SC2 channels from need some help with icons and suggestions (1 Viewer)

[zicoz]

Hi, I am currently creating "sites" for some YouTube channels that has SC2 content. What I am doing is to create one "All videos" feed at the top, and then one for each playlist below that. For an example see the ChanmanV site I've published. (The rest are not published yet)

So far I've done the following channels:

Husky StarCraft
HD StarCraft
Day9TV
ChanmanV
ItmeJP
Temp0 StarCraft
Viva La Dirt League
ArtosisTV*
TotalBisquit**
One More Game TV
MLG SC2
Evil Geniuses
NASL
Team Liquid


*ArtosisTV does not have playlists so it will only have the "All channels" feed

*For TBs channel I have only created any feeds for his playlists as his channel doesn't utilize them in a way that makes it worth it. He has one playlist for each episode set of games or each episode of his podcasts. (http://www.youtube.com/user/TotalBiscuit/videos?flow=grid&view=1)


I am open to suggestions for other channels to create sites for, and I could also need some help with good icons for the sites, I'm useless when it comes to photo editing, so unless someone else can come up with good icons I will have to use whatever I can find.

 

[zicoz]

So I just got a bunch of emails with "broken" reports asking me to put all of the SC2 feeds into one site, but because I need both the "all videos" feed and the "playlists" feed this is not possible.

I have tried using this trick:

https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/...1-6-0-0-2013-05-01.103682/page-81#post-951965

But "Generic site" doesn't seem to handle the "all playlists" feed. If someone has a regex that can handle both the "all videos" and "all playlists"

All Videos: http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos?author=SiblingSynergy
All Playlists: http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/siblingsynergy/playlists

Then I can create one site for all, but if not it will have to stay as it is.

You can always use the "group" function in the plugin to have them in one group.

Also, please use the "suggestion report" and not the "broken report" for this.

 

[offbyone]

I have now looked at your many sites. Most of the Starcraft ones simply have two Youtube feeds under them. Why don't you simlpy put all the SC2 feeds into one site and name the categories accordingly?
Simply manually open the xml for a site and copy paste the categories into one site - should work.

 

[zicoz]

I don't find that optimal as I'll end up with this (I would offcourse makei it: Day9.TV - All Playlists etc):



instead of this:



but if that's what you want me to do I'll do it.

I guess I can just save all the sites locally instead, so I guess you can delete them if you want now.

 

[offbyone]

You can give the Categories names as well in the xml?!

 

[offbyone]

Trying to revive this discussion

Have you tried with one more level of Subcategories?
Meaning:
1 Site |Starcraft|
- |Channel1|
-|All Videos|
-|All Playlists|
- |Channel2|
-|All Videos|
-|All Playlists|

The current State is not very optimal, as I don't think users would like to add so many sites - it is much easier to add a single site with one topic (Starcraft) and have everything below it. It also crowds the global list of all sites - which I am trying to prevent (there's already too many mini-sites, but this is hard to control on a project this open and a different topic).

 

[zicoz]

Would that be something like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<OnlineVideoSites xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
  <Sites>
  <Site name="Starcraft" util="YouTube" agecheck="false" enabled="true" lang="en">
  <Description>Starcraft 2
</Description>
  <Configuration>
  <item key="useDynamicCategories"><![CDATA[False]]></item>
  </Configuration>
  <Categories>
  <Category xsi:type="RssLink" name="ChanmanV" thumb="http://i2.ytimg.com/i/qTXZYQkynopSoxlqzp2i4w/1.jpg?v=4f91c77e">http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos?author=ArtosisTV</Category>
  <SubCategories>
  <Category xsi:type="RssLink" name="All Videos">http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos?author=ChanmanV</Category>
  <Category xsi:type="RssLink" name="All Playlists">http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/ChanmanV/playlists</Category>
  </SubCategories>
  </Category>
  <Category xsi:type="RssLink" name="Day[9]" thumb="http://i2.ytimg.com/i/axar6TBM-94_ezoS00fLkA/1.jpg?v=4f28fbda">http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos?author=ArtosisTV</Category>
  <SubCategories>
  <Category xsi:type="RssLink" name="All Videos">http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos?author=day9tv</Category>
  <Category xsi:type="RssLink" name="All Playlists">http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/Day9tv/playlists</Category>
  </SubCategories>
  </Category>
  </Categories>
  </Site>
  </Sites>
</OnlineVideoSites>

 

[offbyone]

Jepp! That's what I meant. Should work, or doesn't it?

 

[zicoz]

There seems to be something wrong in the XML. When I load the onlinevideos editor, there aren't any sites there, and when I try to use the "add xml" function I get the following error Message:

"There is an error in XML document (16,11 )."

 

[offbyone]

Your XML is invalid
Here's a fixed one:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<OnlineVideoSites xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
    <Sites>
        <Site name="Starcraft" util="YouTube" agecheck="false" enabled="true" lang="en">
            <Description>Starcraft 2</Description>
            <Configuration>
                <item key="useDynamicCategories">
                    <![CDATA[False]]>
                </item>
            </Configuration>
            <Categories>
                <Category xsi:type="RssLink" name="ChanmanV" thumb="http://i2.ytimg.com/i/qTXZYQkynopSoxlqzp2i4w/1.jpg?v=4f91c77e">
                    <SubCategories>
                        <Category xsi:type="RssLink" name="All Videos">http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos?author=ChanmanV</Category>
                        <Category xsi:type="RssLink" name="All Playlists">http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/ChanmanV/playlists</Category>
                    </SubCategories>
                </Category>
                <Category xsi:type="RssLink" name="Day[9]" thumb="http://i2.ytimg.com/i/axar6TBM-94_ezoS00fLkA/1.jpg?v=4f28fbda">
                    <SubCategories>
                        <Category xsi:type="RssLink" name="All Videos">http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos?author=day9tv</Category>
                        <Category xsi:type="RssLink" name="All Playlists">http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/Day9tv/playlists</Category>
                    </SubCategories>
                </Category>
            </Categories>
        </Site>
    </Sites>
</OnlineVideoSites>