• Couldn't find this info in the XBMC Wiki: Some skins (like MediaStream and Aeon) have both Movies and TV Series in the main menu. What are the steps involved to get them working (in other words point them to different sources)?

    I've searched everywhere for the answer to this question. The question is pretty basic, so I've probably searched using wrong words.

    My guess would be that editing the sources.xml file would be enough. But that didn't work. My sources.xml can be found here http://pastebin.com/m31284210

    Sorry if posting in the wrong forum. But my guess is that this is a XBMC question and not a question for a specific skin.


  • I don't want to use the library. My movies/tv series are non american and cannot be found by scrapers. And I dont want to create .nfo files for every movie/tv serie.

    Also, I already have a sources.xml file (see link above). One would think that it would be sufficient to make the Movies and TV Series links to work?


  • http://xbmc.org/wiki/?title=List_of_Built_In_Functions

    activatewindow(window,destination)

    the window is either a name or a number, search the wiki.
    the destination is dependent on the window, but it can be a path (smb://foo/bar) or a source name (TV Shows), or a special word (TvShowTitles)

    and the files view has to be the default since you cannot populate the database without files view!

    and i have no idea what other users do. and there's an aeon forum so you should ask there.


  • those buttons link to particular nodes in video library hierarchy, *NOT* to your sources. but you can change them to access your sources. i assume they are on the home screen? open skins//home.xml. find those buttons. they are probably something like this:

    activatewindow(videolibrary,movietitles) and activatewindow(videolibrary,tvshowtitles)

    change them to

    activatewindow(videofiles,movies) and activatewindow(videofiles,tv shows)

    Thanks for that explanation. I actually found out yesterday that the Aeon skin has an option in Aeon -> Media sources, that lets you specify the source that you want to use for a menu-link. That way I can specify that TV series should lead to the source "TV Series".

    But now I know how to change this for other skins as well. Thanks!!

    It seems as a lot of people (at least most of the skin-developers) are using the library these days. But the file views are still default in XBMC, so I'm guessing some people still use the file views instead of the library. But noone except me seems to have a problem with the TV Series link not working. Is there a explanation for this? Do all users modify the home.xml file as you suggest or what?


  • I experience it like this, if you step on the Movie or TV series button from the main menu in MediaStream it will bring you to the XBMC Library part that contains Movies or Tv series. If your library is empty nothing shows up there, You need to fill the library....


  • those buttons link to particular nodes in video library hierarchy, *NOT* to your sources. but you can change them to access your sources. i assume they are on the home screen? open skins//home.xml. find those buttons. they are probably something like this:

    activatewindow(videolibrary,movietitles) and activatewindow(videolibrary,tvshowtitles)

    change them to

    activatewindow(videofiles,movies) and activatewindow(videofiles,tv shows)


  • So it will not work if I don't use the library? Are you sure??

    Yes, you need the library but you can also switch to file mode to display source data. This can be done from the Movie / TV button press once the > arrow to bring up the sub-menu or press > in the ection itself to switch.

    The sources can be added from the interface too:
    http://xbmc.org/wiki/?title=Media_Sources


  • http://xbmc.org/wiki/?title=Set_Contents_%28Video_Library%29


  • I experience it like this, if you step on the Movie or TV series button from the main menu in MediaStream it will bring you to the XBMC Library part that contains Movies or Tv series. If your library is empty nothing shows up there, You need to fill the library....

    So it will not work if I don't use the library? Are you sure??


  • I use the Xtv Skin, which has this already has the TV Shows menu in main menu







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