can put in any video player in any world.

Please do note: this is not public and will probably never go public so don't go foaming at your mouth about a movie world that is not popcorn palace... unless someone wants to do all the modeling, i hate modeling worlds. anyway, if you like seing stupid stuff like this follow me and you can throw me money so that i can do more stupid stuff via ko-fi.com/vesturo :)