Assistance setting up XBMC
#1
Hi, so with all the things XBMC can do I am a little overwhelmed and lost. I want to setup my macbook to my TV and easily be able to watch videos that I have locally. What I want to do is choose different playlists and have it run on shuffle so if I choose "Action" all the videos I have in that playlist run in a loop and shuffled or if I choose "Comedy" etc etc. Can someone help me out and show me in the right direction on how to accomplish this?

Thanks!
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#2
There's a few ways to do this, and this might be a bit much for someone who's just learning XBMC for the first time, but in my opinion the best way to do this is to use the Pseudo TV Live add-on: http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=169032

Crash corse:

download the zip file and using "install from zip" (see Add-on manager (wiki)): https://github.com/Lunatixz/script.pseud...master.zip

Once installed, find Pseudo TV under "Programs" on the main menu. It will do some auto first-time-run stuff, where it builds a fake TV guide based on your local video library. Press enter/select to bring up this TV guide.

The defaults seem to only do "broadcast channels" and then genres just for movie channels, but you can set up genre channels for TV shows as well:

Select the Pseudo TV add-on, but don't open it. Press "c" to bring up the context menu and select "Add-on settings", and under "General" select "Open channel configuration". Select a channel and change the "channel type" using the arrow keys. This will allow you to make a channel into a TV genre channel, and for a specific genre.



Otherwise I would just suggest checking out the wiki pages for smart playlists (wiki). However, Pseudo TV is really freaking cool, so even if you're new, I'd still check it out.
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#3
WOW this definitely opened the door to what I wanted! Thanks so much and hopefully I can get it up and running.
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