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You can disabled the heirarchical recording display with the following ServerWMC setting (edited in config.xml in %ProgramData%\VDSoftware\ServerWMC)
UseHierarchicalRecordings
However this will mean that multiple episodes of a show do not stack anymore, ie you get a completely flat list of every recording file
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I will give it a try thank you.
Is it possible for when there multiple shows can there be a thubnail generated currently there is only a default png so recorded tv screen doesn,t look great.
This may be in the wrong thread
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The easy way to do what scarecrow said is to go to the 'Recordings' tab and turn off 'Group recordings in folders'..
I'm not clear on what you're asking about recording thumbnails. If you don't like the ones imported from wmc, you can go to the 'Display Options' in swmc and turn on 'Ignore Recording images from WMC'. Depending on your setup this will make xbmc generate its own thumbnails, but I think these usually look awful.
Are you making a custom skin? Post a screen shot when you can.
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(This post was last modified: 2014-03-12, 03:09 by krustyreturns.)
Looks great!
But since you are skinning... I think the hierarchically view is way handier when you have hundred's of recordings. It would seem to me that in the hierarchical view you could use a representative image for each series (folder), taken from an episode inside the folder or a guide image). For the description, when you select the folder you could display the info from the latest show recorded (this is actually what wmc does when you select a series level folder). Of course this is coming from someone who doesn't know much about skinning. Just throwing it out there.
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Krusty, do we control the icons shown for the heirarchical group folders or does XBMC?
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AFAIK, no. Meaning that, there isn't a field in the recording object that we pass back to xbmc for the folder. I tried some experiments with different image fields and nothing would put an image in that location skin (its was a very brief test though, I could have botched it). I figured the skinner would be able to put an episode icon in that position but I don't know if that's true either.
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I suspected as much, since it seems the heirarchy is set via a "Path" property on recordings, so we dont really create/define each folder as much as they are inferred from the "Paths" of all recording items. On my setup at home pretty much the whole thing just shows the default icon - it would be nice to have something else
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Totally agree. I looks like it is waiting for an image though, just don't know where to plug it in. Does anyone know of another pvr addon that places icons in the series level?
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I agree that hierarchical view is the best if you have so many recordings but unfortunately to give a folder an image is beyond my skill level I am just a beginner. I am just trying to make Amber better as it runs great on my raspberries.
I will do some more reading luckily the wiki is a great source of information so maybe I could figure it out.
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Nah, I was attempting to say what you just said. Each recording item has a "path" although you correctly referred to it as strDirectory. XBMC infers the heirarchical structure by virtue of the strDirectory of the recording items, ie the folders themselves arent 1st class objects
