I was pointed to this thread by someone else. I'm not using this skin (yet) but have taken a very quick look at it. At present I am still using Neon (GIT version) with Frodo, and the two things I like about it are that it has a separate menu item for HD movies (it omits the stuff from DVD and other low-quality sources), and also it has a separate menu item for Videos. I don't suppose it would be difficult to create the Videos entry but does MQ4 have any way to display movies by quality? I suppose if I were to experiment a bit I might find the answer to that.
But the real reason I am posting is because I note some have expressed a desire to have a particular item appear in both kids and adults movies, and sorting them into separate directories means they will only appear in one or the other. I don't know if this would work in XBMC, but I've done this in similar situations with other software. The trick is to use what is called a symlink in Linux and an alias in OS X. A symlink is just a link to another file elsewhere, that for most purposes behaves as if it were that file itself. So for example, let's say you had a directory called "Kids Movies" and then your regular "Movies" directory. And in your "Movies" directory you have a movie file that you also want to have in the "Kids Movies". From the Linux command prompt you could do something like this:
ln -f -s "/path/to/Movies/Movie Title.mp4" "/path/to/Kids Movies/Movie Title.mp4"
What that will do is create a small system file in the Kids Movies with the same title as the original (only if you used the same title, of course) that provides access to the original file, just as if that file were moved to that directory. So it in effect appears in both directories, but there is only one actual copy of the file on the drive. "ln" is the command that does this, -f forces the command (so if you move the original to a different directory you can create a new symlink without deleting the old one first), and -s makes a symbolic link rather than a "hard" link. I am not quite sure what the difference is, but long ago I learned to use the -s option and have always done so.
In Mac OS X there is a similar functionality, called "Make Alias". If you right click on a file in Finder, the "Make Alias" option should appear in the popup context menu. The alias will be created in the same directory, with " alias" appended to the end of the filename - just move that alias file to whatever directory you want and then rename it to remove the added " alias" suffix. If you use
XtraFinder then you can go into XtraFinder's preferences and under "add items to Finder menus" you can tick the box next to "Make Symbolic Link", and then when you right click on a file in Finder you will be given the additional option to make what I assume is a true Linux-style symlink, which will have a " Link" suffix rather than the " alias" suffix. I think that either an alias or a symlink would work in this circumstance.
In either Linux or OS X, if you have installed
mc (Midnight Commander) you can also create a symlink by clicking on "File" (in mc's top menu bar), then "Symlink". mc also lets you edit existing symlinks.
Under Windows (Vista or later) you would use the MKLINK command with the /D option (or maybe /J, I don't use Windows so can't really say what the difference is), or probably better yet, you can use the
Directory Linker utility. I would hope that programs like
Total Commander also have the ability to create symlinks, but it has been so long since I have used Windows that the last version I actually used was Windows 2000, so I have forgotten most of what I used to know about that OS.
The caveat on this is that I have not tried to do this personally on movie files used with XBMC, so I don't know if there would be any potential complications, for example from XBMC apparently seeing the same exact title in two different directories. But if you are feeling adventurous, feel free to experiment with a title or two to start with, and see what happens.
Still appreciating all the good work of you.