**pecinko**, any chance the recently added shelf will soon work with PleXBMC and Quartz 3?
**hippojay**, are the Plex plugins, like iPhoto and iTunes, supposed to work yet? At least for me they don't... :blink:
OK beta 4 is working 
The subtitle script seems to be still broken on b4. Is ne1 having the same issue?
Thank you Hippojay for dedicating so much time and effort to this project! I have started using the Quartz 3 skin with Frodo alpha 3. Seems to work quite well.
FYI, when using PleXBMC with the Confluence skin, it is treating PLEX video sections (Movies & TV Shows) as Picture sections in XBMC. This can be seen in the top left corner of the interface when browsing PLEX Movies or TV Shows. The view types are restricted to Picture views instead of the nicer views designed for video sections in Confluence (e.g. Media Info, Media Info 2, etc.). Hope that makes sense!
PLex plugins should work, but I'm not able to check them all./ However, I've re-setup itunes and iphoto and checked them out. iTunes was definitely broken, so I've fixed that. As for pictures, I assume you mean you don't get full screen photos - if so, I'm on that as well.
I've not yet started optimising for Frodo yet - there are some new XBMC functions added (one by me!) that means starting video with be cleaner, all skins will show media flags and you won't get the double resume dialog :-)
Not sure why that is - is this the pleXBMC confluence skin or the XBMC confluence skin? If the plexbmc version, then that's a Dharma skin which is no longer supported by Team XBMC and perhaps has fallen a bit to the wayside. If XBMC, then I can check it out.
Hi,
Great, Awesome, Fantastic work!
I am using B4 with Quartz Reloaded skin (no PleXMBC optimized skin), and everything works, mostly 
and this is why i am writing.
The Movies is listed perfectly for my taste, but the TV-Series section is a bit weird. Everything works, but then showing “Recently Added”, “On Deck”, “Unwatched”, A single season, only the episode number and episode title is shown.
Thus making it difficult to see what show this episode belongs to.
Also using the XBMC subtitles plugin, which works fine with movies, is having some trouble getting subtitles for tv-shows, The script throws an exception when being initialized on a tv show.
Is all og this because I am not using an PleXMBC optimized skin?
Unfortunately none of the Plex plugins work for me. Inside PleXBMC i go to CHANNELS and for example select iPhoto or iTunes (music) and nothing happens. The plugins work fine inside Plex.
Another "issue" is the way information about various episodes in RECENTLY ADDED or ON DECK section is beeing displayed.
There's no info for the TV Show title or season number.
Here's what it looks like in XBMC library mode:
[http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/2883/80871732.png](http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/19/80871732.png/)
And here with PleXBMC:
[http://img832.imageshack.us/img832/6768/88724592.png](http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/832/88724592.png/)
Also the title on top of each section is always set to **PleXBMC** instead of the current section. And also the partly watched flags aren't shown.
Ah ok - yes viewing through the channel menu was broken - but I fixed it this morning. I use and test so much with the modified skins, I forget that some people don't use these. I'll make sure that I test both in the future.
It's partially skin related - all the info is provided to the skin and it's down to them how to display. It probably wasn't a problem is other skins as the top menu showed the series + season number and the fanart guided you to what you were looking at. I can easily modify it though to add the extra information in XBMC fashion.
This is because it's a stock skin. The section menu is set to the addon name, and partial watched flags aren't supported in XBMC, so I need to modify the skin. It all these skin reasons why I started modifying skins - the XBMC ones are good, but as I'm trying to create a library replacement addon, rather than extra content, then I need to have more control over the display and user experience.
How much work is there in creating replacement skins? Few changes or whole rewrites? I am a programmer, mostly ruby and php, but python is ok :) Could you write a small guide on what to fix in a skin, and then others could pitch in and maintain their favourite skin, I am game for fixing/maintaining Quartz Reloaded.
Fantastic! Looking forward to these goodies :)
I'm using the default Confluence skin that ships with XBMC. Maybe something has changed with Frodo alpha 3? I appreciate you looking into it!
Creating? Lots of work!
Tweaking? Just a bit. Easiest way is to get a plexbmc tweaked skin and look for plexbmcok tags (this is tag used to switch on and off certain parts of the skin). You find most of these in home.xml.
A lot of the skin work I do is to feel around coupled with trial and error ;) Luckily the changes I need to make aren't major.
