I’m trying to create a category off of the Movies main menu item that will show either:
1: A particular playlist
or
2: All items that have the word “Blu-ray” in their path
I have tried every method I know of and have been unsuccessful.
For reference, this is where I’m going to access and do this:
-SYSTEM -> INTERFACE SETTINGS -> SKIN -> CONFIGURE SKIN -> MAIN MENU ITEMS – Movies then Edit Categories.
– Then select the Movies parent node
Once there I have attempted the following methods: (under Movies parent node)
Method 1:
– Create a Node
– *Manually edit
– Enter in the path and filename of my playlist: special://profile/playlists/video/blu-ray.xsp
– I then back-out and go view the category from the Movies menu item, it just pulls up a bullet list
of items labeled MOVES – TV SHOWS – FILES – PLAYLISTS – VIDEO ADD-ON. Based on what I’m seeing
it’s not pulling the playlist up so it is showing this default list.
Method 2:
– Create a Parent Node
– In that parent node, Add Rule of Path Contains “Blu-ray” (which all my blu-rays have that in their path name)
– I than back-out and go view the category and it’s empty just showing “..” on the screen
Method 3:
– Create a Parent Node
– In that parent node, Add Rule of Playlist is (and then I select Blu-ray from the list of playlists when I “browse for value”
– I than back-out and go view the category and it’s empty just showing “..” on the screen
Here is the clip from the log file on what it reports when I click on the Blu-ray category using Method 3 above:
15:46:39.258 T:24180 DEBUG: CWinEventsWin32::WndProcWindow is active
15:46:39.310 T:24180 DEBUG: CInputManager::ProcessMouse: trying mouse action leftclick
15:46:39.944 T:24180 DEBUG: Keyboard: scancode: 0x01, sym: 0x001b, unicode: 0x001b, modifier: 0x0
15:46:40.077 T:24180 DEBUG: CInputManager::OnKey: escape (0xf01b) pressed, action is PreviousMenu
15:46:40.077 T:24180 DEBUG: CGUIWindowManager::PreviousWindow: Deactivate
15:46:40.078 T:24180 DEBUG: —— Window Deinit (Pointer.xml) ——
15:46:40.378 T:24180 DEBUG: —— Window Deinit (MyVideoNav.xml) ——
15:46:40.393 T:24180 DEBUG: CGUIWindowManager::PreviousWindow: Activate new
15:46:40.393 T:24180 DEBUG: —— Window Init (Home.xml) ——
15:46:40.394 T:24180 DEBUG: Keyboard: scancode: 0x01, sym: 0x001b, unicode: 0x0000, modifier: 0x0
15:46:40.777 T:26896 DEBUG: Thread JobWorker start, auto delete: true
15:46:40.778 T:24180 DEBUG: —— Window Init (Pointer.xml) ——
15:46:42.660 T:24180 DEBUG: CInputManager::ProcessMouse: trying mouse action leftclick
15:46:42.660 T:24180 DEBUG: Activating window ID: 10025
15:46:42.962 T:24180 DEBUG: —— Window Deinit (Home.xml) ——
15:46:42.979 T:24180 DEBUG: —— Window Init (MyVideoNav.xml) ——
15:46:42.979 T:24180 DEBUG: CGUIMediaWindow::GetDirectory (library://video/movies/blu-ray/)
15:46:42.979 T:24180 DEBUG: ParentPath = [library://video/movies/blu-ray/]
15:46:42.981 T:11756 DEBUG: Thread BackgroundLoader start, auto delete: false
15:46:42.983 T:11756 DEBUG: Thread BackgroundLoader 11756 terminating
15:46:45.069 T:24180 DEBUG: CWinEventsWin32::WndProcWindow is active
15:46:45.069 T:24180 DEBUG: CWinEventsWin32::WndProc: Focus switched to process C:\Windows\System32\notepad.exe
15:46:45.132 T:24180 DEBUG: CWinEventsWin32::WndProcWindow is active
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It should be noted that any time I go in and manually pull up the Playlist “Blu-ray” from the VIDEOS main menu item, it displays all the titles correctly. I just cant get it to show up setup as a category. Not sure if I’m missing something or if there is a bug.
I’m using the new Estuary skin.
Great job to all the developers on the new Kodi 17 by the way 