[Ned Scott]

I joined just to post this reply...

The arrogance of the team members in their reply for "better parenting" is astounding...Everyone's situation is different.

For example, my ex-wife had an auto accident that left my son paralyzed from the neck down...so I've setup his computer that he can control with a chin-joystick to be a remote for his tv, that tv can play content from my DLNA server.

I have my DLNA server in my media room with all the content added as sources. I personally would love the ability to restrict which content a DLNA client can see based on rating or some other criteria. You can't tell me to organize my stuff differently just because you don't think its necessary. There is obvious demand for it, and the "better parenting" bullshit you gave earlier doesn't apply. Since my son can basically only watch tv, I obviously will not be spending every waking minute with him.

I haven't been using XBMC for very long, and I think it has a lot of potential, but just because it is free, doesn't mean people will continue to use it if you ignore their needs. Especially for something as simple as this.

I mean seriously, the DLNA client initates request for content, XBMC checks an access list to ratings hashtable, either deny or allow the request.

The fact that your son had an unfortunate accident is not our fault. The fact that he is now disabled doesn't actually change your request. It has nothing to do with the request, in fact.

We work on features and tasks that we want to. If no one wants to make it so that your son can't watch porn, then you're out of luck and should use some other software.

My original comment was saying that relying on sites like kids-in-mind.com really isn't good enough to blindly trust. Parents should talk to their kids about what is acceptable to watch or not. Talk about why watching certain things is bad, etc, as a far better means than trusting a hard-line filter. Most kids will easily find ways past filters. I know I never had an issue getting past such technical restrictions if I really wanted to.

It's not to say there shouldn't be any support for those filters, or that they don't do at least some good, but I believe I made a valid point.

[DigitalAnvil]

I personally don't rely on any sites as they are all flawed in my eyes mainly because "what is acceptable" is different for everyone. I grew up being allowed to watch as much violence and swearing, bloodshed.. you name it in a movie. In fact I've watched plenty with my parents from the time I was allowed to watch TV (age of 6) and now I'm 32 with 2 of my own kids. What my parents didn't approve of and would never let me watch (in fact they are still against it even though I'm married and with kids) is anything that has nudity or anything else remotely suggestive as kisses.

Not everyone will ever agree on what they think is right and/or wrong for their kids. No site can provide that unless you made that site yourself and only a small handful of people will agree with your ratings 100%.

[endlesslyonline]

Digital, I agree with you 100%, but the fact of the matter is that these sites, dont just tell you, if it is a appropriate or not. It gives you a detailed description, so that you as the parent can decide what is what, as per example: Looper (2012)

Sex and Nudity

Code:

At a strip club, we see several female dancers in tight, revealing outfits, coming on and off stage. We see one woman topless for about a half second, her breasts exposed. The women also function as prostitutes for the loopers.

Joe is given a free hour with Susie, one of the dancers. We see her wearing only panties, her breasts are clearly visible throughout the scene. She kisses and caresses Joe, but he isn't in the mood for sex.

It's implied Je and Sarah have sex. The two begin to passionately kiss and caress and lower onto a bed as the scene cuts. There is no nudity.

Violence & Gore

Code:

There are plenty of assassinations and gunfights in the movie, and many of them involve some amount of blood. When Joe makes a kill, we see blood and skin briefly fly, leaving a bloody hole in the chest. There is a montage of these kills. Several gunfights show blood splatter onto walls, and one scene shows Old Joe with his face covered in his victims' blood. Violent fistfights take place as well, characters are tazered, beaten, and tackled. One man has his hand smashed by a slamming door, and later, his bandaged hand is smacked with a mallet. A grenade kills a group of guards.

When a looper (old version) escapes, the younger person is captured and tortured to kill the older version, since hurting the younger one will affect the older one. We see an older man running away, when his body begins to disappear, starting with the fingers. By the end, he is missing his hands, feet, and nose, and is then shot in the head. We see a blood soaked table where the implied torture took place.

A man is lifted in the air and in slow motion blood starts spreading out of his body.

We see blood covering a person's face, and later again on a different person.

Profanity

Code:

About 29 F-words and its derivatives, 1 obscene hand gesture, 2 sexual references (one painted on a dumpster, 22 scatological terms, 4 anatomical terms, 4 mild obscenities, name-calling (vagrant, holy terror boss man, idiot, ridiculous, stupid, turkeys, liar, junkie, nut, child mentality, retarded, self absorbed, child mouth, worthless, freak, cowboy), 10 religious profanities, 8 religious exclamations.

As you can see, this does not tell you that it is not for a 13 year old kid, or a 6 year old, etc. But after reading that, you as the parent, can decide if you want your 2, 6, 7, 16 year old to watch it.

I make use of the IMDB parental Guide, to go and check, i have also thought that it would be cool for XBMC to bring this in, but the main reason why i jumped into this thread, is due to the fact that most posters seems to misunderstand what whiteraven was asking for.

[da-anda]

that's perfectly suited for an addon if you ask me. Browse library, scrape description from site X and show two buttons below "approve" and "deny". "Approve" could then just add a tag to that movie and you're good again with smartplaylists. I'm not sure though if addons are currently allowed to create/add tags - but addon-devs for sure could tell. Mind requesting such a plugin in the addons forum if that's what you need?

Note - there is also a PullRequest in the pipe that would allow addons to extend the context menu f.e. of library items - so it could just be move over a movie/tv-show -> "context menu" -> "parental review" and then the plugin kicks in.

[rygle]

You could try my solution from this post - http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid...pid1269268

[0ldfart]

would like to add my support for this idea

we watch movies with our 4, 13 and 14-year old

our main concern is avoiding content that is inappropriate for the 4-year-old

having some 'kids in mind' info attached to movies would be very valuable in making this decision

some people have confused the scraper concept with 'parental controls' - note that its a totally different need that this option would fulfill

others have citicised the consistency of the ratings - this assumes parents arent able to do their own thinking when presented with information. we absolutely find details about the content of films extremely useful before watching, and yes, are able to make up our own minds thanks very much

right now, we actually use KIM on another device to 'look up' movies before we watch them with our youngest

getting back to the point of this thread, this would be very handy within the xbmc interface. It is indeed one of the best 'content' resources available online for parents in respect to feature films

any devs out there interested?

thanks...

J

[robwebset]

I have created an addon that I think might cover what you had in mind:

http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=255113

Thanks

Rob

[zag]

I would say that Add-on pretty much solves this issue!

Thanks!

[FrizzleFried]

I would say that Add-on pretty much solves this issue!

Thanks!

Too bad the link doesn't work any longer... nor did anyone say the name of the add on here... 

[Sidewinder_2011]

I would say that Add-on pretty much solves this issue!

Thanks!

Too bad the link doesn't work any longer... nor did anyone say the name of the add on here... 

Its called suitability, I found it out just now by using site like wayback .

[Rewash6243]

I found it here - seems to be no longer maintained now

https://github.com/robwebset/script.suitability

are there any alternatives out there?