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I agree this could be very cool and really make it sparkle. Something to look into anyway I would think..
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I'm sure you all realize that there's more to it than just a backdrop!
Notice that the skin is changed pretty much completely.
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Look I have to admit it looks nice and I would like it added too but those examples to me are just 50% wasted space
Like I said on irc though it would all have to be cached locally on the xbox/linux box because the time to load these sorts of images over a network share for every folder would be very long indeed ( 2 to 5 seconds depending on size ) and for that time it would look dull and odd.
that being said on Implimentaion side of things A tag like <info>Container.FanArt<info>
with a FanArt.tbn (not really a tbn thumbnail I know) stored like folder.tbn would probably do it
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2007-12-14, 06:22
(This post was last modified: 2007-12-14, 06:25 by BritneysPAIRS.)
would be nice to have <info>Container.FanInfo<info> and FanInfo.txt as well to scroll some text up about a picture movie music or whatever.
I think this looks great personally
umm also FanInfo.jpg so the whole folder of stuff can use the Artwork would be helpfull and save having to make every file have artwork
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For anyone interested, I'm considering adding Fan Art support to my site (TheTVDB.com). I already explained elsewhere that if I do this, the art will have different requirements than the current Fan Art available. Instead of people putting gradients into these images to get them to work with specific software and skins, I'd want them as "stock" as possible. It would then be up to the software/skins to overlay the proper gradient/alpha channel/whatever to make it look right for their users. It would be slightly harder getting it to work for XBMC as a result, but it would work for any skin/view layout.
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Simply amazing !!! custom individual page, great idea .... :p
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any state of progress ? or may this is not possible to have : /
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Something as in -depth as shown I don't think it going to happen, and a lot of what MIGHT happen would depend on the skin being used as well - IE how much they support fan art.
With that said this does intrigue me, and if it intrigues me enough and we can work something out I might be willing to do this.
Seems to me we could do something very close with a couple pieces of information.
1) An image infolabel that would return the fanart backdrop
2) A conditional that you could use to return a color scheme. This would most likely be very VERY simple and limited -- perhaps a dozen color schemes hard coded. The skin could then use that to display any gradients or changes needed. This would be up to the skin.
I just woke up so I apologize for not expounding a bit more, but i'd like to get some feedback. I can explain a bit more later on if you all want, but as a skinner I see how I can make this work with that information. Most likely what would have to happen is have TheTVDB include that fanart backdrop as szori mentioned and it would just get scraped along with the show using that new zip interface. TheTVDB should give the backdrop and a color scheme.
To expand on the color scheme -- again since the skin would have to make it work and can't dynamicly generate any color in the world, it would have to be restricted to a set of predefined colors. Kind of like how webpages have certain colors you can specify via text.
Anyway let's get some discussion goign and if we can work out something more basic like this i'm willing to do it in the code, and make a skin to show it off.