[Raziel]

Hello, is it possible to separate the actors?
I created smartPlaylist but the actors are common.
How to put actors from cartoons in cartoons playlist only
actors from movie in movie playlist only
etc ....

Could we create smartplaylist for actor? How?



Thank you in advance.

[Raziel]

Or possible to hide some actor (porn) in custom submenu ?


Thank you in advance

[PatK]

I suspect all this is do-able, although I haven't personally built any that would fit your scenero, I have worked enough with smart playlists to respect the power they offer. Smart playlists (wiki) the wiki is great instructions with samples, this forum might be of assistance. http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=76717

There's a rule that will subtract various actors from your list too. Smart playlists, can be stacked, call up other playlists to add to the rules, and use tags and sets. The 'How' is for you to dive in, if you get stuck, come back to this message and post your issue.

[Raziel]

Sorry for my bad English, i speak french.


I don't want to create smartplaylists (it's done) but put an actor submenu in Tv serie menu, only with actor in the playlist Tv series ). I don't find a rules for remove actor from list. Thank for your help

[PatK]

Ok, my understanding of the issue has changed, miscommunication and in all probably a bit of the language issue. I'm still not 100% understanding, but this is what I think you want (correct me if I'm not communicating properly to your understanding). You want to enter the TV button from the home page, then when your TV series list shows, with one TV show in focus, show the menu, and choose a playlist? Then perhaps a sub-smart playlist?> ( the actor playlist?). You may have to actually spell out what you want to do, point by point one step at a time, and in the end, I doubt you will be satisfied with my answer.

At this point in time, modified sub menu's are not a casual user option, you would have to get your coding hat on, and modify some of the xml files if not the code base. Not to be taken lightly, you would start with the wiki's and envelopment threads.

Suggestion: and a good work-around, would be the add-on Add-on:Super Favourites (wiki) with this, it will add the menu item SF to the list, and when called (you would have to set-up your playlists inside SF first) a list of your smart playlists available. Hopefully this function will not be depreciated in Kyrpton, but there is talk. The rule 'Actor' '' is not' 'actors name'

If anyone else can see a different point of view here, please help this guy out.

P.S. out of curiosity, isn't there a French language Kodi site?

[Raziel]

Thank for your answer.

Indeed, there is a French community site for kodi. Thank you, I do not know this.

It's not this.

point per point :


What i have

the movie button from the home page
Under this, a custom submenu with actors, another with genres, another with sagas, etc...
When i enter in submenu actor, all actor on all movie are display.

What i want

the movie button from the home page
Under this, a custom submenu with actors, another with genres, another with sagas, etc...
When i enter in submenu actor, only actor on movie from movie button are display.

Ps . : May be helping someone with your answer in futur for this.

[PatK]

What i want

the movie button from the home page
Under this, a custom submenu with actors, another with genres, another with sagas, etc...
When i enter in submenu actor, only actor on movie from movie button are display.

Ok I think I got it....

This link shows you how to link a playlist to your home page. http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=76717

The submenu item 'actors', is part of the skin and is not user modifiable, but depending on the skin... you could toggle the 'actor' sub menu not to show up in the skin menu. Then you would make a custom smart playlist (as you seem to suggest you have it made already) with the title 'actor' (let's say it's set for Sean Connery and when this custom playlist is toggled all Sean's film will pop-up) then it's just a matter of linking this smart playlist with the homepage submenu via favourites , which in some skins is easy to do (i.e. Transparency!)

How does that sound?

[black_eagle]

You should be able to do this with nodes (see video_nodes (wiki)). The smoothest way would be to link the actors node to each of your smart playlists but if that isn't possible you could make new nodes such as actors-comedy, actors-animation etc etc and then link those custom nodes to your playlists. There is a thread on here somewhere containing quite a few examples of different nodes created by members.

[Raziel]

Thank for your help.

Yes that work with video nodes.

I use video nodes editor for this.

Thank you again.