looking for skin to display episode info.

[scott]

In addition to just the series name repeated over and over and over and over again in the "blue" default skin, I'm looking for a skin that also includes the episode name. I believe the contour HC skin will do this, and it looks really nice & clean as well.

But before I take the leap and mess with my nice and stable version of GBPVR , I wanted to ask a question: In the Wiki, I flipped through the other skins but most do NOT show me a screen shot that will let me know if they display the episode name or not. So it there are alternaitives to the Contour that you're aware of, please let me know!

Thanks.

ps - I'll be using my system through a MVP if that matters at all.

[Old Dog]

If I understand correectly, what you are asking for is not determined by the skin, any skin Blue, Contour,... will do it if you install the appropriate plugin.

So what's the appropriate plugin? I think Videos, which is part of Video Archive, does this. With the Videos button enabled on your main menu, you can disable the Recordings button.

-David

[scott]

Contour HC's build history says: 2006–02–02 : v1.11 - Recordings skin now looks better and includes show subtitle in the detail list.

I was first pointed in this skin direction by another user and this build note seemed to confirm that coutour has what I need... :confused:

Any Contour Users?

[Lucas_24]

yeah I use contour and the change causes the episode name to be displayed in the standard recordings plugin. I believe there is a post on it in the contour thread.

[roy]

I discovered the 'subtitle' variable and added it to the ContourHC recording detail skin, and it was adopted.

I would think the 'subtitle' string could be added to any skin.

[Torque]

Yeah, Roy is correct... it's up to the skin designer or the great people that help further a skins development.

Here's a screenshot Roy uploaded:
http://forums.gbpvr.com/attachment.php?a...1138145765

[scott]

Really nice job Torque, adn everyone else. I look forward to giving this a try over the weekend. From the screenshot, it looks like just the ticket.

I've got a library of 40 Magic school bus shows, and 40 this and that. I love it whe the kids are thinking and come up and ask to see the episode about the digestive system, for example, instead of just being content to see whatever comes up. And without this skin I'd have to jump through 10 - 15 shows before stumbling upon the right one. Skin should also make it much, much easier to get rid of dupes and save lots of disk space.

So thanks!

ps: Just an observation re: the screen shot. You have the main title in the prominant position on the left and the episode info off to the right. Everyone who gets to this page will have just intentionally selected the show name, so the show name isn't that important, but the epoisode name is. So maybe the title & show name should be reversed in position, or the show name otherwsie de-emphasised... Once I start enjoying the episode benifit thought, I doubt I'll care very much!

[Jeff]

We have collected all 52 magic school bus episodes. Here is what they look like in the video archive plug-in.

Jeff

[Old Dog]

I discovered the 'subtitle' variable and added it to the ContourHC recording detail skin, and it was adopted.

I would think the 'subtitle' string could be added to any skin.

I just modified the Recordings skin.xml in The Collection and Plain Jane. It looks good.

Code:

[size=2]
<!-- details view -->
<!-- variables that can used include: title, subtitle, status, startDate, startDateTime, startTime, period -->
<CompositeImage name="DetailsViewNormalItem" size="510,48">                        
    <DrawRoundedRect loc="0,0" size="510,48" radius="5" borderWidth="2" borderColor="Transparent" fillColor="Transparent"/>                            
    <DrawText text="@title" loc="2,2" size="399,25" textStyle="DetailsViewItemsTitle" align="Left"/>        
    <DrawText text="@[size=3][b]subtitle[/b][/size]" loc="250,2" size="250,25" textStyle="DetailsViewItemsTitle" align="Right"/>
    <DrawText text="@period" loc="2,22" size="350,25" textStyle="DetailsViewFolders" align="Left"/>                                                
</CompositeImage>
                    
<CompositeImage name="DetailsViewSelectedItem" size="510,48">                        
    <DrawRoundedRect loc="2,2" size="504,44" radius="5" borderWidth="2" borderColor="LightGray" fillColor="RoyalBlue"/>                
    <DrawText text="@title" loc="2,2" size="399,25" textStyle="DetailsViewItemsTitle" align="Left"/>
    <DrawText text="@[size=3][b]subtitle[/b][/size]" loc="250,2" size="250,25" textStyle="DetailsViewItemsTitle" align="Right"/>    
    <DrawText text="@period" loc="2,22" size="350,25" textStyle="DetailsViewFolders" align="Left"/>
</CompositeImage>            
[/size]

I replaced status with subtitle.