2011-06-16, 05:01
I'm sorry if this has been covered in the past, but I did a bit of searching and found nothing.
Some people might not find the immediate use in this, but I'm wondering how XBMC might handle a particular library item with multiple sources on the network. For instance if I have Movie A in two distinct locations on my network sources and chose to add them to my library, it would come up as twice in my library. I'd much rather it have the ability to basically merge these two items and upon selecting it, a dialog opens that let's me pick a source (and perhaps there is also a context menu item of the sort with an option to select the first choice by default).
For those who want to know the use of such a thing, basically I'm working on automatically indexing internet video into my library via .strm files (there is an addon that does basically this, but I'm working with something else). The result would naturally give me some movies/episodes coming from multiple web sources and also there might be certain web content that I already have on a local source.
I don't know how difficult this would be to implement or it it might even be possible via the skin XML. I know I could create the dialog, but I'm not sure if I could intelligently hide list items. Perhaps there is a way to create it with stacked items, as I would have no problem renaming my local sources with CD1 and my scraped sources with CD2+.
Does anyone think this would be useful and, more importantly, does anyone know if this is already possible?
Some people might not find the immediate use in this, but I'm wondering how XBMC might handle a particular library item with multiple sources on the network. For instance if I have Movie A in two distinct locations on my network sources and chose to add them to my library, it would come up as twice in my library. I'd much rather it have the ability to basically merge these two items and upon selecting it, a dialog opens that let's me pick a source (and perhaps there is also a context menu item of the sort with an option to select the first choice by default).
For those who want to know the use of such a thing, basically I'm working on automatically indexing internet video into my library via .strm files (there is an addon that does basically this, but I'm working with something else). The result would naturally give me some movies/episodes coming from multiple web sources and also there might be certain web content that I already have on a local source.
I don't know how difficult this would be to implement or it it might even be possible via the skin XML. I know I could create the dialog, but I'm not sure if I could intelligently hide list items. Perhaps there is a way to create it with stacked items, as I would have no problem renaming my local sources with CD1 and my scraped sources with CD2+.
Does anyone think this would be useful and, more importantly, does anyone know if this is already possible?
