[RELEASE] Cinema Experience - the new Home Theater Experience Script

Harro · 2010-12-15 18:04

SlaveUnit Wrote:Anyone happen to add the button within Aeon MQ2?

Assuming you have the Home Cinema Experience script installed you can find this in the DialogVideoInfo.xml under your user folder ( C:\Users\*****\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\addons\skin.aeonmq-2\720p)

Code:

    <item id="6">

        <label>314122</label>

        <visible>Container.Content(movies)</visible>

        <onclick>Playlist.Clear</onclick>

        <onclick>Dialog.Close(MovieInformation)</onclick>

        <onclick>RunScript(special://home/scripts/Home Theater Experience/default.py)</onclick>

    </item>

and change it to

Code:

    <item id="6">

        <label>Cinema</label>

        <visible>Container.Content(movies)</visible>

        <onclick>Playlist.Clear</onclick>

        <onclick>Dialog.Close(MovieInformation)</onclick>

        <onclick>RunScript(special://home/addons/script.cinema.experience/addon.py)</onclick>

                </item>

Now when you go into the info screen of the movie you will now have a Cinema button that will launch the HCE and movie

Also what size and format does a new HCE icon need to be?

SlaveUnit · 2010-12-15 18:18

Wow! It was already there in a sense. Not sure how I missed that when looking through the file. Thanks Haro!

Im going to copy this into the Aeon MQ2 thread as well.

EDIT: Looks like you already posted in there Smile

giftie · 2010-12-16 01:35

Nope, I was under the impression that it still worked if the ratings were turned off, but to think about right now(and looking at the settings) MPAA I believe is always turn on(ie -- is still a level to the script.) If needed I can add the 'bypass' until Nuka and I can improve the handling of the ratings(I think I want to follow what he has done with the new version).

My goal tonight is to try to finish off the trivia/slides folder flow, along with the proper slide.xml examples.

SlaveUnit Wrote:giftie,
I'm guessing that these fixes are not in 1.0.2 correct?
Also you might want to update the graphic in post #4 to show the slides.xml files. Great job so far on keeping everything in tact and organized.

giftie · 2010-12-16 06:39

SlaveUnit Wrote:

Who complained about the other one? Although I have seen it out there before.

I saw this when I did a quick search and thought it would make a decent fanart(which it now is)

timdog82001 · 2010-12-16 07:03

So, an idea occurred to me today for a possible feature of this script. I don't know if any of you now working on the script plan to do much more than get it working and then maintain it, but if so, this may be a worthwhile addition.

What if, as an additional option for those who have limited or no trivia slides of their own, the script could scrape random trivia from IMDB and display that? It wouldn't be question and answer, but they have a lot of interesting tidbits there. See here for an example: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0137523/trivia

If we could just scrape those randomly, then display them over a default trivia background, that would be pretty neat.

Perhaps it would be possible for it to limit the trivia to the top 1000 most popular movies or so. Also, if we looked around, who knows, maybe we could find a good question/answer site for movie trivia to scrape from as well.

Anywho, great job so far guys. I'm very glad to see this script isn't dying.

timdog82001 · 2010-12-16 07:08

Also, regarding the icon....We can probably find a better one out there, but I found this through a flickr search which may work. http://www.flickr.com/photos/scypaxpictures/4312189574/

EDIT: I just had a better idea. Early versions of MediaStream (before it was released to the public) contained a ticket stub that said "cinema" on it in the movie views and was pretty snazzy looking. It would be just about perfect I think. It was later decided to remove from the skin. If you talk to Ayala who did the original art for mediastream or to any of the project team members who created the skin, they may be able to get it for you.

msderganc · 2010-12-16 07:14

Is it possible to remove the requirement (or add an option to remove) of having -trailer at the end of the files?

I'm currently using the HD-Trailers.net trailer downloader - there's no option to append, and renaming the files causes duplicate downloads.

Thanks!

Harro · 2010-12-16 07:16

As of tonite with the 1.03 version I am unable to run the HCE. All the intros,trivia,ratings,etc are working but it will play the wrong movie. Not the movie on which I clicked the HCE button on. Anyone else have this? I did a complete uninstall and reinstall of everything in XBMC along with my userbase. Glad I have nfo's in all my files.

Running Darma RC2 with confluence skin on windows 64

pastebin

giftie · 2010-12-16 07:33

msderganc - Try the program Bulk Rename Utility http://www.bulkrenameutility.co.uk/Main_Intro.php It allows you to append to filenames(I use HD-Trailer.net trailer downloader too.)

Harro - Please post your xbmc.log to pastebin. I try to test every aspect of the script a couple of times before I update the repo. but gremlins are sneaky though, they always find a way in.

msderganc · 2010-12-16 07:40

@Giftie - I used that, but then the trailer downloader didn't recognize the filenames as being downloaded, and downloaded duplicates. How did you prevent that? I considered copying them before renaming, but I really want this to be as seamless and automatic as possible.

I've temporarily edited the local scraper to remove the condition of "-trailer", and instead use any video files it finds. Working well, but I'm sure others have the same issue.

Poll: Most Desired Feature To Be Added
	Other Movie Ratings
	Download Movie Trailers
	Home Automation scripting
	Other Movie Streaming Location
	Trivia Intro Fixed
	Cartoon Video Option
	More Videos for before Feature(s) - Specify how many

msderganc Member+ Posts: 76 Joined: Aug 2010 Reputation: 0 Location: Houston, Texas	2010-12-16 07:14 Post: #47 Is it possible to remove the requirement (or add an option to remove) of having -trailer at the end of the files? I'm currently using the HD-Trailers.net trailer downloader - there's no option to append, and renaming the files causes duplicate downloads. Thanks!
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