Ok, well a long night of testing,
I’ll give you all a teaser of how this can work
proof of concept video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GdiPNCAZ0Y
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step 1
open : rv_gallery_browse_page.xml
and add this :
<image image="@@browse_text" x="0" y="0" w="1280" h="720"/>
place the edited file inside your .zip
step 2
find a moviesheet you would like to test with
lets assume I have a folder Batman, and inside the file Batman.avi
corresponding sheets might be Batman_sheet.jpg & Batman.avi_sheet.jpg
we need 2 files 1 for the folder and 1 for the movie
for folders: rename the file from Batman_sheet.jpg to Batman
that’s right no file extensions
for files: rename the file from Batman.avi_sheet.jpg to Batman.avi
that’s right even though it’s a .jpg name it the same as your movie file
step 3.
place the files inside your .zip and upload to your SMP
step 4, that’s it, go check your SMP to see if it works
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so problems
- file nameing, easy solution is to use bulk file rename utility
lots of freeware windows based options for rename utilities
also thumbgen supports custom naming schemes, while I haven’t tried it, I suspect it could output the correct file names
- file size
we can only upload 30MB for user themes
in theory, you can upload a zip file containing only the following
rv_gallery_browse_page.xml
meta.xml
but I think most people will still run out of room
so there’s good & bad news, I have a cmd line solution for this
but as long as it requires linux binary’s and cmd line, I will not release it
now that said, I haven’t given up trying to find a user friendly solution to the size issue