Musical VideoClips

[El Piranna]

It's my first post. I know that i should told who am i but here at Spain it's 00:13AM and i have to go dinner :P

I have been triying to see my iTunes music videos (i have my iTunes Library at my iBook but i will put it soon in the XBox) with no result: no AdvanceSettings.xml, no Music SmartList, no Video SmartList (in fact, Video SmartList seems to don't exist :/ ) and no merge of them: it doesn't want to play my iTunes VideoClips.

The most optimal is scan the music library looking for Videos, but because Video Smart List doesn't work (at least for me, v2.0.0 "BlinkBlink") i have to search videoclips with all the Gilmore Girls chapters :P

The fact is that i request that because videoclips are both videos and music ;) but more of this last one (in fact is a good idea of iTunes treat it as music), my request is that XBMC My Music section detect the videoclips and put them into music database but maybe with a special threatment, as example don't reproduce them in Party Mode, or put a special MetaData in the DataBase (as iTunes "item is video" or something similar), or make at left column a special link or something.

Well, i don't know if i have explain my self very good or if i have broken a lot of forum laws :D but Mac users would agree this ;)

[SleepyP]

yes because video = audio...

[El Piranna]

yes because video = audio...

Well, i know it's not the same :P but the logic says if you put at AdvanceSetting.xml than a .mpg is a music file it should index them too at the Music Library, and then you only have to make a Smart List searching for files whose name have ".mpg" (searching audio with .mp3 works), and then you only have to reproduce them because the media player is the same for audio and video. The fact is that this cheat doesn't work, so it has to be "cheated" in the XBMC code to allow Scan Library function to detect musical videos and them identify them in a special manner (for example, "file type" metadata at the database as iTunes does). I don't know what would be the better storage opcion (music database, videos database or a new music_videos database combining some data fields of both) but i think is a good idea not really dificult to do. I don't have too much problems having videos in a new videos subfolder, but i thought it would be an interesting idea having it indexed in music database as iTunes does (yes, i must admit, i LOVE iTunes :D ).

[SleepyP]

that wouldn't work very well because video files do not have standardized metadata that can be read to the database, resulting in all sorts of ugliness. You say it is not very difficult, then you are free to implement it yourself and then submit the patches to CVS :D

[El Piranna]

that wouldn't work very well because video files do not have standardized metadata that can be read to the database, resulting in all sorts of ugliness. You say it is not very difficult, then you are free to implement it yourself and then submit the patches to CVS :D

Touche! :D Yes, i know video metadata is not very standard precisely. I would help to implement it if i would know more about programming (i do little things and games, but i don't feel capable to do that ;) ). The fact is that as i know iTunes store the data at xml files. Yes, you can edit later and as i know it's not posible modify XBMC Libraries database directly as at iTunes you can do (it's here the trick?).

I sayed it's "easy" because you can launch files at "files tab", don't worry if they are audio or video, so the view at music and video tabs are limited by the programmer by hand, not by the program capability. I only say that i tried to break that limitation and i didn't be able to do it because it's at the code. If you are looking by files view you don't need metadata, and at this moment file view it's the most similar to iTunes if you have copied your entire iTunes library with all the songs and videoclips correctly put in their directories ;)