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CharlieVIE0104
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10 years ago

2 Levels of Category

Hi, I am not very experienced with programming Roku channels. I created 2 channels with a template from the ROKU website (Video Player Example Application), but now I have to create another channel...
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belltown
Roku Guru
10 years ago
The Roku SDK videoplayer example does not handle a three-level hierarchy. However, the NewVideoPlayer example does. See this post for details: http://forums.roku.com/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=91672&p=516080

To get your channel working, put the following in the pkg:/xml/categories.xml file:


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<categories>

    <category   title="Truths That Transform"
                description="A TV Program produced by D James Kennedy Ministries"
                sd_img="http://djkm-roku.s3.amazonaws.com/toplevelposters/TTT-TopLevelCategory_224x258.jpg"
                hd_img="http://djkm-roku.s3.amazonaws.com/toplevelposters/TTT-TopLevelCategory_304x237.jpg">

        <categoryLeaf   title="Kennedy Classics 2013"
                        description="A TV Program produced by D James Kennedy Ministries"
                        sd_img="http://s3.amazonaws.com/djkm-roku/kc/poster/SD_CategoryPoster-2015_285x145.jpg"
                        hd_img="http://s3.amazonaws.com/djkm-roku/kc/poster/HD_CategoryPoster-2015_385x218.jpg"
                        feed="http://s3.amazonaws.com/djkm-roku/kc/xml/kc-program_2015.xml"/>
        <categoryLeaf   title="Kennedy Classics 2014"
                        description="A TV Program produced by D James Kennedy Ministries"
                        sd_img="http://s3.amazonaws.com/djkm-roku/kc/poster/SD_CategoryPoster-2015_285x145.jpg"
                        hd_img="http://s3.amazonaws.com/djkm-roku/kc/poster/HD_CategoryPoster-2015_385x218.jpg"
                        feed="http://s3.amazonaws.com/djkm-roku/kc/xml/kc-program_2015.xml"/>
        <categoryLeaf   title="Kennedy Classics 2015"
                        description="A TV Program produced by D James Kennedy Ministries"
                        sd_img="http://s3.amazonaws.com/djkm-roku/kc/poster/SD_CategoryPoster-2015_285x145.jpg"
                        hd_img="http://s3.amazonaws.com/djkm-roku/kc/poster/HD_CategoryPoster-2015_385x218.jpg"
                        feed="http://s3.amazonaws.com/djkm-roku/kc/xml/kc-program_2015.xml"/>
    </category>

    <category   title="Kennedy Classics"
                description="A TV Program produced by D James Kennedy Ministries"
                sd_img="http://djkm-roku.s3.amazonaws.com/toplevelposters/KC-TopLevelCategory_224x158.jpg"
                hd_img="http://djkm-roku.s3.amazonaws.com/toplevelposters/KC-TopLevelCategory_304x237.jpg">

        <categoryLeaf   title="Kennedy Classics 2013"
                        description="A TV Program produced by D James Kennedy Ministries"
                        sd_img="http://s3.amazonaws.com/djkm-roku/kc/poster/SD_CategoryPoster-2015_285x145.jpg"
                        hd_img="http://s3.amazonaws.com/djkm-roku/kc/poster/HD_CategoryPoster-2015_385x218.jpg"
                        feed="http://s3.amazonaws.com/djkm-roku/kc/xml/kc-program_2015.xml"/>
        <categoryLeaf   title="Kennedy Classics 2014"
                        description="A TV Program produced by D James Kennedy Ministries"
                        sd_img="http://s3.amazonaws.com/djkm-roku/kc/poster/SD_CategoryPoster-2015_285x145.jpg"
                        hd_img="http://s3.amazonaws.com/djkm-roku/kc/poster/HD_CategoryPoster-2015_385x218.jpg"
                        feed="http://s3.amazonaws.com/djkm-roku/kc/xml/kc-program_2015.xml"/>
        <categoryLeaf   title="Kennedy Classics 2015"
                        description="A TV Program produced by D James Kennedy Ministries"
                        sd_img="http://s3.amazonaws.com/djkm-roku/kc/poster/SD_CategoryPoster-2015_285x145.jpg"
                        hd_img="http://s3.amazonaws.com/djkm-roku/kc/poster/HD_CategoryPoster-2015_385x218.jpg"
                        feed="http://s3.amazonaws.com/djkm-roku/kc/xml/kc-program_2015.xml"/>
    </category>

</categories>



Then go to the source/UITheme.brs file to specify the locations of your artwork/logos, etc.