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[Leifus]

Hi again,

I have trawled through many forum posts regarding this and other issues I've had but to no avail.

So, another issue I'm trying to figure out is this:

There's a common list of "Items to Show" in Theater View (Playing Now, Audio, Images etc).
I know you can add your own items to this list, however, when adding a custom item you have to specify either a webpage or program.

What I require or want to know if it is possible to add a custom item, and then have that point to somewhere within your JRMedia library.
EDIT: No. Actually, what I want it to do is to return results using an expression such as "[Video Type]=Home Video" etc. The expressions used in Smartlists.


For example:
I don't want it to show "Video". I want it to show "Movies", "TV Series", "Home Videos".
By clicking "Movies" it returns all video files that match "[Video Type]=Movie".
"Home Videos" returns all video files that match "[Video Type]=Home Videos" and displays the usual 'amateur' home footage (like your holidays) that you bore guests with.

....and so on with whatever custom items I wish to create.


I have now discovered the "mc12.exe" and I'm thinking that I can utilise this as my "location" of the program I specify when creating a custom item.
So far I have:
  Custom Item: Movies
  Program Path: mc12.exe /mcc 22001,5
     --which pretty much says "go to the video section of my library"

And thats as far as I have got. I was hoping someone could tell me how to load/list a smartlist (NOT play a smartlist) using the "mc12.exe" parameters.
So, I could then a) Jump to the Video section b) then load my 'movies'/'tv series'/'home videos' depending on what I selected.

I'm thinking that when you set the program path when creating a custom item, you can only set one command. And so I'm guessing I could just create a BATCH file once I know all the commands I need.

----- The only other way I thought of doing this was to create multiple libraries. One for my Movies, One for my TV Series, One for my Home Videos.
        Then, using the command line "mc12.exe" thingy, I could 'load' a specific library and jump straight to the "video" section in JRMedia

        What do you all think?

Thanks.

[bbrip]

I know what you mean, but dont think you can use expressions to customize theater view buttons. But it would certainly be useful as I had a similar idea before to show different buttons fro different type movies.

[gappie]

Mister Leifus. when reading your post i get the feeling you are thinking to complicated. why not have the choice movies, tv series , home videoos directly under videos in theater view. that is fairly easy to do.
 


for instance:

[glynor]

Yeah... There is no way to add what you want to the "Home" screen of Theater View.  However, if you open Videos in Theater View and then go to the Views button and choose Video, it'll show whatever child View Schemes are defined under Video in the Standard View tree.

I have special View Schemes defined for Movies, TV Shows, Home Video, and other types of videos.  Then I can pick from any of these when I open up Video in Theater View.

If I open the TV Shows View Scheme, the next Tier is all of the Show Names, then the Seasons, then the file list shows the episodes (that View Scheme's panes are set up that way).  If I open the Movies View Scheme, the first Tier is Genres, then Artists, then it shows the files.