[javajack]

Would someone be so kind as to assist me? Love the Rapier skin but want to organize my movies and tv shows better. Under videos I created folders for TV Shows, Movies, personal videos and documentaries. I am using XBMC on ATVFlash AppleTV so I created folders for these items on the main directory instead of inside the movies folder. Again this seems to work but it's not as elegant as I'd like. Can I personalize the icons in the videos section? They are all generic? Also I created two by mistake selecting the wrong sub folder and now I can't get rid of them. There is a remove but its greyed out.

The movies section is beautiful with the cover art and fan art but everything seems to pour into movies, even my docs, personal videos and TV Shows. Again, is there a way to better organize this. Would really appreciate any help with this. Loving my XBMC with Crystal Graphics card to watch really high resolution movies.

Thanks,

Jack Tunnicliffe

[MaxMustermann]

there are two ways to achieve this. one is to use two different user profiles, one of which using the video library for movies/tvshows and the other one using it for home videos etc (howto: http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid...file+video). the latter requires that you have created an nfo file for each home video which is quite time-consuming (howto:http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Imp..._nfo_Files).

and now the other way (this is how I organized my personal videos)...
use the following file structure:

D:
-\Movies
-\TV Shows
-\Videos
--\Documentaries
--\Sports
--\Personal Videos

add 3 video sources: Movies, TV Shows, Videos (howto: http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Add...ia_Sources)
only the first 2 folders are scanned into the library (howto: http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Video_Library)

so the folder 'Videos' can be browsed in file mode only.
in order to have a custom icon for each file/folder, you have to place an image in the same folder as the file/folder and rename it to match the name with .tbn extension . e.g.:
-\Videos
--\Documentaries
--\Documentaries.tbn
--\Sports
--\Sports.tbn
--\Personal Videos
--\Personal Videos.tbn
---\pvideo.avi
---\pvideo.tbn

for faster access to your videos change one line in <skin directory>\720p\Home.xml:

Code:

<item id="4">
<description>Videos Category</description>
<icon>videos-text-blurred.png</icon>
<thumb>$INFO[Skin.String(VideosCustomBG)]/thumb>    
[color=red]<onclick>ActivateWindow(VideoFiles,Videos, Return)</onclick>[/color]        
<visible>!Skin.HasSetting(HideVideosCategory)</visible>
</item>

[javajack]

Hey, thanks for the feedback. I'm going to invest some time this weekend and see how I can organize this based on your information. I'll let you know how I make out.

Jack

[javajack]

I've downloaded some custom icons and tried adding with success. If .tbn is added they are available but what formats can be used? The first one I tried was .png and it worked but the background was white and not transparent. Is there a way to just have the icon and no background (ie: alpha channel) Also I have one that is an icns format but putting .tbn on this one does not work. Any assistance appreciated.

Jack