MediaStream skin for MP (3 Viewers)

[mattsk88]

I was gunning for 1366 x 768 mainly because thats the res most of the widescreen skins use. It also allowed me to reuse some xmls of my other skins so only minor adjustment was needed. But if thats the case then ill do a bit of extra work and just use 1280x720. Don't expect an exact port of the skin as there are layouts that I personally think aren't all that flash. I'm also focusing on fanart more than mediastream does.

 

[revs]

not too much fan art please! it can be overdone!

 

[mattsk88]

MyTV Series and Moving Pictures will have large fanart support as these plugins support it well. Here is an early look at filmstrip from Moving Pictures.

 

[emphatic]

Good god yes! That looks terrific.
Emph

 

[zicoz]

Any chance the TV part will look like the top screenie here?

http://img404.imageshack.us/img404/4473/ss1mj5.jpg

I've just really fallen in love with that look. One single vertical row of TV-show banners, and as you browse to the next one the info and fanart switches to the selected one. Much like MovingPictures does for the movies. It might take a bit longer to navigate, but imo it's easier on the eyes, and more functional with one column instead of three.

It's a bit off the original Plex, but imo it's a great look, and it IS sort of a more FanArt oriented look of the Mediastream skin since that aswell has a singe column.

 

[mattsk88]

Any chance the TV part will look like the top screenie here?

http://img404.imageshack.us/img404/4473/ss1mj5.jpg

I've just really fallen in love with that look. One single vertical row of TV-show banners, and as you browse to the next one the info and fanart switches to the selected one. Much like MovingPictures does for the movies. It might take a bit longer to navigate, but imo it's easier on the eyes, and more functional with one column instead of three.

It's a bit off the original Plex, but imo it's a great look, and it IS sort of a more FanArt oriented look of the Mediastream skin since that aswell has a singe column.

Im going to be working on tvseries, unfortunately this type of view isn't really all that possible with the way fanart is currently handled with the plugin, ill try to contact one of the developers to see if anything can be done about this. I can say that the tvseries desgin will differ to the xbmc mediastream tvshows design.

Update - I have attached a screenshot of the current tvseries banner page, criticism welcome

 

[jonaskp]

MyTV Series and Moving Pictures will have large fanart support as these plugins support it well. Here is an early look at filmstrip from Moving Pictures.

Looking good. Although if possible, it would be great if the selection weren't on the far right, but rather on the spot where "28 weeks later" is. This should be possible, I think they added the support for "Centering Filmstrip" some SVN ago, and it should be in RC3. Or am I totally wrong.

I also can't figure out if I like the design, but might just be something to get used to. What I mean is, the way that the covers are on one side, and the textbox on the other side, and nothing on the top. But this might look great on the big screen, i don't know. Maybe I've just gotten used to the look of i.e. Titanium where the Title is on the top of the screen.


Suggestion: Would it be possible to make the text-box a little opaque and have the covers on the right of the selection go behind it? Don't know if this would look weird or maké the text hard to read, but to me it looks like something is missing, when there is only 4 covers - It does not give the impression of that mighty big movie Collection it took me so long to build

Anyway, the above is just something to think about, can't wait to take a look at a working alpha/beta-release of this

 

[akiaki]

mattsk88 - you are doing great job here! I really like that skin and I tried xbmc just because of it but MP just works better... Great job so far, but looking at tvseries skinning so far, you are missing 1 or 2px white fading line on the edges of the black part which gives it a more 3d embedded look.. Have a look here:
http://www.teamrazorfish.co.uk/mediastream/090_episodes.png

 

[mattsk88]

MyTV Series and Moving Pictures will have large fanart support as these plugins support it well. Here is an early look at filmstrip from Moving Pictures.

Looking good. Although if possible, it would be great if the selection weren't on the far right, but rather on the spot where "28 weeks later" is. This should be possible, I think they added the support for "Centering Filmstrip" some SVN ago, and it should be in RC3. Or am I totally wrong.

I also can't figure out if I like the design, but might just be something to get used to. What I mean is, the way that the covers are on one side, and the textbox on the other side, and nothing on the top. But this might look great on the big screen, i don't know. Maybe I've just gotten used to the look of i.e. Titanium where the Title is on the top of the screen.


Suggestion: Would it be possible to make the text-box a little opaque and have the covers on the right of the selection go behind it? Don't know if this would look weird or maké the text hard to read, but to me it looks like something is missing, when there is only 4 covers - It does not give the impression of that mighty big movie Collection it took me so long to build

Anyway, the above is just something to think about, can't wait to take a look at a working alpha/beta-release of this

The movie selected is the center one there are another 3 covers behind the info box lol (the only problem with this is the the last three movies will be underneath the info box). I haven't decided exactly what the finished filmstrip will look like as of yet as im still tossing up whether I should have the title up the top ala titanium style. List view should make your movie collection look more impressive .

@mattsk88 - you are doing great job here! I really like that skin and I tried xbmc just because of it but MP just works better... Great job so far, but looking at tvseries skinning so far, you are missing 1 or 2px white fading line on the edges of the black part which gives it a more 3d embedded look.. Have a look here:
http://www.teamrazorfish.co.uk/mediastream/090_episodes.png

Pilehave is also doing a lot of work on the skin so send thanks his way as well . Regarding the graphics issue, the graphics being used aren't as fancy as mediastream because we aren't as good with photoshop. Hopefully the mediastream team will open there graphics up to being used by the wider skinning community. The main time spent at the moment is doing all the layout etc, graphics polish will come later. Im also trying my hand at a bit of programming to get a basichome menu editor included with the skin, stay tuned.

 

[joz]

mattsk88 and Pilehave I really, really appreciate all the effort you're putting in this great skin. As it looks like it's gonna replace my default skin (Aeon Wide) as soon as this one comes out.

Keep up the great work!