Using Skin Editor to Change MyTV homescreen (1 Viewer)

[dingbatt]

I am relatively new at using different skins for MP (have used bluewide mostly). I have loaded StreamedMP 0.8 onto MP RC4 (I don't use latest MP 1.1.0 + SMP 0.9 because I understand my 8500GT videocard won't hack the pace).
I have used the skin editor that came with the SMP 0.8 package to adjust the home screen to be the way I like it.
What I want to do though is in the MyTV home screen change the target of the "recorded TV" button so that it points at MyVideos (which is where the new skin looks for recorded TV). Is this possible using the SMP skin editor (which appears to be only for the home screen) or do I need to use a different skin editor?

 

[kiwijunglist]

Hi,

The Recorded TV link points to a completely different .xml file to my videos.xml
My Videos contains all your videos in your my video database, whereas Recorded TV just contains recording referenced in the tvserver database.
I assume what you are asking is that you want the button called "Recorded TV" to load My Videos plugin instead of loading My TV Recordings.

The streamedMP menu editor is only for changing the basic home screen, it doesn't change any other menus.
To do what you need to do you need to load the my tv.xml file in notepad and change the linking ID button to the skin id of my movies.xml

ok

load mytvhome.xml

find this

      <control>
        <description>Recordings</description>
        <type>button</type>
        <id>11</id>
        <label>604</label>
        [b]<hyperlink>603</hyperlink>[/b]
        <onup>10</onup>
        <ondown>12</ondown>
        <onright>99</onright>
      </control>

You can change it to this

      <control>
        <description>Recordings</description>
        <type>button</type>
        <id>11</id>
        <label>604</label>
        [b]<hyperlink>6</hyperlink>[/b]
        <onup>10</onup>
        <ondown>12</ondown>
        <onright>99</onright>
      </control>

You use ID=6 because if you open myvideo.xml you will see the 3rd line has skin id =6

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?>
<window>
  <id>6</id>

I havn't tried this but i think it should work!

 

[dingbatt]

Thank you it answers my question. I have paddled in the waters of xml editing, so will give it a try. I'm at a bit of a loss to explain why the TV-Server database hasn't populated the Recorded TV screen instead of the My Videos screen. All the settings were the same as WideBlue that I was using previously.
Is it possibly because I'm using SMP 0.8 rather than 0.9?

 

[kiwijunglist]

i bet you recently reinstalled mediaportal
run tvserver configuration and choose to reimport your old database of recordings

 

[dingbatt]

No. I have had the same MP Client-TVserver setup for months. Even new recordings don't go into recorded TV. I need some way to get the new skin to look at the recordings folder (or at least its database). It isn't the default MP folder so maybe that is what is throwing it off.

I haven't successfully got TV series part of SMP to work yet. I wonder if the two are related?

 

[kiwijunglist]

i think i'll just answer in this thread only lol, sorry not sure what has happened.
my understanding is the skin shouldn't make any difference as the skin doesn't contain the info regarding the recordings folder.

 

[dingbatt]

i think i'll just answer in this thread only lol, sorry not sure what has happened.
my understanding is the skin shouldn't make any difference as the skin doesn't contain the info regarding the recordings folder.

Yes happy to use this (more appropriate) forum. I will return to GZ with any results.
Tried reverting to Blue3Wide and it operated as before.
The title of this thread is a little off course now, because ultimately I would like SMP to operate the way Blue3wide did and populate the "RecordedTV" screen with my recordings. But it won't. The only way I can view them is to point the "MyVideos" screen at the recordings folder. Ultimately I use "MyVideos" for stuff I'm saving for later and the Recorded TV for fresh stuff. I am unsure if the TV-Series has an affect on things (haven't used TV-Series before) altough even with its plugin disabled nothing changed.

 

[kiwijunglist]

I use MP 1.0.2 and StreamedMP 8.XX works fine. Must be a problem related to your version of mediaportal (RC4).
I would suggest either
- try an older version of streamedmp that was created when RC4 was around
- try MP 1.0 Final (This will still work with 8500GT)
- you may be ok with MP 1.0.2 /or/ latest SVN, some users with 8500GT state it's ok

 

[dingbatt]

Solved!
It's amazing what blitzing the whole MP installation (including DBs) and reinstalling can achieve. Recorded TV now works as advertised and I am in the process of correctly formatting my TV series. I have yet to really test the latest MP with freeviewHD so I'm hoping it won't stutter, otherwise it might be back to the drawing board again. Thanks again for your help...

 

[kiwijunglist]

If it does stutter badly, and your sure you've got dxva working then use MP 1.0 Final + Patch for MPC-HC subtitles support + SAF 3.47 unlocked.