[ronie]

Interesting. I assumed I had to define where it needed to look for the flags, but from what you're saying it defaults to the media folder, so I would just need to state the subdirectory they're found in. Looks like I was overthinking it. Would I use the same thing for network logo as well? Just looking at InfoLabels on the wiki, and I don't see anything like VideoPlayer.Network, so I'm assuming it doesn't differentiate.

true, if you don't specify a path, xbmc will default to the skins media folder.

VideoPlayer.Studio will work movies, tv shows and music videos.

[TerranQ]

OK, I think I have my little brain wrapped around this now. I'll give it a shot when I got home. Hopefully I won't need to pick your brain again. Thanks for all the help.

[mcborzu]

One more thing...

Confluence might be using id="7000" on something else. If you think you have everything right but it's not working like it should try changing 7000 to 8457 or 9133 or some other combination...

[TerranQ]

One more thing...

Confluence might be using id="7000" on something else. If you think you have everything right but it's not working like it should try changing 7000 to 8457 or 9133 or some other combination...

Good point. Can I use any random 4 digit number (as long as Confluence isn't already using it)?

[mcborzu]

Good point. Can I use any random 4 digit number (as long as Confluence isn't already using it)?

Thats what I'd do, guess until I get it right...

[TerranQ]

Thats what I'd do, guess until I get it right...

Just wanted to make sure that there weren't certain numbers that were reserved for some reason. I seem to be overthinking this too much. Sorry for all the stupid questions, but I killed about 5 hours tinkering last night, so I'd like to try and shave at least a few minutes off that tonight it at all possible

[TerranQ]

OK, so I've gotten the clearart/episode thumbs sorted, worked beautifully ronie. However, I'm unable to get the studio flags to display. Here's the code I used:

Code:

            <control type="image">
                <description>Studio Image</description>
                <posx>350</posx>
                <posy>215r</posy>
                <width>80</width>
                <height>40</height>
                <aspectratio>keep</aspectratio>
                <texture>$INFO[VideoPlayer.Studio,flags,.png]</texture>
            </control>

flags are in /media/flags, so this should work from what I can tell-it matches up with what ronie told me and what I can see from other examples in the xml, so I'm kind of stumped again. I turned on debugging, and it does show an error message, but it seems kind of generic to me:

Code:

DEBUG:   msg: PICTURE::LoadImage: Unable to open image:  Error: (3)
23:56:04 T:2308 M:3046764544   ERROR: Texture manager unable to load file:

[ronie]

add a slash after flags:
$INFO[VideoPlayer.Studio,flags/,.png]

[Waffa]

check your debug log.
it will tell you why it can't find the image.

I did.
This I get when I use path in textures

Code:

15:50:03 T:2704 M:1023778816   DEBUG: CImageLoader::DoWork - took 46 ms to load smb://Lkgaa15d3/disk 1/TV series/House/logo.png

If I use <texture>$INFO[Player.FolderPath,,../logo.png]</texture>

DEBUG: CImageLoader is simply not present

[mcborzu]

Are you using "image" or "largeimage"?

[ronie]

I did.
This I get when I use path in textures

Code:

15:50:03 T:2704 M:1023778816   DEBUG: CImageLoader::DoWork - took 46 ms to load smb://Lkgaa15d3/disk 1/TV series/House/logo.png

If I use <texture>$INFO[Player.FolderPath,,../logo.png]</texture>

DEBUG: CImageLoader is simply not present

i checked the xbmc svn for when this functionality was added:
http://trac.xbmc.org/changeset/27711

so yes, your xbmc build is too old.

[Waffa]

OK thanks ronie, need to update my build then..

[TerranQ]

OK, I'm getting tired of looking like an idiot here. I've got the flags working great (thanks again Ronie), now I'm trying to add the mpaa rating. Png files are in /media/rating, so used

Code:

<control type="image">
                <description>Studio Image</description>
                <posx>350</posx>
                <posy>215r</posy>
                <width>80</width>
                <height>40</height>
                <aspectratio>keep</aspectratio>
                <texture>$INFO[VideoPlayer.mpaa,rating/,.png]</texture>
</control>

Which works fine to pull the TV ratings (TV-G.png, etc). However, it won't pull the MPAA ratings (mpaa_general.png). I'm assuming that they're misnamed. What is the proper name for the movie MPAA icons?

[mcborzu]

Are you using your own or trying to pull Confluence's

I believe Confluence's should be:
<texture>$INFO[VideoPlayer.mpaa,flagging/ratings/,.png]</texture>

[TerranQ]

Are you using your own or trying to pull Confluence's

I believe Confluence's should be:
<texture>$INFO[VideoPlayer.mpaa,flagging/ratings/,.png]</texture>

I was using my own. I'll have to try that instead (at work again, so I'll give it a shot this afternoon)