Problems with video tab

March 14th, 2010 by anonym
  • can someone here please tell me how to set the video tab to use the big icon thumbs as the default when i go into it? i'm modding a skin and don't want any buttons whatsoever in the sub menus..

    got it to work in programs just fine, but when i open videos it's just a blank screen (except for my new background and small video icon in the corner)



    details:
    hdeetv skin, 12-12-04 xbmc

    all movies located in f:\video with .tbn thumbs
    f:\video\big fish.avi
    f:\video\big fish.tbn
    f:\video\joe dirt.avi
    f:\video\joe dirt.tbn
    etc.


  • here's a couple screens so you get the idea of what i'm after

    games page... working perfect
    http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v208/ubernewb/screenshot004.jpg

    and the non-working video page
    http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v208/ubernewb/screenshot005.jpg


  • you need to manually update your settings.xml file to accomplish this.

    set the "videoviewasicons" tag to 2. also, you probably need to set the "videorooticons" tag to 2.


  • alright, found what my problem was ... it was in my xboxmediacenter.xml file. when i originally got the idea to do away with the buttons, i altered the .xml as follows:





    well apparently it didn't like that too much, like maybe the command was too simple or something. so to thicken it back up a bit i threw a quick bookmark back in it.. after all, i had removed the bookmarks within the myvideo.xml anyway.. so now i have :





    now she pulls up fine.. but it's defaulting to list view.. one more bug to straighten out

    the hdeetv skin has a profile manager in it, and when i was digging around the other day i found where it stored the profiles.. when i opened one up i notice that it contains all the stuff from the settings.xml for icons and such, so i'm pretty sure i can fix that in there. only problem being now i can't remember where those were stashed.. :rolleyes: ... (that's right, i'm a super genius... lol)

    so now i'm off to see if i can find those again, now that i've got some free time. i'll get back to ya when i find it and test this thing out.

    thanks for all your help so far.. you're my hero. :bowdown:


  • you cant have a default if you dont have a matching bookmark in the section as its really the matching bookmark. i want to take a look at how the defaults load and extend it to also allow a bookmark name since it can get cumbersome when you have remote shares.

    and i dont understand... hide parent items shouldnt have made your listing blank. also, make sure you disable autoswitching.


  • oh yeah, sorry about that. i dont use profiles so i had forgotten that. profiles are also stored in e:\tdata\0face008. they have names with numbers, ie: profile0.xml, profile1.xml, etc.

    if you open up settings.xml, near the top there's a section which maps the profile number to the name you saved it as.

    this is kinda wierd... i just looked at the source, i think i should have a profile0.xml but i dont.


  • :kickass: success!!!! *:kickass:

    what once looked liked this...

    http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v208/ubernewb/screenshot005.jpg

    is now this...

    http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v208/ubernewb/screenshot000.jpg

    2 pages down and 4 to go... my hats off to the guys that build these skins... i'm only editing an existing skin and it's whoopin my tail.



    and as far as the previously stated problem... turns out some moron turned on the "hide items in parent folder" option in settings... wait'll i get my hands on that idiot... :shifty:


  • you may have an older version. the settings system was recently overhauled. in the current build look for the following in e:\tdata\0face008\settings.xml


    <myvideos>
    ...
    <videoviewicons>0</videoviewicons>
    <videorooticons>0</videorooticons>
    ...
    <genreviewicons>0</genreviewicons>
    <genrerooticons>0</genrerooticons>
    ...
    <actorviewicons>0</actorviewicons>
    <actorrooticons>0</actorrooticons>
    ...
    <yearviewicons>0</yearviewicons>
    <yearrooticons>0</yearrooticons>
    ...
    <titleviewicons>0</titleviewicons>
    <titlerooticons>0</titlerooticons>
    ...
    </myvideos>


    0 = list
    1 = normal thumbs
    2 = big thumbs

    and as you can see, each of the different video views keeps its own state.

    you'll also find similar tags for programs, music, and photos.

    ** edit **

    i just checked the source code, and the rooticons tag is only for the bookmarks list.


  • well crap... good news and bad news...

    good news... my xml work might be perfectly fine.

    bad news... something else is fubar'd.

    so after fighting with this for a few days, i decide to switch to another skin and see if i can find something in there that will point me in the right direction. so i load up mce and go into "my videos"... nothing! switch view to file.. scan .... not a damn file to be seen. i know they're there.. i can see them on ftp, and i can see them when looking around in "my files"

    so i think something else got screwed up along the way. now i gotta figure out how to get my movie icons back!!

    argh :pirate:


  • wow, thanks for the speedy reply. :o

    so i opened the settings.xml from my skin in wordpad and i'm seeing neither of those two tags.. maybe i'm looking in the wrong folder?


  • yeah, i was just about to post that i duplicated what you're doing and it works fine.

    and if you're wondering, the "rooticons" settings are for the initial screen in each view. i was partially correct. in files view, it cooresponds to the bookmarks list. but in the other views it's the initial listing.


  • :bomb:

    ok, found the profile1.xml and changed that. decided i wanted small icons so i set both icon views to 1... ftp'd back to box, reset... and nothing's changed!

    thought that maybe it wasn't reading the profile right so i modified all three files.. settings.xml , profile0.xml , profile1.xml .. ftp'd those back across and once again rebooted. same thing. video menu opens up list view.. wierd thing is that it did work in my games. those changed to small icons just like i told them to...

    wtf? banging my head against the wall here... for some crazy reason the changes just will not stick!


  • ok.. tried that and it's still not working. here's what myvideos.xml looks like... maybe therein lies the problem?



    6
    faultcontrol>11faultcontrol>
    yes


    background
    image
    1
    0
    0
    720
    576
    dragon-movies.png


    image
    1
    600
    25
    75
    75
    home-myvideos.png


    number of files text label
    label
    12
    670
    525

    right
    70ffffff


    listcontrol
    listcontrol
    10
    defaultvideo.png
    11
    11
    11
    11


    default thumbnail panel
    thumbnailpanel
    11
    10
    10
    10
    10





    you see anything wrong in there?

    :help:


  • it looks alright to me assuming you're using the correct id's for each of the controls you have left... later today i'll try to recreate what your doing.


  • yeah, i have no idea why it worked the way it did.. ??? but i ain't complaining.. hehe

    now i just gotta get to work on finishing the other pages. i'll be sure to update this as i go along as i'm sure i'll run into more issues.. lol

    thanks again for all your help, you have no idea how much hair you helped to save. :lol:







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