PureVisionHD 1080 (4 Viewers)

[catavolt]

Hello folks,
I reworked the NowPlaying screens (in close cooperation with @kiwijunglist and @Pog), so here a little video showing the new amazing animations (together with some more impressions of PVHD1080)
Hope you´ll like it

Link removed, new link below

 

[catavolt]

Some more (good?) news:
I´m just finishing the rework of Modern UI.
Cleaner and nicer (I hope)

 

[catavolt]

And now (tataaaa):
For all who want to have the amazing animations shown above, the new design of Modern UI and some more goodies, here is the PureVisionHD 1080 6.0 Preview
Also new in this version:

• Fixed a bug in MyLyrics screen which could cause a crash of MP
• Full support of new plugin MyWebradio
• Full support of "Online X" (thanks to @Pog) giving you the opportunity to go directly from the dialog menu to Google, YouTube, IMDB, Rotten Tomatoes, TVWishList etc., when the OnX symbol is shown (see screenshots below). Just go left or right to show the OnX menu.
• New TV background which allow perfect integration of TV/Video live image and recorded tv images (see screenshots below).

Just drop the content of the ZIP file into your MP skin directory (overwrite when asked). After that, you must clean the skin cache!
This ZIP contains all XMLs, but only the new GFX necessary to run this version.
Have fun!

 

[doveman]

And now (tataaaa):
For all who want to have the amazing animations shown above, the new design of Modern UI and some more goodies, here is the PureVisionHD 1080 6.0 Preview

Thanks catavolt, nice refresh of Modern UI

I still find the text underneath the icons (and for the Weather) a bit small though. The font used at the top, for the time and date, is much clearer. I guess it's a problem using a bigger font if you want to keep all the icons on one row (at the moment, for me the only row that's full is Settings) but I personally wouldn't mind if they had to spread over two rows in order to enable the use of a bigger font.

I've not heard of Online X before but the only icon I got when I tested it from MovingPictures was Youtube.

 

[catavolt]

New PureVisionHD 1080 video:

 

[Pog]

I've not heard of Online X before but the only icon I got when I tested it from MovingPictures was Youtube.

You need BrowseTheWeb for those elements to work or else you get a blank tile.

More info on the Online Xtra skin mod HERE.

 

[doveman]

Thanks for the tips Pog

 

[greybox]

I always have to press the right arrow (select "i") to show the thumbs in the Default skin. I was wondering what is a good reason of not showing the thumbs automatically in the left part of the screen without selecting "i"? There is a lot of space on the screen! It would make sense if you don't want to block the IMDB art, but some clips are not listed in IMDB. Maybe make this option configurable?

 

[catavolt]

Nice idea . The reason behind this was to not spoil the fanart (PVHD is a fanart-oriented skin) and was accepted by the users when I asked them (anywhere in this thread).
But making it an option would be the solution for all

 

[greybox]

Yes, thank you for your comments. For some people most of their video library are home videos or music clips which are obviously not described at all in IMDB. For those users that empty spot is a waste of space and having to press the remote button a few extra times just to see the thumbnail is not very practical.