I have found that the more I mess with this, and I have since I got it, that eventually movie/tv info is no use to be honest.
In fact sometimes I like not to know what is going to happen in a TV episode or in a film. And the more TV/Movie sheets I have messed with I seem to know 95& off by heart anyway.
To me its more of a nice looking/selection that I want. I would rather have a nice large Bluray cover setup that moves quickly, than a slow chugging info packed setup. This is not aimed against you or anyone else, but they will never tweak anything inside the box, nor will they tweak for PNGs, basically because the hardware cant handle the large files.
i like especially the look for music gallery and playback view. but, however, i have one point that doesnāt please me: is it generally possible to display folders in gallery view and the files in there in list view? i have some genre folders with hundreds of tracks in which are hard to overview in gallery view.
when I watch a TV episode at night before i go to bed and fall asleep i need the movie sheet to read where I fell asleep, I canāt remember and without it i would have to start watching 5-6 episodes to know where i left it off. I donāt really read the movie synapsis either but I get additional visual info and when having 20 unwatched movies i have a decent helpt to make a decision which movie to watch based on pictures and imdb ratings. People who make themselves blind to valuable informations are calledā¦ *drum roll+ā¦āPoliticiansā (just kidding)
i like especially the look for music gallery and playback view. but, however, i have one point that doesnāt please me: is it generally possible to display folders in gallery view and the files in there in list view? i have some genre folders with hundreds of tracks in which are hard to overview in gallery view.
yes it is possible but this idiotic media library wants to take things out of context because it is a broken feature.
Change your sorting order to āAlphabeticalā & āFoldersā or ideally go to the settings menu and turn off the library and see if that works better for you. It will show you actualy mp3 file name and not the title but you will find your tracks sorted correctly again and your hab is working faster. Please try that first to find out of you really need it.
when I watch a TV episode at night before i go to bed and fall asleep i need the movie sheet to read where I fell asleep, I canāt remember and without it i would have to start watching 5-6 episodes to know where i left it off. I donāt really read the movie synapsis either but I get additional visual info and when having 20 unwatched movies i have a decent helpt to make a decision which movie to watch based on pictures and imdb ratings. People who make themselves blind to valuable informations are calledā¦ *drum roll+ā¦āPoliticiansā (just kidding)
Ah you see, you are like my wifeā¦I donāt fall asleep watching TV.
The info that you have on the TV Thumbs is enough for me, and if I ever do forget, I go to the one prior to the one I think I have watched, if it says Resume/Restartā¦I know I have watched it
when I watch a TV episode at night before i go to bed and fall asleep i need the movie sheet to read where I fell asleep, I canāt remember and without it i would have to start watching 5-6 episodes to know where i left it off. I donāt really read the movie synapsis either but I get additional visual info and when having 20 unwatched movies i have a decent helpt to make a decision which movie to watch based on pictures and imdb ratings. People who make themselves blind to valuable informations are calledā¦ *drum roll+ā¦āPoliticiansā (just kidding)
Ah you see, you are like my wifeā¦I donāt fall asleep watching TV.
The info that you have on the TV Thumbs is enough for me, and if I ever do forget, I go to the one prior to the one I think I have watched, if it says Resume/Restartā¦I know I have watched it
yeah mine runs out and the next day i dont have a clue where I was I saw Ross saying the wrong name at the wedding 6 times till i ralized I was in the wrong season
Been playing with large thumbs in another view today.
Picture 1 is fine when static, but Picture 2 shows what happens when I go to the next page. It does redraw ok in a second, but just for a short time itās a mess ?
when I watch a TV episode at night before i go to bed and fall asleep i need the movie sheet to read where I fell asleep, I canāt remember and without it i would have to start watching 5-6 episodes to know where i left it off. I donāt really read the movie synapsis either but I get additional visual info and when having 20 unwatched movies i have a decent helpt to make a decision which movie to watch based on pictures and imdb ratings. People who make themselves blind to valuable informations are calledā¦ *drum roll+ā¦āPoliticiansā (just kidding)
Ah you see, you are like my wifeā¦I donāt fall asleep watching TV.
The info that you have on the TV Thumbs is enough for me, and if I ever do forget, I go to the one prior to the one I think I have watched, if it says Resume/Restartā¦I know I have watched it
yeah mine runs out and the next day i dont have a clue where I was I saw Ross saying the wrong name at the wedding 6 times till i ralized I was in the wrong season
ah Friendsā¦ how i miss itā¦
ahway DeViā¦ do you have Thumbs covers for your Seriesā¦ so for Friendsā¦ you have a cover and in there will be the Season folers (1,2,3,4,5 etc)
I am at the moment using the Movie Thumb to make the Folders stand out compare to the TV Thumbsā¦ i was thinking maybe with your super eye for design you might create a Series Thumb, maybe even slightly based from the Genre designā¦ ie with that RED Barā¦ that can be generated via TG.
Select a friends episode as normal with TG in manual mode (can even be one you have one already as you wont be saving it).
