I stumbled over one problem on the Streaming box with the Alaska skin. When I open the music_browse_page the view is not fully filled with down to the bottom. I attach a screenshot to illustrate. The funny thing is, you can select the album where you don’t even see an icon … And navigating on this page is reeeealy slow.
Now, when I go to the list view, and back to the cover view all icons are there, the arrows and the numbers at the bottom as well. Weird, isn’t it?
Question, what are using as the source for your media? Local storage, network storage, or media server? I’m currently using media server & able to view all the media (4 rows of 8). I recently was viewing files via network storage though and had a similar look. I’ll investigate this further to see if you are limited into how many items you can view if you are using network storage/local storage vs. media server as your media source.
In terms of the navigation speed, this is probably related to the number of items on the page & the number of items in your library. It might be where I need to adjust the number of items down to 24 or 21 to make navigation faster.
Thanks for the response. Well, I am using a NAS to get the data to the box. No local storage.
Maybe, I didn’t spell this out clearly enough. Seeing the image above, changing to list mode, changing back, the page is then fully populated and responding quit quickly. As if the error is gone. BTW, this procedure does only help if you do it within a folder that completely fills up the screen with the 32 icons. Doing it in a folder with just e.g. 10 items the issue stays.
BTW, I am working on a mod of you Alaska skin, mainly replaced a couple of images and backgrounds. Will publish it here as soon as I am happy with it.
One more finding regarding the music view. Everything works fine when you navigate there through the dashboard.> * * *
Well, I’ll add it to my things to look at. Seems every time I get something looking the way I want it, if effects the way something else looks or behaves. Hoping to have sometime this weekend to look at the music browse issues along with the dashboard select issue that someone else posted about as well as a few other changes that I’ve wanted to make.
1.) As for the dashboard select - it was me that pointed it out. I said I didn’t think there is a dashboard select icon, as I spent a while looking at the icons and there is nothing for a border select in Alaska. The default Mochi does not have a dashboard select border icon. Under Mochi when you highlight an icon, it enlarges, but there’s no border. As a simple work-around I’m thinking I might just draw a border on the backdrop art around the middle icon.
Do you know the XML file and specific line of text that controls the dashboard icon placement for Alaska? That way I can draw a border on the backdrop.
Thanks
Also - if you’re talking a look at your theme you need to change the file extension and wording of your backdrop cause it doesn’t work. Check out my previous post on what you need to change. Plus the star rating system is broken.
Hope you enjoy it. I am planning on updating here hopefully this weekend to provide a few more features and address some of the issues people have pointed out.
@ OlivierQC> Glad to hear you like the theme. In response to your questions:> a) I’m not sure what you are looking to change with covers. If you are talking about the thumbnail that shows up for or your drives?> b) Regarding the clock on the corner of the screen, I believe the clock is being cut off due to overscan. All the themes for the WDTV Live Streaming and the Live Hub as well are based on a 1280x720 screen. The clock is positioned such that it fits within the screen without going off the screen. This also happens to me & why I suggested the scale to 95%. I have always assumed that the overscan is being done by the TV and not by the WDTV Live Streaming. I will be checking on this over the weekend to confirm though that this is a tv issue and not a WDTV Live issue.> Thanks for the comments.
You can certainly replace any of the thumbnails in the theme. Just replace the image in the theme folder with the one you want. If you can tell me which media thumb(video, music, photo) & which way you are viewing the media (list, thumb, large thumb) I can better direct you to which thumbnail you need to replace & the size that your thumbnail should be.
Just read the updated OP, really happy you took the time to add that feature into the theme. Very impressive! Can’t wait to see what else you come up with in future revisions.
Hey Desertwedge, nice changes, looking great. I especially like the new highlight on the selected item.
Quick question. I wanted to change the home screen background so I replaced the default RV-BG.jpg with a different image (like I did for an earlier version of the theme) but all I get is a gray background. I think I’ve identified a couple canditates in the /image folder but I was wondering if you could point me to the image and and the xml file that’s causing this?
The background screen right now is set to change based on the time of day/weather. So at night the background screen is dark grey & during the day it will be blue. Certain weather conditions will cause the background screen to be a darker blue. If this is not something you want, it can be easily turned off. You need to modify a file named “inc_weather.xml”. The line that needs to be changed is this:
to this:
Your other other option is to change the image files within image/accu_weather. The files that you will need to modify will all be large in size (1280x720) and there are approximately 20 files. Each image corresponds to a different weather condition (sunny, windy, rainy, etc.). My thought was that people would modify these images to suit their own tastes and/or weather conditions. I just set it up initially to change based on the time of day (daylight/nighttime). Hope this helps and feel free to ask additional questions if this does not answer your question.
