HOW-TO customize the home menu with custom categories

~~K.SPENCER~~ · 2013-04-03 10:16

I have found much knowledge here in this post! Thanks for sharing useful discussion and acknowledging post. Now I am able to follow the given instructions.

esso82 · 2013-04-27 19:03

Hello, I went through this post and managed to add an item to my home screen menu, but I need one more tweak.
I am slovak, so I have a lot of movies in my (or czech) language so I created a label SK/CZ Movies and (using a smart playlist) put only wanted movies there. The problem is that they still appear in the original Movies cathegory as well, if I go in files -> Change content and set it to None then they disappear from Movies but from SK/CZ Movies as well.

Home menu:
Weather --- Videos --- Movies --- SK/CZ Movies --- Programs --- Settings

My folders are:
Videos
- 000_SK/CZ Movies
- 000_Documntaries
- 000_TV Shows
- and then separate folder for each movie
Music
Pictures

Is there any easy way how to disable listing of SK/CZ Movies in Movies but allow them to appear in SK/CZ Movies?
Thanks for answers Wink

costi · 2013-04-27 19:40

Great guide, thanks!

One thing that's bugging me, though - is it possible to have both Anime and Anime Movies in one smart playlist?

leechguy · 2013-04-28 12:05

(2013-04-27 19:03)esso82 Wrote: Is there any easy way how to disable listing of SK/CZ Movies in Movies but allow them to appear in SK/CZ Movies?
Thanks for answers

Custom Video Nodes is what you're looking for. I haven't played with video nodes myself yet, but according to the wiki it will allow you to exclude certain content from your main movie node:

Quote: Don't want your screaming kids stuff in your main movie node... exclude it. Want documentaries in a separate node, create it.

esso82 · 2013-04-28 13:19

(2013-04-28 12:05)leechguy Wrote: Custom Video Nodes is what you're looking for. I haven't played with video nodes myself yet, but according to the wiki it will allow you to exclude certain content from your main movie node:

Don't want your screaming kids stuff in your main movie node... exclude it. Want documentaries in a separate node, create it.

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oh great, thanks for advice, that's probably what I was looking for but never came across that article. Will give it a try and report what I managed to do.

cheers leechguy Wink

EDIT:

OK, I learned that there are default nodes for listing items in library, so I edited the default node for titles. It is located in
Program Files (x86)\XBMC\system\library\video\titles.xml

Logicaly it came to me, that if I set a rule to exclude the path from listing it will not be shown in list but it doesn't work that way for me. It still shows all items with content set to Video. This is my titles.xml now:

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes" ?>

<node order="2" type="folder">

  <label>369</label>

  <path>videodb://1/2</path>

  <icon>DefaultMovieTitle.png</icon>

  <match>all</match>

  <rule field="path" operator="isnot">nfs://192.168.0.100/DataVolume/Download/Movies/000_SK_CZ_/</rule>

</node>

It deosn't work in different skin, it doesn't work when seting a smart playlist into the rule.
Can anybody help please?

~~K.SPENCER~~ Banned Posts: 3 Joined: Apr 2013	2013-04-03 10:16 Post: #101 I have found much knowledge here in this post! Thanks for sharing useful discussion and acknowledging post. Now I am able to follow the given instructions.
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costi Member Posts: 64 Joined: Jul 2010 Reputation: 0	2013-04-27 19:40 Post: #103 Great guide, thanks! One thing that's bugging me, though - is it possible to have both Anime and Anime Movies in one smart playlist?
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