[Plugin] MediaBrowser for MediaPortal (v0.30-beta) [2014/08/20] (2 Viewers)

[Jay_UK]

Hi there,

I'm probably being thick (I normally am), but I am trying to get MePo (1.6 Titan) to jump to "All Movies" from a "basic home" button

I have used the Titan Editor to define the main attributes of the buttons, then I tried to manually edit the titan.xml file to specify the parameter:

<entry name="menuItemName1">Movies</entry>
<entry name="menuItemIcon1">Videos</entry>
<entry name="menuItemHyperlink1">20130603</entry>
<entry name="menuItemParameter1">Type:"View", Id:"movies-all"</entry>

It doesn't work, it simply goes to the main Mediabrowser top level screen.

Anyone got any ideas?

Thanks,

J.

 

[armandp]

try

{Type:"View", Id:"movies-all"}

 

[Jay_UK]

Hi there,

Thanks for getting back to me.

I already tried that and it didn't work.

J.

 

[Pog]

try
{Type:"View", Id:"movies-all"}

Hi Jay, I can confirm that this does work! At least with a regular skin button control, I don't know about Titan as I don't use that skin.

This is what I used to test:

    <control Style="settingsbutton">
      <type>button</type>
      <id>11223344</id>
      <posX>1000</posX>
      <posY>300</posY>
      <label>MB MOVIE LINK TEST</label>
      <width>338</width>
      <hyperlink>20130603</hyperlink>
      <hyperlinkParameter>{Type:"View", Id:"movies-all"}</hyperlinkParameter>
    </control>

 

[Jay_UK]

Hi there,

I think the issue must be with Titan then

I have never got my head around skins in MePo... seems so complex and confusing!

J.

 

[Pog]

I think the issue must be with Titan then

Just had a look a Titan and yeah I think your right Titan is not handling parameters correctly.

To test I added a Music link with a parameter via Titans editor and it just ignored the parameter.

 

[Jay_UK]

Hi there,

I have started to look into this plugin again (now at 0.21) and there have been some great improvements from the previous versions - many thanks

But I still have problems with the list building. I can understand the benefit of loading x amount of items, and then when you scroll towards the end of the list another x amount is loaded, but it still doesn't work correctly for me

I tend to jump through the list and not individually scroll - so this might be the issue?

I have two main issues:

1) Sometimes when the next block of items is loaded, then the cursor (currently selected item) jumps back to the top of the list and doesn't stay where it was
2) When I get near (or at the bottom) of the current block, the next section of the list is not loaded.

Is there anyway to tell it to load the first x and display them, but continue loading all the others behind the scene, as opposed to the logic of detecting when it is near the bottom of the current block of items?

Another problem I have is that the top level screen shows two of every category I have defined (eg two entries for Movies, two entries for TV Series, two entries for Pictures).

Many thanks,

J.

 

[armandp]

to answer 1+2: this is definately up for improvement and i'm working on it constantly. The mediabrowser server can't really take a shitload of items at once without choking (at least on my slightly older dual core server machine) but with caching and background loading on the client side i should be able to improve the experience a lot. Expect this area to change (improve ) every release.

TLDR: i'm working on it

The doubling of entries in the root menu is due to the fact that it now also lists the Media Folders.
Navigating these items will follow the actual folder structure on your system. It should be the same as the MBS dashboard screen in the browser.
Perhaps i could hide the media folders behind a root item called "Media Folders" to make this more clear.

 

[armandp]

I think the issue must be with Titan then

Just had a look a Titan and yeah I think your right Titan is not handling parameters correctly.

To test I added a Music link with a parameter via Titans editor and it just ignored the parameter.

I don't know about the latest version of Titan but a couple of releases back when i added the parameter stuff i did test it just with Titan and it seemed to work back then. Have you checked with the author of Titan about this issue?

 

[saitoh183]

to answer 1+2: this is definately up for improvement and i'm working on it constantly. The mediabrowser server can't really take a shitload of items at once without choking (at least on my slightly older dual core server machine) but with caching and background loading on the client side i should be able to improve the experience a lot. Expect this area to change (improve ) every release.

TLDR: i'm working on it

The doubling of entries in the root menu is due to the fact that it now also lists the Media Folders.
Navigating these items will follow the actual folder structure on your system. It should be the same as the MBS dashboard screen in the browser.
Perhaps i could hide the media folders behind a root item called "Media Folders" to make this more clear.

Putting Media Folders under a root would be great. Got a few other questions

Would it be possible to make a menu item the goes directly into a section (ie TV or Movies) from the main MP screen instead of doing MediaBrowser > Choose user > Choose section (root menu) > list of content (extra step...change to Favorites). Wife finds its alot of steps before you can just watch something.

Also can the plugin save the view to Favorites instead of having to switch to favorites every time we enter?

Last Avallanche skin released support for MB plugin but when i go into a season i cant get back out with ParentDir (goes directly back to plugin list) . I know this was an issue with Titan after an update.

Thanks