2010-12-14, 08:30
I had just started playing around with this script a couple of days ago and had many questions on how to get it to run. Like most people i downloaded the zip from http://xbmc-addons.googlecode.com/svn/pa...addons.zip and installed from the addons in xbmc through install from zip file.
I proceeded to then enable and install the Home Cinema Experience addon in xbmc under the program addons. Once installed I then looked at all the stuff I could configure in it. Seeing the run script before video under the misc section I assumed I needed to click that and point it toward the Home Cimema Experience script., which I located under Home/ addons then script.cinema.experience and finally addon.py. I left the configure screen and proceeded to start up a video and see what would happen. Nothing. So I close off XBMC and head on over to the forums searching for some answers.
Before I go on I will state that I am running XBMC Darma RC2 on a Windows Vista 64 bit machine using the Confluence skin which is the default skin.
After reading most of 1 day with 80 plus pages on the HTE, I dove in and started to grap some files.
First off I grapped http://www.megaupload.com/?d=8G4FPFMR from the links by "Slaveunit". Thanks by the way. In that file which is the first part of 8, I found the Folder Structure.png and DialogVideoInfo.xml.
Looking at the Folder Structure made me create a new folder in my C:\Users\urname\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\ Which I called XBMC Home Theater Experience. Inside of that folder (XBMC Home Theater Experience) I created folders called Intros and Trivia. In the Intros folder I the created folders called Audio, Misc, and Ratings. In the Trivia folder I created folders called Q&A and Stills.
Now with the file I had from "Slaveunit" (XBMC Home Theater Experience script.part01.rar) which is http://www.megaupload.com/?d=8G4FPFMR once extracted gave me audio files which i put in the Audio folder i just created. But these were not enough stuff to fill up my needs for a complete HTE, so I grabbed http://www.megaupload.com/?d=9L74YR27 from "steppedup" ( Thank you). In short this file is a condensed version of what Slaveunit posted.
Now with this file I had a good start with all my needs Intros, Outro's, advertisement, trivia, all sorts of goodies. Placing all the files in the needed folders I had created under my C:\Users\urname\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\XBMC Home Theater Experience folder I now thought I was ready to use the HTE addon. Opened up XBMC and went to system/addons/enable addons/program addons/Cinema Experience, clicked on it then hit the configure button. filled in all the stuff i thought I needed by pointing the trivia folder, into's, outro's etc etc to the files i put in my home folder under XBMC Home Theater Experience folder accoding to the names that were called for in the config section. I still had in the misc section pointing to the addon.py file which I assumed would launch HTE before watching a movie.
So off I go to launch a flick. I choose " It's a Wonderful Life" and hit the play button. Wow wth the movie just starts no HTE for me. SO now I think the HTE is fubar. In a last ditch effort I create a custom button under programs on the main screen to point to the HTE script and run it once clicked. Once created I try it out and WOW the script is running in all it's glory. Trivia starts off then goes on to previews then trailers start to play and finally the presentation intro, but no main movie. Sigh. Close off XBMC and search forums again.
I am bound and determined to get this to work. Came across some info that started me to think that I may need to adjust some xml files. In the XBMC Home Theater Experience script.part01.rar (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=8G4FPFMR) I find "DialogVideoInfo.xml". I open the xml up and take a look at it, toward the end of the file I find <control type="button" id="13">
<description>Home Theater Experience</description>
<include>ButtonInfoDialogsCommonValues</include>
<label>Theater</label>
<onclick>Dialog.Close(MovieInformation)</onclick>
<onclick>Playlist.Clear</onclick>
<onclick>RunScript(special://home/scripts/Home Theater Experience/default.py)</onclick>
</control>
Now I am thinking that this is the answer.
I copy the xml and find out where it is to go. I find that in C:\Program Files (x86)\XBMC\addons\skin.confluence\720p is where there is the same xml file so I rename the original in the 720 folder and paste the other in , to replace the original. fire XBMC back up and lo and behold i now have a "Theater" button in my info screen of movies.
i click it and still nothing. Open the DialogVideoInfo.xml which I just put in C:\Program Files (x86)\XBMC\addons\skin.confluence\720p and replace this line
<onclick>RunScript(special://home/scripts/Home Theater Experience/default.py)</onclick>
with this line
<onclick>RunScript(special://home/addons/script.cinema.experience/addon.py)</onclick>
Back to XBMC and try again. Open up an info screen on a movie and click the theater button and YAH BABY works.
Now the only short fall that I have come up with is that HTE will not play the Trivia Q&A's slides, It will play the Trivia Stills . so that is where I sit as of tonite.
