Check out the file named Translate.xml in the Pal folder, all the labels for the home window is in the first set of includes. All you have to do is change the desired labels then reload the skin or reset xbmc.

Thanks CHI3F, worked a treat. Easy when you know how!

CHI3F, can you update the xTV skin in your signature please?

I'm using german translation but my homescreen stays english.. does anyone know how to fix this?

nevermind.. fixed it myself

Great Work! I absolutely LOVE this skin!

I've got a couple of questions:
1. Will there be a version that gives us the option to switch the TV Shows button out with the Weather button?
2. Is it just me, or is the most recent version a bit slower than past versions? I've actually reverted back to using version 617, and it feels more responsive than the latest version 822.

Thanks again for all of your hard work!

care to update your sig with the xtv dl, chief? some of us without windows would love to see the new coverflow features.

thanks.

How do you use the xtv themes and mods?

Never mind - figured it out.

I like this new cover arts concept.
http://members.home.nl/m.h.hendrikx/xbmc/PM3Mod/Mod4.png

i like the music shown there ^^

I need help with the translate.xml. This is the original:

<includes>
<!-- Start home includes -->
<include name="10000"><label>Xtv</label></include>
<include name="10000"><label>Movies</label></include>
<include name="10002"><label>Programs</label></include>
<include name="10003"><label>Music</label></include>
<include name="10004"><label>Photos</label></include>
<include name="10005"><label>Weather</label></include>
<include name="10006"><label>Files</label></include>
<include name="10007"><label>Scripts</label></include>
<include name="10008"><label>Settings</label></include>
<include name="10009"><label>Play Disc</label></include>
<include name="10010"><label>TV Shows</label></include>
<!-- End home includes -->

When I put in this:

<includes>
<!-- Start home includes -->
<include name="10000"><label>Xtv</label></include>
<include name="10000"><label>Videos</label></include>
<include name="10002"><label>Programs</label></include>
<include name="10003"><label>Music</label></include>
<include name="10004"><label>Photos</label></include>
<include name="10005"><label>Weather</label></include>
<include name="10006"><label>Files</label></include>
<include name="10007"><label>Scripts</label></include>
<include name="10008"><label>Settings</label></include>
<include name="10009"><label>Play Disc</label></include>
<!-- End home includes -->

I then have Videos up the top then a blank line under it with an arrow (where TV shows was).

How do I get rid of that?

A few questions:

How do I make the Movies and TV Shows buttons go to seperate shares?

I read that the homescreen animations get messed up when you do this, but I'm not bothered, I just want to make use of the TV button and likewise and the Movies button go to my Movies.

I have the xTV Coverflow mod (http://xboxmediacenter.com/forum/showthread.php?t=24617&page=19), the xTV build in CHEIF's signature and XBMC-SVN_2007-07-16_rev9578-T3CH.
All the text and buttons don't show. How do I get Coverflow to work?

And how difficult would it be to add a button to the homescreen? I need an extra item for clips..

Thanks to anyone with the answers

Ditto. I have no idea on how to use the libraries in XBMC but the TV Shows button always goes to the library option. I'd rather have it go to a separate share (as last post) or get rid of it altogether (post before the last - but I can't seem to nail it).

You need to edit the appropriate Home.xml file. If you are using a widescreen TV then you need to edit the one in the XBMC/skin/xTV/PAL16x9/ folder. Otherwise, edit the one in the XBMC/skin/xTV/PAL/ folder. Scroll down the file until you see the "<!-- Library -->" section header. Immediately under it are two entries for buttons ID 5 & 25. These are for the "Movies" button. In both goups look for this line:



Once you find it you need to replace the text in the paraenthesis to "MyVideoFiles,Movies" where Movies is the name of the share you have your movies in. If your share is named Films then change the text to "MyVideoFiles,Films". Do this for both button entries (5 & 25).

For the TV Shows button you do the same thing except you look for button ID 6 & 26. and look for this line:



Once again you need to replace the text in the paranthesis, but this time change it to "MyVideoFiles,TV Shows" where TV Shows is the name of your share that contains the TV shows.

Anyone get the coverflow mod to work??? I can't figure it out...

