aMPed 3.1: superaMPed! - the skin you practically design yourself (1 Viewer)

[Dadeo]

you caught me is 4:00 am night? what day is this? What year???

 

[joffel]

just a question for chlodny...

can you give me a link to that svn build ?
ive got the same problem with those backdrops..
probably ive picked the wrong svn build...

thanks !

 

[chlodny]

It's this one https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/...t-01-08-2010-02-15h-revision-24669-rar-75857/

 

[joffel]

Thanks chlodny.

ive used version 20xxx....little bit to old,
i tought it was weird when i was downloading that one, because the beta version, is 23xxx

then i got an error when loading, that the skin was outdated... but what ever ill go and try this one..thanks a lot !

 

[chlodny]

Okay so here's the thing. The monochrome theme made me thinking about making the skin a little more... "monochromatic". Especially the OSD, 'cause the one in the Monochrome skin is so nice and clear. Underneath you can have a look at the results. As you can see there's one thing to do - the skip steps. Dadeo, I can't find the strings responsible for that. Help!

EDIT: Oh, yeah. I forgot. Dadeo, have you ever thought about putting some codec and subtitles info to the OSD? It's visible on the first screen. I find it quite nice.

 

[Dadeo]

Hi Chlodny: Did you see the OSD's kmarkot did? Those were nice too! Yes, I meant to change the monochrome OSD to match the dialogs but I forgot . You would likely not have liked it though!

I think what you are looking for is the common.play.progressbar.xml??? Let me know if that is not what you meant. It is the file that sets up how those skip steps display and which gfx images are used (video-2x.png etc.).

Yes, I have thought about codec logos, but you may have noticed that I hate text on top of images. aMPed is designed entirely to reduce this to a minimum which will not be everyone's preference I am sure. I deliberately reduced the OSD so it would barely overlay most video/tv images because I don't want to miss the action while I am checking the OSD. And thus, there was not enough room for codec logos. But I will take a look again and see what I can squeeze in.

 

[chlodny]

video-2x.png is responsible for rewind/fast forward. I already changed it as you can see on the third screen. The skip steps are shown just with text. I have no idea where those strings are

 

[Dadeo]

Oh, sorry I misunderstood you. You want the common.play.osd.xml - <description>row 1 label</description>. Now why didn't you figure that out? It is so obvious and intuitive (NOT!)

I really should add comments to all those xmls because figuring out all the different files with various (inconsistent) names for the OSD is pretty confusing.

P.S. (of course a Wiki page would be nice!)

 

[chlodny]

Ho ho! Very funny It was in common.play.fullscreen.xml not in common.play.osd.xml

 

[Dadeo]

Sorry Chlodny, i just copied the wrong file name in - that was not intended to torture you! Glad you figured it out!