Monochrome "My Movies" and DVD playback (1 Viewer)

[lsandini]

Hello everyone,

I have been using mainly Blue2Wide, but Monochrome really looks much better in my living room. Just a few questions though:

Since I have a few movies in various formats on a share on my home network, I also placed a few ISO images there and found out they would be loaded in Daemon tools, cool, and with autoplay enabled, mounting and playing is a breeze.

In BlueTwo, the "My Movies" page menu has a "play DVD" option, and when I have a DVD in the physical DVD drive, it gives me the option of selecting either the DVD mounted in Daemon tools, or the other disk in the physical drive. This apparently is not present in Monochrome.

When my wife/kids insert a physical DVD, the DVD autoplay starts, but plays the DVD mounted in Daemon Tools instead... In the movies list, the inserted DVD doesn't show, naturally. I removed the "Play DVD" item in the "home" menu, since it would not ask what DVD to play, if there was a physical DVD inserted and an ISO image mounted.

I have changed the autoplay settings, so that MP asks me if I want to play the DVD I just inserted, and now it seems to play the correct one after I click yes. However when I click "no", it starts playing the DaemonTools DVD... This behaviour is also present in BlueTwo, but the the "play DVD" option in the My Movies menu, this is easily overcome.

Does anyone have a simple solution to that dual DVD drive situation ?

How to modify the Monochrome skin maybe ?

Lorenzo

 

[Psycho Reptile]

Add this to the group element that has the menu buttons in myvideo.xml

      <control>
        <description>Play DVD</description>
        <type>button</type>
        <id>6</id>
        <label>341</label>
        <onright>50</onright>
      </control>
      <control>
        <description>Eject Disc</description>
        <type>button</type>
        <id>7</id>
        <label>654</label>
        <action>100</action>
        <onright>50</onright>
      </control>

 

[lsandini]

Now that was a quick reply,

... but while the buttons appear where they should, the focus doesn't move onto them, nor can I "press the buttons".

I noticed the similarities and differences with BlueTwo's myvideo.xml, but even when copying the "controls" section as such, the "PlayDVD" and Eject Disc" buttons remain non-functional.

I am using v0.2.3 rev 18566 for server and client, if that makes a difference with the newest monochrome versions...

Thanks for your help.

Lorenzo

(probably too much to ask, but is there anything like a WYSIWYG editor for the skins, since they use XML ?)

 

[Psycho Reptile]

Now that was a quick reply,

... but while the buttons appear where they should, the focus doesn't move onto them, nor can I "press the buttons".

I noticed the similarities and differences with BlueTwo's myvideo.xml, but even when copying the "controls" section as such, the "PlayDVD" and Eject Disc" buttons remain non-functional.

I am using v0.2.3 rev 18566 for server and client, if that makes a difference with the newest monochrome versions...

Thanks for your help.

Lorenzo

(probably too much to ask, but is there anything like a WYSIWYG editor for the skins, since they use XML ?)

You will need to add onup and ondown tags to the two controls, also my skins are meant for RC1 or later

The WYSIWYG editor was abandoned a long time ago

 

[lsandini]

You will need to add onup and ondown tags to the two controls, also my skins are meant for RC1 or later

Yes I noticed that in the BlueTWo xml file, and added the onup and ondown tags, which brought the buttons close together (there was a little gap between them and the other ones before), but I still can't use them. I guess I am doing something wrong and I'll try again later tonight. Probably inserted the lines at the wrong place...

The WYSIWYG editor was abandoned a long time ago

Too bad, it would have been really useful, but I understand it is not a priority.

My little family seems to like BlueTwo more than Monochrome, I guess we'll move to Indigo soon as a compromise.

Thanks for the good work and support !

Lorenzo