Problem editing the Filmstrip-view in MP-TVseries (1 Viewer)

[archmage4eve]

Hi ltfearme and all other MP-users!

The MP-TVseries plugin is really sweet and looks damn good.

Despite that, i am trying to make som tweaks to the FilmStrip-view when browsing my Series, i.e. the main view in the plugin. As default, the view shows a filmstrip of my series in the middle of the screen and in the background there is fanart. But, there is also a transparent overlay image that darkens the fanart and also makes the filmstrip easier to read. There is also the Title and a Series Summary at the bottom.

I want to get the filmstrip-view more like the view in Moving Pictures-plugin, i.e. to have the filmstrip at the bottom, and to better see the fanart.

So, i edited the XML-files for TVSeries and removed the Title and Summary. Then i found in TVseries.xml the follwing code:

<control>
<description>FanArt Overlay - Other Views</description>
<type>image</type>
<id>0</id>
<posX>0</posX>
<posY>0</posY>
<width>1280</width>
<height>720</height>
<texture>tvviewbg.png</texture>
<visible>Control.IsVisible(1236)</visible>
</control>

This code refers to the overlay image that darkens the fanart. I edited the tvviewbg.png image in the belief that it would change in the view, but it didn't. Even when i removed the image from my computer, MP-TVSeries still found it and used it.

So my problem is that i want to be able to use my edited tvviewbg.png for the FilmStrip-view and then i also want to move the filmstrip down to the bottom of the view. Hope someone can help

in advance! Grateful for any suggestions

/S

 

[Jeditrav]

Did you delete your skin cache? It holds 'packed' graphics/textures in there to be used rather than constantly reading the skin media folder (which would be why it finds it even though you deleted it) - pays to delete skin cache whenever you change graphics etc... Located at:

XP: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\Cache\UsedSkinFolder
Vista: C:\ProgramData\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\Cache\UsedSkinFolder

 

[archmage4eve]

Did you delete your skin cache? It holds 'packed' graphics/textures in there to be used rather than constantly reading the skin media folder (which would be why it finds it even though you deleted it) - pays to delete skin cache whenever you change graphics etc... Located at:

XP: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\Cache\UsedSkinFolder
Vista: C:\ProgramData\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\Cache\UsedSkinFolder

Thnx mate. I found the packed image, in the MediaPortal\Cache\StreamedMP-folder but when i removed it, the skin now just skips the image instead of reading it from the Skin's Media-folder. Got any tips?

**EDIT**
Removing just a few files didn't work, removing the whole folder worked, thanx!

So does anyone have a tip to find the code for the location of the FilmStrip?

 

[Jeditrav]

I've been doing a bit of playing/tweaking of the tvseries.xml for more fanart lately myself, check it out here - for StreamedMP I found the 'Filmstrip' layout section under 'FACADEVIEWS' down towards the bottom of the .xml file

 

[archmage4eve]

Thnx Jedi! That did the trick. Also thnx for the Flat Filmstrip view, looks so much better