SE401:Group58:Print3Planning2

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Sprint 3 Details

Introduction

This sprint the focus is on exercising more TANDBERG API and to show a bit of how SilverLight and WPF aid developers to create very rich user interfaces.

• Dates
  • Start: 13 August 2008
  • End: 27 August 2008
  • Intrim Demo Date: 20 August 2008

Video Player related functionality

Simultaneous Buffering (Weng Hao)

• Priority: Critical
• Desciption:
  • Attempt to synchronized Main video and Duo video
    • Otherwise, pseudo-synchronize (Pause first played video and play when second plays)
• Estimated Duration: 7h

Pip

Code Cleanup

• Priority: Low
• Description:
  • Fully convert to MVP
• Estimated Duration: 30min

Pip-video cleanup

• Priority: Low
• Description:
  • Movable pip when 'next' button is pressed
    • When the 'next' button is pressed the Pip is not movable until large video is available
    • Currently, video player size remains same size as previously played video until next video is played. Instead, video sizes should be reset to 0 until next video has been successfully retrieved.
• Estimated Duration: 1.5h

Extra Graphical Effects (Weng Hao - Done)

• Priority: Medium-Low
• Description:
  • Fade in and fade out of the pip (WPF)
  • Demonstrate Silverlight storyboard animation capability (0:01, etc)
• Estimated Duration: 1h
• Actual Duration: 2.5h

Video

Aspect Ratio corrected Video (Weng Hao - Done)

• Priority: Critical
• Description:
  • Aspect ratios should be locked
    • i.e. 200 x 300 ratio should be set regardless of size
  • Sprint 2 shows strange window size problems with video
  • Scale videos
    • Make sure within bounds, but do not crop
• Estimated Duration: 3h
• Actual Duration: 3h

Full Screen Video (Weng Hao)

• Priority: High
• Description:
  • Demonstrate the SilverLight 'fullscreen' capability
  • References:
    • http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc189023(VS.95).aspx
    • http://silverlight.net/learn/videocat.aspx?cat=2
  • Idea: Have all controls for video contained in a panel which can be toggled between 'shown' and 'hidden'
    • The panel might be complex
• Estimated Duration: 2.5h

Visuals (Weng Hao - Done)

• Priority: High
• Description:
  • Splitting all skin image parts and fit into a xaml grid such that no overflow issues occur
  • Add skin images as separate components to video player (Allows scalability for resizing)
  • Also ensure that all functionality still works as intended before revamping of video player skin.
• Estimated Duration: 2h
• Actual Duration: 7h

Navigator Control related functionality

Create Component (Llyle)

• Priority: High
• Description:
  • Create SilverLight component and host in aspx page
  • Create the xaml which will host the video entries
• Estimated Duration: 3h

Video Entries (Llyle)

• Priority: High
• Description:
  • Program component code behind in VB.NET
  • Layout of Data items - Layered components
    • Suggested controls for video listing:
      • Repeater
      • If possible, would be most preferrable
      • http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2008/02/22/first-look-at-silverlight-2.aspx
        • Strongly suggested not to copy/paste code - May be redundant
      • Grid
      • List
• Estimated Duration: 7h

Navigating To Video Player (Llyle)

• Priority: High
• Description:
  • Take the url of item clicked as pass to the video control through the extisting functionality from Sprint 2
• Estimated Duration: 2h

video entry thumbnail (Llyle)

• Priority: High
• Description:
  • Thumbnails (for each video entry)
• Estimated Duration: 4h

video entry filter/search (Llyle)

• Priority: Medium
• Description:
  • Search for videos by: Category, Name.
  • Tandberg-provided search functionality
• Estimated Duration: 3h

Conclusion

• Llyle [20h available][19h allocated]
• Weng Hao [15h available][15.5h allocated]