[giftie]

Was / am trying to use MPAA / US ratings but my skin (Alaska) doesn't show them, and from what I can tell from reading, they may not be set on my movies because I use TMDB as my scraper. (Saw several posts stating that TMDB doesn't support / supply them.) Using XWMM to edit my DB, I see no field for MPAA ratings, only ratings like "8.3", etc.

Looking into other ways to edit the DB...

you can use sqlitespy to edit your MyVideos34.db and edit column c12.

Or use Ember and re do your DB. Not sure which way you wan to go.

[ijourneaux]

Just noticed that when HCE is configured for music during Trivia, XBMC switches to the music animation backdrop after 15sec or so.

[SlaveUnit]

Just noticed that when HCE is configured for music during Trivia, XBMC switches to the music animation backdrop after 15sec or so.

Personally I dont get that. Are you using just a single song/file for music? Because I do see that and many other issues when trying a playlist.

Or maybe you are running out of slides?

EDIT: OK I think I did just get it. But much longer than 15 secs. After a few mins.
I think it ran out of slides because I had it set to a folder with only a few in there. So it goes back to the music viz screen. Then starts the song and slides over again from the beginning.

[Harro]

Or maybe you are running out of slides?

I just point to a folder called pornz.....dunno what it is but the time sure flies when watching that.

[SlaveUnit]

So this time I pointed it to a large collection of slides (other than Harro's special collection). This time the music stopped and the slides kept going. Any way for now to have the music (single track) repeat until the slides end?

[ijourneaux]

I only had Tvia set to 3-4 minutes and it happened within that time frame. I have reset both trivia and trailers.

When you reset trivia, you get a confirmation that the watched trivia were reset. You don't get that same confirmation when you try and clear the watched trailers.

I noticed that sometimes I get the trivia question/answer slides in the wrong order. Is that because I don't have a slides.xml file?

Perhaps unrelated to this script, I have noticed that sometimes, XBMC crashes on exit. THe last line is a fatal Python error so I thought it might be related to HCE.

16:29:42 T:5688 M:657633280 NOTICE: unload skin
16:29:42 T:5688 M:657637376 DEBUG: ------ Window Deinit (Home.xml) ------
16:29:42 T:5688 M:657641472 ERROR: CLocalizeStrings::ClearBlock: Trying to clear non existent block C:\Documents and Settings\Journeaux Family\Application Data\XBMC\addons\script.cinema.experience
16:29:42 T:5688 M:657645568 ERROR: Previous line repeats 1 times.
16:29:42 T:5688 M:657645568 DEBUG: ------ Window Deinit (Pointer.xml) ------
16:29:42 T:5688 M:657645568 DEBUG: ------ Window Deinit (DialogMuteBug.xml) ------
16:29:42 T:5688 M:664739840 NOTICE: stop python
16:29:42 T:2792 M:664739840 INFO: msg: Fatal Python error: Py_EndInterpreter: not the last thread

SHould I repost this in the general support thread?

[SlaveUnit]

Im not sure about your error. But, yes, your slides arent going to play in the correct order unless the slides.xml is correct.

[ijourneaux]

Turns outh the folder that had the Question/Clue/Answer slides had a slides.xml file. Just hadn't noticed it.

<slides>
<slide>
<question format=".([0-9]{1,3})_a\.jpg" />
<clue format="q([0-9]{1,3})c\.jpg" />
<answer format=".([0-9]{1,3})_b\.jpg" />
<mpaa = "N/A">
</slide>
</slides>

Looks normal. Looks like I was getting the clue slides only. Will wqatch more closely to see if it happens again.

[giftie]

your clue format is different than your question and answer formats. Can you post an example of the files in the slide folder.

[Nuka1195]

the new version handles any known movie rating system, currently i only have mpaa and bbfc. there should be no need to change your ratings.

i'll pass the code to giftie. i'll also pass handling when you don't have enogh slides because of watched status.

[Nuka1195]

1. visualisation activating: the script is suppose to disable the screensaver, so it should disable that i would think. maybe something in xbmc changed.

2. skins that don't display ratings: i've found at least with confluence skinners look for "rated pg" so eith make sure your ratings start with "rating " or do as i did and edit the skin to do a stringcompare() along with the substring.

[SlaveUnit]

the new version handles any known movie rating system, currently i only have mpaa and bbfc. there should be no need to change your ratings.

i'll pass the code to giftie. i'll also pass handling when you don't have enogh slides because of watched status.

Nuka, the rating problem is with the scraper. It really has nothing to do with this script.

[Nuka1195]

oh, thought he was changing from bbfc to mpaa.

[Mission]

Sorry if i am an idiot but i cant get this to work at all


i have added the repo and install the addon but i have no idea what to do get it working

I am using pm3 and the latest release of xbmc

what so i need to do please to get this working on that skin

[SlaveUnit]

Sorry if i am an idiot but i cant get this to work at all


i have added the repo and install the addon but i have no idea what to do get it working

I am using pm3 and the latest release of xbmc

what so i need to do please to get this working on that skin

I would say to start you need to add the button to kick off the script when a movie is started. Dig through this thread. I believe harro has listed how to do it at least once for other skins. I would guess these would be at least a starting point to adding that code to PM3 (which I havent used in years).

Maybe this will help a bit: http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=87900