[DavidA]

Some time ago I wanted an easy way of finding out which videos had recently been automatically downloaded. Ideally I wanted this to be shown on the XBMC ticker.

I found no way of doing that easily within XBMC, so I wrote a small Windows app that did the job for me. I've been successfully running it now for about six months and I figured I'd share it with others, so this evening I made it a little prettier and made a website for it.

Let me know what you think. It's called Folder-RSS. Happy to help people set it up if they're having problems, but hopefully it's straightforward. Enjoy!

[stoli]

Works like a charm. Right off, the only suggestion I have is to allow better filtering, either by extensions to allow or those to ignore...

Thanks for the utility!

[DavidA]

Good to hear that it's working for you Stoli.

There is some amount of filtering that you can do, but perhaps it's not what you're after. In the Filepattern field you can tell it what to look for, e.g. *.avi will just list AVI files. House*.avi will just list AVI files beginning with House.

Another way is to include a more detailed set of folders to scan. E.g. if you had a directory structure like this:

e:\videos\porn
e:\videos\tv shows
e:\videos\movies

And (for some reason) you wanted to avoid your porn showing on the ticker then instead of scanning e:\videos you would set it up to scan two directories:

e:\videos\tv shows
e:\videos\movies

Hope that helps!

Hey, BTW, did you work out how to connect the resulting XML to your ticker? I don't know if people can figure that out or whether I need to write some help.

[handsomepete]

working great here too. Just a few questions

Is it possible to create 2 seperate rss feeds?
1 for recently added movies, 1 for recently added TV?

is it possible to stack?
Transformers Revenge Of The Fallen-cd1
Transformers Revenge Of The Fallen-cd2

is it possible to show the full path for tv shows?
im getting S07E02 - Vehicular Fellatio
when i would like Curb your Enthusiasm - S07E02 - Vehicular Fellatio
the folder path is tv shows/curb your enthusiasm/season 7/S07E02 - Vehicular Fellatio

Finally is it possible to be able to "click" on the rss feed in xbmc and have it play the video?

Thanks in advance

[DavidA]

Hi Jabba,

Some of those things are possible. Let me see...

Stacking could be done, although it would be quite a bit of work. I was thinking about somehow using the same code that XBMC uses to turn filenames into TV Show names and Movie Names although it looked tricky.

Adding full paths would be easy. I'll add that to the 'to do' list.

Two different XML outputs would be fairly easy. Could I ask why you would want that?

The 'clicking to play' would be great, but I don't get to control that. It's just part of XBMC.

[handsomepete]

Thanks for that DavidA

I was looking for 2 feeds just to have seperate feeds for tv and movies.

recently added movies: transformers, surrogates etc and when thats finished recently added tv shows afterward.

its not that important, just how id like it to be organised.

As for click to play, It would be great but i know its out of your control

thanks again!

[stoli]

Good to hear that it's working for you Stoli.


Another way is to include a more detailed set of folders to scan. E.g. if you had a directory structure like this:

e:\videos\tv shows
e:\videos\movies

My setup is quite similar to that, but the issue is I have an array of file containers that I do want added; avi, mp4, mkv, etc etc. However, there are often new .nfo, jpg and tbn files that I don't want added to the feed... If it can't be done, no biggie.

Hey, BTW, did you work out how to connect the resulting XML to your ticker? I don't know if people can figure that out or whether I need to write some help.

Yep - it was easy, here's the line I added to my rssfeeds.xml:

Code:

<feed updateinterval="30">C:\Users\stoli\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\newvids.xml</feed>

Thanks again!

[hamd01]

What a lovely little app....nice one.

[DavidA]

I made an update to my app due to a couple of requests. You can now add multiple filemasks and it has an 'intelligent rename' function that displays TV shows in a more logical way.

Hope someone finds it useful. Website here.