changing home page look..StreamedMP? (1 Viewer)

[moviebug]

I now have Media portal 1.1.0 installed
with StreamedMP as my main skin
along with
Moving Pictures
and MP Tv series

I have a separate drive for
Movies
and
TVseries
I have created a folder on each of these drives with the title of Movies, TVseries

I have placed movies and tv series in each drive
and scanned them using each plug-ins scanner

and I have a remote working quite well to navigate around the interfaces

I want to change the look of the home page..in StreamedMP

to only include the following

Movies ...to play movies under Moving Pictures
TV series ...to play TV series under MPTV series
Blu-ray ...to play any DVDs or Blu-rays Discs using external player Arcsoft TMT3...from the LG blu-ray drive
Music ...to play music
Pictures
Plug-ins
Settings


How do I set this up?
Is it via StreamedMP set-up???
or
is it via Mediaportal setup...then Home

I have looked in StreamMP set-up...called StreamedMP basic home generator
(unfortunately I dont know how to do screen captures ..and then include in a post here)

on the left is.... items available ...with a drop down box

then you have in middle.... Item Properties
and below that.... Background images

then on right you have
....Items selected

Is there a guide for using this to make a new home page?

 

[ltfearme]

I want to change the look of the home page..in StreamedMP

to only include the following

Movies ...to play movies under Moving Pictures
TV series ...to play TV series under MPTV series
Blu-ray ...to play any DVDs or Blu-rays Discs using external player Arcsoft TMT3...from the LG blu-ray drive
Music ...to play music
Pictures
Plug-ins
Settings

How do I set this up?
Is it via StreamedMP set-up???
or
is it via Mediaportal setup...then Home

I have looked in StreamMP set-up...called StreamedMP basic home generator
(unfortunately I dont know how to do screen captures ..and then include in a post here)

on the left is.... items available ...with a drop down box

then you have in middle.... Item Properties
and below that.... Background images

then on right you have
....Items selected

Is there a guide for using this to make a new home page?

Your on the right track, the items on the right are the ones that will get displayed in the home menu when you load MediaPortal, the ones on the left are the ones you can pick to add e.g. you may have another plugin installed which you want displayed on Home.

All you need to do is remove the ones you dont want from the right hand list box. We will hopefully get around to making this a lot easier and provide a guide once we come out of Beta.

 

[moviebug]

When you change the "items available" to something different
ie movies or bluray...it seems to give a whole new list..in the box below??

or does the selection you make...in the "items available"
actually highlight in the box below what is associated with it in... BLUE?

What does the middles two properties do...?
they seem to change depending what is chosen in the left drop down box?

so the "item properties"
for example when Bluray is selected on the left drop down list

shows.... Label ...with some items for choice from drop down box...is this a command or action?

and Name...with Bluray...which is what will show in actual menu??

 

[herba]

The homepage need works.

The selected menu font are way to big and only allows 7 letters words. Since the unslected font is smaller, it may show correctly but will dissapear when you pass on it.


The left section is too small compare to the right section.

Is there anyway to change the homepage to a icon per choice mosiaque presentantion instead of a scrolling menu?

 

[kiwijunglist]

In the menu editor you can change the menu X position, this will allow you to have slightly larger words.

However yes there is still a limit, I have to use "REC TV" isntead of "RECORDED TV" and "MUSIC VIDS" instead of "MUSIC VIDEOS"

 

[Spaldo]

I use Moving Pictures for my Movies and Music Videos... does anyone know what I need to change so the home screen says "Movies & Music" instead of "Movies" for Moving pictures?

Thanks

 

[kiwijunglist]

For basic home -> use the StreamedMP Menu Editor to change the name.
For non basic home -> Load MP Config, select Moving Pics Plugin, You can change the name of the plugin there.

 

[Spaldo]

For basic home -> use the StreamedMP Menu Editor to change the name.
For non basic home -> Load MP Config, select Moving Pics Plugin, You can change the name of the plugin there.

Great, the latter worked fine. Thanks.

I currently only use Moving Pictures & MyTVSeries... However there are 5-6 different things that scroll over & over. Is there a way to change it so that only 2 are displayed?

 

[kiwijunglist]

Sounds like you are using non basic home.
Yes you can disable all the plugins you don't use and they wont appear in the non basic home menu.
If there are any plugins you want to keep running, but don't want to see them, then move them to the plugins (Click 'In Plugins' instead of 'In Home'), then click home plugin, config, disable plugins view.

 

[Spaldo]

Sounds like you are using non basic home.
Yes you can disable all the plugins you don't use and they wont appear in the non basic home menu.
If there are any plugins you want to keep running, but don't want to see them, then move them to the plugins (Click 'In Plugins' instead of 'In Home'), then click home plugin, config, disable plugins view.

Yep, I only am displaying the two.. but they are displaying over & over... I mean't is there a way the skin can only display 2 items rather than 5-6 of the same 2 items ...

If that doesn't make sense I can take a screen shot.

Thanks again