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idlerobbo
2008-09-01, 15:31
Hi Guys,
Firstly WOW, I saw the screenshots of this skin and instantly realised that I needed to build a HTPC and ditch my XBOX 360 as my media solution. 2 Days later I have a gorgeous looking HTPC set up in my living room that flawlessly seems to play my .m2ts and .vob files with absolutely no encoding. It sure beats waiting days to demux, remux etc etc all my .m2ts files!
Anyway... i'm preaching to the converted!
Is there a way how I can add an additional menu to the homepage called Blu-Ray so I have 'DVD's' and 'Blu-Ray'.
I worked out how to change the names (homescrollers.xml?? I think) but I still don't see the showcase view for what once was Adult (I changed this to Blu-Ray). Also when I go into 'Blu-Ray' I still see the words 'adult' in the top corner. Where would I change this? I don't particularly mind but my partner was inquisitive as to what my 'adult films' were :p
Thanks in advance!
Gamester17
2008-09-01, 15:47
Is there a way how I can add an additional menu to the homepage called Blu-Ray so I have 'DVD's' and 'Blu-Ray'Can I just as why? ???
It is true that XBMC supports .m2ts & .m2t & .evo file extensions if they have already been decrypted by a third-party software but XBMC does not support reading Blu-ray Discs because of the AACS/BD+ encruption, see: http://xbmc.org/forum/showthread.php?t=31630
idlerobbo
2008-09-01, 18:04
All my Blu-Rays have been decrypted and are saved to the PC so that will never be an issue I hope.
I don't want the menu to run the Discs - I want it to access a seperate library view so that I can distinguish between my SD files and my HD films...
Hope that clears things up!
you can't run two separate libraries like you describe, sorry. What I've done for my setup is manually stamp the movie art with a bluray logo so I can tell which films are which in the library mode. (thats on artwork named like, if the movie is bluray.mkv the artwork is named bluray.tbn)
you can't run two separate libraries like you describe, sorry. What I've done for my setup is manually stamp the movie art with a bluray logo so I can tell which films are which in the library mode. (thats on artwork named like, if the movie is bluray.mkv the artwork is named bluray.tbn)
any chance you can post a screen shot of this mod... i'd like to see what it looks like :) ... sounds cool
it's not a mod really, just open your .tbn in photoshop or something and slap the bluray logo in the bottom, right, then save it. I'll take some screens when I get a chance if you like but I'm not at home just now.
here's a good high res logo to use though...
http://blogs.sltrib.com/tv/uploaded_images/BD_logo-787980.jpg
it's not a mod really, just open your .tbn in photoshop or something and slap the bluray logo in the bottom, right, then save it. I'll take some screens when I get a chance if you like but I'm not at home just now.
here's a good high res logo to use though...
http://blogs.sltrib.com/tv/uploaded_images/BD_logo-787980.jpg
lol .. cool ... thanks
idlerobbo
2008-09-01, 21:43
you can't run two separate libraries like you describe, sorry. What I've done for my setup is manually stamp the movie art with a bluray logo so I can tell which films are which in the library mode. (thats on artwork named like, if the movie is bluray.mkv the artwork is named bluray.tbn)
Thanks for the info and logo.
I have just been scraping the art and info from imdb so far. How do I manually edit the artwork like you describe? Sorry to be a pain! Do the scraped images get saved locally or does it lookup them each time?
Why not just change the titles to have HD and a dash ie "-HD- Finding Nemo" They would all be together maybe be sorted before the As in the SD versions.
or create individual nfo files and art files for each movie and access it outside of library mode. SOrry I don't rememeber if there is a "video" section, if so you could use that.
If you are serious about separate libraries, you can always create a new profile for blue-ray.
http://www.xbmc.org/wiki/?title=Profiles
Just enable the login window and you will be asked at startup if you want to use the normal or blue-ray profile.
Couldn't you just return the Blu-ray movies using a Smartplaylist? You could access it directly from the homescreen if you use the correct parameters.
idlerobbo
2008-09-02, 00:51
Thanks for the suggestions guys! I think I will go for the - Blu-Ray - approach and also edit the image to have a blu-ray watermark...
Hopefully the info tabs that were mock ups on a screenshot I saw will be coming into play in a future update?
If you don't mind ditching the library (in the movies section) in favour of the files view you can use the method I posted (post #7) here:
http://xbmc.org/forum/showthread.php?t=35708
ISSUES/FACTS
- The fanart on the front page will work 100% off your adult fanart library
- The fanart in the "HIGH DEF" files view will use the "MOVIES" fanart unless each file has available fanart