2009-02-05, 16:22
After reading the thread started by theophile (here) I got thinking about my setup. Plus the wife asked me about this last night. (Funny how another thread got started around the same time.)
Anyways, currently the way the wife and I store our family videos/pictures is simply by dumping the contents off the SD card from the camera to a folder (ex: Winter 2009) in this folder we store mostly pictures but there might be a few videos from the camera as well. I first thought this would be a simple matter of adding a few extensions to the pictures section of the advancedsettings.xml file like so:
<pictureextensions>
<add>.mov|.avi</add>
</pictureextensions>
This allowed the videos to be listed in the picture library and even created thumbnails for them but they where unable to play. I'm not a dev but I believe XBMC was trying to open these items as they where a picture not a video. Note: I was trying to use the picture library as I wanted the family videos separate from the "movies" library.
I understand the picture library was most likely never designed for this but I just had to try it. My idea is this:
1) Make a mixed library for misc items. (I would use this for family videos and pictures)
2) Allow XBMC to open an item based off it's extension/file type.
Keep in mind this are just my ideas, I don't know if they will work for XBMC. As aways, thanks for this awesome software.
Anyways, currently the way the wife and I store our family videos/pictures is simply by dumping the contents off the SD card from the camera to a folder (ex: Winter 2009) in this folder we store mostly pictures but there might be a few videos from the camera as well. I first thought this would be a simple matter of adding a few extensions to the pictures section of the advancedsettings.xml file like so:
<pictureextensions>
<add>.mov|.avi</add>
</pictureextensions>
This allowed the videos to be listed in the picture library and even created thumbnails for them but they where unable to play. I'm not a dev but I believe XBMC was trying to open these items as they where a picture not a video. Note: I was trying to use the picture library as I wanted the family videos separate from the "movies" library.
I understand the picture library was most likely never designed for this but I just had to try it. My idea is this:
1) Make a mixed library for misc items. (I would use this for family videos and pictures)
2) Allow XBMC to open an item based off it's extension/file type.
Keep in mind this are just my ideas, I don't know if they will work for XBMC. As aways, thanks for this awesome software.