VFS - add one for Movies

[jusjoken]

How can I go about adding a VFS entry that will show only Movies (similar to the Movies grouping that Diamond uses)?

BMT has one that shows my TV entries and another that shows ALL videos but that includes TV and Movies... just looking for one that would show Movies only?

Thanks
k

[PLUCKYHD]

For refernce to this question diamond does it 2 ways.

By mediatype=movie or by mediatype!=tv

I don't know how make make a view in bmt never done it but hopefully above will help Simone help you

[stuckless]

This is off the top of my head (I'm at work), so it may not work... but here's the general configuaration...

Drop this file in the userdata/Phoenix/vfs/ directory (name doesn't matter)

<!DOCTYPE vfs SYSTEM "vfs.dtd">
<vfs>
	<views>
                <view name="jusjoken_movies" label="My Movies">
                        <tag value="video" />

			<!-- Grab all video files -->
                        <source name="mediafiles">
                                <option name="mediamask" value="VL"/>
                        </source>

			<!-- pull in recorded movies for this view as well -->
			<view-source name="recordedmovies"/>

			<!-- globally filter out TV files -->
			<filter by="mediatype" scope="exclude" value="TV">

			<!-- present then sorted by title -->
			<presentation level="1">
                                <sort by="title"/>
                        </presentation>
                </view>
	</views>
</vfs>

You'll need to refresh the vfs (Configuration -> Refresh Configurations)

Check the phoenix.log to see if you have an errors... you should see statement that your view is being loaded.

We will hopefully have some better documentation on the phoenix views (ie vfs) sometime soon.

[vividweb]

Interesting. Never thought about custom VFS views in BMT. What about all Movies that are missing metadata?

I have a lot of TV shows that cannot be scraped and are clogging my missing metadata view.

[stuckless]

Originally Posted by vividweb

Interesting. Never thought about custom VFS views in BMT. What about all Movies that are missing metadata?

I have a lot of TV shows that cannot be scraped and are clogging my missing metadata view.

The vfs in BMT is the Phoenix vfs... and it's one of the many cool features that phoenix offers.

Here's the current missing metadata view...

                <view name="missingmetadataview" label="Missing Metadata">
                        <description>Shows videos that are missing Metadata and/or Fanart information</description>
                        <tag value="metadata"/>
                        <view-source name="videos"/>
                        <view-source name="recordings"/>
                        <view-source name="dvd"/>
                        <view-source name="bluray"/>
                        <view-source name="archivedrecordings"/>

                        <filter by="missingmetadata"/>

                        <presentation>
                                <sort by="title"/>
                        </presentation>
                </view>

so, assuming your defined the view that I gave to jusjoken and it worked, you could create a new missing metadata view like...

                <view name="vividweb_missingmetadataview" label="Missing Metadata for Movies">
                        <description>Movies that are missing metadata</description>
                        <tag value="metadata"/>
                        <view-source name="jusjoken_movies"/>

                        <filter by="missingmetadata"/>

                        <presentation>
                                <sort by="title"/>
                        </presentation>
                </view>

The cool thing about phoenix views is that you can use other views as the source to a new view. So in the example that I just gave... I'm taking the custom movies views and using it as the source for new missing metadata for movies view and then filtering by missing metadata.

Again... We will have documentation on this once we get into a private beta... Stuff like the vfs has been used in bmt for quite a long time... but I haven't had the time to fully document how a user would go about creating their own custom views.

[vividweb]

Worked good. Wasn't sure what file to put it in so just edited the vfs.XML file. In the movie view had to close the filter tag </filter>.

[jusjoken]

Worked great! Thanks.

I created a new file in the "userdata/Phoenix/vfs/" folder.

Here is the end result..

<!DOCTYPE vfs SYSTEM "vfs.dtd">
<vfs>
	<views>
                <view name="my_movies" label="My Movies">
                        <tag value="video" />

			<!-- Grab all video files -->
                        <source name="mediafiles">
                                <option name="mediamask" value="VL"/>
                        </source>

			<!-- pull in recorded movies for this view as well -->
			<view-source name="recordedmovies"/>

			<!-- globally filter out TV files -->
			<filter by="mediatype" scope="exclude" value="TV"/>

			<!-- present then sorted by title -->
			<presentation level="1">
                                <sort by="title"/>
                        </presentation>
                </view>
		<view name="my_movies_missingmetadataview" label="Missing Metadata for Movies">
			<description>Movies that are missing metadata</description>
			<tag value="metadata"/>
			<view-source name="my_movies"/>

			<filter by="missingmetadata"/>

			<presentation>
				<sort by="title"/>
			</presentation>
		</view>
	</views>
</vfs>

Thanks
k

[stuckless]

Originally Posted by vividweb

Worked good. Wasn't sure what file to put it in so just edited the vfs.XML file. In the movie view had to close the filter tag </filter>.

As per jusjoken's post... it should be in the userdata/Phoenix/vfs/ directory. The main STVs/Phoenix/* files will get overwritten with each new build of phoenix.

Glad both you guys got it workin Just so you know, if you decide to try Phoenix (once it's released) those view will automatically show up in Phoenix as well.

[MeInMaui]

Originally Posted by stuckless

Just so you know, if you decide to try Phoenix (once it's released) those view will automatically show up in Phoenix as well.

Sneaky, ain't we.

[OneOfMany]

Taunt me one more time....

Grant