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- Juanflaco - 2009-12-03 07:34

stealth12 Wrote:when i click on it it opens both a small thumb and the imagehost page weird O_o anyway, try this http://a.imagehost.org/view/0623/DYK5
and so to clarify it should be like this right?

Q1
Q1A
Q2
Q2A
Q3 - if this is like a fact or a quote but not a question do i just not pu an answer in?
Q4
Q4A
.......
You may get more detailed clarification, but I did try the above scheme and it seemed to break the Q/A order for the other slides. What I did was to pair the movie stills (facts, quotes, whatever) as a Q and an A, like so...

Q1
Q1A
Q2
Q2A
Q3 (a movie fact)
Q3A (a movie still)
Q4
Q4A

The only bummer is that you're not getting a true random assortment; the non-trivia slides always come in pairs.

Your slide looks great, by the way.


- stealth12 - 2009-12-03 08:09

Thanks! i was worried that would happen, I don't actually have my slides ready to go just started working on them this evening, so i couldn't test anything yet lol.
Maybe going forward with new versions something for quotes/facts etc could be worked into the script? (I am NOT a coder so I have no idea if i just asked the equivalent of having you digitize mars and put it on a 5 1/2in floppy!!)
thanks again!


- xm41907 - 2009-12-03 23:37

Does anyone know of a good site to download trivia slides? I've found a few on line but would like a bunch more without spending hours creating my own.

or...

We could make a thread for custom slides, so that we could share our hard earned work!


- Juanflaco - 2009-12-04 05:20

xm41907 Wrote:Does anyone know of a good site to download trivia slides? I've found a few on line but would like a bunch more without spending hours creating my own.

or...

We could make a thread for custom slides, so that we could share our hard earned work!
I didn't find any free ones so I paid the $7 for over 1300 catagorized trivia and misc. slides. There was also an earlier post in this thread by someone working on their own slides.


- mccorkled - 2009-12-04 22:12

can some one help me to get this to work. I copied all of my slides off the CD I bought into the directory I wanted. Do I have to take all the images out of the containing folders and place them in the root of the slides folder?

Also I read that you cant get them to show randomly? Is this right? Seems silly to watch the same trivia every time.


- Nuka1195 - 2009-12-04 22:25

frankly mccorkled i'm getting tired of you posting. start at the first page and start reading!

no where did i say slides don't play random. everythings been explained more than once in some cases.


- xm41907 - 2009-12-04 22:38

Juanflaco Wrote:I didn't find any free ones so I paid the $7 for over 1300 catagorized trivia and misc. slides. There was also an earlier post in this thread by someone working on their own slides.

I saw those but didn't want to pay for it. And aren't they all Coca-Cola related? I would prefer not having that. I was able to link my apple trailers folder and HTE folders. Everything works great. While in apple trailers, if I want to save one, I just change the viewing type from "streaming" to "download and save" I can now choose which trailers HTE will display for my kids. Also, I found on youtube a bunch of pre-show clips. I liked the AMC ones so now it has their coming attractions, feature presentation, and most of all, the cell phone interruption trailer spoofs! Love it!

I'm working on a couple of photoshop templates to make my own trivia slides. will share when I'm done.


- mccorkled - 2009-12-05 06:00

whats your problem with me? always with the snide sarcastic remarks.

I got my slides ready but before renaming over 1300 slide I would like to be sure Im doing it right.

I started with this...

Q1.jpg
Q2A.jpg
Q2.jpg
Q2A.jpg

so far so good right?

but in editing the xml file is where I get lost. Also should I rename my files...

Q0001.jpg
Q0001A.jpg

etc...

ConfusedConfusedConfused?


- Nuka1195 - 2009-12-05 06:30

Just read your original unedited post mccorkled. congratulations you've just closed this thread. i won't post the dribble here, but i hope others understand i'm sick of assholes signing up, not reading and asking the same questions over and over and then making snide inaccurate remarks.

i know you don't read as you posted about getting weather fanart to work in confluence, when confluence has a sticky on the subject.

i will reopen, when/if i make any updates to the script.


- Nuka1195 - 2009-12-05 07:19

reopened as mccorkled has his own thread.

i ask all people especially new people to thouroghly read the first post and better the whole thread as most questions have been answered.

i'm gaining some strangth so i am slowly going to add these features/changes.

please feel free to suggest.

1. 5 minute option to trivia.
2. check m3u playlist support (may be xbmc issue with queuing a playlist)
3. run script before videos start (homeseer)
4. random trivia, mix in single slides (you MUST still keep your different slide types in separate folders) i have an idea and if it works it shouldn't be difficult.