I too have been trying to separate my videos into multiple libraries. I've spent literally 10 hours poking through the forums trying to get custom video nodes working. I have my TV broken into several folders (smb://server/media/tv/on-air, smb://server/media/tv/off-air, smb://server/media/tv/classictv). I'm trying to create custom video nodes that still give me the ability to break them down into genre, latest etc... but that only include the shows that are in their respective folders.
I really wish someone who clearly understands custom video nodes would write a comprehensive guide. in my library folder i created the below file /video/tvshows/classictv.xml but when I go to videos,TV shows and select Classic TV Series in the menu nothing happens...no shows...just press enter and nothing happens. That suggests to me that my filter is returning nothing, but I have created a smart playlist with the same filter (looked at the XML) and its the same.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes" ?>
<node order="10" type="filter">
<label>Classic TV Series</label>
<content>episodes</content>
<icon>DefaultTVShowTitle.png</icon>
<match>all</match>
<rule field="path" operator="contains">classictv</rule>
</node>
I have tried about a billion variations... putting content as tvshows instead of episodes... each field of these xml's and their possible values and their meanings is very hard to find. The XBMC wiki page that describes this feature is sparse at best (
http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Custom_video_nodes).
If anyone knows where there is a good guide on setting this stuff up I would be very grateful.