[Skin release] SimpleMP Beta 4 (MP 0.2.3.0) (3 Viewers)

[mikael]

if no one else is willing I will attempt to create the TV screens, though it may take a little while as I haven't any experience in skinning MP yet.

Sure, I'll send you an PM.

Also on my system I noticed that I can't get into "Now Playing" in My Music with your skin.. is that just me or is this something you know about ?

Your right, have not seen this before. The Now Playing screen does not appear. I'll take a look at this tonight. Thanks for reporting!

 

[Psycho Reptile]

Hi mikael, your "Now Playing" screen in My Music is missing the tags and tracks lists (as well as any ratings but these aren't essential to this screen), just had a brief look as I ran into the same problem as swifty. Have a look at the end of the same xml in B2 and you will see what I mean . Very nice beta though .
By the way I would also be intersted in those 16x9 graphics

 

[mikael]

The new "Now Playing" - screen has now been added. See the first post.

Screenshot:

 

[CHli]

Great ! (song )

 

[Dadeo]

mikael, thanks so much for the great skin. The larger fonts are great, and even when I increase them, all the text is visible and in the boxes correctly. Hooray!

Is there any topbar? I can't seem to get it to display!

 

[mikael]

No, I haven't created a topbar for the skin since I don't see any use of it on my HTPC. What do you use the topbar for? Mouse controls?

 

[Sh4nn0w]

Nice, my laptop runs much smoother with this, as it seems to struggle where my main PC's ok with other skins.

 

[mikael]

Sounds strange, how can it struggle on your AMD Athlon 64 3000+ (1.8Ghz) when it runs smoothly on my PIII 650 Mhz? Must be a direct x failure... or a bad SVN

 

[Sh4nn0w]

Sounds strange, how can it struggle on your AMD Athlon 64 3000+ (1.8Ghz) when it runs smoothly on my PIII 650 Mhz? Must be a direct x failure... or a bad SVN

that wasn't very clear, now i've re-read it.

I meant that my AMD 64 runs Blue Two, PMIII, Mepo etc. fine (and SimpleMP!).

But my laptop doesn't run BlueTwo, PMIII etc that well; there's a bit of a lag when changing screens; but by using your skin my laptop runs mediaportal much more smoothly.

I assume the problems with other skins are due to the rubbish built in graphics chip (ATI 7500 I think); as its a Pentium M 1700mhz with 1GB ram.

Thanks

 

[mikael]

Oh, good to hear! I think it's because SimpleMP has light weight gfx's and doesn't use the zoom-transition.

Btw, I have started the design of the TV section...