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great script! thank you!
anyway there is just a very small bug:
for pal resolution it show a black row on the bottom of the screen so i have changed the size of the background to 720x576 and modified this part of the script:
self.addcontrol(xbmcgui.controlimage(0,0,720,576, 'q:\scripts\gsbackground.png'))
self.list = xbmcgui.controllist(211, 120, 450, 350)
XBMC Italian translator, Movieplayer.it scrapers developer and the old "The Orbs" skin creator.
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been using your script for some days now and it works great. some comments:
1. yes the backround is terrible... i'd prefer black which probably would work better with the top gamespot live banner.
2. just the 10 latest videos tends to often be over half of it just in game videos of one game. maybe 20 latest and/or some kind of categorizing between buttonbash pc xbox ps2 and so on?
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hey jsd good work!
but it would be better if you got together with darkie and merge your script in his and perhaps come up with one script that does both -- quicktime and gamespot........
just a thought.... but i hate to see the trailer trend turned into the email script where you have a one script for checking the mail -- - another seperate script for reading the mail --- and another seperate script for sending the mail thats just freeking rediculos.......so......so............ please lets not have the same thing happen here where you will have one script for quicktime --- another script for gamespot- and yet another script for gametrailer.com...........
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i like this script a lot. thanks jsd.
like some of the others, i'd love to see more trailers than the current 10 and a filter for what games are released on the xbox.
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sounds cool, i'm going to check it out right now.
cheers ! :bowdown:
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updates:
i've put up a new version of the zip file (see the link at the top of this thread) with a much nicer background image courtesy of a fellow forumite. again, ntsc tv resolution only. if people want to make pal/widescreen versions of the script and/or image, feel free.
i've changed the server side logic slightly. it now returns 20 titles and it filters out the "gameplay footage" movies (although there are still "official movies" which are provided by the game publishers). i may dump official movies as well if i decide i don't like it.
again i don't want to make this script *too* good because i do want you to go to gamespot to watch videos! i haven't had any spare time lately so making a complete user version with filtering just isn't likely.
nagmine: i work for gamespot so i'm not likely to support our competition!
-jsd-
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don't go filtering out the game play footage its the most important part of a game preview, hell i dont know anyone who would make a dicision about a game based on the intro video.........
we want to see what the game is realy like ( clue game play footage ..... )
note:..... if these game company put the kind of effort in the the game as the do the intro we would have better games....
not a serman just a thought...