T3CH 7/30 (not the 8/05 yet - that fkkr cranks 'em out way too fast!
xTV SVN as of 8/4

Thanks!
NS

Working fine here, using 8/5 and 8/6. Looks great too. Only problem i noticed for some weird reason (using todays SVN of skin, which isn't any new updates.) is it is locking up when selecting any movies. I did delete and re-copy a new skin build over fresh, and it's still freezing XBMC up when selecting a movie in list. Not having anything to do with the cover mod, as it does it with any view, as well as PM3,Containment,Vision,Xbox-Classic don't inherit this problem for some reason. Just xTV. Very weird.

Nope, didn't work for me.

Can anyone else help out? How do you get the TV Shows icon on the main screen to simply go to the file selection screen instead of going into library mode?

It does work. It tried it on my own install. One thing it may be is I think that section of the home.xml is actually the library section (I'm at work so I cant see it right now) and I think you may need to go into the skin settings and check the "Open Movies in library view" option or something like that. I know that sounds counterproductive to what you want to do, but I think it's necessary for xTV to read the lines I said to edit.

The reason I think that may be the problem is that I always use the library views for both movies and tv. In fact, I love that feature of xTV. Anyway, I was playing with another skin and noticed how this code worked and remembered all the people who wanted xTV to point to shares instead of the library so I tried it on mine and it worked. Because I normally like and use the library I have that setting enabled in xTV. It's the only thing I can think that would keep it from working for you when it did for me... assuming you haven't made a typo or something.

Cool - thanks buddy. I'll give it another shot.

My share on the PC is called Movies, but how does the xml know which PC to look at it to see the Movies share? Do I need to set a default server somewhere?

I think at the moment my PC is set as the source for 'SMB Network share'.

Yo!

Where can I get this downloaded with out a SVN client.... I have a MAC and SVN is not the easiest to use.... I did get it a while ago but it doesn't seem to work on my machine... I have XBMC 7-30-07 rev9731 t3ch running but the skin doesn't work... Any ideas...

The xml references a "source" you need to have setup in XBMC. In the following code...



...you would replace the bold portion with whatever you named your source.

You need to create a "source" in XBMC. The source points to a network location and assigns it a name. To setup a source click on Movies (in xTV) and then make sure that library mode is disabled (left or right directional pad to see the menu). Now just hit the white button and click on "Add Source" and you can point to a network share and give it a name. Once you do that for your movies and TV shows, then follow my instructions above and all should be well.





There is a download link in CHI3F's signature. Look for his post on the previous page.

Thanks rockdawg - got it sorted...works a treat.

Cheers

I've got this Movies/TV Shows share working now too and it's alright except I want the TV Shows view to say TV Shows and not Movies. Can that be done?

No, cause the tv shows icon and label will only appear when you are in the tvshows section of the video library. That is why I never was able to make it link the the video files window and had to make it only link to the video library. You see, there is no visibility condition that can let me code it any other way.

Not being a dick CHIEF, but is there anyone who could help you code the TV Shows logo for files view? It might be really hard I know, but it can't be impossible?

It is not that it is hard, it is just that it is not possible with the skinning engine. One of the XBMC devbs would have to add the ability to do that, if it is even possible.

Trust me if I could make thetv shows button not link to the library and the icon and label wtill work as they should I would have done so allready.

I haven't been following your conversation, so I'm sorry to butt in, but the TV Shows button with Library view is friggin brilliant once you get it working correctly. In fact, I think it's a great feature of xTV since in any other skin I use, I click the Videos button, then have the option of Movies or TV Shows.

I really think that since the first build that integrated TV scrapers, there should have been a TV Show link from the main screen, and I'd love to see this in the future...

Thanks for your efforts, CHI3f - and keep up the good work!!!

NS

CHI3f: IIRC this is why we added the static list content stuff. Is there something else needed? IIRC Jezz_X indicated something else was missing, but I can't recall offhand what it was.

Cheers,
Jonathan

I edited translate.xml and just changed the Movies button to say Videos and it goes to my normal list of Videos.

I made a source called TV Shows and then edited home.xml (see a few posts back) so that the TV Shows button goes into a list view into the TV Shows source.

So I'm not even using the library modes at all.

Easy.

Just a couple of small things

Image is stretched in using 16x9, calibration is correct.


And the background visulisation dosen't work anymore in this view like it use to


Cheers

That is not the problem. The problem is making the icon and label at the top of the list be and say TV Shows when you are browsing the tv shows. This is only possible if you are using library mode.

