Aeon MQ3 - Building my libraries

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Canozzie Offline
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Hi guys, im trying to build a main screen to show items Movies, TV shows, Music, Doco's, HD Movies. I also would like 'Music video' and 'Comedy' as sub-menu items, Music videos under Music and Comedy under Movies or somewhere.
All of these labels have there own seperate corresponding nas folders.

When i go into >VIDEOS (from the main screen) i see
-MOVIES
-TV SHOWS
-RECENTLY ADDED MOVIES
-RECENTLY ADDED EPISODES
-FILES
-PLAYLISTS
-VIDEO ADD ONS

When i go into >VIDEOS >FILES i see
-DOCO'S
-COMEDY
-MOVIES
-TV SHOWS
-MUSIC VIDEOS
-MUSIC
-ADD VIDEOS

So xbmc can see my route diretories however i cannot figure out how to assign them to there corresponding main menu items.

Movies, HD Movies and Music are working great! TV Shows see's only some shows i am looking into the naming conventions here. Doco's, Comedy, Music Video's i cant figure out for the life of me. HD Movies, is using a 'video resolution must be greater than - 719px' rule.

I have gone into settings and assigned a Smart Playlist using the rule 'Path - Is' and inserted my doco's pathname. When i attempt to access the Doco's menu item i get the message 'Library Empty! Add content by selecting "Videos" in the main menu' I get the same for Comedy and music videos.

How do i assign these nas folders to main menu and sub menu items pls?

Aalso there are no nfo's or jpgs for my music videos, doco's.

Thoughts?


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This would be great but as far as I know it's a limitation of XBMC not the skin. :-(

EDIT: I was thinking of having custom libraries. Sorry.
(This post was last modified: 2011-12-14 02:31 by rdonohoe.)
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@canozzie

You should use 'path starts with'

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@Matijn
Thanks, makes sense but no change unfortunatly.

I have tried switching the media type when adding source to 'none' or 'tv show' to no avail. Im using VPlaylist option for the menu item... hmm maybe its not possible.

How are you guys viewing/indexing your non tv show/movie contents?

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Canozzie Wrote:When i go into >VIDEOS >FILES i see
-DOCO'S
-COMEDY
-MOVIES
-TV SHOWS
-MUSIC VIDEOS
-MUSIC
-ADD VIDEOS

If the above folders are the last part of the path then use "Path" "Ends With" "Movies" and so on or you can use "Path" "Contains" "Movies" obviously you can only use "Path" "Contains" if you don't have any other paths with those names that you don't want included but either of those will work

The rule "Path" "Is" and using the full path can only be used when the path has files in the root it won't work if it contains folders

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Try and try again, this has been going on for weeks now. Lets see i'm going into >Videos >Files >Add Videos >Browse. The browse for new share windows pops up and i browse thru the pre-populated list down to (SMB://Tower/Documentaries) >Ok >Ok. Content box appears
Directory Contains - I have tried every option here, Movies probly suits best
Run automated scan - I have tried both
Use folder names for lookups - tried both
Scan recursively - tried both i think
Exclude path form library updates - tried both
TMDB & IMDB scrapers set
>Ok

>Video >Playlists >New smart playlist
Type - Movies
Name of Playlist - Doco's
Find Items where - Path - Ends with - SMB://Tower/Documentaries (i have also tried the other path name - SMB://ROOT:Password@Tower/Documentaries, and also SMB://192.168.1.XXX/Documentaries)

>Settings >Skin Options >Shortcuts Backdrops > Navigate to VPlaylist
-activate
>add video playlist - docos.xsp >ok

>>Library Empty!

Ami going about this the rights way? Cant find a guide for mq3 as such.


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(This post was last modified: 2011-12-15 03:19 by Canozzie.)
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Did you look at the example I gave did I put the full path when using "Path" "Ends With" ?

If you use "Path" "Ends With" you only put the last part of the path so using your example above that would be "Documentaries" because that's at the end of the path

"Path" "Ends With" "Documentaries"

The above is all you need to put the same with "Path" "Contains"

"Path" "Contains" "Documentaries"

You don't put the full path with either of those because that's not what the rule is asking for

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The obvious alludes me from time to time, thanx again for that. Now on to my next problem of seperating my doco's out of my movie folder but keeping my movies main menu item cuz i love that 'recent movies' widget. I think ill put them under tv series and see how that goes.

Cheers X
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Canozzie Wrote:The obvious alludes me from time to time, thanx again for that. Now on to my next problem of seperating my doco's out of my movie folder but keeping my movies main menu item cuz i love that 'recent movies' widget. I think ill put them under tv series and see how that goes.

Cheers X

Please let us know if you figure out how to do this. I would love to be able to have custom libraries for documentaries separate from TV Show or Movies.

Even setting the content type for the playlist for docos is annoying because some documentaries are more film therefore on themoviedb e.g. Bowling for Columbine whereas some are more TV therefore on theTVDB e.g. the lots of the BBC Wildlife stuff. Would be great to be able to set the content to Documentaries and have a scraper for them.

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No worries its the next thing on my todo list.
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