Movie Sets in XBMC

June 1, 2013 6:59 AM

What is the easiest way to manually create movie sets in XBMC?

I am running Frodo 12.0 on two jailbroken Apple TV 2s. I want to stick all the kids' cartoons under a single heading in the Movies browser. Would also like to create sets for some other movie groups too.

posted by joelhunt to Technology (4 answers total)

I believe if you use XWMM as your web interface you can add movies to sets using that. Haven't tried it myself but here's an article that seems to suggest this might work.
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane at 8:12 AM on June 1, 2013

Response by poster: XWMM is not available as a web interface option on my XBMC. I'm not sure how to add it. Maybe I need to download it as a zip and SSH or FTP it over to my AppleTV? This is feeling a little over my head.
posted by joelhunt at 8:53 AM on June 1, 2013

Yeah, actually I'm not even sure XWMM will work on Frodo, sorry about that. I see there's a recent "unofficial" beta for Frodo which you'd have to install from a zip file, yes.

According to the wiki there will be a way to do this from the native interface in XBMC 13 (Gotham), and apparently you can tinker with custom nfo files but I have no experience with that, sorry.

Kind of amazing this isn't easier.
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane at 9:49 AM on June 1, 2013

XBMC video library tags? There's also set support but the tag system seems more powerful, and only being able to put a movie in a single set would be a dealbreaker for me.
posted by bizwank at 11:36 AM on June 1, 2013