(2013-12-25, 16:41)mzup Wrote: First, Happy Holidays to all.

My son is back from college and he wants me to set this up on his mac. I don't know macs. How do I find where the settings2.xml file is on a mac?

(2013-12-25, 21:11)mzup Wrote: Thanks. Found out it was hidden and hide to unhide it. Now my settings are not working. I know it is path related. I have a streams folder that I copied into his documents folder. Now what would be the proper syntax for smb to point to this streams folder? On my windows system I have it going to an ip address of the system, but don't want to use ip address for his unless I have to. I guess I could use the loopback address.

Quote:Ah, your 2 - 0 got me twice, it's my bad... small fix will be posted soon...

(2013-12-26, 19:52)ThorC1138 Wrote: I can report that the 12.3 upgrade went just fine with no [new] issues seen!

That being said, is there a fix for the dynamic EPG images coming, perhaps after the holidays?I recall a few pages back that something was in the works...the more recent EPG xmls seems to be defaulting to looking only for a landscape jpg, unless you manually go in an edit it to "fanart" on the include statement(s).

(2013-12-26, 23:15)mzup Wrote: Does anyone that uses a mac know how the path should be written in settings2.xml to point to a local folder for strm files? So lets say I create a folder in the documents folder called Streams. the path would be smb://??/username/documents/streams. What goes before the username?

(2013-12-27, 01:32)mzup Wrote: I took the syntax from your second post:
Channel_#_2" value="smb://XXX/Hdhomerun XBMC/NY1.strm" -- Direct strm file (currently only one tuner is supported).

So on a windows system I could have written it like c:\xxxx\xxx.strm? The file is local to the Mac, so isn't on a share. That is the issue, I don't know how to write it for the mac. Perhaps I don't use smb, perhaps something else.

(2013-12-26, 21:48)Lunatixz Wrote:

(2013-12-26, 19:52)ThorC1138 Wrote: I can report that the 12.3 upgrade went just fine with no [new] issues seen!

That being said, is there a fix for the dynamic EPG images coming, perhaps after the holidays?I recall a few pages back that something was in the works...the more recent EPG xmls seems to be defaulting to looking only for a landscape jpg, unless you manually go in an edit it to "fanart" on the include statement(s).

If no image is found it defaults to a fallback image. Read post 2 for a detailed description of dynamic artwork under skinning...
BTW it's still a WIP... so let me work out the bugs...

Thanks for the 12.3 feedback...

(2013-12-27, 04:49)ThorC1138 Wrote:

(2013-12-26, 21:48)Lunatixz Wrote:

(2013-12-26, 19:52)ThorC1138 Wrote: I can report that the 12.3 upgrade went just fine with no [new] issues seen!

That being said, is there a fix for the dynamic EPG images coming, perhaps after the holidays?I recall a few pages back that something was in the works...the more recent EPG xmls seems to be defaulting to looking only for a landscape jpg, unless you manually go in an edit it to "fanart" on the include statement(s).

If no image is found it defaults to a fallback image. Read post 2 for a detailed description of dynamic artwork under skinning...
BTW it's still a WIP... so let me work out the bugs...

Thanks for the 12.3 feedback...

Sure, no prob. If it helps any, I understand from the instructions in the first posts that fanart should be the default, but in the EPG xml for the PTVL skin, it looks like you are only making calls to "fanart" for the trending item windows, the others are set for landscape, as are all the ones in the default skin EPG. Here's what I believe is a relative excerpt below for reference..

<!--NowPlaying.Window-->>

<!--Movie.landscape Now Playing-->
<control type="image">
<description>landscape</description>
<texture fallback="landscape.png">$INFO[Player.Art(landscape)]</texture>


I've had some success manually editing it so it calls fanart, and editing/removing the fallback file, but I'm missing something as its brings up fanart when you first open the EPG, then if you start scrolling, it will load a landscape image if that exists, or if not, the fanart from the first item loaded is displayed. Probably just something simple I'm missing in trying to fix it myself.

I think I may just use a util to copy fanart.jpg to landscape.jpg in the root movie folders where none exists currently [most older movies and TV shows don't have any available through the usual sources], that would do it for a quick fix until you get a chance to get the kinks out.

Thanks again!

Quote:also, is it possible to replace guide data for channels that display a continuous "Three Dots ..."? as an example, the Movie Trailers Channel. Can the guide be made to just say "Currenlty in Theaters" of "coming soon"