(2020-08-07, 15:28)Gade Wrote: Hi Skirge01.
There were a PR exactly for this some time ago: https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/14972
Unfortunately, the developer lost interest or progress with this.
Hopefully someone will look at this in the future, as it's a really usefull and requested feature. I myself would love this feature.
I will not add more overlays to the posters, as this will bloat the skin.
For my main Kodi library, I add the different version as movie sets.
Eg, I have a movie set called "Alien" and inside this are two movies: "Alien" (Director's Cut) and "Alien" (Theatrical Version).
I already have a media flag for 3D.
See: https://kodi.wiki/view/Add-on:Rapier#Pro...g_of_files
I could add media flags for versions. But that would result in too many media flags and the skin breaking the layout.
And how would I know which exact names people use for different versions? Extended version? Special version? Extended cut? Ext. vers.?
And do people name the files directly or the titles inside Kodi?
Although I could create some naming templates like I did for the other media flags.
Many things to consider here.
Feedback is appreciated.
I understand the possibility of bloat and figured it might be a concern for the skin. I'm also currently adding them as part of a movie set. I don't always have both versions on the server, however, so I can't see the difference when looking at a wall of posters. That's the same difficulty I have with my 3D movies (which are named properly
) when browsing a wall of posters. Due to that issue with 3D, I created entirely separate smart playlists for 3D and 2D movies and added the playists as submenus to the home screen's Movies menu. I don't have enough extended or Director's versions to warrant this.. yet?
Ultimately, I believe I'd be fine with separating everything via smart playlists as long as I could, somehow, choose to either include or exclude them from my "normal" view. Right now, I don't know which way would be my preferred method when I enter "Movies". That does bring up a question, though. Can you set the MOVIES menu off the home screen to go into a specific smart playlist? I don't believe so, but I'm not certain.
I wound up doing a little brainstorming here...
As far as naming conventions, I understand the dillemma. If this gets serious consideratioin at the skin level or by Kodi, itself, I'd say wait until TMDB has finalized their naming scheme as everyone else will likely tweak their own as appropriate. Personally, I think the easiest and most comprehensive method for Kodi would be using something like "alternate#", likely as a prefix to "cut", "version", etc just to differentiate between theatrical and everything else. This would even cover alternate versions of TV episodes, such as those with alternate endings, which I'm sure would come into play once movies have this feature. At that point, if people want more granular control, they could resort to setting something inside Kodi, which would still be in alignment with the "Movie version" method proposed
here. Kodi would see the "alternate#" in the filename and then allow the user, skinner, etc to manage how they want it presented: popup menu, additional view entry, overlay, alternate fanart, etc. Again, this could also apply to a TV episode with 2 endings. Kodi would see identical episodes, but would know it needs to do "something", when an otherwise identically named 2nd file has added "alternate" to the filename. This scheme is similar to needing the proper naming for 3D movies, so Kodi knows it needs to do "something" with it.