New Release - Streamed MP v0.4.298 (2 Viewers)

[Koschel]

Here is the requested Screenshot, TV Fullscreen, while pressing "Y"

Hi again !
Thank you so much for your quick answer but it seems to me that i have seen it already .We want to keep the progress bar on the bottom of the screen, it was Spuk idea and i think it's new and look very well. Yes i know, it must be user-friendly,easily readable and it must look good. That will be very difficult .

regards

Losttown

I think the biggest problem is amount of information, current title, epg ,upcoming title, progressbar and time together. I agree ,it looks very nice, but as disaster123 says, not very readable as it is right now. My first tought was to change the epg lines, but things don't get better. Second tought was to go back to 2 bars, old fashioned but readable and clear.
If you have any other ideas, how to solve this problem, would be great.
spuck told me, that you are the guy for the TV-stuff. Have you seen the other changes I've made? (Timer with logos and bigger buttons, Channelname in TV-Search) ?

 

[mortstar]

I like the progress bar on the bottom - new skin, new look.

However the current use of the same colour throughout the progressbar and the little red dot for placemarker I think could and should be improved.

Rather than have a uniform blue bar for the progress bar in TV, perhaps the non-timeshifted portion of the program can be in a darker shade of the blue, the timeshifted portion can be the same colour and I really think the placemarker (that currently looks like a little record button pin) should be changed - perhaps to a little white circle or similar.

EDIT: I've added a mockup picture of what I think it could look like....I reduced the quality of the .png so don't worry my picture quality is much better than this looks!

The first part of the mockup on the left is more an error of the current skin, not how I want the skin to look.

 

[losttown]

I think the biggest problem is amount of information, current title, epg ,upcoming title, progressbar and time together. I agree ,it looks very nice, but as disaster123 says, not very readable as it is right now. My first tought was to change the epg lines, but things don't get better. Second tought was to go back to 2 bars, old fashioned but readable and clear.
If you have any other ideas, how to solve this problem, would be great.
spuck told me, that you are the guy for the TV-stuff. Have you seen the other changes I've made? (Timer with logos and bigger buttons, Channelname in TV-Search) ?

Yes. Great job Koschel!

I like the progress bar on the bottom - new skin, new look.

However the current use of the same colour throughtout the progressbar and the little red dot for placemarker I think could and should be improved.

Rather than have a uniform blue bar for the progress bar in TV, perhaps the non-timeshifted portion of the program can be in a darker shade of the blue, the timeshifted portion can be the same colour and I really thnk the placemarker (that currently looks like a little record button pin) should be changed - perhaps to a little white circle or similar.

EDIT: I've added a mockup picture of what I think it could look like....I reduced the quality of the .png so don't worrk my picture quality is much better than this looks!

The first part of the mockup on the left is more an error of the current skin, not how I want the skin to look.

Yes! Yes! : discussion with small picture, ideas, a little bit of fantasy!!°

 

[thesystemera]

Crazy question... What out of these two skins should I be using... This is nuts that there are two simular skins, healthy competition I guess but does seem a little waste of people/hours...

 

[explodedk]

i try a bit of both. they have both flaws and ups . competition is imo good

 

[infinite.loop]

Finally i had some time to test StreamedMP and it looks and works very well.

I did take a look at your "bugtracker" where i could not find the following "issues".

"up" not working in Homescreen:

1. start MP (normal homescreen)
2. press "right"
3. press "up" -> now exit is focused
4. press "up" -> you hear a click but nothing happens
5. press "down" -> now shutdown is focused
6. press "down" -> now you scroll down the list

"up" only works on the first entry of the menu, not when any other item is focused.

*update* for some reason this is only reproduceable on my VISTA notebook, not on my WinXP HTPC. ​

overlaping text in MyWeather

The Text "Last Refresh" overlaps the Date right next to it.
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BasicHome -> icon for exit MP

I think that the icon for "Exit MediaPortal" should be an "X" not an "i" which looks like "Info". ​

MyPictures - center preview in listview

Would it be possible that you center the preview image between the left edge of the screen and the list?
I think that i did see this in MediaStream.
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I have also noticed a crash of MediaPortal when using the BasicHomesrceen, which i added to mantis.


Will test more during the weekend. Keep up the great work!


The latest blog entry might be interesting for community skinners. We created a wiki page which will contain all the skinchanges that are required to make skins 1.0.1 compatible.

 

[infinite.loop]

Some more results:

Missing icons and "wrong" info:

It seems that the default icons/images for folders are missing.

The info panel on the right displays the videoinfo of thefirst file in the folder. this looks a bit strange. ​

Icon and BigIcon view have the same size:

It makes absolutelly no difference if you select Icon View or BigIcon view

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Navigation issue in (Big)Icon Views

When navigating throught a (Big)Icon View it is pretty easy to "loose control". The "focus" dissapears and you can only get it back to soemthing onscreen with luck, or by leaving the screen.
I guess that this is maybe related to the spincontrols. no sure.​

MyTV:

The whole MyTV section seems a bit "provisional" in the current Version. But I guess that it still is a WIP, since this skin is still beta. ​

Note: Please dont take this post(s) negative. I just report the issues i spotted, because I really love the skin. And i think that it has great potential.
I do not know if i can keep the current version as primary skin because my wife and kids will have problems with the small issues i reported here.
But i am sure that soon it will become the primary skin on my HTPCs here.

 

[spuck]

Thx infinityloop.

Missing icons and "wrong" info:

It seems that the default icons/images for folders are missing.
View attachment 33656
The info panel on the right displays the videoinfo of thefirst file in the folder. this looks a bit strange. ​

Isn't this the same in all skins with imdb info in shares view? Don't think there anything u can do about it on the skinning side.

Default icons are fixed.
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Icon and BigIcon view have the same size:

It makes absolutelly no difference if you select Icon View or BigIcon view
View attachment 33657 View attachment 33658​

You are correct sir. First I wanted to make the largeicon fill covers all the way to the right and have smallicon with info on the right side. Then I realized you can't have different "width" on largeicon and smallicon.

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Navigation issue in (Big)Icon Views

When navigating throught a (Big)Icon View it is pretty easy to "loose control". The "focus" dissapears and you can only get it back to soemthing onscreen with luck, or by leaving the screen.
I guess that this is maybe related to the spincontrols. no sure.​

This has been fixed.
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overlaping text in MyWeather

The Text "Last Refresh" overlaps the Date right next to it.
View attachment 33650​

Your font looks aweful huge have you changed the font sizes?
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[infinite.loop]

Your font looks aweful huge have you changed the font sizes?

During installation i selected the "big" fontsize in the installer, not default.

If you ask me then fonts could even be a bit bigger, since I am not a fan of skins, which can be used as eyesight test as well.
But whith the selected "big" fontsize, it is quite readable on my 32" LCD.

 

[stevemuller]

Thanks for this great skin.

It works perfectly but only have one irritation.

With moving pictures there is on the right site the info from the movies. That means that 2 movies are behind this info )see picture)??

Can I change this? You can see the info also when you are clicking on the movie