STV Import: Sage Movie Wall (SMW)

[PLUCKYHD]

Originally Posted by cslatt

First of all - thanks! This screen looks fantastic on my TV at home. Finally convinced me to dive into filter expressions in the dynamic menus file so I could have a "Movies" item separate from my other downloaded media.

Second - a couple of feature requests:
- An option to turn off the animation in ListView (I'd prefer to be able to scroll quickly through my movie rather than wait for the dvd cover and description to fly in)
- An option (or default) to show more of the movie name in listview (about 80% of my movie titles are cut off)

First Welcome glad you like like it

-Item one animations are interuptable meaning you don't have to wait for the animation to finish you can just keep scrolling
- Item 2 this is fixed in the next build

cheers

[PLUCKYHD]

Originally Posted by Blackrabbit

Cslatt,
I was thinking about doing this same thing but wasn’t sure how to apply a filter to my wall to isolate media types.

Can you provide some insight as to the steps you took to achieve this with dynamic menus?

Greatly appreciated!

Edit you menu xml.

Look for the one that has SageMovie wall you can edit the paths you want linked to it.

see this thread for more explanation

http://forums.sagetv.com/forums/showthread.php?t=40117

[Quazeye]

I figured out why the BMT wasn't working automatically. I didn't have the best filenames on my movies. I am changing them to make them work better now.

Thanks Plucky
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[PLUCKYHD]

Originally Posted by Quazeye

I figured out why the BMT wasn't working automatically. I didn't have the best filenames on my movies. I am changing them to make them work better now.

Thanks Plucky

Glad you figured it out even though scaling is in the next build

[cslatt]

Originally Posted by Blackrabbit

Cslatt,
I was thinking about doing this same thing but wasn’t sure how to apply a filter to my wall to isolate media types.

Can you provide some insight as to the steps you took to achieve this with dynamic menus?

Yep - in case the thread Plucky pointed to isn't clear enough:

It only works if you keep your movies in a separate folder from your other media.

So I have my movies in e:\video\movies
My ripped TV shows in e:\video\TV
and my other media in e:\video\other

Also should share that I used to just have "e:\video" as an import folder, but now I need to import each of those folders individually "e:\video\movies", "e:\video\TV", "e:\video\other".

So to make it all happen, you go into your sagetv directory and find "sagemc_menu.xml" and edit it with some entries that look like this:

<internalScreenMenuItem icon="hover_my videos.png" screen="Sage Movie Wall" title="Movies">
	<evalExpression>AddStaticContext("PathFilterExprs", new_java_util_ArrayList())</evalExpression>
	<evalExpression>java_util_List_add(PathFilterExprs, "e:\\video\\movies")</evalExpression>
	<evalExpression>AddStaticContext("PathFilterExcludes", false)</evalExpression>
</internalScreenMenuItem>
<!--                                   -->
<internalScreenMenuItem icon="hover_my tv.png" screen="Video Library Folder View" title="TV">
	<evalExpression>AddStaticContext("PathFilterExprs", new_java_util_ArrayList())</evalExpression>
	<evalExpression>java_util_List_add(PathFilterExprs, "e:\\video\\tv")</evalExpression>
	<evalExpression>AddStaticContext("PathFilterExcludes", false)</evalExpression>
</internalScreenMenuItem>
<!--                                   -->
<internalScreenMenuItem icon="hover_my videos.png" screen="Video Library Folder View" title="Other Videos">
	<evalExpression>AddStaticContext("PathFilterExprs", new_java_util_ArrayList())</evalExpression>
	<evalExpression>java_util_List_add(PathFilterExprs, "e:\\video\\other")</evalExpression>
	<evalExpression>AddStaticContext("PathFilterExcludes", false)</evalExpression>
</internalScreenMenuItem>
<!--                                   -->

Note that I'm using Sage Movie Wall for my movies, and the normal Sage Folder View for TV and Other Videos.

[PLUCKYHD]

Yes that is write and you can repeat

<evalExpression>java_util_List_add(PathFilterExprs, "e:\\video\\movies")</evalExpression>

For other folders under each other.

[matt91]

Originally Posted by PLUCKYHD

Yes that is write and you can repeat

<evalExpression>java_util_List_add(PathFilterExprs, "e:\\video\\movies")</evalExpression>

For other folders under each other.

does this mean that if I have e:\video\movies and f:\dvds\moremovies I can use:

<evalExpression>java_util_List_add(PathFilterExprs, "e:\\video\\movies")</evalExpression>
<evalExpression>java_util_List_add(PathFilterExprs, "f:\\dvds\\moremovies")</evalExpression>

and it combine these two?

[PLUCKYHD]

Originally Posted by matt91

does this mean that if I have e:\video\movies and f:\dvds\moremovies I can use:

<evalExpression>java_util_List_add(PathFilterExprs, "e:\\video\\movies")</evalExpression>
<evalExpression>java_util_List_add(PathFilterExprs, "f:\\dvds\\moremovies")</evalExpression>

and it combine these two?

Correct as long as you have the above and below lines you can add as many as you want need.

Just remember they have to be paths set up in your video library paths as well

[wrems]

I’m trying to setup multiple walls… I can’t seem to get mine to work.

