Future Feature Request. (Would This Be Useful)

[xman]

I have been waiting to speak to BuZz on this one but thought a bit of feedback from you guys just to see if this would be something you guys would actually use. All hypothetical here as I really have no idea if it is possible being software and I do hardware but what I'm thinking is the option in the XBMC GUI settings that has what opening screen XBMC opens in, (the default is Homepage), to include another option that the owner can enter a location that contains a video, music or picture or a mixture of any simply by entering the location the content is stored at much like you do with a "startup playlist" however once this content has finished playing, XBMC reverts back to the XBMC homepage. This last part about being able to auto return to the homepage is the part that would make this idea useful I believe.This mod would enable everyone to have a short or long startup video prior to the machine booting there XBMC homepage just to add that little more professional touch to there XBMC setup. I know some skins are somewhat capable of doing something similar but not all and this being part of XBMC would have this feature available to all users irrespective of the skin being used on there machines. To simplify what I mean is when you boot your machine, the machine displays the bios screen, then plays your selected video etc and then your XBMC homepage appears. Anyway, what are you thoughts. Would you actually use such a feature or would you just leave the GUI setting to have the machine start straight to your XBMC homescreen?.

[whufclee]

It's not something I've ever needed to use but are you suggesting something native to xbmc like what the xtv-saf skin offers? That gives you the option of loading a playlist at startup or a video (or at least I'm fairly sure it does).

I would say this is skin related as the code is already there for this to be possible, all the skinner needs to do is copy the code from the xtv-saf skin.

EDIT: I just suddenly thought you really only need an autoexec.py file, had a search and found this posted on the other forum. Of course I may have completely misunderstood altogether

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import xbmc

xbmc.executebuiltin("PlayMedia(C:\\somepath\\somefile.strm)")

[xman]

It's not something I've ever needed to use but are you suggesting something native to xbmc like what the xtv-saf skin offers? That gives you the option of loading a playlist at startup or a video (or at least I'm fairly sure it does).

That was my understanding as well but would it not be more useful if it were able to be setup in the GUI itself and work on all machines irrespective of the skin being used?.
That is why I believe it to be useful.