* Sheets are PNG to allow for changing Backdrop Wallpaper
* Sheets are small Resolution Scaled Up for Speed Reasons (Did not want them slower then Normal Posters)
* Sheets for this “Test” are just a Basic Desgin but there is plenty of room to add Certifications,Flags,Year etc
* XML’s and Metadata are still Present (I have not Deleted Them) for Info Views
* This is Exclusively for the WDTV LIve Hub (Sheets for this small Demo + Theme Files Approx: 50MB)
* The 2 Views Modified for WallSheets are Video Browse & Large Video Browse.
* Video Demo using WDTV Live Hub … Firmware Version 2.07.17
I can’t believe you bet me to the punch!!!:smileyvery-happy:
A couple of things though. Yes it will work for the current FW.
*SMP is limited to the size of the theme. You only have 30MB total for the theme and moviesheets, if you theme is 30MB you have no room left for moviesheets. So moviesheets on the SMP are not pratical.
*HUB, the limit is what ever you currently have (just delete the old moviesheets) plus what ever space you have left on the internal drive.
A couple of other notes. With this method you can have moviesheets for folders. This also works for files on a NAS or a attached drive.
Nope. Batch renamer can take care of your renaming, takes a few minutes to do or if you only use one file type a simple bat file can do the same thing.
I don’t know what you mean by moving things to 2 different folders. If you’re refering to generating the sheets to your PC then moving them to the theme folder, you should be able to generate them straight to the theme folder on the HUB. What is being discussed in the other thread is for the SMP, which is different.
As making the theme folder a mess, that’s where “Group by” in Windows comes in handy. Keeps everything nice and neat.
The major issue is, at least with what Joey’s doing is getting rid of the from xml’s. But that’s easily accomplished with Notepad++. My theme doesn’t use xmls so all you have to do there is delete them.
Sounds good. Although it will be painful to go through it all, I look forward to trying it.
If I can get rid of the WDTV Drive and Connected drives blank icons with it it would be great, but it looks like folders only. Wish there was a fix for this.
If all sheets go on the Hub it will get rid of the other annoyance to me of it having to re-cache all shared drives every time you use them.
Plus if we are back to PNGs they look a lot nicer…
If I can get rid of the WDTV Drive and Connected drives blank icons with it it would be great, but it looks like folders only. Wish there was a fix for this.
You can. You can use a sheet for anything with a name.
Nope. Batch renamer can take care of your renaming, takes a few minutes to do or if you only use one file type a simple bat file can do the same thing.
Agree: Batch Programs are Great, Fast & Efficiant
As making the theme folder a mess, that’s where “Group by” in Windows comes in handy. Keeps everything nice and neat.
Agree: Sort by “File Type” in “Windows” works Wonders
The major issue is, at least with what Joey’s doing is getting rid of the <title> from xml’s. But that’s easily accomplished with Notepad++. My theme doesn’t use xmls so all you have to do there is delete them.
Disagree: I’m usingTextrep which can "Recursivley Scan an Entire Folder full of XML’s and Batch Replace single and multiple instances of a tag . eg replace <title> with <remtitle>
Textrep can also Batch replace “Blocks” of lines / code as well.
For the “Video Demo” batch Replacing <title> XML code took about 1.2 Seconds.