Cover Art - Change fonts & resolution - Suggestions for display in 50 inch plasma

[vskatusa]

There used to be a check box for saying show me all modes not just the supported ones. Then with that turned on (of off) it should show all the other resolutions.

I am aware of this....but this list does not show 1366 x 768!

I installed POWERSTRIP and this shows the adapter has set the resolution to 1360 x 768. I used POWERSTRIP to force 1366 x 768 and now it is set at the "native resolution". All along the DENON was intelligent enough to reset the resolution to 1360 x 768 (but windows shows it as 800 x 600).

BTW, I have an old laptop SONY VGN-S360 which does not have DVI-D but the docking station does! My laptop is connected to DENON thru DVI-D to HDMI adapter.

Wow the picx is "pretty good" and I am using wireless G! I will be using PCMCIA 5.1 adapter to source the 5.1 sound as well and will post my results.

The MOVIEWIZ cover art is not resizing it very well and the cover art can be better. I changed the FONT to "Trebuchet MS" and increased the PIXEL by +2 and the letters are fantastic!

[JavaWiz]

Does the cover art look decent on your laptop? If so, maybe by resizing the Thumbnail view control, you can get it to render better on the plasma. Unfortunately, this may take some tweaking of the skin.xml to get everything to fit nicely.

[vskatusa]

maybe by resizing the Thumbnail view control

Please elaborate.... I will try whatever you recommend to achieve my end result. If I can get the cover art in full glory then the picx will look fantastic :-)

Another thing I noticed in my research is that the plugin does "initialization" whenever connected via network and it takes pretty long time.

If nothing has changed in the movie folder (based on directory timestamp) why catalog again? Unless I do not "fully" understand what "initialization" does. FYI, I have around 135 rows in the table.

[JavaWiz]

Please elaborate.... I will try whatever you recommend to achieve my end result. If I can get the cover art in full glory then the picx will look fantastic :-)

Basically adjusting the elements in the skin.xml. You might try taking a look at the skinning tutorial on the wiki as a starting point.

Also, you didn't answer as to how the thumbnails looked on your laptop, do they look better on that display?

Another thing I noticed in my research is that the plugin does "initialization" whenever connected via network and it takes pretty long time.

Post your log and describe where you see the delay happening.

If nothing has changed in the movie folder (based on directory timestamp) why catalog again? Unless I do not "fully" understand what "initialization" does. FYI, I have around 135 rows in the table.

The entries for MovieWiz are in the database, so timestamps on directories really have no correlation. The movies themselves could exist in several (dozens, hundreds,...) of folders.

[vskatusa]

I don't have access to my machine. Shall let u know tomorrow.

The entries for MovieWiz are in the database, so timestamps on directories really have no correlation. The movies themselves could exist in several (dozens, hundreds,...) of folders.

One way is to download the table entries to a flat file in the server "every" time a change is done to the table. All subsequent reads are from the flat file (avoiding db I/O). Same thing on the client side.

When a client is turned on you compare the flat file's timestamp (download of db) of the client versus server. If they are SAME, then do not access database -- otherwise generate the flat files.

Any way you can avoid db access will make it faster. Leave alone concurrency problems.

A thought...

[vskatusa]

Also, you didn't answer as to how the thumbnails looked on your laptop, do they look better on that display?

They look good. Only when the plasma display is skewed.

[vskatusa]

Post your log and describe where you see the delay happening.

Enclosed logs. The message "Plugin Initialization in progress...:" is displayed for some time before the menu's are displayed.

[JavaWiz]

Looks like something is wrong with the thumbnail images. This error could be causing the delay you are seeing.

2008-09-03 07:54:49.624 VERBOSE [1] Unexpected error get image from callback (@thumbnail): System.InvalidCastException: Unable to cast object of type 'System.String' to type 'GetImageCallback'.
at GBPVRX2.SkinHelper2.getNamedImage(Image image, String name, Hashtable parameters, XmlNode fromNode)
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Any chance you could zip and email me your MovieWiz.db3 db?

[JavaWiz]

Additionally, you have something configured wrong for the recording service.

Code:

2008-09-03 07:52:11.687 VERBOSE [1] getValue cached value: /settings/RecordingServiceLocation : [B]tcp://192.168.0.199\GBPVR_ADAM:7968/RecordingRemote[/B]
2008-09-03 07:52:12.448 ERROR [1] Unexpected exception activating .net remoting: System.UriFormatException: Invalid URI: The hostname could not be parsed.
   at System.Uri.CreateThis(String uri, Boolean dontEscape, UriKind uriKind)
   at System.Uri..ctor(String uriString)
   at System.Runtime.Remoting.Channels.Tcp.TcpClientTransportSink..ctor(String channelURI, TcpClientChannel channel)
   at System.Runtime.Remoting.Channels.Tcp.TcpClientTransportSinkProvider.CreateSink(IChannelSender channel, String url, Object remoteChannelData)
   at System.Runtime.Remoting.Channels.BinaryClientFormatterSinkProvider.CreateSink(IChannelSender channel, String url, Object remoteChannelData)
   at System.Runtime.Remoting.Channels.Tcp.TcpClientChannel.CreateMessageSink(String url, Object remoteChannelData, String& objectURI)
   at System.Runtime.Remoting.Channels.ChannelServices.CreateMessageSink(String url, Object data, String& objectURI)
   at System.Runtime.Remoting.RemotingServices.CreateChannelSink(String url, Object data, IMessageSink& chnlSink)
   at System.Runtime.Remoting.RemotingServices.Unmarshal(Type classToProxy, String url, Object data)
   at System.Activator.GetObject(Type type, String url, Object state)
   at GBPVR.Backend.Common.x396614b3dae3b1da..ctor(Boolean instanceIsRecordingService)

The URI: tcp://192.168.0.199\GBPVR_ADAM:7968/RecordingRemote is not valid. This could also be causing some problems