XBMC4Xbox

I just tested this particular build and it seems to be working rather nicely.

A few things I've noticed:

TvShows
Clicking on the Genres or Studios does absolutely nothing at all; admittedly, however, I have not rescanned my library to your new database updates, which may be the culprit, but I thought I mentioned it nonetheless.

Library Hub (Library Root)
This will always display "movies" as the folder name; if possible, it should be named something like "Video Library", "Video Hub" or something to that effect.

After clicking on the "playlists", the folder name will always display the name of the last section you enter; that is to say, if the last place I visited was movies, it will show the folder name as movies, if the last place was recently added episodes, it will display recently added episodes

Other than that, this seems to be working rather nicely! My thanks!!!

Wishful Thinking
It would be nice if you had a "Container.ParentFolderName" label so that we would use it like so:

<control type="label">
<label>$INFO[Container.ParentFolderName] - $INFO[Container.FolderName]</label>
</control>
Assuming we're looking at movies by genres, this would display Genres - Animation

Again, wishful thinking... many thanks for taking the time to do this. :)

If you can get the parentfoldername in xbmc mainline we have a chance to backport it. I dont have the time to add features like this.

Are the issues you have pointed out directly related to the Container.Foldername or just general observations? I would prefer to keep this bug specifically about the ContainerName feature.

After clicking on the "playlists", the folder name will always display the name of the last section you enter; that is to say, if the last place I visited was movies, it will show the folder name as movies, if the last place was recently added episodes, it will display recently added episodes

The above is Container.FolderName specific!

are you saying that is a bug, or the behaviour has changed since this build? That's what I meant - I'm already getting confused as I'm addressing a specific issue regarding the database IDs appearing for foldernames. If your playlists folder name issue is something that has changed since the new build here, then ill look into it. if its just another naming issue, then this is the wrong place, and a new bug should be opened.

buzz wrote:

I reworked the patchset for our source - I've not had a chance to test - could you let me know if this works for you

http://malus.exotica.org.uk/~buzz/xbmc/xbox/BUILD-xbs.zip

I'll give it a try as soon as I get a change.
Thank you so much BuZz.

buzz wrote:

are you saying that is a bug, or the behaviour has changed since this build? That's what I meant - I'm already getting confused as I'm addressing a specific issue regarding the database IDs appearing for foldernames. If your playlists folder name issue is something that has changed since the new build here, then ill look into it. if its just another naming issue, then this is the wrong place, and a new bug should be opened.

Ok... as far as the database ID' are concerned, they are working perfectly; i've tested the movies, the tvshows, and the music library and thus far Container.FolderName does, indeed, display the correct names, i.e. genres, artists, artist's names, actors, actor's names. Brilliant!

I suppose this would be more of a bug that perhaps is inherited from the main branch!

For all intents and purposes, your changes are working beatifully!

Thanks. I will wait on xbs to also test, and if he thinks it is ok, I can push these source changes in, then I can explore the playlist name issue on another ticket. Worth also checking if the behaviour is the same in xbmc mainline or specific to us.

Noticed two issues so far that one affect us (Xbox)...

1. Entering Video Files displays as "Video" and Video Library as "Videos". Music Files shows up as "Music Files" and Music Library as "Music Library". (not a big deal but it would be nice to have consistency).

2. The sub node label isn't cleared after going back to root. e.g. First time we enter video library, after boot, the label displayed is "Videos", if we enter the "Movies" node the label changes to "Videos - Movies", but when we go back to root (Videos) the label displayed remains "Videos - Movies" and it shouldn't. It should be clearer back to "Videos".

I will look into it. how are you testing btw - with your beta confluence lite? I'm assuming I'll need that to debug?

Yes, I've sent you a PM with the link to download the test skin.

xbs wrote:

Noticed two issues so far that one affect us (Xbox)...

1. Entering Video Files displays as "Video" and Video Library as "Videos". Music Files shows up as "Music Files" and Music Library as "Music Library". (not a big deal but it would be nice to have consistency).

this is partly a skin issue - check in skin xml MyVideonav.xml

where you have

<label>$LOCALIZE[3]</label>

you can change it to

<label>$LOCALIZE[20314]</label>

2. The sub node label isn't cleared after going back to root. e.g. First time we enter video library, after boot, the label displayed is "Videos", if we enter the "Movies" node the label changes to "Videos - Movies", but when we go back to root (Videos) the label displayed remains "Videos - Movies" and it shouldn't. It should be clearer back to "Videos".

im currently looking into these issue.

I have made some changes - Will post a build in a mo:

Adding Container.FolderName for plugin://video and plugin://music paths - the returned name is "Plugins"

When at the root of Music / Video library the Container.FolderName is cleared. This fixes the 2nd part of your report.

Build is updated - same link as before. thanks - note it includes an additional language string not just the default.xbe

Also note

ActivateWindow(Programs,Plugins,return)

doesn't work in this build but will be fixed.

buzz wrote:

xbs wrote:

Noticed two issues so far that one affect us (Xbox)...

1. Entering Video Files displays as "Video" and Video Library as "Videos". Music Files shows up as "Music Files" and Music Library as "Music Library". (not a big deal but it would be nice to have consistency).

this is partly a skin issue - check in skin xml MyVideonav.xml

where you have
[...]

you can change it to

[...]

2. The sub node label isn't cleared after going back to root. e.g. First time we enter video library, after boot, the label displayed is "Videos", if we enter the "Movies" node the label changes to "Videos - Movies", but when we go back to root (Videos) the label displayed remains "Videos - Movies" and it shouldn't. It should be clearer back to "Videos".

im currently looking into these issue.

Of course it is a skin issue, how could I miss that!? :)
I'll test it tonight and report back.
Cheers!

Tested the new build and the labels seem to be working very well.

ActivateWindow(Pictures,Plugins,return) isn't working, could you take a look it too?

Thanks BuZz

2. The sub node label isn't cleared after going back to root. e.g. First time we enter video library, after boot, the label displayed is "Videos", if we enter the "Movies" node the label changes to "Videos - Movies", but when we go back to root (Videos) the label displayed remains "Videos - Movies" and it shouldn't. It should be clearer back to "Videos".

this was still an ongoing issue, which is finally fixed in r31680