2010-04-04, 10:36 PM
Hi sub,
I discovered that the slick skin can use fan art when movies are bunched in one directory which is how I always preferred my movie files since i found it easiest to use shuffle and read metadata with no directories. Simply click next file and have the info there instead of need to click back and fourth in directories.. click click clik.
since slick has no shuffle option I have been trying in vain to get any other skin to display the fan art but I am not a programmer just a tinker'er so and I need some help or insight to know if I am at a stumbling block or if it is not possible with any skins at the moment.
I am trying to enable the feature to work with my modified community skin 4 video library skin so that when highlighting a movie the fan art displays like it did with the slick skin.
I added this to the placements but not surprised it didn't do a thing.
<Placements>
<Placement name="FanArt" loc="0,0" size="100,100"/>
</Placements>
Is there more that needs to be done to get this to work and if so where can I download the info to enable a skin to understand it?
I should note that when I go into settings and change the skin from slick to cs4 that pvrx2 reboots and each fanart will display in the video library properly until I close pvrx2 at which time the fanart will stop functioning until I change to slick skin.
File names for those interested
Angels & Demons(2009)(Violence)(2.5 stars)_20100404_05000720.ts
Angels & Demons(2009)(Violence)(2.5 stars)_20100404_05000720.jpg
Angels & Demons(2009)(Violence)(2.5 stars)_20100404_05000720-fanart.jpg
I also noticed that folder.xml can be used to display the metadata of a folder so I could try to do something with that to display metadata of a movie without actually needing to enter a directory if I went back to that file format.
I should also figure into putting a light mask under the description text to make it easier to read
Any ideas what I should be doing or looking for
Cheers
I discovered that the slick skin can use fan art when movies are bunched in one directory which is how I always preferred my movie files since i found it easiest to use shuffle and read metadata with no directories. Simply click next file and have the info there instead of need to click back and fourth in directories.. click click clik.
since slick has no shuffle option I have been trying in vain to get any other skin to display the fan art but I am not a programmer just a tinker'er so and I need some help or insight to know if I am at a stumbling block or if it is not possible with any skins at the moment.
I am trying to enable the feature to work with my modified community skin 4 video library skin so that when highlighting a movie the fan art displays like it did with the slick skin.
I added this to the placements but not surprised it didn't do a thing.
<Placements>
<Placement name="FanArt" loc="0,0" size="100,100"/>
</Placements>
Is there more that needs to be done to get this to work and if so where can I download the info to enable a skin to understand it?
I should note that when I go into settings and change the skin from slick to cs4 that pvrx2 reboots and each fanart will display in the video library properly until I close pvrx2 at which time the fanart will stop functioning until I change to slick skin.
File names for those interested
Angels & Demons(2009)(Violence)(2.5 stars)_20100404_05000720.ts
Angels & Demons(2009)(Violence)(2.5 stars)_20100404_05000720.jpg
Angels & Demons(2009)(Violence)(2.5 stars)_20100404_05000720-fanart.jpg
I also noticed that folder.xml can be used to display the metadata of a folder so I could try to do something with that to display metadata of a movie without actually needing to enter a directory if I went back to that file format.
I should also figure into putting a light mask under the description text to make it easier to read
Any ideas what I should be doing or looking for
Cheers
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