Attention Themers 1.12.14 Mochi OSD

WD Legacy Products WD TV Live Streaming
#40

@KAD79

also did you know the opposite also works, if you have an image variable and you want to display some text

use the image variable inside a text element, and the name of the image will be displayed

 

Yes ive tried that a months ago,  but found it displays the Full Path of the Image Name.

 

Similar to the @@media_filepath tag.

#41

yep, admitadly the only practical application, I can think of is for debugging

#42

Joey - love your theme - simple, concise and relevant. Is your theme for use by the general population and if so, where do I go to get it (you can tell I am an absolute beginner) and a tutorial on installing it. Any help would be received with gratitude. I have managed to install the Mojo package on my SMP.

#43

Hi TW

Just wondering how you achieved the ghosted backdrop image (1080x720)… is this part of the moviesheet or just rv_gallery view? 

#44

Hey Joey… Full Circle…? hmm  :wink:

Plus also a little bump for this post by KAD79 (excellent find, by the way) as it may have crept in under the radar for some people…myself included.:dizzy_face:

#45

thanks again guys,

but I do feels like I’m being given too much credit

I’m just applying a bit of WDLXTV knowledge to this device

I think it was recliq that originally found this method on the original WD Live

I’m just testing and applying it here

and I’m certainly very happy to see what’s being done by the themer’s here

oh and ps. again anybody who wants this on the SMP should vote for this idea

http://community.wdc.com/t5/WD-TV-Live-Streaming-Ideas/Run-custom-theme-from-thumbdrive/idi-p/502876

if this does not happen, these improvements will be largely WD Hub only

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Why do my movie sheets take so long to show?
#46

architectonic wrote:

Hi TW

 

Just wondering how you achieved the ghosted backdrop image (1080x720)… is this part of the moviesheet or just rv_gallery view? 

Right now it’s part of the moviesheet, but I’m trying some different things to increase speed.  Speed it pretty decent now, except for Preview view but that’s due to the video running, and I’m sure that I can squeeze a little more speed out of it.

#47

Thanks KAD79 for your finding and your great idea - I hope a lot of people will vote or it and it will get implemented soon !

#48

best find ever! Thanx!

#49

Well here’s a side benefit I just discovered for the linksheet mod…don’t know if I can adequately explain this or not but I’ll try.

This involves PlayOn so you must be running it and using your Hub to access the PlayOn server.

You know all those folder genre covers you made, Action, Animation etc… They show up in PlayOn too! So if you have a script like Ice Films and inside Ice Films there is an option to view movies listed by genre when you go in the genre list, VIOLA! The same sheet you have for your Action folder on your hub will show as the sheet for the Action folder for ANY SCRIPT! I’m sure it’s because VIRTUAL folders are created for all these genres in the scripts.

But wait friends and neighbors it gets better than this! You can create a folder sheet for every script, if it’s written in .LUA code! Sheet titles are CASE SENSITIVE!

A long time ago I made a very simple .LUA script for my PlayOn that just acts as a divider between scripts so I could organize them a little better by Movie scripts then in TV scripts and so on…I titled them

==== MOVIES ====

Soco Films

Movie Madness

VeeHD

==== TV SHOWS ====

TV.com

TV Land

anyway maybe you get the idea. Well i just made folder sheets for each of those! They work! This is way cooler than I thought it would be!

Thanks again for finding this!!!

And now a screen shot! 

screenshot

#50

cool

#51

so I’m reviving this thread, well, just because this next idea, I don’t think is worthy a thread of it’s own

I’m wondering if anybody has tried this in list view

<image x="0" y="0" w="1280" h="720" image="@@browse_0_thumbnail" speed="1" delay="2" bg="1"/>

an entry would need to be listed for each list view item

and the sheet would get named .jpg

these images get cashed to .wdtv

so changing images will require deleting the .wdtv folder

but doing this would allow list view sheets, immediately displayed

examples might be

This would probably be too narrow minded to create a whole theme around it, but it is possible

what you can’t do is have this and have a different image for thumbnails

I still have a few other idea’s, if I find anything else, I’ll let you know

#52

It’s been done before … also limiting is the “List View” is Shared Between Video / Music / Photos

So, it’s gonna screw up those views as well

Personally, “Linksheets”  are still the way to go :smiley:

#53

shared, that would definetely be a pain

sort of figured it was too, easy and had probably been done before

#54

Yes, “List View” being shared is a pain. (they were separate XML’s back in the OLD Gen & Gen1 days)

My “Workaround” is to leave “List View” alone …(rv_list_browse_page.xml)  Just, standard Poster Thumbnails  for that

View.  (So, standard images for Music ID3 tags will display as per normal … no sheets required)

The View i posted previously … below is “Large Grid View” … (rv_large_video_browse_page.xml)  modified to look like a “List View” … this View is Unique to Video Only and does not effect Music or Photo Views.

#55

You know the hidden .wdtv folder where the WDTV SMP software puts all its images?

