Plot information for movies...

Thanks again for all the assistance, I love the skin. I need to look at all the skin options I guess, I never can seem to find them but it sounds like a lot of them have what I'm looking for, like changing to the horizontal bar, the autoscroll, the menu, and I'm assuming a way to enable previews.

I found the media info, thanks! It was off to the right on my screen for some reason, not where I was looking.

If you ever need a beta tester let me know, I'd be happy to help.

It's working great. It seems it always defaults to TV Shows as the selection on the horizontal bar. Can I change that? Not a big deal, just wondering. The other thing is how do you get the pictures to show up in the TV and the Movie Screen when you select the Fanart background for the TV Shows and Movies screens? I selected Fanart and Animate backgrounds, but don't see anything on the screens.

Also, how to you get trailers to show up and work? Do you have to have downloaded them and set up a path to them or something like that? I wasn't clear on if it would scrape them, if it was an option, or how that really worked.

BTW, thanks again for the skin and the mouse support. That's a huge plus for me. I'm using version 2.11, is there a newer version I should be using?

daleybox Wrote:It's working great. Two quick questions though. It seems it always defaults to TV Shows as the selection on the horizontal bar. Can I change that? Not a big deal, just wondering.

what button if focused by default depends on what menu options are disabled. i think, if you didn't make any changes, the video button should be focused by default.
the only way to change it, is to re-order the menu items of the horizontal menu in Includes_Home.xml

daleybox Wrote:Also, how to you get trailers to show up and work? Do you have to have downloaded them and set up a path to them or something like that? I wasn't clear on if it would scrape them, if it was an option, or how that really worked.

you can use one of the third party media managers to download those, or use the xbmc scrapers to fetch trailer url's when you add your movies to the library.

daleybox Wrote:BTW, thanks again for the skin and the mouse support. That's a huge plus for me. I'm using version 2.11, is there a newer version I should be using?

2.11 is the latest stable.
also available is the development version of T!, which will only work with a very recent svn version of xbmc.

So the trailers have to be downloaded and put in the media folder or scraped by the XBMC scrapers. Will it automatically see trailers then? I don't have any so I never see them or any option for them. Is there some way to tell XBMC to scrape them?

Do you have to setup anything to see the pictures in the tv screen and the movie screen on the TV Shows and Movies sections? I set the display to Fanart and to animate, but I don't see any pictures though the backgrounds changed.

daleybox Wrote:So the trailers have to be downloaded and put in the media folder or scraped by the XBMC scrapers. Will it automatically see trailers then? I don't have any so I never see them or any option for them. Is there some way to tell XBMC to scrape them?

the imdb scraper has an option to fetch trailers.
other than that, i don't know which other scrapers support it.

daleybox Wrote:Do you have to setup anything to see the pictures in the tv screen and the movie screen on the TV Shows and Movies sections? I set the display to Fanart and to animate, but I don't see any pictures though the backgrounds changed.

if you have scanned some movies / tv shows to the library, it should work out of the box. but there's also an option to manually pick a folder with images.

I couldn't get either to work, maybe something wrong with my setup. I'm going to look at a reinstall soon, but I think the new version comes out sometime soon, so I may wait until then.

ronie Wrote:if you have scanned some movies / tv shows to the library, it should work out of the box. but there's also an option to manually pick a folder with images.

Does this look for specific file extensions such as .tbn and such? I'm pre-scraping my data for the most part and using the .jpg extensions instead. Could this be the problem? Maybe something I need to fix in the xml file or something that might be good to have an either/or lookup in the next version?

daleybox Wrote:Does this look for specific file extensions such as .tbn and such? I'm pre-scraping my data for the most part and using the .jpg extensions instead. Could this be the problem? Maybe something I need to fix in the xml file or something that might be good to have an either/or lookup in the next version?

file extensions shouldn't matter.

by default the skin uses the xbmc cache folder (..XBMC\userdata\Thumbnails\Video\Fanart) so check if there's any images in there.

a debug log might give me a clue why things are not working at your end.

ronie Wrote:file extensions shouldn't matter.

by default the skin uses the xbmc cache folder (..XBMC\userdata\Thumbnails\Video\Fanart) so check if there's any images in there.

a debug log might give me a clue why things are not working at your end.

I'll have to check and see how to make and upload a debug log. The one last thing that I can't figure out, except the problem with the home screen not showing the images, is that the fanart view for tv shows doesn't give me an image for the seasons. All I get is the default empty dvd case image. It works fine for movies, but not for TV shows. I'd like to see the folder.jpg image (the season cover). How can I fix that?

ronie Wrote:file extensions shouldn't matter.

by default the skin uses the xbmc cache folder (..XBMC\userdata\Thumbnails\Video\Fanart) so check if there's any images in there.

a debug log might give me a clue why things are not working at your end.

There are no images in the folder you mention above because I'm using profiles, the files are found in the same path (Thumbnails\Video\Fanart) but under the XBMC\profiles\... directory. That may be the issue, maybe I need to point it to the actual directory for each profile.