Oh...who really cares about that though? They're still videos, are they not?

I think the problems arising from the TV Shows button come from the fact that it's changing something significant in how XBMC operates. If the developers wanted this feature they would have added it themselves (goodness knows it's been requested enough times) but for whatever reason they haven't and that's that.

So I would like to have the previously mentioned option to replace the button with the weather button and have Xtv function like a regular XBMC skin. But TV button or no, this is by far the best skin out there. Thanks very much CHI3f.

hey chief, long time no speak.....moved house and its been nightmare getting the internet, saturday we FINALLY getting it though.

glad to see the whole tv button debate still rages on !

Just wondered if you could update sig link for build, they aint keen on having svn at work

by way is anyone having probs with latest t3ch? my video sound is HORRIBLE, lot of glitchy sounds, reverted back to old build and it was fixed. i noticed that over last few builds the players (music or vids) have seemed to be bit dodgy.

Daveyboy

theres a fixed mplayer.dll that solves the audio glitching
http://www.esnips.com/doc/7fbddd8d-c738-46...pus_4.1.2_fixed

I had the idea that it was possible from looking at the zephyr skin.. That one has Movies, TV Shows and a Clips section that all work offline.

I'm still not quite getting the problem, but let me throw this in here (might sound complicated). Is it because xTV is coded as TV Shows is for online only and can't work for both online and offline?

I was thinking of it'd need 2 seperate versions of xTV for this, but then thought just how about different 'sets' of xmls - the other making this work offline and is selected through the skin settings.

It is not a matter of online/offline. Does Zephyr have an image or label that appears when the appropriate container is being browsed in the video window? My guess is, no.

See since Movies and TV Shows both use the same windows, MyVideo.xml and MyVideoLibrary.xml there has to be a visibility condition that lets me set the visibility depending on what kind of content is in the container. XBMC can only distinguish what is in the containers in library mode after the scraping has been done. I can not set same visibility conditions in MyVideo.xml cause it is just files view, the content in the sources are not sorted like that, therefore XBMC would have no way of knowing what is a tv show and what is a movie in files mode.

Hope this has cleared things up.

Wrong.. It does have labels for each section (works offline). You can kinda see from these shots:
http://www.xboxmediacenter.com/forum/showthread.php?t=26995
(And it's called Xephyr, my mistake)(and it's very good)

The guy that's made Xephyr has this going on in his home.xml when you select the My TV button.



and this kind of corresponding label in MyVideo.xml



So I suppose that's how it does it - don't really see why you'd want that particularly - wouldn't it still be the same root file menu just with a different label or image?

CHI3F - Would you consider making an xTV skin for the Apple Movie Trailers script? It looks like a fair amount of work, but with AMT being one of the more popular scripts and xTV being one of the more popular skins, it would be a nice touch to have the seemless integration.

what's the latest svn link? the one at the main page is not working.

https://xboxmediacenter.svn.sourceforge.net...ediacenter/xTV/

thanks

So what the hell can I do with the TV Shows section?

?!?

Since I have been mooching the sweetness of xTV for some time now and still had the audacity to ask for even more, I figure the least I could do is contribute a little something. I have ZERO skinning, graphics, or xml skills, but I did manage to come up with an xTV skin for the AccuWeather script. AccuWeather and AMT are the only scripts I use and I don't like the switch back to a PMIII look while using them. Skinning AMT looks to be way over my head, but this was one was actually very easy. It's pretty plain and simple and I'm sure other could do a much better job, but it maintains the continuity of the xTV look and I thought maybe others might find it useful. Anyway, here's a screenshot:



And here's where to download the files:

http://public.box.net/ko69407

All you need to do is ftp the contents into the XBMC\scripts\AccuWeather\resources\skins folder.

@Rockdawg, JMarshall and Unbehagen, maybe others are working on a plugin feature where a script just feeds info to XBMC.

So you would add AMT plugin to your video shares and get a list that way. It works pretty well. It's a ways away, but if you compile your own it's in the plugins branch. I can supply the plugin. Right now it's only the genres and trailers, but it doesn't need skinning.

Ch3if, I swear I'm done adding things if you want to do the AMT skin for xTV. Having said that I'm probably not.

Rockdawg, I'll add that to SVN it looks good.

Here a small theme i made for xTV. Maybe someone likes it





DOWNLOAD

pretty cool