The only problem is that you sort of half to design everything around your moviesheet (meaning all views can only use one moviesheet). On this plus side, you can have the metadata appear for the Preview view.
I’ve tested with 1280x720 jpgs and speed seems good with those too. You just have to delete the metadata xmls, if the xmls exist it seems to slow everything down.
On the down side though, I think I’m going to have to go back to the drawing board on the HUB themes. I don’t see changing anything on the SMP because of the file size limitations, at least unless someone finds an easier way to change that limitation or finds some other work around.
The only problem is that you sort of half to design everything around your moviesheet (meaning all views can only use one moviesheet). On this plus side, you can have the metadata appear for the Preview view.
But, … you could say the same for a sheet designed for use with “Gallery View”
(and have to design the rest of the theme around it)
It all comes down to a “Presonal Preference” on which viewtype you prefer. (Wall,Std,Sheet)
Also, Tested and Working… scale_type=“pan” align=“left” (or right,top,bottom) so a single “Sheet” can contain different layouts and design and only a certain portion of it displaying in certain views.
You only need bg=“1” if you need to display it behind the overlay (and the overlay is using bg=“1”), but is not really necessary if you make part of the overlay as your moviesheet. Use of bg=“1” is subjective depending on the moviesheet and how you have your theme xml arranged.
And you can already set different location in thumbgen. I’m using a direct path to export my moviesheets to my PC instead of the saving to the movie folder. In Input/Output naming just set the path as something like:
C:\User\Moviesheets$N (.jpg)
This will save it to any location you chose, then I just use a bat file in that folder to rename everything.
Just copy this to a text file.
ren *.jpg *.mkv
or for .png
ren *.png *.mkv
Then save the text file and then rename from .txt to .bat then once you generate everything, run the .bat file.
for rename, I’m using bulk rename utility, has a nice little gui, lots of advance options, and you can see what it’s going to do, before you run it on your files
I’m going to try a CDATA struct tonight, see if I can get anywhere with that
I tried uploading a zip file containing symlinks, but SMP converted the symlinks, so while present there became unusable
KAD79 wrote:> for rename, I’m using bulk rename utility, has a nice little gui, lots of advance options, and you can see what it’s going to do, before you run it on your files
Yes, I have a bulk renamer too. But for simple file renaming (ie: filename.jpg to filename.mkv) I find it easier just to use a bat file. One click on the bat and your done, and since I’m exporting all the moviesheets to one folder there’s no opening software, no selecting files and in about 2 secs. it’s all done.