it is awesome
thankyou
looks great…
my more dislike with most of the themes here is the 2 second delay before the background is desplayed. and withthe background having all the movie details it just looks odd.
(i know that’s a WD issue)… just would like an theme that looks this good but uses local details… still kudos to all for supporting the HUB even if WD is slow to do anything,
Kazgor wrote:
looks great…
my more dislike with most of the themes here is the 2 second delay before the background is desplayed. and withthe
These 2 seconds are a myth, I remember reporting 5 seconds when it was first released now the average person thinks 2-3 seconds… on my hub with ExtremeDigitals Theme or my own with the brand new firmware it takes less than a second :-) even with the mirror effect (tested 10 times and took the average) Of course it would be better they would use a smoother way to translate the backdrop into the environment but waiting less than a second doesn’t bother me at all.
DeVocious… im looking forward to seeing your Mamba… I will have to live with the little delay… does one of you layouts have no Metadata ie just the Movie name. (maybe)… i love those full on Wall Layouts.
Hi Kazgor, changing the Slide Transition mode in the Photo Setting menu to ‘Normal’ helps to reduce the delay in backdrops load times
Mamba is worth the wait 
esp with this reflection effect optimised
Thanx Extreme :-)… Kazgor I will answer everything tomorrow in my own thread, this is Joeys thread about reflections which is the coolest find ever. Let’s keep it on topic.
Uploaded a Demo on Page(1) added an alternate Gallery View with Case Overlays…
Added Note: Im not the biggest fan of the delay between displaying the backdrops in Gallery View.
This was just a little experiment to try and minimize the Hub from trying to load and display backdrops while you are navigating.
ie. Display the Backdrop… but when i navigate … keep displaying it … until i stop on another movie … then load the the Backdrop for the newly selected movie.
In my experience… when navigating it was always trying to display a new backdrop as i scrolled the the thumbnails, which is annoying because of time delay… ends up with backdrops almost flickering on and off as your are navigating.
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sorry to bother you joey
i made the moviesheets for your reflection theme in thumbgen. i can create the thumbinal and sheet.but it creates metadata file .tmgd instead of .xml. which software you use to make xml files and what are the setting you use.please help me
In Thumbgen Options
Input/Output Naming > Movieinfo export > $M$N > .xml > Export using WDTV Live Hub Format
There are however a few more settings required… check out Devicous Guide in the Black Mamba Download.
It will work with Gallery View Theme.
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Hi Joey- I think we should nick name you the ‘SCIENTIST’ with all this experimenting you get up to! 
It’s a pity we couldn’t create this designed delay with your moviesheet method?
Me again!
Joey, you said- ‘Personally i try to remove ‘comments’ and ‘indentation’ … to reduce XML filesize and for efficiency.’
Does this actually speed things up? Is this proven?
If so then I better get deleting all my comments… you should see the state of my xml with all sorts of personal notes/ comments scattered through the code…maybe it will be twice as fast once cleaned up!! :smileyvery-happy:
architectonic wrote:
Hi Joey- I think we should nick name you the ‘SCIENTIST’ with all this experimenting you get up to!
I wanted to suggest to change his name from JoeySmith to YodaSmith 
Hehe… Good Call Devicious!
The guy is a Genius…he’s also very modest.
WD should give Joey a job to overhaul the Mochi theme… anyway that’s enough b*m lickin’ from me :smileyvery-happy:
BTW- nice work on your mamba theme, just a shame our themes/ moviesheets aren’t interchangeable.
architectonic wrote:
Hehe… Good Call Devicious!
The guy is a Genius…he’s also very modest.
WD should give Joey a job to overhaul the Mochi theme… anyway that’s enough b*m lickin’ from me :smileyvery-happy:
BTW- nice work on your mamba theme, just a shame our themes/ moviesheets aren’t interchangeable.
He’s doing a great job really and he’s trying to push the envelope all the time which brings great results and that’s not brown nosing just stating a fact.
If WD would just not compress the thumbnails so much the themes would be interchangable, I have done a version with thumb and movie sheets side by side and instead of using the poster command I was using a focused thumb command in order to prevent the cropping. worked like a charme but the quality was terrible
@ DeVicious
Yep, I do agree.
Hi, architectonic
It’s a bit of a ‘Theory’ … some interesting reading here
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/2882/XML-optimization
I was wondering if you planning on redesigning Æonish and Alaska with this new discovery or are you planning on saving this for your next adventure?
Code: I remember back in the early/mid 80’s when we only had 640K of memory in a PC running a 10mhz TURBO processor. This was BIG as a Commodore 64 was only 64K of memory! It was nearly mandatory that programmers NOT place rem: lines in their code as it took up space and required more of that 640K. Programmers became very inventive and found all sorts of coding tricks to cut the size of their files.
So my bet would be, the cleaner you keep your code, the faster it will execuite.
How many more lines can/could be eliminated from an xml file since Joey found the mirror trick?
@flhthemi
Gonna show my Age here…
Commodore 64 only had 38k available for BASIC Programming (Beginners All Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code)
(More memory was available in Programming in Assembly Code … but didnt go there, i used Basic Compilers Instead)
Did learn and practice ‘Optimizing’ from an early age.
“Peek” and “Poke” the good’ol days :smileyvery-happy:
