[bsoriano]

if I have a folder contains courses, is it possible to make list with each course into an album or playlist and have cover artwork for that each one? 

is it possible to customize Kodi Amber Skin like you would with do in iTunes, meaning create menus and custom albums for video content that is not movies or tv shows just mp4 with meta data.

In the customize home menu and shelves, “Change Action” what this is?

Thanks
Warm Regards  

@Bassam909 , you can create a smart playlist based on a folder, as explained here: https://kodi.wiki/view/Smart_playlists, or you could create a video node, as @DarrenHill mentioned in the previous post.  You can then in Amber assign the playlist as the item for a menu item. 

If you want cover artwork as well as other meta data, you can create a NFO file (https://kodi.wiki/view/NFO_files) for each one of your videos, that includes information about what is, for example, the poster or fanart for each video, as well as the plot, etc.

I would then suggest to create a video source (https://kodi.wiki/view/Adding_video_sources), and using the "local information only" option where it asks "Choose information provider", so that Kodi knows that it will look for an NFO file next to the video for information on it, instead of going online to look for it.

Even if your mp4 files contain metadata, if they are not movies, tv shows or music videos which show up in Themoviedb.org, imdb.com, thetvdb.com or theaudiodb.com, Kodi will not load that metadata.  That is why I am suggesting to you to create NFO files.  You would need to create one for each file you have.  This can be tedious, but in a lot of cases is the only way to get Kodi to show the data you want about your videos.

You can use music video as the type of content for your video source, so that your videos do not show up in your movies or tv shows lists.

Change Action allows you to choose something else as the item for a menu item.  In your case, after you have created your video smart playlist(s), when you add a menu item, and press "Choose Item for Menu", you will find your playlist under "Video Library", and then "Playlist", and there you should see your playlist.  When asked, select if you want to Display the playlist or Play it.

I hope this information is useful.

Regards,

Bart  

Thanks, that was very helpful but the situation is still confusing, I'm not lazy, I keep on trial and error until I find my way but something is not right and I dunno what exactly, I tried smart playlists and node editor for some reason i don't understand how to make the setup correctly, in each one I set the list to "Folder Path" the folder contain mp4 videos with m3u playlist file included but kodi don' see content. I no longer care about artwork and aesthetics I just want menus each contains folders I can play in follow up and not have to click for each video to play. I find a way to "Source" folder to the menu setup but this way I had to play each video it doesn't play the content following on.

I will keep trying if it didn't work I will post screenshots for help. 

Thanks
Regards. 

@Bassam909, there is a setting in Kodi to "play next video automatically".  You can find it under Settings, Player.  This will allow you to specify for which type of video you want to play the next video automatically. 

If I understand you correctly, you would like to have Kodi play all of the videos in one of your folders according to the order specified in the m3u playlist which is also in the folder.  Sadly, that is not something that is available, as far as I know.  You can make a playlist of all of the videos of the folder, in the order of the m3u playlist, and when you create the menu item, when asked if you want to Display or Play the playlist, you can select Play.  What that will do is that when you click/press that menu item, the playlist will start playing right away, and if you set the option to "play next video automatically", the videos should play in the order of the playlist one after the other.

What I meant earlier about creating a video source for your videos is so that you can integrate them into your library and see metadata and images, like if they were any movie or tv show.  To have Kodi know what that metadata and images are, is what creating an NFO for each video file is for.

Please let me know how it goes.  Thanks.

Regards,

Bart