FanArt now avalible for My Videos and My Music ! (3 Viewers)
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It is using 1.5 gigs of RAM extra by looking at all of my covers in one sitting.
yeah that's ridiculous, I only have 1 GB of RAM in my system and it stuttered like hell with the fan art on..
Is using MyTVseries the fanart backgrounds the same way? becouse I still experience stuttering sometimes now I've turned fanart off in video's. And I not, how does it work there?
Is using MyTVseries the fanart backgrounds the same way? becouse I still experience stuttering sometimes now I've turned fanart off in video's. And I not, how does it work there?
Apparently TVSeries uses a different method of loading the backgrounds/fanart. I am not sure which method...
I am not sure if you are using Vista or XP, but, in Vista my system uses about 950 megs of RAM before even loading Media Portal!
Just wondering if anyone knows if the Portal devs are doing any work on this ?
I would suggest that this has great potential and a few things need to be looked at...
1) how the image is loaded into memory, instead of them being retained in memory (getting 1-2 gigs worth of extra RAM being used) that they only be loaded/unloaded as they are used...
2) That multiple file types ie both jpg & png can be used
3) That multiple images can be used and are randomly selected. Ie. King Kong-1.jpg King Kong-2.png
4) That both the title name and the imdb reference can be used as the file title. That way, you can either download them via packs on other sites or you can use your own source / moving pictures
I have created this Improvement suggestion here :
https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/improvement-suggestions-46/movie-music-fanart-53665/
I would suggest that this has great potential and a few things need to be looked at...
1) how the image is loaded into memory, instead of them being retained in memory (getting 1-2 gigs worth of extra RAM being used) that they only be loaded/unloaded as they are used...
2) That multiple file types ie both jpg & png can be used
3) That multiple images can be used and are randomly selected. Ie. King Kong-1.jpg King Kong-2.png
4) That both the title name and the imdb reference can be used as the file title. That way, you can either download them via packs on other sites or you can use your own source / moving pictures
I have created this Improvement suggestion here :
https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/improvement-suggestions-46/movie-music-fanart-53665/
I'm using xp, it's running on an older pc (p4 2,6Ghz) so 1gb Ram is ok, though I could use 1 more (it's DDR2, so more expensive then 3, atleast here in holland it is)
about your questions: the way you are using fanart right now, you can get png as wel as jpg. Just double the code
<control>
blablablablbabla
<texture>d:\movies\#title\backdrop.jpg</texture>
</control>
and
<control>
blablablablbabla
<texture>d:\movies\#title\backdrop.png</texture>
</control>
same with title and imdb tag I think.
Is moving pictures using backgrounds the same way as tv series? can't we use that code?
Maybe I'll try today, keep you posted
about your questions: the way you are using fanart right now, you can get png as wel as jpg. Just double the code
<control>
blablablablbabla
<texture>d:\movies\#title\backdrop.jpg</texture>
</control>
and
<control>
blablablablbabla
<texture>d:\movies\#title\backdrop.png</texture>
</control>
same with title and imdb tag I think.
Is moving pictures using backgrounds the same way as tv series? can't we use that code?
Maybe I'll try today, keep you posted
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I knew you could use .jpg too but I don't know if you'll be able to use the code used in MovingPictures or TVSeries (I haven't really looked at it though) because I would have thought that was plugin/dll specific, but I'm interested to know how you get on. Good luck with it!
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- #119
The way MovingPictures and TV-Series buffers fanart is specific to those plugins, as the dev for TV-Series is also helping on MovingPictures. MP in general doesn't use that code because it wasn't initially designed to handle fanart. This is a feature that has grown into high demand just in the last year. So MyMusic and MyVideo doesn't automatically handle fanart... it is a hack to get it to work at all.
Personally, I like the feature. I'm sure the devs for MovingPictures and TV-Series would like to keep it a unique feature of their plug-ins, they have worked very hard to get it working as smoothly as it does.
It would be great if the MP devs could integrate a similar code to support fanart into MP1, but maybe that is something for MP2.
Chuck
Personally, I like the feature. I'm sure the devs for MovingPictures and TV-Series would like to keep it a unique feature of their plug-ins, they have worked very hard to get it working as smoothly as it does.
It would be great if the MP devs could integrate a similar code to support fanart into MP1, but maybe that is something for MP2.
Chuck
I am not quite sure about that... I know the dev for Moving Pictures (fforde) is happy to share any ideas/code with the MP dev's, even the system for matching, scanning & the GUI from the imdb scanner, he said he would give to the MP dev's if they asked.