ORIGINAL THREAD (OLD): About the X-Factor Skin (3 Viewers)

[ltfearme]

Hi sergiocos,

Can you try this regarding the slow loading of TVSeries pictures;
1. Open the TVSeries.SkinSettings.xml file in the skin/xfactor library.
2. Change this line <seriesbanners>100</seriesbanners> to <seriesbanners>60</seriesbanners>
3. Change this line <seriesposters>100</seriesposters> to <seriesposters>20</seriesposters>
4. Change this line <seasonbanners>100</seasonbanners> to <seasonbanners>75</seasonbanners>
5. Change this line <episodethumbs>100</episodethumbs> to <episodethumbs>90</episodethumbs>

Does this help?

And I will look at the radio problem for you as well.

best regards
cul8er

this workaround seems to load posters faster, but there is a slight quality loss, so I can live without it... I preffer X-Factor to "shine", and I can wait for 2 secs for the posters to load. It seems strange, that's all (btw, there are 35 posters in my TV-Series).

I want to thank you for your quick response and for the radio-fix (whenever you are ready). Your work is kindly appreciated.

Try slightly higher quality then:

<seriesposters>50</seriesposters>

that should be more than enough without any noticeable image quality loss...there is other conditions to consider like your screen resolution when it does the scaling but 50% should be good for 1920x1080. I havent got the skin loaded at the moment but if you can still see quality loss from your TV then increment by 10%

 

[emphatic]

Yes, that looks very nice. If I may suggest a little border at the top though. The scrolling text is aligned to the left, so the runtime label kinda floats about, and doesn't look like it has a real setting (to me). If there is a border where you put the movie title along with the runtime, these two labels are aligned horizontally and that looks better.

If production year is added, I suggest you put it like I did in my mockup.
Emph

 

[cul8er]

Hi revned,

I love your screenshot. Thank you for your help. I have modifyed it a little (hope you don't mind) and attach it below.

What do you think?

best regards
cul8er

 

[revned]

Hi Cul8er.

I am glad you like my mockup. Is the summary text scrolling in yours? Because that's the only thing i hate about mediaportal. That's why i'm using as little details as possible in my big thumbs view, so the summary box is as big as possible. I'm using a details screen in Moving Pictures, so when i want more details like actors, director and stuff, i just go to the details page. In my opinion you get 3 different views:

- filmstrip: lot of fanart, no info
- big thumbs: medium fanart, basic info
- list view: little/no fanart, lots of info

One other question. My grilfriend is complaining that the posters look to small in the big thumbs view. Is it possible to maker these a little bigger and show only 3 covers on screen for example?

 

[sergiocos]

Try slightly higher quality then:

<seriesposters>50</seriesposters>

that should be more than enough without any noticeable image quality loss...there is other conditions to consider like your screen resolution when it does the scaling but 50% should be good for 1920x1080. I havent got the skin loaded at the moment but if you can still see quality loss from your TV then increment by 10%

Now the posters load instantly and they look good, too!

the revned mockup + the new cul8er series look ... i thought this skin is perfect, but you guys never cease to amaze me... thanks! (PS: I'm also for the 3 covers on the left, so we can see clearly the cover, and enough fanart)

 

[cul8er]

Hi,

I have remade the myVideos (even if not that many has answered in the poll, quite some people has read it and it is clear what you wanted) to make it look like Moving Picture. Here is the result.

cheers
cul8er

 

[wolfie smith]

hi cul8er that is way cool keep up the very good work ps what about myemulator and pcgames fanart?

 

[cul8er]

Hi wolfie smith,

I'm unable to reproduce the problem that you have with myEmulators and the fanart. Could you please help me by answering these questions:
1. What resulution do you use, 1280x720?
2. What resulution is the image in?

Can you also please extract the attached file (latest version) and see if the problem is still there. Thanks!

cheers
cul8er

 

[wolfie smith]

they are both 1920x1080 cul8er

 

[cul8er]

Hi all,

Can we all please try to keep this thread free from bug reports and feature requests and use post these kinds of issues in this thread (https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/x-factor-316/feature-requests-bug-reports-59430/).

Thank you

Best Regards
cul8er