Wave - New skin for NPVR

[Hairy]

Is the following possible:

a) View the folders vertically - more or less like the Recordings screen. Could even be optimised for more at at time on the screen, as a folder has no description or relevant date, and could use just one line.

b) The ability to go to a specific starting letter just by pressing it on the remote, like "M" to skip directly to the folders (or files) starting with "M".

a) sounds pretty much like the list view . You could create a similar layout to the recordings plugin by modifying the "List View" element in the video.xml:

Code:

    <Element name="ListView" location="0,13" size="100,74" alpha="255" alphaFade="true" visibleRows="13">
        <RoundedRect location="-2,0.5" size="102,99" fillColor="Base1_Horizontal_FadeOut" borderColor="Acsent2_Horizontal_FadeOut" radius="0.01" borderWidth="0.15"/>
    </Element>

    <Element name="ListSelectionMetaData" location="38,15" size="62,70.3" alpha="255" alphaFade="true">
        <RoundedRect location="0,0" size="103,99.6" fillColor="MetaData_BaseColor" borderColor="Acsent1_Horizontal_FadeIn" radius="1.68" borderWidth="0.3"/>
        <Text visible="@hasMetaData" text="@name" location="32,9" size="64,12" font="Title" valign="Bottom" wrap="true"/>    
            <Rect visible="@hasMetaData" location="32,22" size="30.04,0.2" fillColor="Acsent2_Horizontal_FadeIn"/>
            <Rect visible="@hasMetaData" location="62,22" size="30,0.2" fillColor="Acsent2_Horizontal_FadeOut"/>    
        <Text visible="@hasMetaData" text="@description" location="32,23" size="64,68" font="DefaultSmall" wrap="true"/>
        <Image visible="@hasMetaData" source="@previewImage" location="2,22" size="29,56" fixedAspectRatio="true" />
        <Image visible="!@hasMetaData" source="@previewImage" location="7,15" size="80,70" fixedAspectRatio="true" />
    </Element>

    <Element name="ListItemNormal" location="2,16" size="35,4.95" alpha="255" alphaFade="true">
        <RoundedRect location="0,0.5" size="100,99" fillColor="Normal_List" borderColor="Transparent" radius="0.40" borderWidth="0"/>
        <Image source="..\_Common\folder_vid.png" visible="@isFolder" location="4,12" size="8,94" fixedAspectRatio="true" align="Left" valign="Center"/>
        <Text text="@name" visible="@isFolder" location="12,0" size="86,100" font="Default" align="Left" valign="Center"/>
        <Text text="@name" visible="@isItem" location="4,0" size="92,100" font="Default" align="Left" valign="Center"/>
    </Element>

    <Element name="ListItemSelected" location="2,16" size="35,4.95" alpha="255" alphaFade="true">
        <RoundedRect location="0,0" size="100,100" fillColor="Selected_List" borderColor="Transparent" radius="0.40" borderWidth="0"/>
        <RoundedRect location="-0.8,8" size="1.6,84" fillColor="Acsent3_Horizontal_FadeIn" borderColor="Border2" radius="0.40" borderWidth="0.1"/>
        <Image source="..\_Common\folder_vid.png" visible="@isFolder" location="4,12" size="8,94" fixedAspectRatio="true" align="Left" valign="Center"/>
        <Text text="@name" visible="@isFolder" location="12,0" size="86,100" font="DefaultReverse" align="Left" valign="Center"/>
        <Text text="@name" visible="@isItem" location="4,0" size="92,100" font="DefaultReverse" align="Left" valign="Center"/>
    </Element>

b) that would be one for sub

[nia]

a) sounds pretty much like the list view

Doh! Well there it is... :o

Anyway - I'll try to do the suggested skin-update later today.

b) that would be one for sub

Yeah - I suspected that.

[BrettB]

Hairy,

Thanks for your work on this skin.

One feature that I really miss on the Recordings screens is an indication of whether a recording has been (at least patially) watched before. Is there any way with NPVR that you could add such an indication to Recordings lists/details?

