ML3 Nightly testing

[pz1]

Here is my refresh of the blue skin..[ATTACHMENT NOT FOUND]
If anyone wishes to try this out, just make a backup of the original MusicLibrary3 skin folder first.

Thanks Fatman_do. Nice skin, good use of the available space. Displays well on MVP. I vote in favour of making this the standard, so I can scratch it from my wishlist

[mvallevand]

I am confused. I just tested a number of ogg's. They played fine in my existing configuration.
If I change the MVP startup parameters to:
mvpmc --em-flac --startup emulate --emulate ? &
I have no sound, and the counter continues while focus of the playlist is not moving.

There goes my theory, at least you confirmed that if there is a mismatch the problem is similar.

The logs are difficult to interpret. I do remember that the last album art was from a song by Cecilia Bartoli, but if I insert that in a playlist the list plays just fine. In earlier occurences I did also test the next song in the list. Also there no problems.

I guess I am going to need the logs right when the problem happens, and you will need to tell me the name of the bad song.

Related to the following questions:
1) I understand that mvpmc can play .flac natively. Is that also possible now through GBPVR and ML3? If so what settings are needed?

Add both these setting and use --em-flac

Code:

<MvpTranscodeFLAC>false</MvpTranscodeFLAC>
<MvpTranscodeOGG>false</MvpTranscodeOGG>

2) You state that in order to play ogg I have to set --em-flac. Does this switch istruct to handle both flac and ogg to be decoded on the MVP?

Yes I decided to include them both together, I know it's confusing.

Martin

[mvallevand]

Martin, to do a background image as either full screen, or list background, I need a screen element that is drawn underneath everything else.

I can draw the fanart but I can't get the list to display on top of it. I can draw static images only. Any suggestions? Does fanart need to be a transparent png?

Martin

[Fatman_do]

I can draw the fanart but I can't get the list to display on top of it. I can draw static images only. Any suggestions? Does fanart need to be a transparent png?

Martin

I am not a coder, so I am of no help here. I know that many plugins can use a background image for lists, but being dynamic is another thing.

You may also want to have a skinnable alpha transparency for the fanart so you can tone down the image.

[mvallevand]

Could you hardcode a sample in with your own background jpg (not) png under a list? If you can get that to work I think I can fill one out.

Martin

[Fatman_do]

I think I can make a plugin skin use its own background image (I think the mayhem skin does this??). With that it could be added as the composite image.

Off to search the forums...

EDIT:No, the screen background is static, and not dynamic.

[pz1]

There goes my theory, at least you confirmed that if there is a mismatch the problem is similar.

Add both these setting and use --em-flac

Code:

<MvpTranscodeFLAC>false</MvpTranscodeFLAC>
<MvpTranscodeOGG>false</MvpTranscodeOGG>

Hmm, I made the changes (see Code below). No sound for both .flac and .ogg files. In the playlist I do get the Title information, but no Artist, Album, or Composer.

Code:

<MvpTranscodeFLAC>false</MvpTranscodeFLAC>
  <MvpTranscodeOGG>false</MvpTranscodeOGG>
  <MvpmcStartupConfig>mkdir /usr/music;mount.cifs //192.168.1.22/USBDISKPro-01 /usr/music -o guest;mvpmc --em-flac --startup emulate --emulate ? &amp;</MvpmcStartupConfig>

[pz1]

There goes my theory, at least you confirmed that if there is a mismatch the problem is similar.

Yes (and also if you think there is a match (see my previous post)

I guess I am going to need the logs right when the problem happens, and you will need to tell me the name of the bad song.

My problem is to identify when a song is bad. I am testing this now for days, and I can't find a pattern that reproduces. It can play an album with all .ogg's and it gets stuck on the forth track. If I start it again the whole album plays without a problem. That is the real joy of debugging. I will continue. Ultimately I will go back to ML2 7.2 to see if that is more stable. Just to compare.

Yes I decided to include them both together, I know it's confusing.

Well maybe sometime I might volunteer to write-up a couple of things on the WIKI

Thanks, Pieter

[Fatman_do]

Could you hardcode a sample in with your own background jpg (not) png under a list? If you can get that to work I think I can fill one out.

Martin

Does the GBPVR api provide ListBackground for all plugins? This is used quite a bit.

Code:

<Placement name="ListBackground"      loc="36.0,11"   size="61,69.5"/>

..
..
    <CompositeImage name="ListBackground" size="61,69.5">
      <DrawImage filename="@FanArt" loc="0,0" size="100.0,100.0"/>
    </CompositeImage>

[mvallevand]

@Fatman_do, Last night I basically added those command to your blue skin Playlist.xml files and if I render @FanArt before the ListView I can see the playlist and if I render it after the playist I can see the fanart.

@pz1 I will have to try native FLAC and OGG on an MVP this evening.

Martin