ARGHHHH!!! I just spend 40 min's searching the forums for something like this....then 20 min's typing up my query...then think, I'll do one more search...and PRESTO...find this
I WANT THIS TOO! Big Time. Big big time. So here is my mail just to support this as a requirement. Theater View is most certainly the weakest part of MC and I respectfully suggest that it needs to become more customisable to match the power of the rest of the product.
What about...if I set up a custom menu items in Theater View Options...that executes a command file that executes MC core commands to say, jump to smartlist x and set up the display as I want it in Theater View?
I would like to be able to set up MC12 on my PC such that I can use Theater View in a "family friendly" way. At the moment it is a bit too "rich" and the family can see all the media...not just the stuff we want to see as a family. I still want it to hold all my media, so just loading "family stuff" is not an option, nor is running multiple copies of MC. b But a custom Theater View seems perfect as I use the Standard View for my stuff and only put it into Theater View for those Family occasions.
I do not like the way MC navigates from a top menu of Video to a sub menu (of genre or directory) with TV Series Movies, All etc. and then to the list of videos... I want less button presses.
Requirements/Constraints are as follows:
1. One instance of MC
2. Theater View opens up at a top level menu showing the following menu options...
At the Movies
TV Shows
Videos from YouTube
Music
My Family Pictures
Exit
3. Selecting one of these top level menues will take you straigh mto the relevant sub-menu in thumbnail view showing a list of all the items available to play.
"At the Movies" will list only movies that are tagged as "commercial movies" (ie. not home movies
, web video or TV Shows etc.).
"TV Shows" will list only media tagged as TV Shows (ie. not movies, web video etc.).
"Videos from YouTube" will show only media tagged as "YouTube" (ie. not movies, web video or TV Shows etc.).
"Music" will only show audio tagged as "family".
"My Family Pictures" will only show pictures tagged as "family" (ie. no the naughty ones
.
It's dead easy to make smartlists for the above...done it!....but I do not know how to make them (and only them) appear in the top level menu in Theater View.
I am happy to make/modify a theater view skin (does not appear to be too difficult - would prob. use Blue Too as the base).... However I do not see any commands in the skins to allow me to achieve the above...so I need some guiance.
It would be ideal if I could say make a skin with the above items in the top level menu and "attach" the required smartlist to the menu buttons....so when i click it, it goes straight to the list...but there does not seem to be a way to do this.
Perhaps I could even have multiple Theater Views...one for the Kids, one for parties, one for the wife and have a hot key on the remote/Girder load the required Theater View skin...hmmmmm
Help would be appreciated.