If anyone has other pointers on other skins to help this out I am sure it would be much appreciated by all.
I proceeded to then enable and install the Home Cinema Experience addon in xbmc under the program addons. Once installed I then looked at all the stuff I could configure in it. Seeing the run script before video under the misc section I assumed I needed to click that and point it toward the Home Cimema Experience script., which I located under Home/ addons then script.cinema.experience and finally addon.py. I left the configure screen and proceeded to start up a video and see what would happen. Nothing. So I close off XBMC and head on over to the forums searching for some answers.
Before I go on I will state that I am running XBMC Darma RC2 on a Windows Vista 64 bit machine using the Confluence skin which is the default skin.
After reading most of 1 day with 80 plus pages on the HTE, I dove in and started to grap some files.
First off I grapped http://www.megaupload.com/?d=8G4FPFMR from the links by "Slaveunit". Thanks by the way. In that file which is the first part of 8, I found the Folder Structure.png and DialogVideoInfo.xml.
Looking at the Folder Structure made me create a new folder in my C:\Users\urname\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\ Which I called XBMC Home Theater Experience. Inside of that folder (XBMC Home Theater Experience) I created folders called Intros and Trivia. In the Intros folder I the created folders called Audio, Misc, and Ratings. In the Trivia folder I created folders called Q&A and Stills.
Now with the file I had from "Slaveunit" (XBMC Home Theater Experience script.part01.rar) which is http://www.megaupload.com/?d=8G4FPFMR once extracted gave me audio files which i put in the Audio folder i just created. But these were not enough stuff to fill up my needs for a complete HTE, so I grabbed http://www.megaupload.com/?d=9L74YR27 from "steppedup" ( Thank you). In short this file is a condensed version of what Slaveunit posted.
Now with this file I had a good start with all my needs Intros, Outro's, advertisement, trivia, all sorts of goodies. Placing all the files in the needed folders I had created under my C:\Users\urname\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\XBMC Home Theater Experience folder I now thought I was ready to use the HTE addon. Opened up XBMC and went to system/addons/enable addons/program addons/Cinema Experience, clicked on it then hit the configure button. filled in all the stuff i thought I needed by pointing the trivia folder, into's, outro's etc etc to the files i put in my home folder under XBMC Home Theater Experience folder accoding to the names that were called for in the config section. I still had in the misc section pointing to the addon.py file which I assumed would launch HTE before watching a movie.
So off I go to launch a flick. I choose " It's a Wonderful Life" and hit the play button. Wow wth the movie just starts no HTE for me. SO now I think the HTE is fubar. In a last ditch effort I create a custom button under programs on the main screen to point to the HTE script and run it once clicked. Once created I try it out and WOW the script is running in all it's glory. Trivia starts off then goes on to previews then trailers start to play and finally the presentation intro, but no main movie. Sigh. Close off XBMC and search forums again.
I am bound and determined to get this to work. Came across some info that started me to think that I may need to adjust some xml files. In the XBMC Home Theater Experience script.part01.rar (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=8G4FPFMR) I find "DialogVideoInfo.xml". I open the xml up and take a look at it, toward the end of the file I find <control type="button" id="13">
<description>Home Theater Experience</description>
<include>ButtonInfoDialogsCommonValues</include>
<label>Theater</label>
<onclick>Dialog.Close(MovieInformation)</onclick>
<onclick>Playlist.Clear</onclick>
<onclick>RunScript(special://home/scripts/Home Theater Experience/default.py)</onclick>
</control>
Now I am thinking that this is the answer.
I copy the xml and find out where it is to go. I find that in C:\Program Files (x86)\XBMC\addons\skin.confluence\720p is where there is the same xml file so I rename the original in the 720 folder and paste the other in , to replace the original. fire XBMC back up and lo and behold i now have a "Theater" button in my info screen of movies.
i click it and still nothing. Open the DialogVideoInfo.xml which I just put in C:\Program Files (x86)\XBMC\addons\skin.confluence\720p and replace this line
<onclick>RunScript(special://home/scripts/Home Theater Experience/default.py)</onclick>
with this line
<onclick>RunScript(special://home/addons/script.cinema.experience/addon.py)</onclick>
Back to XBMC and try again. Open up an info screen on a movie and click the theater button and YAH BABY works.
Now the only short fall that I have come up with is that HTE will not play the Trivia Q&A's slides, It will play the Trivia Stills . so that is where I sit as of tonite.
If anyone has other pointers on other skins to help this out I am sure it would be much appreciated by all.