2009-08-14, 23:36
Ok, at risk of getting flamed, I will reply to this thread without completely understanding exactly what information is wanted. It's hard for me to distinguish what is on and what is off topic.
Yes, this has been mentioned all over the forums, and there are tons of work arounds, but this thread appears to be the place to actually request it.)
I think just a general "category" addition would be extremely helpful, and bring XBMC up to the same available options level as Meedio, MyMovies and many others.
A separate adult section was suggested a couple pages back... this and may other items can be handled by the categories section.
The addition of categories, would allow you to categorize movies such as adult, Animated, Favorite movies, Christmas Movies, Home Movies and any other thing you could think of.
This could then be used in addition to other filters to say sort for "All Animated movies < 1990"
The hardest part of adding something like this is that no skins will support it up front, as XBMC does not handle dynamic buttons labels and placement. For instance there will be no button saying "Home Movies". There are no dynamic drop down lists ect.... For Instance, MyMovies handles this by adding new dynamic buttons on the fly that have the set name and link to the category. This is not possible with XBMC, as all button locations and labels are hard coded in the skin files.
This would initially need to be added to the file list with sources, drives ect, such as the now available list by title, year, genre... As skins update, these items can be added to better incorporate them.
Lastly, this would require a new field to be in the XML files (Movie.nfo) that programs such as Media Companion, and Media Info Plus create. This would allow for assigning categories directly in those external movie collection management programs. A "Right Click" option would also be needed in XBMC, that would allow you to pick a category for a selected movie in your database from a list of known categories, or to create a new one with the OSK.
I do hope this was posted in the correct place, as I was linked here trying to find a work around for doing something like this now with my home movies.
Yes, this has been mentioned all over the forums, and there are tons of work arounds, but this thread appears to be the place to actually request it.)
I think just a general "category" addition would be extremely helpful, and bring XBMC up to the same available options level as Meedio, MyMovies and many others.
A separate adult section was suggested a couple pages back... this and may other items can be handled by the categories section.
The addition of categories, would allow you to categorize movies such as adult, Animated, Favorite movies, Christmas Movies, Home Movies and any other thing you could think of.
This could then be used in addition to other filters to say sort for "All Animated movies < 1990"
The hardest part of adding something like this is that no skins will support it up front, as XBMC does not handle dynamic buttons labels and placement. For instance there will be no button saying "Home Movies". There are no dynamic drop down lists ect.... For Instance, MyMovies handles this by adding new dynamic buttons on the fly that have the set name and link to the category. This is not possible with XBMC, as all button locations and labels are hard coded in the skin files.
This would initially need to be added to the file list with sources, drives ect, such as the now available list by title, year, genre... As skins update, these items can be added to better incorporate them.
Lastly, this would require a new field to be in the XML files (Movie.nfo) that programs such as Media Companion, and Media Info Plus create. This would allow for assigning categories directly in those external movie collection management programs. A "Right Click" option would also be needed in XBMC, that would allow you to pick a category for a selected movie in your database from a list of known categories, or to create a new one with the OSK.
I do hope this was posted in the correct place, as I was linked here trying to find a work around for doing something like this now with my home movies.
