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Wish List: New MC User from XBMC & iTunes
csimon:
--- Quote from: spiggytopes on August 22, 2012, 01:50:40 am ---Surely, Theater View could be persuaded to load up video by folder (TV, Films, Musical etc) simply? That would be a great start for a newbie.
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Go into the Theater View view setup and add an item to the menu that is categorised by folder. It's that easy!
spiggytopes:
--- Quote from: csimon on August 22, 2012, 04:52:21 am ---Go into the Theater View view setup and add an item to the menu that is categorised by folder. It's that easy!
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OK, I will try it.
I have read in the v 17 forum that this process required tagging?
To be clear ---
Can I load two folders "TV" and "TV-DVD" into Theatre View but have Theatre View display as one folder called "TV"?
Thanks for the response!
csimon:
--- Quote from: spiggytopes on August 22, 2012, 05:57:38 am ---I have read in the v 17 forum that this process required tagging?
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Not for pure folder views, no.
--- Quote ---Can I load two folders "TV" and "TV-DVD" into Theatre View but have Theatre View display as one folder called "TV"?
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Err, probably this requires some manipulation, this is not then a view on folders!
If you want to do some custom things then I'm afraid you are going to have to learn how to customise MC to your own requirements. Experiment with the standard views in the client first of all without going into Theater View, then you can get the views working as you want.
I'm not sure off-hand how you would do what you want to do without having the MC screens in front of me to show me what options it gives, but I think first of all you need to be clear about what you want to achieve. First of all, decide if you want a folder view or not. Merging two distinct folders into one is not a folder view. And what happens with the directory hierarchies underneath each of TV and TV-DVD - what do you want to see when you drill down into your merged virtual folder called "TV"?
If you've imported the files strategically, you might even find that MC has automatically populated the Media Type/Subtype field with TV Shows. In which case I guess Theater View should already have them split out under a heding of TV by default.
spiggytopes:
Well, to answer the question ...
I keep "TV" separate from "TV-DVD" so that I can immediately go to and maintain rips of my archived DVDs as necessary.
I'm not totally against amalgamating "TV" with "TV-DVD" and also "Films" with "Films-DVD".
The virtual folder "TV" would simply populate itself with all the TV shows, in alphabetical order, be they from "TV" or "TV-DVD", which is what MB does now.
I don't want this to become a thread for advocating MB, so I'll stop here and wait patiently until J Rivers becomes a degree easier to set up for video.
Thanks for the reply and interest.
I'd just like this to be added to the wish list if possible, together with the "already watched" flag.
InflatableMouse:
Being an ex-XBMC user myself there is actually only one thing I really miss and still use XBMC for .. subtitle download.
The addon in XBMC is subliminal. 2 pushes on the remote and it's got proper subtitles for almost anything.
See, although my english is more than good enough to understand most of it, sometimes I need to turn the volume down or people mumble, talk with slang and accents (The Wire? I'm sure even Americans struggled with some of that slang!) that subtitles are a must. Manually searching websites is such a drag ... find it, download, rename, copy it, restart video. XBMC subtitle scraper automates the process, searches multiple sites and puts it in the correct folder with the proper name and activates it on the fly.
If that feature would make it to MC I would deinstall XBMC. I love many of its features, skins, etc but its all secundary to the audio and video quality MC offers.
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