2014-09-16, 23:23
Video Nodes (wiki) are a powerful way to manage how your content is organised under the Videos menu item, but they're not the most accessible of things, requiring as they do the default nodes to be manually copied from the Kodi installation, and each node manually edited. That set me working on a script for Kodi to try and simplify their management.
Hopefully features everything you'd expect from such a tool - the default nodes provided by Kodi are copied into the userdata folder. From there every aspect can be edited - from new nodes and parent nodes, to content, rules, limits, orders. And, from the context menu, icons, names, node order and more. It'll even let you browse for rules - such as title, path or playlist.
It'll also let you set rules in the parent node and automatically apply them to all nodes within that parent - so you can set a rule for the path, for example, and have all nodes within the parent pick up that rule.
Now available on the repo.
Source code, and latest changes, always on git - https://github.com/unfledged/plugin.prog...ode.editor.
Skin Integration
To use video nodes in your skins menu, you need a skin that supports adding video nodes to the menu/submenu. All skins which use the Skin Shortcuts script have this ability.
When using a skin that uses Skin Shortcuts to provide the whole menu, you can right-click a parent node and "Add to main menu", otherwise you can choose a video node via the skins menu customiser under "Video Library"
For skins that don't use Skin Shortcuts, please consult the skins forum or thread for details of whether they have this support.
I'd appreciate any and all feedback
Hopefully features everything you'd expect from such a tool - the default nodes provided by Kodi are copied into the userdata folder. From there every aspect can be edited - from new nodes and parent nodes, to content, rules, limits, orders. And, from the context menu, icons, names, node order and more. It'll even let you browse for rules - such as title, path or playlist.
It'll also let you set rules in the parent node and automatically apply them to all nodes within that parent - so you can set a rule for the path, for example, and have all nodes within the parent pick up that rule.
Now available on the repo.
Source code, and latest changes, always on git - https://github.com/unfledged/plugin.prog...ode.editor.
Skin Integration
To use video nodes in your skins menu, you need a skin that supports adding video nodes to the menu/submenu. All skins which use the Skin Shortcuts script have this ability.
When using a skin that uses Skin Shortcuts to provide the whole menu, you can right-click a parent node and "Add to main menu", otherwise you can choose a video node via the skins menu customiser under "Video Library"
For skins that don't use Skin Shortcuts, please consult the skins forum or thread for details of whether they have this support.
I'd appreciate any and all feedback
