I have searched around the forums and have been unable to get a precise answer on this. What, if any, themes for the WDTV Live SMP will support linksheets? My searches have yielded the following results;
Mojo Theme: No linksheets support
Darklight Theme: No linksheets support
Black Mamba: Possibly linksheets support but theme is no longer supported by developer.
CoCo Theme: Supports linksheets but theme is not fully functioning for the WDTV Live SMP and therefor not supported by the developer for SMP.
Does anyone know of any I have missed that would work, properly support linksheets, and are still being supported by the developer? As always, feedback is greatly appreciated.
Even if you do find a theme that has linksheet support, it won’t be much use to you as the SMP has very limited space and you might have room for 10 sheets.
I read that post. What doesn’t make sense to me is that with my WDTV Live Plus the linksheets are stored on a USB thumb drive attached to the unit. What I would like is a theme that stores the linksheets in that fashion for the SMP. Unless I am mistaken about where linksheets are stored for the Live Plus.
Thanks KAD79. I had read BRADs post regarding WDLVTV for the SMP being very early phase. I guess I was just checking for good measure to see if there are any themes I missed. Question, what did you mean by the linksheets aren’t automated for SMP when using the WDLXTV alpha? On my plus I still have to manually trigger the update of my linksheets so I am confused as to which piece is automated.
Question KAD79, would the WDLXTV alpha work fine for me if all I do is watch my own media. I don’t use any apps like you tube or anything. I just want the linksheets functionality. I coupd live with the manual updating for now.
you’ll need a theme that supports both linksheets for your foldersheets
and XML moviesheets for individual files, I know that goodbye black mamba does support this
GBBM does support XML files, but do you need them on the SMP? I don’t have an SMP so am not very familiar with the exact setup, but that theme works well (on the HUB at least) without using XMLs. You can just put the linksheets in the root of the theme and they get called up when you scroll over the movie cover. GBBM does still support XML files if you want to use them, or if it is required on the SMP. Hopefully KAD79 can answer that for you.
Like the post above said, a folder linksheet would would have no extension at all (you will remove the “.jpg”. A film or TV show linksheet needs to have the same extension as the video file (EX: moviename.mkv). The linksheets must be the EXACT same name as the video for this to work, including capitalization if I recall correctly.
With only 30MB for the entire theme directory, you are pretty much stuck just making genre and subgenre folders. I have a lot of movies and TV series (on a HUB) and my GBBM folder is 482MBs. You are going to have to be very deliberate in what you choose to make linksheets for with that size limitation. If you go with GBBM, the theme itself is around 15mb and the typical linsheet from that template in Thumbgen will be around 225kb. I am guessing you can probably make 50-60 linksheets if you manage your theme directory well. If you are ambitious, you could carve up the theme a bit to reduce the size of it’s main files giving you some more space as well.
Take my comments with a grain of salt as I have not used the SMP, but am quite familiar with the theme and the linksheets and templates for it. Hopefully something here is helpful
That makes total sense now. So really you can use all the sheets you want, just limited on the linkhsheets by the theme folder size. The rest can be pointed to by the XML files.
I can’t recall but you may need to install BM 1.9 templates into Thumbgen as well to make the XML files discussed in this thread. Read the install guide and get the theme installed and the templates into Thumbgen. Then read the linksheet guide to see how those files are mad and moved without XML files.
