Switching from Media Browser Unwatched Overlay

Hello, I was told to ask this in the skinning forum. I hope that I get more responses here.

I am thinking about switching from Media Browser to XBMC. One of the things I can not live without is the ability in poster view to see the unwatched overlay on the poster that shows me how many unwatched episodes or moves are below it in the folder.

Here is a perfect example:

I have tried XBMC a few times and have never found a way to do this. Does anyone in this community know how to get the unwatched part looking how I want it to look?

Also for a follow up question. I have a silicon dust hdhomerun for OTA television. Is there support for this in XBMC?

Thanks for all the help, bing281

Just out of interest are the numbers showing how many episodes are available. Edit I'm sleeping re-read your post "UnWatched Episodes"

Would be possible for a similar view, but requires a lot of work

Mudislander Wrote:Just out of interest are the numbers showing how many episodes are available. Edit I'm sleeping re-read your post "UnWatched Episodes"

Would be possible for a similar view, but requires a lot of work

The numbers are showing how many unwatched episodes are left in the folder.
The eye icon means it is unwatched.

Thanks, bing281

The episode count does interest me, but I can see problems with font sizes and real estate space - my eyesight is not the best May play around with that idea, but I'm afraid the rest of the view doesn't match Convergence style

So there is no skins that currently show the unwatched count per folder? Thanks for the help.

It's possible to show unwatched count per season or per show, yes. I seem to recall MediaStream used to do this.

You have the watchedcount and unwatchedcount properties, as well as totalcount (or something similar to that!)

I use Aeon Nox, in series view it does show the number of unwatched episodes under the highlighted item. It's not an icon though, however you can toggle hide watched/unwatched easily. The same goes for movies. Have a look at it for yourself, it may be what you're looking for.

Make the leap from MediaBrowser, you won't be disappointed. I did over a year ago now, haven't looked back since. IMO better hands down, the only thing not fully implemented yet is HD audio (there are already workarounds) but that is simply a matter of time........

Deano316 Wrote:I use Aeon Nox, in series view it does show the number of unwatched episodes under the highlighted item. It's not an icon though, however you can toggle hide watched/unwatched easily. The same goes for movies. Have a look at it for yourself, it may be what you're looking for.

Make the leap from MediaBrowser, you won't be disappointed. I did over a year ago now, haven't looked back since. IMO better hands down, the only thing not fully implemented yet is HD audio (there are already workarounds) but that is simply a matter of time........

Thanks for the heads up. I was wondering how you handle OTA / CableCard television also? By HD Audio do you mean that it does not decode or that it will not pass thru DTS and DD HD?

There is a budding coder who is currently working on some pvr support for Nox, check the forum for more info. As far as HD audio goes its a bit of a minefield with regards to information. Here are a couple of links I found through a quick search:

http://forum.xbmc.org/showpost.php?p=880031&postcount=1

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid...ight=audio

I think the first link is probably of more use to you.

I have been looking around at skins and none seem to do what I want. I also find it hard to get to recently added / recently watch and so on. From installing Media Portal and Plex it seems that both of them do this pretty easily. I wonder why XBMC does not as it seems that Media Portal and Plex are forks from XBMC.