New skin: SimpleMP (4 Viewers)

[funkstar]

Do you have digital terrestrial TV in Sweeden?

It doesn't need a very powerful PC to record that as it is only dumping the MPEG-2 data stream to disk, it doens't have to do any compression etc. I've heard of a P133 being able to record DVB broadcasts on a stripped down Linux install.

 

[mikael]

Offtopic: Yes we have DTT in Sweden, will have a look on it. Thanks for the tip.

Further, please stay to the topic.

 

[mikael]

Beta 1 is released, see first post.

 

[Ralph]

Hi mikael,

very well done. I'm downloading, right now.

Please will you upload the skin at the skin-section:
https://www.team-mediaportal.com/files/Download/Skins/4:3/

Even beta skins should be placed here.
Just register quick and you can upload your file.

Regards
Ralph

 

[xemumanic]

Yes, this is a much-needed update to the MCE skin. I was worried MCE would die out. However, I'm not really into the purple. I'd like to see blue, and I'm sure many other colors would be a welcome addition.

 

[jawbroken]

If you want to change the colour it should be easy enough to do yourself with any graphics program that supports hue adjustment (e.g. Photoshop).

 

[xemumanic]

Unfortunately, I know less than a cockroach about how to use photoshop, nor do I have such an expensive app. I'm sure there are others, likely free too, but I wouldnt know how to use them either. it was just a suggestion.

 

[jawbroken]

Yes, fair enough. There are several free tools that will do that same thing easily, but you will have to investigate some of your time learning to use them.

I was just trying to say that it isn't really necessary to ask people to provide things to your specifications if they are easy to do yourself. Of course, you may get lucky and mikael may decide to release a bunch of versions of the skin in various colours and you will find something you like there.

EDIT: I see it as the same sort of thing as whenever someone makes a 4:3 skin everyone asks them to make it again in 16:9, and vice versa. Sure it would be nice, but you are pretty much asking them to do twice the work for something they will not use (I would guess they invest their time making skins that work on the aspect ratio that they use).

 

[tklon]

very well done. I'm downloading, right now.

Me too.

I used the MCE skin for a long time and switched to BlueTwo since some weeks. This skin looks great, even better than MCE. Thank you!

 

[xemumanic]

Are there any plans to update this skin? Some changeover in SVN already makes this skin (and just about every other except BlueTwo) pop up an error about a missing myHome.xml. You can use the myhome.xml from bluetwo, but its kinda funky, and who knows what other changes will come up.

I really liked MCE, but it wasn't being updated, and this skin was an updated, better-looking version or it, I'd hate to see it die out after just one release.