grumpygamer Wrote:Erm, hello and grats for the plugin it's what I wanted to do from a long time, I had posted something similar on doom9's forums some time ago (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=134954).
I would like to know if there is a tutorial on how to create a channel (with it's logo) and assign it to the channel, also what level of granularity can we expect in episode programming?
In some cases tv shows have their opening intro included, in other cases they have them separate.
In order to obtain a full TV-like experience I would have to include the opening and endings of those shows that don't have them included. It would be great if there would be some kind of program with a sort of drag and drop system that can visually let you create the broadcast but I know nothing similar is currently available.
I myself are unable to program but just throwing ideas out there, not expecting anything... what I'd like would be a tutorial that explains how to create this step by step with some examples.
Cheers and thanks again!
Edit: here is the schema I made some time ago : http://img254.imageshack.us/f/pj1qr7.gif/
I don't know about a tutorial, but here are the broad strokes that, with a little additional searching of xbmc wiki, this forum, and google, should be plenty.
1. Install the plugin, obviously.
2. Create smart playlists (these are just simple .xml files you make in Notepad--XBMC wiki can show you how to make these... you can also make them within xbmc but I think it'd be faster to do them in notepad) and add them to xbmc/userdata/playlists/video/ . The files should be names Channel_1.xml, Channel_2.xml, etc... Smart playlists draw organize your content based on things like year, watched/unwatched, genre, actor, director, etc... so you can make all sorts of different channels--most notable is the genre, since that's usually how you categorize a channel.
3. Run the pseudotv plugin, and it will automatically pickup the playlists you created as channels.
If a channel isn't picking up, it's probably because no items are being returned from your smart playlist. So, for example, you have a channel that is your TV shows limited to <genre>Animation</genre> but none of the shows in the library are designated as Animation.
If your shows are not labeled well, you have a few options.
1. You can go to the database website such as tvdb and add the genres to the actual source and then rescrape, which makes the world a more accurate and better place for everyone, because everyone will benefit from your addition.
2. You can export your video library as separate files which will place .nfo files containing all of the metadata for your show in the local directory of the file. You can then open those files in your favorite text editor (notepad works) and add the appropriate <genre>SomeGenre</genre> tags, and then rescrape. When you rescrape, it will say something like "local information found, update from the internet?" Obviously, you will answer "No" because you want it to read your nfo files, not the metadata from the database that you callously left inaccurate.