[phil65]

hey guys,
I stripped out the daemon part of script.extendedinfo into a separate add-on.
https://github.com/phil65/script.skin.info.service
This also covers all properties from script.videolanguage now (thx to black) so you do not need to have 2 daemons running for setting window properties in media windows.
Documentation (i hope i got everything):

Code:

Start the script with RunScript(script.skin.info.service) in startup.xml
+Properties will then be available in the corresponding media windows.
+
+New properties:
+
+For artists:
+Window(home).Property(...)
+    'Artist.Album.%d.Title' % i
+    'Artist.Album.%d.Plot' % i
+    'Artist.Album.%d.PlotOutline' % i
+    'Artist.Album.%d.Year' % i
+    'Artist.Album.%d.Duration' % i
+    'Artist.Album.%d.Thumb' % i
+    'Artist.Album.%d.ID' % i
+    'Artist.Albums.Newest'  
+    'Artist.Albums.Oldest'  
+    'Artist.Albums.Count'  
+    'Artist.Albums.Playcount'  
+
+For Albums:
+Window(home).Property(...)
+    'Album.Song.%d.Title' % i
+    'Album.Song.%d.FileExtension' % i
+    'Album.Songs.TrackList'  
+    'Album.Songs.Discs'
+    'Album.Songs.Discs'  
+    'Album.Songs.Duration'  
+    'Album.Songs.Count'
+
+For movie sets:
+Window(home).Property(...)
+    'Set.Movie.%d.Art(clearlogo)' % i
+    'Set.Movie.%d.Art(fanart)' % i
+    'Set.Movie.%d.Art(poster)' % i
+    'Set.Movie.%d.Art(discart)' % i
+    'Set.Movies.Plot'  
+    'Set.Movies.ExtendedPlot'  
+    'Set.Movies.Runtime'  
+    'Set.Movies.Writer'  
+    'Set.Movies.Director'  
+    'Set.Movies.Genre'  
+    'Set.Movies.Years'  
+    'Set.Movies.Count'
+
+For movie years, directors, actors, genres, studios countries and tags:
+Window(home).Property(...)
+    'Detail.Movie.%d.Art(poster)' % i
+    'Detail.Movie.%d.Art(fanart)' % i
+    'Detail.Movie.%d.Path' % i
+
+For movies:
+Window(movieinformation).Property(...)
+    AudioLanguage.%d' % i
+    AudioCodec.%d' % i
+    AudioChannels.%d' % i
+    SubtitleLanguage.%d' % i
+    AudioLanguage
+    SubtitleLanguage

[Hitcher]

Nice, can it get added to the official repos for use in official skins?

[phil65]

Nice, can it get added to the official repos for use in official skins?

yes, I´m in the process of getting my python stuff into shape. when I´m done I´ll ask for repo inclusion.
since this is firing a lot of json calls, do you skinners want the ability to only get info for specific media types? (something like RunScript(script.skin.info.service,info=sets|movies|artists) )

[Hitcher]

Yes, that would be great.

[phil65]

new properties for movies: (thx to BigNoid)
AudioLanguage (single string with all languages, divided by "/")
SubtitleLanguage ("")

[Mike-pro]

Hi,

Is there a simple 'Set.Movies.Titles' ?

To only list movies in sets without plot or so ?

Thanks.

[phil65]

Hi,

Is there a simple 'Set.Movies.Titles' ?

To only list movies in sets without plot or so ?

Thanks.

no, not available.

For devs:
I completely converted this script to make it event-driven without the need of a daemon which runs all the time.
should be better in terms of performance + some other nice side-effects (instant change of infos for example)

you can test it here: https://github.com/phil65/script.skin.in...onToPlugin

to you use you need to put a container into myvideonav.xml / mymusicnav.xml:

Code:

<control type="list" id="20000">
             <posx>0</posx>
            <posy>0</posy>
            <width>1</width>
            <height>1</height>
            <orientation>horizontal</orientation>
            <itemlayout></itemlayout>
            <focusedlayout></focusedlayout>
            <content>plugin://script.skin.info.service?dbid=$INFO[ListItem.DBID]&amp;label=$INFO[ListItem.Label]/</content>
        </control>

feedback appreciated. thx.

[jurialmunkey]

For devs:
I completely converted this script to make it event-driven without the need of a daemon which runs all the time.
should be better in terms of performance + some other nice side-effects (instant change of infos for example)

you can test it here: https://github.com/phil65/script.skin.in...onToPlugin
feedback appreciated. thx.

I get a script failed notification on load...
EDIT: Realised I do not need to run it at startup anymore because it is being loaded as content. Seems to be working well so far.

EDIT2: Sometimes I'm getting the info disappearing after it briefly shows up if I scroll quickly down to the movie set (for set extendedplot).Also, I'll occasionally get the info from the wrong set.This only happens when I'm scrolling through quickly. I'm only using it outside list containers.

EDIT3: I've gone back and compared it to the original script.skin.info.service and the performance actually seems worse in the DaeomonToPlugin version. Plus the old version seems to always display the correct info.

[phil65]

correct. not needed to run it on startup anymore.

[phil65]

ok, could not spot any difference here on my end. you only tested sets, right?
if performance is worse i will return to the old way of course. In theory it should be better now.
also please try again latest version. i removed the logging so perhaps that helps.
perhaps someone else could test, too?

[phil65]

on a sidenote:
for a lot of use cases you you can also simply just use <content>videodb://movies/sets/$INFO[ListItem.DBID]/</content>
no script needed at all when doing it this way.

[Hitcher]

I haven't had time to test this update out but I've definitely seen the difference when using content paths for home widgets vs window properties (script.watchlist vs skin.widgets) and went back to using the latter.

[phil65]

I haven't had time to test this update out but I've definitely seen the difference when using content paths for home widgets vs window properties (script.watchlist vs skin.widgets) and went back to using the latter.

that´s not comparable since i do not fill any lists with the plugin:// stuff in this case. i just use the list to trigger the property update.

[Hitcher]

OK cool.

[boppyman]

Hi Phil

I was using your extendedinfo script to show information on sets but it stopped working with frodo and am now using this one in here (script.skin.info.service-master) which works brilliant but i have to manually launch it at each startup to get it to work.

Is there any way to set it to launch automatically?

Thanks