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<blockquote data-quote="fforde" data-source="post: 379656" data-attributes="member: 52082"><p>Ackbar I truly appreciate your feedback, but could you please check your attitude. Emphatic was trying to be nothing but helpful and was pointing you to a few resources that he suspected you overlooked. If you want to participate in this community, you need to treat people with a bit more respect. Many people around here do not speak English as their first language, so it is important to give people the benefit of the doubt and be careful with how you word things.</p><p></p><p>Okay, so as for your thoughts, again thanks for the feedback. Emphatic is right, some of what you mentioned is already in the plans. Other bits really are skinning issues or ideas that would require changes to MediaPortal. Moving Pictures is only a plug-in after all, so we are sometimes limited in what we can do by the constraints of MediaPortal itself.</p><p></p><p>That being said, here are my thoughts:</p><p></p><p>Alternate cover images are already possible and is something that is totally up to the skinner. Some skins have implemented an alternate piece of cover art some have not. As for the text displaying the name of a movie, text is normally displayed for each thumbnail image, and the skinner has to go out of their way to hide it. Really though the ideal solution is to add cover artwork for movies that are missing it, so I think this is why some skinners do not pay attention to alternate artwork like this. </p><p></p><p></p><p>This would be an enhancement to the MediaPortal skinning engine. It's not a bad idea, but you might do better suggesting to the MediaPortal team rather than the Moving Pictures team.</p><p></p><p></p><p><a href="http://code.google.com/p/moving-pictures/issues/detail?id=17" target="_blank">This has been in our product road map for several months</a>.</p><p></p><p></p><p><a href="http://code.google.com/p/moving-pictures/issues/detail?id=291" target="_blank">Already planned.</a></p><p></p><p></p><p>The list controls appearance can be highly customized. Most skinners I think try to use fonts and sizes that are readable for as many people as possible (within reason). But this is a skinning issue. You might consider trying one of the 1080p skins though.</p><p></p><p></p><p><a href="http://code.google.com/p/moving-pictures/issues/detail?id=14" target="_blank">We are already planning custom tagging</a>, and as I mentioned above, an integrated user rating system. As far as in GUI integration for these tags, we haven't gotten that far in planning. At first I think at most, we would have in GUI User Ratings and Favorite integration. Other tags would probably have to be managed in the Config Screen. We want to provide flexibility but we also do not want to over-complicate the plug-in.</p><p></p><p></p><p>I linked it above but we do plan to integrate video file meta-data into the plug-in and the most important aspect of this would of course be for filtering. The plan is to allow filtering of virtually any field in the database. Maybe with a few exceptions for fields that don't quite make sense to filter by (like runtime).</p><p></p><p></p><p>Thanks again for the feedback. And by the way, if you have any other thoughts on specific upcoming features, you may want to post on the issue thread for each issue on Google Code. This would provide much more visibility to the developer implementing the enhancement.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="fforde, post: 379656, member: 52082"] Ackbar I truly appreciate your feedback, but could you please check your attitude. Emphatic was trying to be nothing but helpful and was pointing you to a few resources that he suspected you overlooked. If you want to participate in this community, you need to treat people with a bit more respect. Many people around here do not speak English as their first language, so it is important to give people the benefit of the doubt and be careful with how you word things. Okay, so as for your thoughts, again thanks for the feedback. Emphatic is right, some of what you mentioned is already in the plans. Other bits really are skinning issues or ideas that would require changes to MediaPortal. Moving Pictures is only a plug-in after all, so we are sometimes limited in what we can do by the constraints of MediaPortal itself. That being said, here are my thoughts: Alternate cover images are already possible and is something that is totally up to the skinner. Some skins have implemented an alternate piece of cover art some have not. As for the text displaying the name of a movie, text is normally displayed for each thumbnail image, and the skinner has to go out of their way to hide it. Really though the ideal solution is to add cover artwork for movies that are missing it, so I think this is why some skinners do not pay attention to alternate artwork like this. This would be an enhancement to the MediaPortal skinning engine. It's not a bad idea, but you might do better suggesting to the MediaPortal team rather than the Moving Pictures team. [URL="http://code.google.com/p/moving-pictures/issues/detail?id=17"]This has been in our product road map for several months[/URL]. [URL="http://code.google.com/p/moving-pictures/issues/detail?id=291"]Already planned.[/URL] The list controls appearance can be highly customized. Most skinners I think try to use fonts and sizes that are readable for as many people as possible (within reason). But this is a skinning issue. You might consider trying one of the 1080p skins though. [URL="http://code.google.com/p/moving-pictures/issues/detail?id=14"]We are already planning custom tagging[/URL], and as I mentioned above, an integrated user rating system. As far as in GUI integration for these tags, we haven't gotten that far in planning. At first I think at most, we would have in GUI User Ratings and Favorite integration. Other tags would probably have to be managed in the Config Screen. We want to provide flexibility but we also do not want to over-complicate the plug-in. I linked it above but we do plan to integrate video file meta-data into the plug-in and the most important aspect of this would of course be for filtering. The plan is to allow filtering of virtually any field in the database. Maybe with a few exceptions for fields that don't quite make sense to filter by (like runtime). Thanks again for the feedback. And by the way, if you have any other thoughts on specific upcoming features, you may want to post on the issue thread for each issue on Google Code. This would provide much more visibility to the developer implementing the enhancement. [/QUOTE]
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