Streamed MP: Community Mods & Bug Fixes (1 Viewer)

[kiwijunglist]

yes the cluttered look is a problem, and it's very difficult to avoid given the amount of stuff that needs to be squeezed onto the screen.

I made a thread with lots of mockups
https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/...en-all-elements-suggestions-76457/#post563691

I think these may be the best ones

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[trevor]

Re: Music Now Playing Screens

This is what I have come up with as default screens, will do a second lot that will be full screen fanart.

Cheers

I think these screens (while nice) do look extremely busy. I tried to do some moving around of objects really quick, and work on the alignments of some objects. I put some red lines on my (really quick an dirty) mockup to show what improvements the alignment changes would make.

Feel free to ignore this though.

Emph

I know what you mean, and the areas pointed out I would also like to tweak a little - only bit I am not sure of is the led meter placement.

There are two things going on here, the 1st a replacement for the StreamedMP std music screen and this as a default should have all the elements that MP has provides for the NowPlaying screen - this will always lead to a busy screen - my preferance would be to sick most of this on a slide out menu but the way NowPlaying handles focus of the listcontrols means this does not work well.

The 2nd is custom screens, the outline plan is to have a std screen and maybe 1 or 2 alteratives that can be chosen during install (or reconfigured by the installer at a later date). I have thought that I could easily do an editor for this, present a few screen options with basic customization, which elements visible, basic placment etc but not sure how high the demand would be.

All ideas are welcome and thansk for the input.

 

[Henkie Flits]

I just posted in the other thread about this mod and I see Emph has some of the same thoughts I have: it turns out too cluttered and busy. I must say that I also don't see any point in the new VU-meters so I hope they will be optional.
I think a flat, one coloured background would make things look much cleaner already instead of Kanye

 

[trevor]

I just posted in the other thread about this mod and I see Emph has some of the same thoughts I have: it turns out too cluttered and busy. I must say that I also don't see any point in the new VU-meters so I hope they will be optional.
I think a flat, one coloured background would make things look much cleaner already instead of Kanye

This is getting a little confusing and there are two things going on see my reply to emphatic a couple of posts back. The main thing I am working on with kiwijunglist help is the default nowplaying screen for the next StreamedMP release.

Skins and skin layout is all very subjective so the plan will be to a) produce a couple of variants that can be chosen at the time of the skin install and b) a mod package (I am beginning to think an editor may be called for) with more layouts.

All input is welcome and appriciated as can only help make things better and I am in aggrement that with all elements on the screen it looks a little to busy...personally I will run a full screen fanart version with very limited info. (Well a modded WindowsPlugins.dll that allows a slidout menu!)


Cheers

 

[ltfearme]

I must say that I also don't see any point in the new VU-meters so I hope they will be optional.

This is a MediaPortal 1.1.0 configuration setting, we are just supporting all flavours in case the user chooses one.

 

[strike07]

Does anyone know how I could make StreamedMP do a fade to fanart like these from XFace skin:

Instead of like this currently?:

I think it looks good the way it fades with no hard line ...

how to get this kinda effect for tvseries on streamedMP

 

[blast555]

My backdrop on my streamedmp 0.8xxx (not using basic home) is messing up. For some reason, whenever I scroll through the menu, only the two thirds of the backdrop changes, with the bottom third staying stuck on one particular image the whole time. I took a couple of screenshots, take a look below:







Does anyone know why this is and how to fix it?

Also not as big a problem, but the ES at the end of MOVING PICTURES is getting cut off, anyone know the reason for that too?

Thanks

 

[Zinu]

Try clearing you skin cache. It's located in Application Data\Team Mediaportal\Mediaportal\Cache (on XP atleast)

 

[emphatic]

My backdrop on my streamedmp 0.8xxx (not using basic home) is messing up. For some reason, whenever I scroll through the menu, only the two thirds of the backdrop changes, with the bottom third staying stuck on one particular image the whole time. I took a couple of screenshots, take a look below:

Also not as big a problem, but the ES at the end of MOVING PICTURES is getting cut off, anyone know the reason for that too?

Thanks

If that's your actual resolution, you are running a 4:3 res and not a 16:9 one, and that's what's causing your issues.
Emph

 

[losttown]

blast555

Change hoverKeepAspectratio in myHome.xml and myHomePlugIns.xml on "no"

<control>
      <description>Menu</description>
      <type>menu</type>
      <id>50</id>
      <posX>550</posX>
      <posY>145</posY>
      <width>320</width>
        .
        .
      <hoverKeepAspectratio>no</hoverKeepAspectratio>
        .
        . 
    </control>