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Feature Request: Make MCC Theater View Command Landing Pages Configurable
greynolds:
I did some searching and this topic has come up a number of times over the years where nobody seems to understand what the magic is behind the MCC Theater View (22001) command and how the options figure out what page to go to. Like many other users, I have customized my Theater View configuration extensively and this has resulted in some of the 22001 commands not working properly.
Here's the information from the Wiki on this command:
22001 MCC_THEATER_VIEW 0: Toggle, 1: Home, 2: Playing Now, 3: Audio, 4: Images, 5: Video, 6: Playlists, 7: CD & DVD, 8: TV, 9: TV Guide, 10: TV Recordings
Unfortunately, there's nothing there that explains the magic behind how the command figures out where to navigate you to in your Theater View layout. In my case, I've moved my TV views into a top level view named "TV" so I have my TV content and my Movie (DVD's, Blurays, etc.) content in separate top level views.
So, for discussion purposes, I have my views configured roughly like this (this is just a subset - TV and Video both have more items under them):
TV > Guide
TV > Recordings
Video > All Movies
Video > Bluray Movies
Video > DVD Movies
The MCC 22001,9 command still takes me to my Guide view even though it isn't under the default Video > Guide location.
The MCC 22001,10 command doesn't take me anywhere
Simply renaming the "TV > Recordings" item to "TV > Shows" doesn't work. However, if I add a view named "Shows" under "Video", the 10 option takes me to that location. So this means that I have to comply with the default layout of putting my TV views under a main group named "Video" AND I have to name the group "Shows" instead of "Recordings" in order to use the 22001,10 command. I can live with having to name it "Shows" despite that being inconsistent with "Recordings" being used in the standard view TV group where it can't be renamed, but I really want to use a top level group named "TV" for all of my TV related stuff.
So on to the feature request...
Please add a configuration option that allows the user to select where each of these 22001 commands (for parameters 3 through 10) will land. I don't believe parameters 0 through 2 need to be (or should be) configurable as I don't believe those are tied to the user configurable view layout in any way.
JimH:
If you've created new top level categories, the commands may not do what you expect.
One comment about your categories. We decided many years ago that we wouldn't distinguish between TV and Video. TV is Video. A movie can be recorded or can be ripped from a DVD or BD. It's still a movie. The same logic applies to Shows. The source isn't as important as the content category itself.
I'm not suggesting you should change. I'm just explaining our point of view.
greynolds:
--- Quote from: JimH on March 20, 2022, 09:07:25 am ---If you've created new top level categories, the commands may not do what you expect.
One comment about your categories. We decided many years ago that we wouldn't distinguish between TV and Video. TV is Video. A movie can be recorded or can be ripped from a DVD or BD. It's still a movie. The same logic applies to Shows. The source isn't as important as the content category itself.
I'm not suggesting you should change. I'm just explaining our point of view.
--- End quote ---
Yes, as I said in my original post, changing the top level categories breaks some of those commands - that's the whole point of the feature request.
And yes, TV and movies are both video, but I prefer to have separate top level groups for them as I have a bunch of subcategories for each and this makes it easier for me to navigate my views. The default standard view keeps TV and video separate, so there’s a precedent in the product for separating them.
But since the Theater View views are highly configurable, it just makes sense to make the landing page of those MCC commands configurable to match what the user comes up with rather than force the user into whatever your rigid definition of video is. Otherwise why make Theater View configurable at all?
In the grand scheme of feature requests I can't imagine this one would be very difficult to implement.
lepa:
Yeah, it would be great to be able to make shortcuts using node name/id path
marko:
If this became a thing, it would be brilliant. Currently, I get around this problem by using auto hotkey to fire an MCC command that drops from theater view to standard view, then theater view, followed by the required right, down, right cursor key presses to get to where I want to be via a single button press on the remote. I have to update these with every major version upgrade.
Being able to specify my own landing places per button natively would remove a lot of upgrade pain, and give much smoother theater view jumps by removing the need to drop into standard view, which is required to reliably have theater view start at default root point each time.
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