It sounds like your picture is getting pretty baddly cropped based on what you are seeing on the screen. You are losing some where between 50-60 pixels on either the left or right side of the screen or about 10% of your image (120 of 1280) and about the same (60 of 720 pixels) on the top and bottom.
I’ve set tthis theme to use the majority of the screen so you would to need to adjust the xml files so that anything that shows up on the screen would begin/end 60 pixels from either the right or left side and 30 pixels from the top or bottom of the screen.
I know… In about one year I am upgrading our televisions to hdtv’s. But at the moment my children are to young, I am afraid they will break it (it happend when we visited friends, my son made a lot of scratches on the screen with a sharp object). And this old really large and heavy television is kidsproof LOL
First of fantastic theme, I have played with all the rest but keep coming back to this one. One of the main reasons is that it seems to disable the backdrops when you are looking through your films, and this means it works very quickly, no delays are introduced while the box goes and finds a backdrop to display. Please never change this.
Would you be interested in potentially changing the theme so that the icons are at the bottom of the screen? I am happy with how big they are.
I ask as I use a custom backdrop picture and you cannot see a lot of the picture due to the icons being in the middle of the screen.
I like the looks of this theme, only problem is, as others have posted, the top and bottom of the screen are cut off and I have no way to adjust the overscan on my tv
I like the looks of this theme, only problem is, as others have posted, the top and bottom of the screen are cut off and I have no way to adjust the overscan on my tv
Can’t you adjust it in SMP settings menu, under appearance I think.
okay, I got this theme finally looking good on my wdtv smp, but one last question, how do you remove the backdrop images? I’ve got all my movies in one folder, and each one shows a background image, how do I remove this or set it to use the same image for all movies so I can get it to look like this even during the day, any help would be greatly appreciated
Glad you got it working. So to not show backdrops that are downloaded by WDTV SMP, you need adjust the following line in the rv_gallery_browse_page.xml from this:
This will just disable this portion of the theme that way if you want to turn it back on at some point you can just remove the part you changed. You can also just delete this whole line as well. This will enable the default movie image to show in the background.
Based on your request, I’m going to assume you are refering to the gallery view in the original Alaska theme, correct?
If so you can adjust the position on the thumbnails fairly easily. You’ll just need to edit the file named rv_gallery_browse_page.xml. What you’ll want to adjust are just the "y=“xx” " values for the thumbnails and the overlays. This controls the vertical position of the thumbnails. The value for “y” can range from 0 to 720, 0 being at the top of the screen and 720 at the bottom. The top of the thumbnails start at the “y” value listed so you need to ensure that the “y” value plus the height of the thumb does not exceed 720 or else it will not show on the screen (i.e., y=500, thumb height is 250, 500+250>720).
Once you’ve made your changes, just re-zip and upload the new theme via the web.
Good luck and feel free to post back if you need more help.
Absolutely, you just need to change the image titled “video_browse_video_icon.png” or “video_gallery_video_icon.png” (I can’t remember which one of these two is used in this view) to whatever image you want. Just make sure the image is 1280 x 720 and try to aim for a smaller file size (<500kb).
To confirm I am referring to the menu items (as in settings, files, videos, games etc) as they sit in the middle of the screen, I would like to move these to the bottom of the main menu screen.
Would I do it using the instructions you provided earlier please?
It is possible but kind of works differently than what I’m doing right now. I think (not positive about this) what was done with the views being shown is that the selected “icon” is actually an entire page (1280x720). So when you change between icons you are actually changing the whole page if that makes sense. At least this is what I’m guessing at what was done as this is how his Aeon theme is setup. You could ask Joey as well to see if this is how he accomplished this.
Understand now what you are wanting to do. You can certainly do this but will involve a little bit of work. You’ll need to modify the rv_home.xml file as well as all the image files named main_…_n.png (the home page icons).
All of the image icons are currently 320x497. You can crop as much as you want from these but it needs to be consistent between all the icons. Once you have your new icon size (320 x height of your new icons), you’ll need to modify the xml file. The line in the xml you’ll need to modify is below:
You need to change the highlighted value for “y” to the value of 720 - the height of your new icons and the highlighted value for “h” to the height of your new icons. “y” + “h” should equal 720. Save the changes, zip the theme file and uploaded via the web. That should be it. Let me know if you need more info.
I totally understand, I thought the same about the menu, but I thought: I can better ask you instead of missing something nice.
I created my own theme now, I took the original mochi theme and I inserted your large video browse xml page and some pictures and it works perfect. And I bought a full hdtv to get rid of the problems I had with my screensize. So all things perfect.
Hi , i also tried to move the buttons movies , pictures , settings and etc. down to the screen. But these procedure didn’t worked. I set Y=700 and H=20. Where’s my mistake , with these settings when i start my SMP the buttons are at middle of the screen and when i press left or right they disappeared ?
If you want the menu at the bottom it is perhaps easier to use the original theme and convert the menu as you wish and import parts of this great Alaska theme?
You can download the original theme here (well, not totally 100% original because I corrected some small mistakes wd made):
I don’t have the time unfortunatelly to build what you guys would like, I am building at the moment a kids playground in my backyard and that takes a lot of time . But perhaps somebody else can help. It is not really dificult. Abatt, you cant set y to 700 because the icons are much larger (320x497), perhaps you changed the icons to 20x497, at what I can think of with the information you give that’s the main problem.
And now I have my new and big full hdtv the menu is as it should be, what do I love this litte mediaplayer.
