BlueTwo reskinned for 1280x720 (mp .2.0.4) (5 Viewers)

[bombonator]

cheers. I'm just about to check it out along with the final realease of MP 0.1.3.0

I'll let you know how it goes...

 

[Boilermaker]

thanks bombonator. I have a few graphics to update and some files to compare, but i'm hoping to put out a version for 0.1.3.0 by sunday night (7/17). There didnt seem to be too many skin changes from the prerelease to the new version. so far i've changed the following since i last updated the cvs version a couple days ago:

fixed my programs when you display the file information no info comes up
same with my music album information.
there is a new setting in the scroll setting configuration
updated button graphics for the video info osd screen.

if anybody finds any bugs beyond those above, please let me know and i'll fix them before the next version.
thanks

 

[Taipan]

Hi Boilermaker,

I have made the following changes to show the current time in several of the screens - if you think it is useful, it might be worth making these changes in your latest version?

To display the current time:-

Applied to:-

mytvhome.xml
myradio.xml
myvideo.xml
myweather.xml
mymusicsongs.xml (also change “image - hover_my music.png” <posy> to 280)

Insert:-

<control> 
		<description>Time</description> 
		<type>label</type> 
		<id>201</id> 
		<posX>290</posX> 
		<posY>650</posY> 
		<label>#time</label> 
		<align>right</align> 
		<font>font24</font> 
		<textcolor>ffffffff</textcolor> 
</control>

Other changes:-
musicOverlay.xml – change “play time label” font to 60, & <posy> to 595


For the OSDs (which appear when you press “Y” or “Information”, or change channel)

TVOSD.xml & tvZAPOSD.xml - remove “Current channel” control and replace with:-

<control> 
		<description>Time</description> 
		<type>label</type> 
		<id>201</id> 
		<posX>1200</posX> 
		<posY>640</posY> 
		<label>#time</label> 
		<align>right</align> 
		<font>font24</font> 
		<textcolor>ffffffff</textcolor> 
</control>

videoOSD.xml – just insert the above code

 

[Boilermaker]

taipan,
i'll put the code it and see how it works, since you've already supplied me with the code, it should take no time at all to try. i like the idea of having the time on certain screens. i think i left it out because the original blue two didnt have it outside of the mytv sections, and i didnt want to stray too far from the original skin. along those same lines, what would you think about putting the time in the top right hand corner, like the original skin instead the bottom right? at the very least i should put it back into the mytv sections, it's just a matter of where, and the top right corner allows me to maintain consistency through out the skin.

its been a while since i've used blue two as my regular skin, so i'll have to try the other changes to see what they do.

thanks

 

[Taipan]

what would you think about putting the time in the top right hand corner, like the original skin instead the bottom right?

Yes, the top-right should be fine - I chose the bottom-left just to be consistent with the location of the time in the OSDs, although they ended up being in the bottom-right. Its tricky trying to find a spot that is free on all the screens and in the OSDs.....

 

[Boilermaker]

i was wrong about putting the time and date into the right hand corner. it isnt going to work without moving a whole lot around in the screens other than in mytv. an alternative is putting it at posx 400, posy 70 (just above the listmenus/thumbnail views of each page). another alternative is what i did in the mce widescreen skin...put the time/date in the top right of every page and move the information that is there now (the mouse over titles, and rating stars in the video section) above the top left side of the listview at (400,70).

putting the time in the bottom right of the video and tv osds probably wont work. even if i replace the channel label in the tv osd, in the video osd the time label would sit over top of the video icon on the right side of the osd.

i agree, displaying the time in more places is a good idea...i do it as much as possible in the widescreen mce skin....i just need some time to see where it would consitently fit best. what i'll probably do is make the fixes, change the needed graphics and upload the skin on the server tonight to get the fixes out there quickly. then play with where to put the time and date to find the best spots for them.

 

[Taipan]

what i'll probably do is make the fixes, change the needed graphics and upload the skin on the server tonight to get the fixes out there quickly. then play with where to put the time and date to find the best spots for them.

Sounds like a good plan.....

 

[GDive]

Pause bug (major!)

This is the best skin for any HTPC program ever. I hope I'm putting this bug in the right place and apologees if I'm not.

I was watching an avi (xvid) when the weirdest thing happened.

Using MP 0.1.3 Full Release and Blue Two skin (20050717) 1280 x 720 with screensaver set to 10 minutes and enabled in Fullscreen mode in the general settings of MP setup.

1. I pressed pause 24 minutes into the file I was watching.
2. After about 20 minutes I pressed play again.
3. When the file started again everything seemed fine but the overlay showing the elapsed time and the pause header stayed on screen while the file played. (The time had also paused on the overlay)
4. I tried pressing pause and it paused and the overlay didn't change.
5. I pressed play and again the file played but the overlay didn't go away.
6. I pressed stop. The file stopped but the screen then remained blank and that was the last I could use MP. I had to kill the process to get it working again.
7. Once I stopped the process a windows balloon came up saying that my virtual memory was being increased.

My virtual memory is set to 3072MB for both minimum and maximum so it is a permanent setting. I'm using ATI Catalyst 5.7 drivers on an X800 Pro AGP card.

I think it may be the skin that casues this problem as now whenever any file I'm watching ends, the screen displays the two horizontal bars (one at the top of the screen and one at the bottom, like in letterbox mode). The bars at the top and bottom are the colour of the Blue Two skin and the main portion of the screen is black (the same portion that the video plays in!)

I temporarily changed back to the blue two skin that came with the MP 0.1.3 release which worked for a while and then I left a different file on pause for about 10 minutes while I had to get a spider out of my house. Anyway on pressing play the whole process went to pot again and now I'm back where I started.

In addition to this I've uninstalled and reinstalled MP 0.1.3 and the problem goes away until the first long pause causes all of this to start again. Worse still is that every time a file ends playing now I have to terminate the MP process and restart it to play anything.

Any help in getting this fixed would be great. Also is there any way to make the screen less dark while fast forwarding and pausing the files and perhaps changing the Alpha blend value to be more transparent while fast forwarding or rewinding or pausing a video?

Keep up the fantastic work.

GDive

 

[Taipan]

GDive,

I think that you should log this as a separate bug, since it appears to also happen with the "standard" BlueTwo skin. Could you also include the section/s of your MediaPortal.log file that relates to the times that this problem occurred?

 

[Boilermaker]

gdive,
even tho your problem started while using the modded skin, if it occurs now even in regular blue two, i agree with taipan....its probably a bug the skin had nothing to do with. the worst i've had a badly coded skin page do is hang mp on start, or give missing or corrupt error message when i try to use the page while in mp. most everything else i've messed up while doing the skin ends up being a cosmetic error of some kind, misaligned button, missing gfx, etc. i'm not sure if its possible for even the worst of coded skins to mess up the program files, but its a question i can ask one of the mp developers.

Also is there any way to make the screen less dark while fast forwarding and pausing the files and perhaps changing the Alpha blend value to be more transparent while fast forwarding or rewinding or pausing a video?

i'm an amateur photoshopper and an average home theater guy....i'm not sure what alpha bend is...but if its just an aspect of making the osd more transparent it can be done and i'll take a look at it and also compare it to the original blue two skin. there is a setting in the mp setup (maybe that was called alpha bend) that seemed to allow you to adjust the transparency of osds....but playing with that setting did little for me. again, maybe that's the skin's fault and not the ineffectiveness of the setting.