About the X-Factor Skin (R479) (8 Viewers)

[cul8er]

New Version Available (R247)

Hi,

A new version of the xfactor skin is now available (R247). Hope you like it Please do not forget to read the FAQ thread before posting questions about installation or configuration.

CHANGELOG
* New plugin support for MyBurner
* New plugin support for MyTorrents
* New button in weather to enable change of image and 5-day forecast -> one day, two day...
* New shortcut from LastFM plugin to MyLyrcis
* Updated Thumbnail view in MyTrailers to be different size (small and big thumbnail) and also show title at the buttom.
* Music fanart in Now Playingbug is solved. Was hidden behind the video window.
* Music Playlist has got minor changes
* Complete new Video and TV OSD. Expandable and Collapsable (read more below)
* Music Filmstrip view now uses rounded corners
* Music listview has a new design
* Music genre view has a new design (same as music listview)
* Several graphics has been reworked
* Recording indicator has been moved to not interfer with the clock
* Bug in Menu Editor: Save button stored the config file (xfactor.xml) in wrong directory if the files did not exist in ProgramData before. Now solved and hopefully you will never have to redo your custimized menu anymore after an upgrade.
* Bug in Menu Editor: Error message on save and generation of new basichome said you have to fill in data in menu 1-5. Now updated to show correct text.
* Bug in menu selector text solved (Horizontal -> Vertical)
* The logo support in this release is compatible with MP1.0.2. If you use MP1.1 change the line "<!-- <import>videoLogoSupport11.xml</import>-->" in the file "videoOSD.xml" to "<import>videoLogoSupport11.xml</import>" and the line "<import>videoLogoSupport102.xml</import>" to "<!-- <import>videoLogoSupport102.xml</import>-->".

About the new TV and Video OSD;
The new thing is that the OSD will open collapsed and if you press up/down/left or right it will expand and show more info. Looks quite nice and saves space if you only want to see current time and the progressbar.

IMPORTANT
The Save bug in the Menu Editor may have resulted in the xfactor.xml file to be saved in the /skin/xfactor directory and not in the data directory. Do this to make sure you will not lose your edited menu before installing the new release.

If you use Windows XP;
Make sure you have a xfactor.xml file in your "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal" folder. If you do not have this file in that folder you should copy the xfactor.xml file that is in your "skin/xfactor" folder and put it in your "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal" folder.

If you use Windows Vista;
Make sure you have a xfactor.xml file in your "C:\ProgramData\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal" folder. If you do not have this file in that folder you should copy the xfactor.xml file that is in your "skin/xfactor" folder and put it in your "C:\ProgramData\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal" folder.

best regards
cul8er

 

[dlarge500]

hi cul8er

wow,the new version looks very very nice!!!
I have installed the MPI and i have`t no problems yet.
The new Graphics are very cool and nice to view.

 

[raf]

Hi Cul8er,

Fantastic improvements, however some bugs:

1. Now playing track in Radio the text doesn't line up to the box
2. Still on Home screen now playing from Radio showing station name not track

 

[mackey]

Great work, Cul8er. This is my new preferred skin.

However the myLyrics.xml is rather outdated. I have updated the skin so it supports the new screens that were introduced in version 1.30 of MyLyrics (and beyond). You could include this in your future releases. You might want to replace the new control (ID 2 and 1011) in the xml, so they are included in the topbar. I'm not quite sure how this is done the best.

thanks!
mackey

 

[ysmp]

Music FanArt ?

hi cul8er ! thank you for the new update ...R-247

the first thing i go to check is the music fanart ...and sorry no fanart .i can see the cd cover ,but not the picture fanart in ... skin\XFactor\Media\FanArt\Music . please see screenshot ... oh and 1 more thing now no fan art in play List wich was on virsion R-240 ,i can see the raglor music bg...sorry
thanks,
ysmp.

Edit : soorrrry it work i go to mymusicplaying now.xml and i see you mack the code to look for a artist folder then artist.jpg
so soon as i crat folder it work ..
1 thing the parpes of the folder is so we can use more then 1 fanart ...yes ? so i try with a few more fanarts only the artist.jpg are show .... do i need to rename ather fan art in a spaicl way ? the not cycle ?
thanks
ysmp

 

[cul8er]

Hi ysmp,

Try these files. And thank you for your bug report.

best regards
cul8er

 

[dlarge500]

Hi ysmp,

Try these files. And thank you for your bug report.

best regards
cul8er

after this edit from ysmp,is this a bug or not?

 

[omniaberry2]

Season Poster not showing...

Hello,

I upgraded to the latest X-Factor (247) and for some reason I can't see my season posters in episode view, they appear everywhere else though.

Help?

 

[cul8er]

Hi omniaberry2,

What version of TVSeries are you using?`

best regards
cul8er

 

[cul8er]

Hi dlarge500,

You can consider this a bug. It is not possible today to have more than one image for this kind of fanart due to a bug in the multiimage control of MP. I think a fix for this has been accepted and may be a part of MP1.1 but I'm not sure so for now only support for one image can be possible and with this structure;
/FanArt/Music/artist.jpg

The bug is that I tested with multiple images so the current release expects this folder structure: /FanArt/Music/artist/anyimage.jpg

best regards
cul8er