I use thumbgen to create the moviesheets and everything works fine except when viewed on my WDTV Live Gen3. Actors, director, description, thumbnails, background, etc works great. The release date of the film and the ratings do not appear. They appear in the sheet generated by thumbgen but not on WDTV Live. In the thumbgen options I selected .xml for movieinfo export (export using WDTV Live Hub Format) and I selected .jpg for main moviesheet (WDLXTV Live Generic Dynamic Sheet/all modes).
Am I selecting the wrong options? There’s very little info on the gen3 so I would appreciate any help.
I am using one of the ‘recommended’ themes and I don’t get the date either. We need to find the ‘key’ in the xml file. There is a section on the xml file for year but I have tried filling in the info but it doesn’t show.
I can fix genre easily by adding Crime/Drama to the xml sheet. This happens mainly with movie sheets for TV show episodes. Often I need to copy/paste “plot” into “overview” so the shows synopsis shows on the movie sheet.
Let me have a play around and see if I can work something out.
I looked at different moviesheets but they seemed to be very specific to the firmware and all of them developed for gen2. I didn’t think any would work well on the gen3.
I also looked at the xml file and the date is there and in the correct format (dd,mm,yyyy).
I installed the mojo sheets and in his instructions he wrote that the date format should be changed in the Thumbgen options menu to yyyy-MM-dd (capital MM). This works for his sheets at least and the xml file shows
Thanks everyone, Date on my Movie Sheets Is now working! My problem was I ‘changed’ the date format in options to bring it into line with the way the date is written in my country. I should have left that alone. I have also discovered to use a - rather then . between the year, month, day.