2010-06-10, 02:49
So I have been crawling along and learning about XBMC. I have a few questions. Any help/advice would be appreciated.
1) It appears that the XBMC player treats all movie filetypes the same. I have 90% of my movies in IFO/VOB format, 10% in AVI format, and all tv_series in .AVI format. It appears that when you play an IFO and fast forward (or jump) it goes to the next chapter. AVIs jump to the end/beginning of the file. Reencoding of the AVIs is not an option.
Is there a way to somehow specify the "Jump to Next Chapter" button while playing an AVI should really jump forward like 300 seconds, but while playing an IFO/VOB it will jump to next chapter?
2) I would really like on the main menu page "DVD Movies", "AVI Movies", and TV_Series. Is this possible?
3) I would like to have 1 user to be able to see only movies from 1 directory. I would like another user to be able to see only movies from a 2nd directory. Is this possible through profiles? Are separate databases created per profile?
4) I have VB code which nightly scrapes for locally playing (in theater) movies and creates an XML database with movie info, description, actors, covers, theater times, and location of streaming apple preview. (Like the preview plugin with the addition of theater information near your house). Is it possible to create a NEW database in XBMC, and then pull variables from it (through skinning)? Or is it what-you-see-is-what-you-get regarding the underlying databases.... i.e. expansion is not possible.
5) Can enyone recommend a nice graphical sqlite graphical interface?
6) Are there any GUI-driven skin editors? Or is all skinning through raw xml?
7) What is XBMC looking for in ALBUM directories regarding coverart? My songs have covers (probably pulled from mps tag), but no covers for albums. All my albums have cover_f.jpg and cover_b.jpg in the album directories (front and back covers, which I would like to use as they are higher quality than the mp3 tags)
Thanks!
1) It appears that the XBMC player treats all movie filetypes the same. I have 90% of my movies in IFO/VOB format, 10% in AVI format, and all tv_series in .AVI format. It appears that when you play an IFO and fast forward (or jump) it goes to the next chapter. AVIs jump to the end/beginning of the file. Reencoding of the AVIs is not an option.
Is there a way to somehow specify the "Jump to Next Chapter" button while playing an AVI should really jump forward like 300 seconds, but while playing an IFO/VOB it will jump to next chapter?
2) I would really like on the main menu page "DVD Movies", "AVI Movies", and TV_Series. Is this possible?
3) I would like to have 1 user to be able to see only movies from 1 directory. I would like another user to be able to see only movies from a 2nd directory. Is this possible through profiles? Are separate databases created per profile?
4) I have VB code which nightly scrapes for locally playing (in theater) movies and creates an XML database with movie info, description, actors, covers, theater times, and location of streaming apple preview. (Like the preview plugin with the addition of theater information near your house). Is it possible to create a NEW database in XBMC, and then pull variables from it (through skinning)? Or is it what-you-see-is-what-you-get regarding the underlying databases.... i.e. expansion is not possible.
5) Can enyone recommend a nice graphical sqlite graphical interface?
6) Are there any GUI-driven skin editors? Or is all skinning through raw xml?
7) What is XBMC looking for in ALBUM directories regarding coverart? My songs have covers (probably pulled from mps tag), but no covers for albums. All my albums have cover_f.jpg and cover_b.jpg in the album directories (front and back covers, which I would like to use as they are higher quality than the mp3 tags)
Thanks!