AVP -- Archos Video Player Community Edition

Overview

This open source release is a public release that differs from its ancestor, Archos Video Player (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.archos.mediacenter.video) It should nevertheless offer feature parity.

A video player software for Android

This is the entry point repo, it's purpose is to provide the manifest to fetch all needed git repos with sources and then bootstrap the build environment.

More interesting sources can be found in:

• Video https://github.com/archos-sa/aos-Video
• MediaLib https://github.com/archos-sa/aos-MediaLib
• FileCoreLibrary https://github.com/archos-sa/aos-FileCoreLibrary
• avos https://github.com/archos-sa/aos-avos

For the full list, please look at https://github.com/archos-sa/aos-AVP/default.xml

Building

Get the repo tool (https://source.android.com/source/downloading), then type:

mkdir aos; cd aos
repo init -u https://github.com/archos-sa/aos-AVP
repo sync -j4
make

Alternatively for those not under Linux with a properly installed Android SDK/NDK, you can launch the build for one of the flavors of the video player through:

cd Video
./gradlew assembleCommunityLeanbackNoamazonPrivlibs

Scraping and Scrobbling

Scraping and scrobbling features rely on external services such as TMDb (https://www.themoviedb.org/), TheTVDB (http://thetvdb.com/) and Trakt (https://trakt.tv).

In order to enable Archos video player to perform these tasks you need to register to this services and enable the API and inject the corresponding keys inside the following files: MediaLib/src/community/res/values/donottranslate.xml replacing the fake values below:

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
    <resources xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
        <string name="tvdb_api_key">0123456789ABCDEF</string>
        <string name="tmdb_api_key">0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef</string>
        <string name="trakt_api_key">0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef</string>
        <string name="trakt_api_secret">0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef</string>
    </resources>

Please note that enabling TheTVDB API registration can be completed following this link: https://www.thetvdb.com/?tab=apiregister

To create a Trakt api, first register to trakt then add a new app https://trakt.tv/oauth/applications

Redirect URI should be http://localhost and be aware to grant all permissions.