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

I had just started playing around with this script a couple of days ago and had many questions on how to get it to run. Like most people i downloaded the zip from http://xbmc-addons.googlecode.com/svn/pa...addons.zip and installed from the addons in xbmc through install from zip file.

I proceeded to then enable and install the Home Cinema Experience addon in xbmc under the program addons. Once installed I then looked at all the stuff I could configure in it. Seeing the run script before video under the misc section I assumed I needed to click that and point it toward the Home Cimema Experience script., which I located under Home/ addons then script.cinema.experience and finally addon.py. I left the configure screen and proceeded to start up a video and see what would happen. Nothing. So I close off XBMC and head on over to the forums searching for some answers.

Before I go on I will state that I am running XBMC Darma RC2 on a Windows Vista 64 bit machine using the Confluence skin which is the default skin.

After reading most of 1 day with 80 plus pages on the HTE, I dove in and started to grap some files.
First off I grapped http://www.megaupload.com/?d=8G4FPFMR from the links by "Slaveunit". Thanks by the way. In that file which is the first part of 8, I found the Folder Structure.png and DialogVideoInfo.xml.

Looking at the Folder Structure made me create a new folder in my C:\Users\urname\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\ Which I called XBMC Home Theater Experience. Inside of that folder (XBMC Home Theater Experience) I created folders called Intros and Trivia. In the Intros folder I the created folders called Audio, Misc, and Ratings. In the Trivia folder I created folders called Q&A and Stills.

Now with the file I had from "Slaveunit" (XBMC Home Theater Experience script.part01.rar) which is http://www.megaupload.com/?d=8G4FPFMR once extracted gave me audio files which i put in the Audio folder i just created. But these were not enough stuff to fill up my needs for a complete HTE, so I grabbed http://www.megaupload.com/?d=9L74YR27 from "steppedup" ( Thank you). In short this file is a condensed version of what Slaveunit posted.

Now with this file I had a good start with all my needs Intros, Outro's, advertisement, trivia, all sorts of goodies. Placing all the files in the needed folders I had created under my C:\Users\urname\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\XBMC Home Theater Experience folder I now thought I was ready to use the HTE addon. Opened up XBMC and went to system/addons/enable addons/program addons/Cinema Experience, clicked on it then hit the configure button. filled in all the stuff i thought I needed by pointing the trivia folder, into's, outro's etc etc to the files i put in my home folder under XBMC Home Theater Experience folder accoding to the names that were called for in the config section. I still had in the misc section pointing to the addon.py file which I assumed would launch HTE before watching a movie.

So off I go to launch a flick. I choose " It's a Wonderful Life" and hit the play button. Wow wth the movie just starts no HTE for me. SO now I think the HTE is fubar. In a last ditch effort I create a custom button under programs on the main screen to point to the HTE script and run it once clicked. Once created I try it out and WOW the script is running in all it's glory. Trivia starts off then goes on to previews then trailers start to play and finally the presentation intro, but no main movie. Sigh. Close off XBMC and search forums again.

I am bound and determined to get this to work. Came across some info that started me to think that I may need to adjust some xml files. In the XBMC Home Theater Experience script.part01.rar (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=8G4FPFMR) I find "DialogVideoInfo.xml". I open the xml up and take a look at it, toward the end of the file I find <control type="button" id="13">
<description>Home Theater Experience</description>
<include>ButtonInfoDialogsCommonValues</include>
<label>Theater</label>
<onclick>Dialog.Close(MovieInformation)</onclick>
<onclick>Playlist.Clear</onclick>
<onclick>RunScript(special://home/scripts/Home Theater Experience/default.py)</onclick>
</control>
Now I am thinking that this is the answer.

I copy the xml and find out where it is to go. I find that in C:\Program Files (x86)\XBMC\addons\skin.confluence\720p is where there is the same xml file so I rename the original in the 720 folder and paste the other in , to replace the original. fire XBMC back up and lo and behold i now have a "Theater" button in my info screen of movies.

i click it and still nothing. Open the DialogVideoInfo.xml which I just put in C:\Program Files (x86)\XBMC\addons\skin.confluence\720p and replace this line
<onclick>RunScript(special://home/scripts/Home Theater Experience/default.py)</onclick>
with this line
<onclick>RunScript(special://home/addons/script.cinema.experience/addon.py)</onclick>

Back to XBMC and try again. Open up an info screen on a movie and click the theater button and YAH BABY works.

