2015-10-19, 13:59
Yes it is! But looks like the skinner has to implement it:
http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=136873
I searched the documentation a bit and, unfortunately, I've seen that it's not possible to use this field as is in a skin, but only together with rating. So I thought that, since some work was to be done on the skin part, I could store even more information in that field. For the time being I've come up with:
- audience score (either tomatometer or average, according to the selection in the options)
- a flag indicating if critics score is rotten, fresh or certified fresh
- a flag indicating if audience score is "spilled" or "popcorn"
This information is stored in the following string:
aAAAtTpP
where "a" is fixed (just to be able to recognize it's audience score), "AAA" is the audience score, "t" is fixed, "T" is 0 for rotten, 1 for fresh, 2 for certified fresh, "p" is fixed, "P" is 0 for spilled and 1 for popcorn
Obviously now it's up to skinners to use this information in a useful way. I tried to put them in a way that allows them to be handled, but I'm not an expert in skinning, so I'm open to options.
SKIN (only for Eden, I will start working on a version for Frodo as soon as Frodo bocomes final):
I've been working on a personal modification of the wonderful reFocus BIG in order to integrate Rotten Tomatoes scores at a visual level (see screenshot above for an example). I've finally reached a point where modifications are pretty much how I like them, so I thought I might share that as well.
Instructions:
- Go over to this thread and download the complete skin
- Install the skin
- Download my mod here
- Extract the files and copy them over to the skin folder (overwrite as requested). As usual, make a backup copy of the original files. In my package, I've included reworked sound effects so that they play at a normal level on my machine. This may not be the case on yours, so try them out if you want, and choose those which you feel more comfortable with.
- Launch XBMC, load reFocus BIG, customize the skin to your tastes
- To enable Rotten Tomatoes scores, go in skin settings --> View settings and enable "Show ratings like on Rotten Tomatoes"
- If you scraped your movies with the special encoding enabled (in order to scrape both critics and audience scores), enable "Show also audience using special encoding". This will give you 2 visible scores and the certified fresh icon (if the movie is certified fresh, that is)
Some info:
- Rotten Tomatoes scores are visible in all movie views, as well as in OSDs when playing movies. In all other views (TV series, music...) the usual star system is in place. I can't certify it will work 100% of times, but on my system it works like a charm
- Some views that can have mixed content like "now playing", will not show Rotten Tomatoes scores, even if they include movies. I haven't found a way to show the proper scores only on movies in this case
- When viewing search results, if Rotten Tomatoes scores are active, the score shown is the critics score, in percentage
- There are some other tweaks to the GUI compared to reFocus BIG, pretty much to align it to my tastes
- I don't take credit for the skin, just for the Rotten Tomatoes part. So if you like the skin, go over the proper thread and drop a thank you, or rate it =)
http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=136873
I searched the documentation a bit and, unfortunately, I've seen that it's not possible to use this field as is in a skin, but only together with rating. So I thought that, since some work was to be done on the skin part, I could store even more information in that field. For the time being I've come up with:
- audience score (either tomatometer or average, according to the selection in the options)
- a flag indicating if critics score is rotten, fresh or certified fresh
- a flag indicating if audience score is "spilled" or "popcorn"
This information is stored in the following string:
aAAAtTpP
where "a" is fixed (just to be able to recognize it's audience score), "AAA" is the audience score, "t" is fixed, "T" is 0 for rotten, 1 for fresh, 2 for certified fresh, "p" is fixed, "P" is 0 for spilled and 1 for popcorn
Obviously now it's up to skinners to use this information in a useful way. I tried to put them in a way that allows them to be handled, but I'm not an expert in skinning, so I'm open to options.
SKIN (only for Eden, I will start working on a version for Frodo as soon as Frodo bocomes final):
I've been working on a personal modification of the wonderful reFocus BIG in order to integrate Rotten Tomatoes scores at a visual level (see screenshot above for an example). I've finally reached a point where modifications are pretty much how I like them, so I thought I might share that as well.
Instructions:
- Go over to this thread and download the complete skin
- Install the skin
- Download my mod here
- Extract the files and copy them over to the skin folder (overwrite as requested). As usual, make a backup copy of the original files. In my package, I've included reworked sound effects so that they play at a normal level on my machine. This may not be the case on yours, so try them out if you want, and choose those which you feel more comfortable with.
- Launch XBMC, load reFocus BIG, customize the skin to your tastes
- To enable Rotten Tomatoes scores, go in skin settings --> View settings and enable "Show ratings like on Rotten Tomatoes"
- If you scraped your movies with the special encoding enabled (in order to scrape both critics and audience scores), enable "Show also audience using special encoding". This will give you 2 visible scores and the certified fresh icon (if the movie is certified fresh, that is)
Some info:
- Rotten Tomatoes scores are visible in all movie views, as well as in OSDs when playing movies. In all other views (TV series, music...) the usual star system is in place. I can't certify it will work 100% of times, but on my system it works like a charm
- Some views that can have mixed content like "now playing", will not show Rotten Tomatoes scores, even if they include movies. I haven't found a way to show the proper scores only on movies in this case
- When viewing search results, if Rotten Tomatoes scores are active, the score shown is the critics score, in percentage
- There are some other tweaks to the GUI compared to reFocus BIG, pretty much to align it to my tastes
- I don't take credit for the skin, just for the Rotten Tomatoes part. So if you like the skin, go over the proper thread and drop a thank you, or rate it =)