Display Your Newest Movies and Shows On Xbmc
For the longest time I’ve complained about the lack of a good interface in Xbmc for reporting on new media files. Yeah yeah, there’s that old window that showed the dvd cases, but it stunk, and didn’t even work really well. I wanted something simple and available on the home screen.
So today while bored and messing with some regular expressions (yeah, I can get that bored) I made a couple PHP scripts that will parse a directory of files, scan them, sort them by date, and spit out a feed. I have this working on a Linux box. It should work exactly the same on Os X. You’re on your own with Windows.
Now, by adding this to Xbmc’s home screen, I have a simple “Now Playing” interface to report my newest shows and movies quickly and efficiently. And of course, this is all automated. I set up a cron job on my Media Server to run these two scripts every thirty minutes. Bliss.
That’s freaking awesome! I love it!
Comment by Collin — October 5, 2005 @ 10:55 pm
Hi great ! but … can you tell me where to place those 2 php scripts on which directory in xbmc? Would be great if you can give more info how to make this working on xbmc. Thanks !
Comment by Pete — October 7, 2005 @ 8:03 am
It doesn’t run on Xbmc. You run it on your server.
Comment by Jon — October 7, 2005 @ 9:27 am
2 questions: 1) Can you run these directly off of a Tivo (it is, after all, a Linux box), and 2) is there a way to modify the tivox script to emulate the fast forwarding capabilities of the actual Tivo remote (i.e. when you hit play after fastforwarding for awhile on Tivo, the stream “jumps back a few seconds to compensate for the user missing the first few seconds of Tivo material). Thanks!
Comment by Jason — October 24, 2005 @ 9:52 am
This won’t work the same way for tivo. If you want feeds for tivo go here: http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=185496.
As for emulating the fast forward, I would encourage you to stop using fast forward completely on Xbmc. I stopped using fast forward a while ago. Use the “Jump” buttons, to jump forward, and then the back button to jump back a little bit, its much easier and nicer that fast forward.
Comment by Jon — October 25, 2005 @ 8:06 am
Thanks for the link and recommendation, Jon. I’ve been using your version of Tivo-X with great success, and appreciate your work, articles, and advice.
Comment by Jason — October 25, 2005 @ 1:43 pm
Hi!
Great idea, but is it possible to list folders instead of files?
As i keep my movies in its orginal release folders. Like the ls command “ls -t”
Best regards /Tommy
Comment by Tommy — March 28, 2006 @ 7:54 am
I’m curious why you keep each movie in its own folder.
Comment by Jon — March 28, 2006 @ 9:30 am
I want to keep nfo file and sample files also, just not the movie file…
Comment by Tommy — March 29, 2006 @ 1:35 am
Hmm interesting. Exactly what use is the sample file when you have the whole movie. Same goes for the nfo file.
And I thought I was a data pack rat.
Comment by Jon — March 29, 2006 @ 1:40 am
well who said the movie stays on my computer ;O)
maybe people that gets it frpm me want to se sample before getting the whole movie, well u get the picture i hope….
so is it possible or to mutch hard work then ??
Comment by Tommy — March 30, 2006 @ 5:34 am