Blue Vision (4 Viewers)

[ge2301]

Hi

I have worked out some themes for MP2 Titanium, you can find them in this forum. Additionally I was supporting for coding in ApolloOne skin. Since I’m not a programmer and had no experience in xaml coding, only coding does not give me the chance to use my creativity in the extent I need!

Therefore I decided to create a new skin for MP2, where I can realize all my ideas, that I miss in existing skins so far. I will still do the coding support for ApolloOne, but completely keep myself out of concept and design questions! Also I do not see a competition with ApolloOne, though some of below elements are similar! At first I was thinking to create a theme for ApolloOne, but some of my ideas are too different from base concept. I think that both skins will reach a certain group of interested people. The more consistent skins we have, the better.

The new skin will be called BlueVision . Following features / ideas will be the core elements of BlueVision:

• Lean and clean surface
• Visual surfaces for videos (movies, series, other), audio, liveTV, weather, news, (After plugins are ready: games, mails, browser)
• Switching between above categories by symbol oriented menu (please wait for first concept arts to understand better)
• Pattern based design:
  • Menu area, selection area and content area always at the same position
    
  • Regardless of the view style one can see always the same content information

I’m open for ideas and consider them as far as possible. People who have xaml coding experience are welcome to support

 

[ge2301]

Screenshots
Menus:

In the top side a visual group menu is placed. Dependent on the selected group sub menu buttons are placed in the center area. The only exception is the home screen. The active screen name is always shown next to the power button to provide a better overview.


Movies:

Series:


Series content information will be updated, when more meta data for series and saison information available.

Videos:

Audio:

Audio content information will be updated, when more meta data information available.

Plugins:
WebRadio
OnlineVideos
Weather

 

[ge2301]

Download (Updated v0.7 - 18.05.2015)
GitHub Branch: https://github.com/MediaPortal/MediaPortal-2/tree/FEAT_BlueVision_v5

Please extract the BlueVision_vx.x.7z to "..\Team MediaPortal\MP2-Client\Plugins\"

If you used Bluevision before, please delete this file before installation: \ProgramData\Team MediaPortal\MP2-Client\Config\MediaPortal.UiComponents.BlueVision.Settings.MenuSettings.xml

Download Skin

 

[ge2301]

The creation of the new main menu is still on hold, because current menu texts are localized and the structure has to be changed in order to link texts to symbols.
For the vizualisation of media styles it is almost done. I will change some focus effects and then proceed with audio and image views.

Here some impressions (main menu taken so far from Apollo One)



Generally only watched videos are marked by a symbol.
Exception Listview: For focussed items always the un-/watched icon is shown.

 

[ge2301]

Which information shall be shown in the content area for audio and video? Which information can be scrapped and available for both?
Based on infos from @Lehmden I currently considered following:

Audio:

• Metadata
  • ALBUM
  • ALBUM ARTIST
  • ARTIST
  • TITLE
  • GENRE
  • YEAR
    
  • Star rating (Available? Otherwise it could be validated by operator and one show filter could be the rating)
• Properties
  • DURATION
  • BITRATE
  • ENCODING

Image:

• Properties
  • WIDTH_0
  • HEIGHT_0
  • EQUIPMENTMAKE
  • EQUIPMENTMODEL
  • EXPOSUREBIAS
  • EXPOSURETIME
  • FLASHMODE
  • FNUMBER
  • ISOSPEEDRATING
  • ORIENTATION
  • METERINGMODE
  • LATITUDE
  • LONGITUDE
  • CITY
  • STATE
  • COUNTRY
• Star rating ( Can be validated by operator and one show filter could be the rating)

 

[Lehmden]

Hi.

WIDTH_0
HEIGHT_0
EQUIPMENTMAKE
EQUIPMENTMODEL
EXPOSUREBIAS
EXPOSURETIME
FLASHMODE
FNUMBER
ISOSPEEDRATING
ORIENTATION
METERINGMODE
LATITUDE
LONGITUDE
CITY
STATE
COUNTRY

Those informations are for pictures.
The informations recently stored in our ML are those:

Video:
DURATION
AUDIOSTREAMCOUNT
AUDIOENCODING
AUDIOBITRATE
VIDEOENCODING
VIDEOBITRATE
WIDTH
HEIGHT
ASPECTRATIO
FPS
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Audio:
ENCODING
BITRATE
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Images: (mostly Exif data):
WIDTH_0
HEIGHT_0
EQUIPMENTMAKE
EQUIPMENTMODEL
EXPOSUREBIAS
EXPOSURETIME
FLASHMODE
FNUMBER
ISOSPEEDRATING
ORIENTATION
METERINGMODE
LATITUDE
LONGITUDE
CITY
STATE
COUNTRY

If you need help sorting this out, give me a call.

 

[ge2301]

@Lehmden Sorry, was just a wrtiting mistake. I corrected it

 

[Helios61]

Audio:

• ALBUMARTIST
• TRACK#

 

[Lehmden]

Hi.

ALBUMARTIST
TRACK#

Those are metadata, not properties of the media file. One audio file can have more than one track number and more than one AlbumArtist. E.g. a sampler has Album Artist "Various" and the track numbers normally don't match with the track number of the original album. But it can be exactly the same media file...

The above list I've posted is all and everything that recently is stored in our ML. I was fiddling a lot with the database structure lately during development of MP2-Edit. Also I even haven't started to touch the audio or pictures part, I have listed all that is available...

 

[Lehmden]

BTW...

Star rating

This also is Metadata and not a property of the media file...

This needs to be handled different as the media properties are depending on the media file itself but the metadata is depending on the "content" of the media file..

mp3 Stereo 128 Kbit, those are properties of the file and can be changed e.g. by replacing a mp3 by a flac file.

Album Artist or Track number are properties of the song that is stored in the media file and did not change if you replace a mp3 by a flac...

The above list is only for data of the first type that are depending on the file itself.