Last 5 Movies/EP Display (1 Viewer)

[bigmong]

Just an idea,

Would it just be an XML change or more to it to show the last 5 Movies (Moving Pictures) and EP (My TVSeries) added when on the home screen (Basic), Like when you over any menu bit like the XMBC one in the pic below.

Or is it just me that think it be handy?
you would also need to be able to click them to play that Movie/Ep.
I think that be an awesome enchantment to a awesome skin and help when you have a large collection of movies/ep.

:sorry: if that has been posted before but i havnt seen anything about this to date

Regards
- Matt

 

[ltfearme]

We could do something like that using the InfoService plugin for display the recently added episode/movies. It doesnt support the ability to select an item and play it though (I could be wrong, will need to double check...but im pretty sure the tvseries plugin doesnt forward the filename only the details).

 

[bigmong]

The details (scraped info) would be fine, even better if you can pick what u want it to say

The click to play would be nice but isnt required

I would take a guess that something like this would be used.
InfoService

and im guessing it would need to be applied to the MovingPic and TvS plug-in and a holder added to the skin?

 

[SilentException]

This is already possible for TVSeries and will be fixed and polished a bit in next InfoService release.. Moving Pictures team need to add the functionality to the plugin first (they are a bit slower with the patches)..

 

[bigmong]

ooww nice, I know everyone involved with the Moving Pictures, TVSeries, and StreamedMP are busy doing heaps of things (Bug fixed, changes etc) but its awesome to know that this could be included in a coming releases.

 

[edsche]

Since MePo made a change (i think with RC2) in the property system, the recently added doesn't work anymore. But that will be fixed with v1.6.

A click event to play a movie/series is not possible for now, but this should be no problem (hopefully ). If it's easy to implement that feature, then it will be added to v1.6. Perhaps ltfearme can give me a hint how to play a video file?

For TvSeries: i think ltfearme could easily add the filename in the send message, so this would be no problem.
For MovingPictures: I had a little conversation with fforde some months ago. It seems that a message sending to infoservice when a movie is added, isn't so easy as it sounds. So for now there is no support from MovingPictures in sight, but i will talk to fforde again. Perhaps if there is a bigger request for such a feature, he implements it