MOD - Recently Added Movies and TV Shows

Thanks for the MOD. Adds some great functionality to Rapier's already impressive skin.

Problem I am having is that the Movies entry is not picking up the poster for every movie. This is only happening in the Recently Added mod entries--it is fine in the normal Movies view.

Any idea what could be going on here?

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I cannot see what would cause that to happen. It work 100% here. The only thing I can see from your screenshot is that when it is showing no coverart you are also updating your library or is that just a coincidence?

That's just a coincidence. It happens on my XBOX, my HTPC and my laptop. Maybe it is because my movies are on a NAS.

I'm still doing some investigating on my end. I'll let you know if I figure anything out. If anything occurs to you please do the same.

My movies are on a NAS also so I don't think that can be the issue.

nchall Wrote:Thanks for the MOD. Adds some great functionality to Rapier's already impressive skin.

Problem I am having is that the Movies entry is not picking up the poster for every movie. This is only happening in the Recently Added mod entries--it is fine in the normal Movies view.

Any idea what could be going on here?

This happens to me as well (I'm using the Movies and Myth TV mod, but the concept is roughly the same). I'm guessing it is always the same movies that don't have a poster, right?

I've noticed that sometimes the hash that the script is generating to find the movie poster thumb is not actually the hash for that movie and then it can't find the poster. I end up getting the poster in the Movies view but never in the home window.

I am unsure of how to fix this problem, it doesn't happen often enough for me to really get too upset about it. Hope this is a step in the right direction.

Neat stuff! Thank you very much for building this!

FWIW, I noticed that the "Recently Added TV Shows" list showed a different "top 5" than XBMC's internal list, so I changed the SQL Statement in "recentadded.py" to be:

sql_episodes = "select * from episodeview WHERE playCount IS NULL order by idEpisode desc limit %d"

... which works just fine.

Also, if you could find a way to nicely indicate whether or not the list has focus, it would help a little in Rapier. (Haven't tried in other skins. Maybe just alter the title color?)

I haven't messed with it, but wonder if displaying more than 5 items would look bad. I imagine the thumbnails aren't scalable? (I run in 1080p, so the list could easily contain 10 items...)

Thanks again!

Very interesting mod which I hope will make it into the main since it flows nicely.

However I was hopeing that this mod would create new full menu items for recently added movies and TV. I dont know how other people use XBMC but I use these two views 90%+ of the time. In medium stream redux it takes a few button presses to get to the view and it is limited to 20 items (which IMHO is to low) but you can get there.

I hope this is not OT for the thread but are full menu items or easy access to the complete view possible.

Thanks in advance.

xexe Wrote:Very interesting mod which I hope will make it into the main since it flows nicely.

However I was hoping that this mod would create new full menu items for recently added movies and TV. I dont know how other people use XBMC but I use these two views 90%+ of the time. In medium stream redux it takes a few button presses to get to the view and it is limited to 20 items (which IMHO is to low) but you can get there.

I hope this is not OT for the thread but are full menu items or easy access to the complete view possible.

Thanks in advance.

I am working on something with a work colleague that I think is part way to what you are after. Sub-menus on the main menus that will be user configurable. I have mine working like so:

Movies has on its sub menu with the default items such as Title, Genre, Actor etc but in addition as Recently Added and option to add any other item you want. So for instance you could add an entry called Kids that would only show kids movies (this could be achieved through Genres but just reduces the number of clicks required and makes it more accessible to novice users)

Videos has sub menus to particular folders eg my wife is currently into Zumba and I have a lot of personal family movie clips I don't like to import these in to my main library so the Videos sub menu has entries: Files, Zumba, Personal, Favourites, YouTube, Rev3 etc

I have done the same for TV Shows and Music.

The Sub Menus look identical to the Settings sub menu.

I have hard coded mine for now but am considering a way via skin settings for a user to add new entries via the xbmc gui.

Not sure if this is something others would be interested in.

I modded my videos home screen menu to open a sub menu (Movies, TV Shows, Music Videos, Files and Library) so that you can acess the media like you do in mediastream_redux and if you wish hide the movie and tvshows.

qualar Wrote:I am working on something with a work colleague that I think is part way to what you are after. Sub-menus on the main menus that will be user configurable. I have mine working like so:

Movies has on its sub menu with the default items such as Title, Genre, Actor etc but in addition as Recently Added and option to add any other item you want. So for instance you could add an entry called Kids that would only show kids movies (this could be achieved through Genres but just reduces the number of clicks required and makes it more accessible to novice users)

Videos has sub menus to particular folders eg my wife is currently into Zumba and I have a lot of personal family movie clips I don't like to import these in to my main library so the Videos sub menu has entries: Files, Zumba, Personal, Favourites etc

I have done the same for TV Shows and Music.

The Sub Menus look identical to the Settings sub menu.

I have hard coded mine for now but am considering a way via skin settings for a user to add new entries via the xbmc gui.

Not sure if this is something others would be interested in.

This sounds kick ass! I would love to see that eve if it's sans the user adjustable configuration.