I want a "My TV" section (with a separate database)

spiff has his own branch in svn with his work on it... feel free to try a build out.

Have you guys already heard about the work being done on Big Screen TV Series plugin for Microsoft Windows Vista MCE (Vista Media Center Edition)?

It says it still a work-in-progress but based on the screenshots and information here (part 1) and here (part 2) it already look very nice. It really sound as if they read the suggestions in this topic thread and tried to get most of the ideas in there, a own database and an own style for TV-shows which automaticle grabs icons and show/episode information from the internet; "what My Movies does for DVD libraries - this does for your collection of TV Series videos/recordings". It even features a view-mode options that is the same type of wide banner-type tv.com style icons and view-mode for TV-series that are available as a mod to the Project Mayhem skin, which I personally think look great when used for TV-series (and would be great if we could use as the default view-mode in the new "My TV" section). Though Big Sceen TV-Series view-modes only have text under the high-lighted item, like the latest XBMC SVN have for the list view-mode, which I have to agree that I think looks better than having text under each icon when in a wide banner-size mode.

Screenshots of their secondary view-mode option (which is similar to the XBMC wide icons mod that used tv.com banner-size icons):





PS! Big Screen TV Series blog also contains other good ideas on making a media center interface slicker

Screenshots of Big Screen TV Series default view-mode (a style which reminds me of the Kaleidescape interface):
(I like that mirror-finish eye-candy, wonder if that could be done 'cost free' in DirectX 8 with the Xbox GPU?)

Big Screen TV Series also have almost a Kaleidescape style view-mode option for wide banner-size icons as well:




Screenshots of their settings screens (for configuration and searches):





...wonder if the scrape the TV-show information and those icons from tv.com or if the have a other internet source?

Gamester... was this just an FYI because it looks nice but I'm not sure how this relates to XBMC?
Are you asking that the My TV section in XBMC use this as an example of what to do?

Affini Wrote:Are you asking that the My TV section in XBMC use this as an example of what to do?

Yes exacly, it just my 2 cents suggestion/request to 'steel' some ideas from it, nothing more

Gamester... dirty pool guy. Spiffer was working on this and then I see screens... I though he got it cranked out (despite the holiday which would be well above and beyond the call of duty... voluntary duty mind you).

Got worked up and then slammed... hasnt happened to me since my ex-wife LOL

Gamester17 Wrote:Yes exacly, it just my 2 cents suggestion/request to 'steel' some ideas from it, nothing more

yes that looks great and all but I'd ben happy just to get the basic functionality and have it look like the other videos do today... that is just fine by me.

I posted some basic/simple displays a while back in the thread... my thought is KISS just so it is easy to skin to and is an interface everyone already knows.

I compiled XBMC using the multiviews branch so I got the Wide Icons options in the menu.

However, when I compile it using the "normal" branch, those options are not included.
I though Jmarshall included it? When I look in in the SVN changelog I see:
"added: Merged new multiple view code support from the multiview branch (r7408->7422), and added saving of view/sort information per-folder."

just fyi, i have now commited part two of my world domination plans.

- new video db scheme
- revamped lookup mechanisms to handle different content types (still only movies)

next on list is tv shows.