[smajor]

Really awesome! The cover art for me isn't working.

Default skin:


Wave skin:


My directories are arranged with xml and jpg data with movie names e.g.

Blade Runner The Final Cut.mkv
Blade Runner The Final Cut.jpg
Blade Runner The Final Cut.xml

Is this useful in finding the problem, if you need anything, just ask!

I finally got around to updating to the latest nPVR and Wave. I'm back to missing cover art again. You had done a "patch" a few posts back and it was working well. Any chance of an update?

[Lao Pan]

"Me Too"

Had this problem in an earlier version. - You have to cycle through all the covers in folder view for the covers to become visible in Metadata view.
Next time NPVR restarts they are gone again - loss of long term memory - know how it feels :eek:
No sure if it was a NPVR or skin thing last time.

[smajor]

"Me Too"

Had this problem in an earlier version. - You have to cycle through all the covers in folder view for the covers to become visible in Metadata view.
Next time NPVR restarts they are gone again - loss of long term memory - know how it feels :eek:
No sure if it was a NPVR or skin thing last time.

Last time, I think it was the skin because Hairy was kind enough to do a workaround for me to test. If you switch to the default skin it works as expected.

[pBS]

where are the subtitles in guide? not seeing any....
[they are there in blue now..]

N/M...i found the earlier post and modified it for my liking...

with so many lcd's out there, overscan is a thing of the past for most...
pixel perfect screens[at least percentage-wise] means we can now use ALL available screen space...
now margins are just to please the eye, nothing off limits...

[Hairy]

Hairy,

Thanks for your work on this skin.

One feature that I really miss on the Recordings screens is an indication of whether a recording has been (at least patially) watched before. Is there any way with NPVR that you could add such an indication to Recordings lists/details?

I'm not sure if this feature has been implemented in NPVR yet. I see that there is a watched graphic in the default skin, but I don't see the formatting in the skin xml. If this feature is available in the default skin - someone please let me know and I'll look into adding it for my skin.

[Hairy]

I finally got around to updating to the latest nPVR and Wave. I'm back to missing cover art again. You had done a "patch" a few posts back and it was working well. Any chance of an update?

"Me Too"

Had this problem in an earlier version. - You have to cycle through all the covers in folder view for the covers to become visible in Metadata view.
Next time NPVR restarts they are gone again - loss of long term memory - know how it feels :eek:
No sure if it was a NPVR or skin thing last time.

Last time, I think it was the skin because Hairy was kind enough to do a workaround for me to test. If you switch to the default skin it works as expected.

This is a known bug in NPVR. It appears to effect third party skin more than sub's default skin (but it does effect that as well, just less frequently). There are two artwork previews available to skinners and Jaggy discovered that if both were set to identical formatting, it gets around this bug. This is not suitable for the official release of the skin.

But users can add this workaround themselves if it suits them personally. It's best to set the "visible="!@hasMetaData" preview to match the "visible="@hasMetaData" within the "ListSelectionMetaData" element of the videos.xml.

Code:

<Image visible="@hasMetaData" source="@previewImage" location="2,22" size="29,56" fixedAspectRatio="true" />
<Image visible="!@hasMetaData" source="@previewImage" location="2,22" size="29,56" fixedAspectRatio="true" />

[Hairy]

with so many lcd's out there, overscan is a thing of the past for most...
pixel perfect screens[at least percentage-wise] means we can now use ALL available screen space...
now margins are just to please the eye, nothing off limits...

Personally, it would be much easier for me if I didn't have to deal with over-scan at all. But I've found that if I don't include an over-scan area, I tend to get people asking why elements on screen are getting cut off. So I've went with - better to have a border than cropped text.

I find I start with a simple idea and it them proceeds to get logarithmically more difficult as you progress through the skin. Until you end up just shoe horning everything in, trying your best to have the least amount of compromises.

If the majority of users have no over-scan issues, I would be willing to edit this skin to make full use of all the screen real estate.