Let me rephrase this, I am not looking for at skinning guide :) just a bulletlist of things the skin should support
when using plexbmc b4 with always transcode i cannot get subtiles working.
is it possible to select a subtile like on the ios application?
even the option to mark a movie as seen/unseen or select audio would be great.
double post
Added to TODO list
Marking watched/unwatched is possible through the context menu (keyboard 'c' or whatever you have configured remote/mouse wise)
Audio is set automatically from the plex media server configuration - but i'll see about manually setting it.
That's a hard one - as different skin styles require slightly different things:
1. Get the skin data - you need to call the plugin with the skin argument
<br />
<onload>RunScript(plugin.video.plexbmc,skin)</onload><br />
<br />
2. Section links - you need to display the data on the home screen, in a fashion that fits the skin style. Usually this means creating a lot of items that populate the screen. Quartz uses this:
<br />
<item id="15"><br />
<label>$INFO[Window.Property(plexbmc.3.title)]</label> <!-- on screen title --><br />
<label2>$INFO[Window.Property(plexbmc.3.subtitle)]</label2> <!-- subtitle - usually server name for duplicate names --><br />
<onclick>$INFO[Window.Property(plexbmc.3.path)]</onclick> <!-- what to run when clicked --><br />
<visible>Skin.HasSetting(plexbmc)</visible> <!-- only display if the skin setting plexbmc is true --><br />
<visible>!IsEmpty(Window.Property(plexbmc.3.title))</visible> <!-- only display if we have non-blank data --><br />
<visible>substring(Window.Property(plexbmc.3.type),photo)</visible> <!-- optional - only display if this is a photo section (or movie, tvshow, music) --><br />
</item><br />
3. You'll probably need a myplex queue link and a plex online link to manage plugins. A direct setting link can help as well:
<br />
<item id="3" description="myplex Queue"><br />
<visible>Skin.HasSetting(plexbmc) + !IsEmpty(Window.Property(plexbmc.myplex))</visible><br />
<label>myPlex Queue</label><br />
<onclick>$INFO[Window.Property(plexbmc.queue)]</onclick><br />
</item><br />
<br />
<item id="6" description="PleXBMC Settings"><br />
<label>PleXBMC Settings</label><br />
<onclick>XBMC.RunScript(plugin.video.plexbmc,setting)</onclick><br />
<visible>Skin.HasSetting(plexbmc)</visible><br />
</item><br />
<br />
<item id="22"><br />
<label>Plex Online</label><br />
<onclick>ActivateWindow(VideoLibrary,plugin://plugin.video.plexbmc/?url=http://online&mode=22,return)</onclick><br />
<visible>Skin.HasSetting(plexbmc)</visible><br />
</item> <br />
4. Media flags will need to be altered for Eden (fixed in frodo when I add the new XBMC functions). Change ListItem.VideoResolution to ListItem.property(VideoResolution) and the others to similar values:
<br />
listItem.Property(VideoResolution)<br />
listItem.Property(VideoCodec)<br />
listItem.Property(AudioCodec)<br />
listItem.Property(AudioChannels)<br />
listItem.Property(VideoAspect)<br />
<br />
5. Watched flags will need to be altered to allow plex style ones:
<br />
Overlay number in brackets<br />
Flag XBMC PLEX<br />
---- ---- ----<br />
watched tick (7) blank (6)<br />
unwatched blank (0) Dot (4)<br />
partial n/a half (5)<br />
However you also need to add the overlay graphics into the skin. It's easier if you check out the Quartz.plexbmc skin to see how it's done there. I'm still working on V3.
Those are the basic items off the top of my head.
I have tried the last plugin.video.plexbmc-v2.0b4 and also noticed that the XBMC script plugin works for Movies, but not for TV shows. Version plugin.video.plexbmc-EDEN4 works for both Movies and TV Shows.
@Bitwize…I actually found that adding it as a straight Video addon in the confluence add-on shortcuts (skin setup) will use the picture screens, however using it in other skins (aeon, quartz) as a favorite (i.e. favorite from video addons) will display the proper video screens. I guess either the confluence skin would need to be updated to either support favorite shortcuts or you can access it through video addons to get the proper screens…
Is there a possibility to having a second transcode option?
In particular, I’d do something non-trival for having plex downmix and normalize the audio from all the 5.1 movies I have: The Raspberry can handle all the video streams no problem, but cuts out the centre channel from surround sound.
Tapping in to the same sound processing that is fed to mobile devices would be perfect.
Something like this should work for UI:
Transcribe
Transcribe audio only
Skin support is prepared, as I've said in previous (release) post. It is a matter of adding support in the PleXBMC and making sure everything works as expected. Download latest version of add-on and Hippo's version of Q3 from the GitHub and you will have initial support. Not finished yet, though.