Once it prepares the sheet for you. Go to bottom right box called Moviesheet editor and select the movie thumb.
If you go over to the far left under search results, choose a picture you want (a generic one for a folder full of seasons)
Click the green tick under the cover window, this will move the picture inside the frame at the bottom right.
Then click the blue disk in the bottom right window āsave original moviesheet to disk somewhereā. Save it as folder.jpg and boom you have a nice folder thumb.
What I do is select episode 1 of Season 1 and create a Season 1 folder.jpg, select episode 1 of Season 2 to create a Season 2. jpg and so on for the actual Season folder.jpgs.
Been playing with large thumbs in another view today.
Picture 1 is fine when static, but Picture 2 shows what happens when I go to the next page. It does redraw ok in a second, but just for a short time itās a mess ?
Any idea what is doing this, is it a certain overlay/picture ?
stuff happensā¦
first of all this design really breaks my heart. please warn me when you kill something i consider my baby
The snapshot in Picture 2 is the result of poor coding on your part, you didnāt bring all elements into the right dimensions thatās why the Bluray is cut off on top. The Blank Bluray is the no cover art symbol, it appears when covers arenāt rendered yet and completely normal to appear in this way, it just needs to be done right and it doesnāt look so bad.
I am surprised this is catching your eye and not the too large font on bottom or the displacement of the diffusion image that is not wide enough for your covers (use the same technique as I made for you for your shelf) or the artefacts drawn from mirror covers because the gap between the too covers is too wide and the difusion image is not made for these coversā¦
ahway DeViā¦ do you have Thumbs covers for your Seriesā¦ so for Friendsā¦ you have a cover and in there will be the Season folers (1,2,3,4,5 etc)
I am at the moment using the Movie Thumb to make the Folders stand out compare to the TV Thumbsā¦ i was thinking maybe with your super eye for design you might create a Series Thumb, maybe even slightly based from the Genre designā¦ ie with that RED Barā¦ that can be generated via TG.
Just a thoughtā¦
2 Answers to that, one might surprise youā¦
why using movie thumbs for that if you can check the EXTRA THUMBNAIL which creates the folder.jpg
about the series thumb that is a really good idea, i am not sure if I would use it for myself but I will definately do it
it should not be done exactly like the genre covers (canāt be done) but i know how it could work, after all these shows usually have covers that capture the series quite well, one should not destroy that. I will send you a beta version when I have it.
Haha sorry to trash your hard work. But ALL the themes once implemented are too slow for me bar the stock ones, and they look terrible. I went through all this with earlier firmwares and Joeys work, no doubt I will end up there again
As far as my coding skilss go, yeah its hack and bash, but the images you see half drawn do draw correctly once the pictures stop moving, I think its more to do with buffers/memory or a setting somewhere. Or as I am guessing you mean I have to increase the size of the no cover art, which is strange as this seems to have scaled up to suit when a cover is not there.
Yes I concur, I was going to fix the smaller things later
Select a friends episode as normal with TG in manual mode (can even be one you have one already as you wont be saving it).
Once it prepares the sheet for you. Go to bottom right box called Moviesheet editor and select the movie thumb.
If you go over to the far left under search results, choose a picture you want (a generic one for a folder full of seasons)
Click the green tick under the cover window, this will move the picture inside the frame at the bottom right.
Then click the blue disk in the bottom right window āsave original moviesheet to disk somewhereā. Save it as folder.jpg and boom you have a nice folder thumb.
What I do is select episode 1 of Season 1 and create a Season 1 folder.jpg, select episode 1 of Season 2 to create a Season 2. jpg and so on for the actual Season folder.jpgs.
why donāt you tick the Extra Thumbnail button which will make you the official cover for the season saves it automatically as folder.jpg into the right location that is used later on the episode thumbnails as well. This is literally no extra work.
Kazgor was referring to series thumbs as a main image for the show main folder, this should not be done without a proper template if you want a decent result.
Haha sorry to trash your hard work. But ALL the themes once implemented are too slow for me bar the stock ones, and they look terrible. I went through all this with earlier firmwares and Joeys work, no doubt I will end up there again
As far as my coding skilss go, yeah its hack and bash, but the images you see half drawn do draw correctly once the pictures stop moving, I think its more to do with buffers/memory or a setting somewhere. Or as I am guessing you mean I have to increase the size of the no cover art, which is strange as this seems to have scaled up to suit when a cover is not there.
Yes I concur, I was going to fix the smaller things later
alrighty then
if things are too slow for you, you should really consider going back to the old firmware and use Joeys theme, it canāt get faster than that unless you depend on the new firmware then you need to take what the hub can offer at this point, itās not much in terms of speed (unfortunately)
The reason why I do this is because I go to the effort of using Thumbs with Bluray covers for each episode, so I like to keep that theme for the main folders
No, it has nothing to do with buffering or memory.Ā The problem is with your coding, most likely the marquee settings.Ā If it only does this when change pages, then it most difintely your marquee settings.
(just kidding)
Ā Mine are running into 2 day work days with about 3 hrs sleep between.