The steps I’ve taken:

• Set up individual import directories E:\Video\Movies & E:\Video\Other.
• Edited my sagemc_menu.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="no"?>
<!DOCTYPE sageMenu PUBLIC "-//NIELM//DTD SAGEMENU XML 1.4//EN" "http://sageplugins.sourceforge.net/nielm_modules/dynamic_menu/sagemenu_1_3.dtd">
<sageMenu version="1.4">
    <menu title="Main">
        <internalScreenMenuItem icon="hover_my tv.png" screen="My TV" title="My TV">
            <evalExpression> </evalExpression>
        </internalScreenMenuItem>
        <!--                                   -->
        <internalScreenMenuItem icon="hover_my videos.png" screen="Video Library Folder View" title="My Videos">
            <evalExpression> </evalExpression>
        </internalScreenMenuItem>
        <!--                                   -->
        <internalScreenMenuItem icon="hover_my music.png" screen="My Music" title="My Music">
            <evalExpression> </evalExpression>
        </internalScreenMenuItem>
        <!--                                   -->
        <internalScreenMenuItem icon="hover_my pictures.png" screen="Picture Library" title="My Pictures">
            <evalExpression> </evalExpression>
        </internalScreenMenuItem>
        <!--                                   -->
        <internalScreenMenuItem icon="hover_dvd.png" screen="Play DVD" title="Play DVD">
            <evalExpression> </evalExpression>
        </internalScreenMenuItem>
        <!--                                   -->

        <subMenuItem icon="hover_my programs.png" title="My Menu">
            <menu title="My Menu">
                <internalScreenMenuItem screen="Default STV Menu" title="Online Services">
                    <evalExpression>AddStaticContext("TargetMenuName", "Online Services Menu")</evalExpression>
                    <evalExpression>AddStaticContext("LeftListener", "Left-Back to parent menu")</evalExpression>
                    <evalExpression>AddStaticContext("BackWidgetId", "BASE-51766")</evalExpression>
                </internalScreenMenuItem>
                <!--                                   -->
                <internalScreenMenuItem screen="EMail" title="@email">
                    <evalExpression> </evalExpression>
                </internalScreenMenuItem>
                <!--                                   -->
                <internalScreenMenuItem screen="Rss News Feeds -- nielm" title="RSS Feeds">
                    <evalExpression> </evalExpression>
                </internalScreenMenuItem>
                <!--                                   -->
                <internalScreenMenuItem screen="Video Conversions" title="Video Conversions">
                    <evalExpression> </evalExpression>
                </internalScreenMenuItem>
                <!--                                   -->
                <internalScreenMenuItem screen="Parental Controls" title="Parental Controls">
                    <evalExpression> </evalExpression>
                </internalScreenMenuItem>
                <!--                                   -->
                <internalScreenMenuItem screen="Setup Menu" title="Settings">
                    <evalExpression> </evalExpression>
                </internalScreenMenuItem>
                <!--                                   -->
            </menu>
        </subMenuItem>
        <!--                                   -->
        <internalScreenMenuItem screen="Sage Movie Wall" title="Movies">
            <evalExpression>AddStaticContext("PathFilterExprs", new_java_util_ArrayList())</evalExpression>
	    <evalExpression>java_util_List_add(PathFilterExprs, "e:\\video\\movies")</evalExpression>
            <evalExpression>AddStaticContext("PathFilterExcludes", false)</evalExpression>
        </internalScreenMenuItem>
        <!--                                   -->
    </menu>
</sageMenu>

When I go to my newly created menu item SMW launches a blank black screen. I’m only testing this with the E:\Video\Movies portion, once I get the movies to filter in properly, then I’ll add in code for my E:\Video\Other.

Any ideas as to what I’m doing wrong.

TIA

[PLUCKYHD]

Move the Sage movie wall up to the top where the others are out of the submenus I had that same issue until I moved them up.

[wrems]

I tried that too with no success...

[razrsharpe]

I am pretty sure you also need a \ in front of the :

So your filter path would be

e\:\\video\\movies

it has to do with how java treats ":", "\" and other special characters. You need to place a \ in front of any special characters for java to treat it as the correct character.

[PLUCKYHD]

Originally Posted by razrsharpe

I am pretty sure you also need a \ in front of the :

So your filter path would be

e\:\\video\\movies

it has to do with how java treats ":", "\" and other special characters. You need to place a \ in front of any special characters for java to treat it as the correct character.

Yes that is correct didn't catch that in his paste.

[wrems]

Still won't work right... Same results blank black screen. This is the code snippet that I'm trying to get to work. Any ideas?

        <internalScreenMenuItem screen="Sage Movie Wall" title="Movies">
            <evalExpression>AddStaticContext("PathFilterExprs", new_java_util_ArrayList())</evalExpression>
	    <evalExpression>java_util_List_add(PathFilterExprs, "e\:\\video\\movies")</evalExpression>
            <evalExpression>AddStaticContext("PathFilterExcludes", false)</evalExpression>
        </internalScreenMenuItem>
        <!--                                   -->

[cslatt]

Originally Posted by razrsharpe

I am pretty sure you also need a \ in front of the :

So your filter path would be

e\:\\video\\movies

NOT TRUE - tried this when I was first experimenting. For whatever reason it doesn't work if you escape the colon only works if you don't. So NO BACKSLASH BEFORE THE COLON

[cslatt]

Originally Posted by wrems

Any ideas as to what I’m doing wrong.

Have you had Sage re-scan your imported videos since you changed your import folders around?

[cslatt]

Originally Posted by wrems

Still won't work right... Same results blank black screen. This is the code snippet that I'm trying to get to work. Any ideas?

Also - make sure your movie files are directly located inside E:\Video\Movies, not in folders under that, but actual files in that folder.

[PLUCKYHD]

I find it better to use network share paths myself. but to each his own.

[cslatt]

Originally Posted by PLUCKYHD

I find it better to use network share paths myself. but to each his own.

Yeah, I had to experiment quite a bit with the syntax because every single filterpath example I could find used UNC paths. At least now we know drive letter paths work.

[PLUCKYHD]

Just for those wondering new build should be coming tomorrow.

The scaling has been tiresome and different but I have some options that make it good. My scaling options will be seperate from the default sagemc scaling options and will be set on first load of movie wall.