Any help would be great (1 Viewer)

[johnslayer]

I had made a post in the general forum and didnt want to start a new post just for a couple questions but it looks like no one is paying attention to it there. Perhaps because it is techinically speaking in the wrong forum. So i am a new MP user and i have a few questions.

1. I have searched extensively and i know from my time messing with xbmc how to change keys in the keymap however what i would really like to do is chang the function of the rightclick mouse button in the videos section. I would like the rightclick button to bring up the imdb info for the selected item.

2. This one actually pertains to the previous one as well. I am hoping to have multiple computers set up around the home as media centers. Unfortunatley that means that some people that will be using them might "accidently" damage things without knowing it if they have too many options. That is why i wanted to remove the menu options in the video view so they cant remove items from the database or delete files etc. What is the easiest way to remove menu items and "admin" privelages? I had originally tried to edit the xml for the video menu so that the only option available would be imdb lookup but i couldnt find the appropriate menu in the skins folders so i thought it might just be easier to change the function of the rightclick mouse key so that menu would not be available.

3. I have edited some of the menus on the homeplugin just messing around. Now i cant seem to get them back to the original, anyway of doing so? Right now i just disabled home plugin.

4. My Tv episodes are saved in multiple locations and i have them all renamed in way that they are easily browsed with a "file" view. Can i change the Mytv menu item so it takes me to a multi share "file" view of all my tv episodes(I have no tv capture card on this computer so all the recording options are useless atm)? Is multishortcutplugin my best option for achieving this?

I have searched for info on these questions and not found the answers i am looking for and i have also tried via trial and error to achieve the results on my own (see my problem with homeplugin ) Any help would be great. Cheers.

 

[mPod]

1. I have searched extensively and i know from my time messing with xbmc how to change keys in the keymap however what i would really like to do is chang the function of the rightclick mouse button in the videos section. I would like the rightclick button to bring up the imdb info for the selected item.

Sorry, that's not possible at the moment.

2. This one actually pertains to the previous one as well. I am hoping to have multiple computers set up around the home as media centers. Unfortunatley that means that some people that will be using them might "accidently" damage things without knowing it if they have too many options. That is why i wanted to remove the menu options in the video view so they cant remove items from the database or delete files etc. What is the easiest way to remove menu items and "admin" privelages? I had originally tried to edit the xml for the video menu so that the only option available would be imdb lookup but i couldnt find the appropriate menu in the skins folders so i thought it might just be easier to change the function of the rightclick mouse key so that menu would not be available.

Also not possible, those entries are hardcoded atm. You only can remove buttons from the skin (by editing skin xml files by hand), but not from the context menu.

3. I have edited some of the menus on the homeplugin just messing around. Now i cant seem to get them back to the original, anyway of doing so? Right now i just disabled home plugin.

We know that the home plugin setup is a pile of crap. It will surely be rewritten completely in the future. To get back to defaults there is no other way than deleting your settings (MediaPortal.xml & MediaPortal.xml.bak) and start configuration.exe to configure everything new. Your TV channels and other database stuff remains, so don't worry.

4. My Tv episodes are saved in multiple locations and i have them all renamed in way that they are easily browsed with a "file" view. Can i change the Mytv menu item so it takes me to a multi share "file" view of all my tv episodes(I have no tv capture card on this computer so all the recording options are useless atm)? Is multishortcutplugin my best option for achieving this?

Go to configuration.exe / Movies / Movie Folders and add your folder. You can access it then via MP's "My Videos". It's not possible to define "shares" for My TV.

Enjoy MP!