Well… we can put our own images in there… 

For WD not to overwrite these images, they must have the same mod date as the item they represent.

I changed rv_gallery_browse_page.xml  in Mochi to remove lots of cruft and add the crucial line

<image image="@@poster" x="0" y="0" w="1280" h="720" align="hcenter" scale_type="fixratio" scale="100"/>

For Movie “Movies/1408.avi”, the WDTV will attempt to load

.wdtv/thumb/Movies/1408.avi.thumb_1280x720

If the above file has the same mod date as the original movie file (Movies/1408.mkv), then the WDTV SMP software will use that image.  If not, the WDTV software will attempt to scale up the Movies/1408.metathumb file - a jpeg of a dvd cover - and the results will not be pretty.

But: we can get the WDTV to load a 1280x720 image without worrying about the 30MB theme space.

I run the WDTV with Library Mode turned off and I put everything on the disk manually (well, I have a bunch of cygwin bash scripts to do all this - copying a subset of movies from my main xbmc server to an external 2.5" HD so I can take the HD and the WDTV on holiday :slight_smile:

LStar337’s Split-Sheet  stuff as that 1280x720 image looks quite good and is nice and quick.

If anyone wants, I can share the scripts - be warned, they’re a bit klunky and rely on my existing xbmc layout. and make use of other programs to convert xbmc .nfo files to  WD-suitable .xml files.   Things are further complicated by the fact that my WDTV is going on holiday with SWMBO and the kids so I can’t do any testing 'til they’re back… so you’d be on your own :slight_smile:

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#56

so if I’m understanding you correctly

this will allow the WD to use the backdrop sheet

and keep the normal thumbnail as well

which is exactly what we’re looking for

the only other issue, I see here is that the method must not be too complex

for the same reason I am not telling people how to get telnet access and symlink files

I would imagine a cygwin script will be a nightmare to try and support users

that don’t understand what they are doing

but this is certainly interesting, I’ll may give it a go, just to test it out

and actually, I’ve got another idea

I haven’t tried yet, we’ll see it it leads to anything usefull

#57

Exactly.  I tried to use the WDTV’s Library mode but the results were bad.  Very bad.

Since I already have all my media with posters etc on a NAS in XBMC format (I use Ember as a media manager), I  “just” needed to cobble together a few scripts and some C programs to massage XBMC .nfo to WDTV .xml files (for both TV series and Movies) and sort out the movie sheets with ThumbGen.  What I have now, after a couple of months of hacking, is suitable for me and my setup, and will not work without mods for others.  I wouldn’t even try to support the scripts …

I made a half-hearted attempt at doing Movies Sets, but it’s a bit messy.  I really need to work on genres too.

touch - -reference does the trick!  :-)

#58

I’ve been trying to do something like this based on what JoeySmyth did using a png image file to have a thumb and a sheet as a part of a single image.  In his case I believe he used a png image renamed to .jpg to have a sheet & thumb.  Renaming a png to jpg I don’t believe this is possible any longer.  You could use a large jpg with the these items on it just without transparency.

What I’ve tried so far is to have a thumb in between two background images without any gaps.  The total image size is 1266x300 (Two backgrounds @ 533x300 + a thumb @ 200x300).  Initially this worked pretty well but is now causing me some problems that I’m trying to sort out.  For example, if you have the movie “The Avengers”, you could generate a “thumb” like this:

THE AVENGERS.jpg
THE AVENGERS.jpg1266×300 216 KB

The thumb or background could be selected based on where you are looking on the image…

<!–backdrop_thumb–>
<wrapper x=“100” y=“80” w=“533” h=“300” scale=“1” selected_scale=“100” align=“top,left” scale_type=“pan”>
<image name=“th0” image="@@browse_0_thumbnail" default_image="@@default_thumbnail_0" active="@@act-browselist-0"/>

 

…would provide a background image and 

 

<!–thumbnail–>
<wrapper y=“389” w=“190” h=“281” scale=“80” selected_scale=“100” align=“vcenter, hcenter” scale_type=“pan”>
<image name=“th0” image="@@browse_0_thumbnail" default_image="@@default_thumbnail_0" x=“15” active="@@act-browselist-0"/>

…would provide the thumb.  My hope/thought was to use this single image for the the thumb and backgrounds for a video & then use your linksheet idea for movie information in a png format.  Dropping the image component from the png image greatly reduces the file size - 60kB for me for a sheet based on the brightly dark thumbgen template w/o the background image.

 

#59

here’s what I will be testing out in the next couple of days

I’m currious as to what variables can be used for   active="@@act-browselist-0"

getting either an absolute or relative path to sheets stored elsewhere, example thumbdrive

is no problem at all

so the question is are we able to activeate/deactivate using different variables

if it works, one would just create a single xml file which points to all sheets

the line might look something like

<image image="/path/to/sheet.jpg" default_image="./blankfile" active="@@browse_text"/>

then we would just need a tool to generate an xml