Now the only short fall that I have come up with is that HTE will not play the Trivia Q&A's slides, It will play the Trivia Stills . so that is where I sit as of tonite.

If anyone has other pointers on other skins to help this out I am sure it would be much appreciated by all.

giftie Wrote:We need a new Icon for this script. Who wants to take a stab at it

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

Nice writeup Harro. Good to see you are someone who likes to investigate and isn't afraid to get your hands dirty. I stand where you stand at the moment as I mentioned in the old thread.

Also you have to realize that some of those files and notes from my larger 6gb pack are from the old script. So parts may be outdated. Also, the smaller pack you got from steppedup was my pack in 2/2/2010. He just grouped everything together that I had posted. Then, as you can see, for the next 2 months I was on quite the search for more material. I found over 5 more gbs and grouped them and posted in the first thread. It became quite the obsession. I loved having so many things for people to see. People that came over for a movie night loved this. I do thank Nuka and everyone else that worked on this and I, as well as others, are very excited this is starting to take off again. XBMC is growing and its great. There is even a 4 page article in Maximum PC this month on it. Crazy!

Once these last few things are cleaned up within the script and it's working 100% I will clean up the "Theater Pack for Nuka1195's "Home Theater Experience" Script" thread. I'll check all the links and add more to it from what I have now.

Bottom line is that I am very happy to have this going again and thanks to everyone, past and present, involved.

Hey Guys,

what about locking the old thread regarding HTE?

It seems as both threads are updated and discussed...quite hard to
have a clear look at all the posts...

As this is the new thread for the dharma-version, I think it is justified

Maybe a suggestion from a moderator?

cheers,
mad-max

Giftie, just a suggestion but you could post in the OP what works and what doesn't, reading thru the original thread I take it trivia doesn't work for anyone, just the single stills. The same with the trivia intro/outro files. Telling the people what works and what doesn't should keep at least some people from asking the same "does [whatever] work, or am I doing something wrong?" Also I don't if this is a new bug in 1.01 or just something screwy with my XBMC, but when I press esc to end the trivia before the times up the screen goes black and it goes back to my main screen (Alaska Revisited) Before 1.01 when I pressed esc it would end the trivia and move on to the next thing in line in CE.

Also something I noticed, at least on mine after the trivia it plays the movie theater intro clip then the previews, even though I have a movie theater outro clip set. Is it suppose to go in that order?

giftie Wrote:We need a new Icon for this script. Who wants to take a stab at it

Had a quick go, not sold on it though, needs somthing more..its a bit plain.

Well I installed this last night and I got the script added on and configured. However I downloaded the skins transparancy and night and the button theater/cinema did not show up. Do I have to go in an manually update the xml file? I thought that since the skin was compatible that it would automatically do that. check sig for xbmc version if that has to do with anything.

about the trivia i'll see if it works, but make sure you have the limit by mpaa settings disabled for now. giftie i have all that working in a different way. so let's get together via email and i'll pass along the new stuff. then you can pick and choose what you need.

the setting under misc, is to run a script for home automation stuff.

no one complained about the icon, just when i went to make sure i could use it. i discovered it was not free. too bad cuz i like it.

here is a diff for confluence, might work in other skins. it makes the play button always cinema when content is movies. so this affects plugins that set there content to movies, but i figured if i wanted to run the video without cinema, just select it from the list.

rflores2323 Wrote:Well I installed this last night and I got the script added on and configured. However I downloaded the skins transparancy and night and the button theater/cinema did not show up. Do I have to go in an manually update the xml file? I thought that since the skin was compatible that it would automatically do that. check sig for xbmc version if that has to do with anything.

for Transparency!, enable the script in:
Skin Settings > Scripts

trivia plays fine.