RSS Feed Image appears in wrong place on 1920 x 1200 monitor (1 Viewer)

[AcesHigh]

I use BasicHome Horizontal Style 2 (menu and ticker at bottom of screen). My monitor is 1920 x 1200 (16:10). I’ve manually selected 1920 x 1080 as my “target screen resolution” in the BasicHome editor (it had incorrectly auto detected 1280 x 720).

The RSS feed image appears too high on the screen, which I presume is because it thinks it is a 1920 x 1080 monitor. I’ve managed to correctly position the RSS feed image manually.

For the benefit of others in my situation, you need to edit BasicHome.xml in the folder C:\ProgramData\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\skin\StreamedMP

Search for the control RSS Feed image (InfoService) and adjust
<height>40, <posY>1160 and <posX>80. Numbers given are the ones that seem right for me.

I also adjust the start position of the ticker which starts too far to the right. This is done in the control RSS Items <posX> in my case I change it to 90.

This is all fine except whenever I regenerate BasicHome (usually following an update) all these changes get reset to default.

All the menus scale / stretch perfectly on my monitor so I guess there is just a small amount of logic missing somewhere.

 

[trevor]

I use BasicHome Horizontal Style 2 (menu and ticker at bottom of screen). My monitor is 1920 x 1200 (16:10). I’ve manually selected 1920 x 1080 as my “target screen resolution” in the BasicHome editor (it had incorrectly auto detected 1280 x 720).

The RSS feed image appears too high on the screen, which I presume is because it thinks it is a 1920 x 1080 monitor. I’ve managed to correctly position the RSS feed image manually.

For the benefit of others in my situation, you need to edit BasicHome.xml in the folder C:\ProgramData\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\skin\StreamedMP

Search for the control RSS Feed image (InfoService) and adjust
<height>40, <posY>1160 and <posX>80. Numbers given are the ones that seem right for me.

I also adjust the start position of the ticker which starts too far to the right. This is done in the control RSS Items <posX> in my case I change it to 90.

This is all fine except whenever I regenerate BasicHome (usually following an update) all these changes get reset to default.

All the menus scale / stretch perfectly on my monitor so I guess there is just a small amount of logic missing somewhere.

Hi,

The resoloution was selected correctly as if the screen is not a full HD (1920x1080) they it will default the native skin res of 1280x720 - this I will grant you is far from ideal.

The problem is that the image needs to be resized and this scalling is what throws out the xy position. As I dont know from a skin prospective what size of image is about to be displayed I only specifiy the height and keep the ascpect ratio and the result is what you see.

I currently only handle the HD res and correct for that so other screen sizes can show issues.

What can be done, I have just had a thought and would need some help in testing it out but I could build a fine tune section for RSS images and link this to screen size so that at least you only have to do this once and with feedback these values could be added as defaults into the editor.

Will have a look this week and see if I can sort something out.

thx

 

[AcesHigh]

I have absolutely no idea what the constraints are but from playing around with custom TV logos, I’ve noticed it was done quite sensibly (although I have no idea about the programming). There is a defined box for the logo. No matter what size or shape, the image gets zoomed-to-fit and centred inside the box.

Otherwise I’m happy to test and “represent” the 1920 x 1200 crowd.