XBMC Xephyr skin portage (1 Viewer)

[dwoodzz]

Any progress on this....it really is a promising looking skin

 

[spuck]

Yeah, is this ever gonna happen?

 

[TSMOTW]

Well, not a lot of progress. Added TV-series (needs some editing), settings, musicvideos (by anthony) and an 11 item menu.
Like I said in the previous posts, the background has been changed to dummy files. So to install you need to delete the dummy.png and place your own background. Also you need to delete the cache files, it's located at C:\ProgramData\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\Cache . Downloadlink: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=GTXOFO8F

I probably won't be updating this skin for a while. If someone wants to help out, that would be great. The svn is located at https://mp-plugins.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/mp-plugins/trunk/skins/Xephyr

 

[spuck]

The new home screens look really good and are finally working!
I'm gonna make a new tvseries xml since that's about the only thing I use, don't really like the spinsafe look anyhow.
I'll come back later with some screens.

 

[dwoodzz]

The new home screens look really good and are finally working!
I'm gonna make a new tvseries xml since that's about the only thing I use, don't really like the spinsafe look anyhow.
I'll come back later with some screens.

Can't wait Spuck....bring it on!

 

[dwoodzz]

um...I must be dense or something.
Where do the image files go now, and do they randomly change still?
Before there were folders-music,pictures,movies-in the backgrounds folder.
I don't see any "dummy.png" files?

 

[spuck]

Here's a screenshot of what I've done so far, CLICK, there's much left to do. I'd like some input though, not sure where to put everything. I'd appreciate a PM.

TSMOTW:
Is there a way to stop the background changing when using fan art in tvseries plugin? I'd think the fan art would be above the background loop, but I've no idea how it works with those backgrounds. Thanks.
Awesome work btw, love it.

um...I must be dense or something.
Where do the image files go now, and do they randomly change still?
Before there were folders-music,pictures,movies-in the backgrounds folder.
I don't see any "dummy.png" files?

C:\Program Files\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\skin\Xephyr\Media\Animations
In there there are different folders with dummy.png files in them. I downloaded the xephyr backpacks from xbmc forum they look great.

 

[TSMOTW]

You need to place the images in C:\Program Files\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\skin\Xephyr\Media\Animations. All the maps, except for play, can be loaded with images.
The backpacks taken from http://www.xboxmediacenter.com/forum/showthread.php?t=27956 :

http://www.nashwanpower.com/download/xephyr/Xephyr_BACKPACK.rar
http://www.nashwanpower.com/download/xephyr/Xephyr_BACKPACK2.rar
http://www.nashwanpower.com/download/xephyr/Xephyr_BACKPACK3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/69017534/Xephyr_Weather.zip.html


That looks great spuck!! I didn't know what to do with tvseries plugin (especially with the fanart, which have the image in the corner), but that looks awesome. Only need different kind of fanart that make up the whole screen.

The control for the background is located under the dummy labels:
<control>
<description>MY TV BACKGROUND</description>
<id>1</id>
<type>multiimage</type>
<posx>0</posx>
<posy>0</posy>
<width>1280</width>
<height>720</height>
<imagepath>tv</imagepath>
<timeperimage>60000</timeperimage>
<fadetime>800</fadetime>
<loop>yes</loop>
<randomize>false</randomize>
</control>
To stop it from changing change the loop to no. The control is located above the fanart commands so it should be behind the fanart.


The person that made xephyr is working on it and has a new osd during playing a video.

Will try to put that into the next update.

 

[spuck]

That looks great spuck!! I didn't know what to do with tvseries plugin (especially with the fanart, which have the image in the corner), but that looks awesome. Only need different kind of fanart that make up the whole screen.

The control for the background is located under the dummy labels:
<control>
<description>MY TV BACKGROUND</description>
<id>1</id>
<type>multiimage</type>
<posx>0</posx>
<posy>0</posy>
<width>1280</width>
<height>720</height>
<imagepath>tv</imagepath>
<timeperimage>60000</timeperimage>
<fadetime>800</fadetime>
<loop>yes</loop>
<randomize>false</randomize>
</control>
To stop it from changing change the loop to no. The control is located above the fanart commands so it should be behind the fanart.

Actually I just used the tvshow backgrounds from the backpack and changed them to pngs and the names so they would work as fan art, they look great..
Yes fan art is above the tv images but only until the background loops. I just used the dummy label for fan art and it works now, thanks.


I saw that osd in the xephyr thread today, it looks great! Cant wait to get rid of the ugly blue osd.

 

[spuck]

double post :/