"Default View" option for folders does not work (1 Viewer)

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MediaPortal Version: 1.0RC2
MediaPortal Skin: BlueTwo
Windows Version: Windows XP pro SP2

In MediaPortal Configuration, the various sections that work with folders (Movies, Music and Pictures) all have an option "Default View" for each defined folder. The options for Default View are List, Icons, Big Icons, Album and Filmstrip.

First things first; there is heavy mixup of terminology here, so my observations may be because of me becoming confused! MP Configuration talks about "Default View" for each folder, and besides that allows to configure several "Views" for Movies and Music (not for Pictures). These two uses of the word View seem to be unrelated. Within the MP interface, it seems Layout is used instead of the first use of View. However, Layout has the possibilities List, Icons, Big Icons, Big Icon List (instead of Album, only available in Music, and not available in Folders View) and Filmstrip.

I am assuming here, that the Default View in Configuration, should correspond to Layout in the interface.

Now for the eror. Your selection for Default View in Configuration has NO effect. On first use of MediaPortal (not 100% certain here...) Movies and Music always default to List, and Pictures to Filmstrip. On subsequent use, the last selected Layout is reused. Also, the Layout setting for one folder is always used for all other folders also.

For testing, I've added several folders to both Music and Pictures, all with different Default Views. But inside the MP interface, all folders were displayed with the same Layout, the last one used on a previous run of MP.

Defining Views (Layouts) in the Views section of Movies and Music seems to work better. Whatever is defined here under ViewAs (again yet another formulation), is also used inside MP. With one exception; wherever Album view (only available in Music) is configured, Big Icon List layout is used.

I realize this bug is a non-issue for most people, since you only have to select your preferred layout once for the folders view inside the MP interface and that choice is remembered afterward. (Though it does mean you can't have different layouts for different folders, but I guess nobody needs that anyway.) I just bumped into it trying to write the documentation and trying to figure out what every option does...

Can anybody confirm this bug, or tell me I am totally on the wrong track?

PS, coming back to the point of mixed-up terminology: where Configuration talks about Folders, the MP interface talks about Shares. And of course in Configuration there is talk about Movies where it is called Video in the interface. Just more inconsistencies...

 

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Anyone available who can give a reply?

 

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at least anybody who can confirm this bug ?

 

[Branko]

I can confirm this bug

I can confirm this bug although with my videos it doesn't seem to be limited to just the default 'layout'.
In some folders when I have selected a video to watch in 'Filmstrip' layout, after returning to the menu the display has reverted to 'list' layout.
This did not happen with RC1 that I was using previously.

I'll post more information if I find out more details.

 

[bigj]

I can confirm similar 'random' view behaviour too.
Most notably I prefer to browse my videos (movies) as shares+filmstrip layout.
But regardless of setting this as default or manually selecting filmstrip layout it seems to want to revert to list view.
NOTE: I am still currently using RC4.

 

[Branko]

With version 1.0.0.0 I only seem to have trouble with one share. I have 3 shares: Kids, Movies, Recorded TV. Kids and Movies both contain a mix of playlists (m3u files) ISO files and avi files all with database entries. When I select the folder 'Kids' the button to change the layout is empty (the button is there, but there is no text in it and the button doesn't do anything). If I select that folder as the default folder it always reverts to List layout. If I first select any of the other two folders, it correctly changes to Filmstrip layout and then I can go back the the Kids folder and see that with Filmstrip layout.
After something has finished playing from the Kids folder the display always reverts back to List layout, without the option to change it.

I have tried removing all files from the Kids folder except 4 avi files and that didn't make any difference. I also tried removing the entire video database with no effect except the disappearance of the thumbnails.
Can anyone suggest some other things that may be causing this erratic behaviour?