[ALPHA RELEASE] Welo - a new skin in development for XBMC

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- liquidskin76 - 2011-07-01

Yeah, something not right! I'll do a comparison between Welo and Confluence/Revisited, and correct.

Cheers for pointing it out.

- Hitcher - 2011-07-01

liquidskin76 Wrote:Haven't seen that video. In the handover build that came from Welo/Hitcher that view type hadn't been coded.

Just checked and that view was in the code -

- Hitcher - 2011-07-01

@ krish_2k4

You're images aren't stretched/scaled in Confluence because that is displaying them with aspect ratio "keep" so they can be shown as they are. In Welo, and many other skins, we like to display them at set dimensions so we can add fancy overlay textures to them as well - this cannot be done when displayed in their original aspect ratio - and we code for 16:9.

I suggest you change your set up to 1280x720.

- kricker - 2011-07-01

Hitcher Wrote:@ krish_2k4

You're images aren't stretched/scaled in Confluence because that is displaying them with aspect ratio "keep" so they can be shown as they are. In Welo, and many other skins, we like to display them at set dimensions so we can add fancy overlay textures to them as well - this cannot be done when displayed in their original aspect ratio - and we code for 16:9.

I suggest you change your set up to 1280x720.

Or change the video calibration so XBMC appears to be at a 16:9 ration. That is what I did with my laptop that runs at a high 4:3 aspect ration. Now everything looks fine. You'll have black bars at the top and bottom, but I rather have that then stretched imagery and video.

- krish_2k4 - 2011-07-01

Hitcher Wrote:@ krish_2k4

You're images aren't stretched/scaled in Confluence because that is displaying them with aspect ratio "keep" so they can be shown as they are. In Welo, and many other skins, we like to display them at set dimensions so we can add fancy overlay textures to them as well - this cannot be done when displayed in their original aspect ratio - and we code for 16:9.

I suggest you change your set up to 1280x720.

but in alaska revisited it displays perfectly. i'll change to 1280x720

kricker Wrote:Or change the video calibration so XBMC appears to be at a 16:9 ration. That is what I did with my laptop that runs at a high 4:3 aspect ration. Now everything looks fine. You'll have black bars at the top and bottom, but I rather have that then stretched imagery and video.

thanks, i'll try that.

- liquidskin76 - 2011-07-01

Hitcher Wrote:Just checked and that view was in the code -

I thought he meant a large poster view, not large list.

Cheers

- krish_2k4 - 2011-07-01

there is no option to change to 16:9 in xbmc. my laptop screen goes from 1280x800 and 1024x768.

how do i change it to 16:9 or 1280x720 in xbmc?

- kricker - 2011-07-01

krish_2k4 Wrote:there is no option to change to 16:9 in xbmc. my laptop screen goes from 1280x800 and 1024x768.

how do i change it to 16:9 or 1280x720 in xbmc?

If you set XBMC to full screen, do you get the resolution option underneath?

Even if you set it this way, the monitor will scale the resolution to fill the monitor so you will have a 16:9 resolution stretched to fit your 16:10 monitor. That is why I suggested just changing the video calibration. Then the resolution doesn't change and you get proper display of XBMC and videos.

- sialivi - 2011-07-01

liquidskin76 Wrote:I thought he meant a large poster view, not large list.

I did. This is the one I was refering to but it wasn't quite how I remembered it, I thought all the posters were large, not just the one in focus.

But to be honest, I would rather have a Large Poster view that looks just like the current Poster view but with posters the same size as the Large List (that's what I meant with a cross between the two, sorry for being unclear).

- HansP - 2011-07-01

any idea of releasedate alpha 2 ? Smile

- krish_2k4 - 2011-07-01

@liquidskin76 I sorted the video calibration to change to aspect ratio to 1280x720 and the movie posters and album posters are all in the right size. sucks to have black borders now but i'll have to get used to it!

- Hitcher - 2011-07-01

krish_2k4 Wrote:but in alaska revisited it displays perfectly. i'll change to 1280x720

thanks, i'll try that.

Only for views that allow the image to be displayed 'as it is' (ie when it's on it's own), switch to any other and you'll see the dimensions set in stone.

sialivi Wrote:I did. This is the one I was refering to but it wasn't quite how I remembered it, I thought all the posters were large, not just the one in focus.

But to be honest, I would rather have a Large Poster view that looks just like the current Poster view but with posters the same size as the Large List (that's what I meant with a cross between the two, sorry for being unclear).

I've never shown that in a video. Huh

- sialivi - 2011-07-01

Hitcher Wrote:I've never shown that in a video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?=oaagsQfL_Ow

- liquidskin76 - 2011-07-01

I bet that was just Welo's background and Revisited view type, in some sort of early mix when the coding originally first started?

- liquidskin76 - 2011-07-02

krish_2k4 Wrote:@liquidskin76 I sorted the video calibration to change to aspect ratio to 1280x720 and the movie posters and album posters are all in the right size. sucks to have black borders now but i'll have to get used to it!

Ok, thanks for letting me know. Wink

Cheers