2010-11-29, 15:23
One of the things that bugs me about XBMC is the movie sets. They are a great little feature that currently can not be access from within XBMC.
You have to export you library to separate files, manually edit the nfos, remove the films from your library and then update them... Not a horrible process but for a system that pride itself on being intuitive and easy its not great.
So I have decided to try and fix it.
What I hope to do is write a plugin that will allow the user to create/edit/delete movie sets from within the xbmc ui.
I hope to be able to directly alter the database using the JSON RPC.
But this will be my first real bit of python/xbmc coding so this thread is likely to get filled with stupid questions (so please take pity on me).
My first question is: Is it even possible to do what I want to do?
I have gone over the JSON and Database pages of the wiki and I don't see any references to the moiveset tag and the JSON RPC seems to only cover controlling the players rather than appending the database. But I will check out XWMM source and see how they do it.
You have to export you library to separate files, manually edit the nfos, remove the films from your library and then update them... Not a horrible process but for a system that pride itself on being intuitive and easy its not great.
So I have decided to try and fix it.
What I hope to do is write a plugin that will allow the user to create/edit/delete movie sets from within the xbmc ui.
I hope to be able to directly alter the database using the JSON RPC.
But this will be my first real bit of python/xbmc coding so this thread is likely to get filled with stupid questions (so please take pity on me).
My first question is: Is it even possible to do what I want to do?
I have gone over the JSON and Database pages of the wiki and I don't see any references to the moiveset tag and the JSON RPC seems to only cover controlling the players rather than appending the database. But I will check out XWMM source and see how they do it.