Theater Backdrop for home screen (1080, 720, 4/3)

I love this idea and I understand the logic but did you actually get this to work or are they fake videos for demonstration ?

If you actually did it, how?

I know I'm new to all this but I can't even get a PNG to show up as a backdrop, let alone showing fanart behind it...

it might not be visible on screens with lower contrast ratio, but there's a big darker black bar on the left side of the image, here's the fixed 1080p version of the picture without black bar
Edit: the selection of the transparent part of the image is more accurate on the original picture, I don't know how to select it that accurately (i'm not very good with gimp...). if someone could fix the selection too, that would be great.

jpf55 Wrote:I love this idea and I understand the logic but did you actually get this to work or are they fake videos for demonstration ?

i don't produce fakes. everything's real. ;-)

jpf55 Wrote:If you actually did it, how?

by putting a multiimage control behind the backdrop and applying the animated background effects that are already in the skin.
it will get the fanart from xbmc's cache folder (userdata/Thumbnails/Video/Fanart)

jpf55 Wrote:I know I'm new to all this but I can't even get a PNG to show up as a backdrop, let alone showing fanart behind it...

i will have to clean up the code a bit and do some more testing. if i'm done i'll post it here.

francyboy Wrote:

could you post a link to the original, unedited image?

That 'Ken Burns' demo you had looked pretty sharp...

ronie Wrote:could you post a link to the original, unedited image?

ronie Wrote:by putting a multiimage control behind the backdrop and applying the animated background effects that are already in the skin.
it will get the fanart from xbmc's cache folder (userdata/Thumbnails/Video/Fanart)
i will have to clean up the code a bit and do some more testing. if i'm done i'll post it here.

I'm still not sure I follow you because the background only seems to accept jpg images and as far as I know, there is no transparency in jpgs but maybe that's one of the code cleanup you are talking about.

jpf55 Wrote:I'm still not sure I follow you because the background only seems to accept jpg images and as far as I know, there is no transparency in jpgs but maybe that's one of the code cleanup you are talking about.

I think you could place the background first as the static image and change the picture on the theater screen over it. I dont think that would be the problem, but I am not sure how you would "distort" the image to fit the theater screen.

jpf55 Wrote:I'm still not sure I follow you because the background only seems to accept jpg images and as far as I know, there is no transparency in jpgs but maybe that's one of the code cleanup you are talking about.

sure you can use .png files as backdrops. it doesn't matter if they're .jpg or .png

Amet Wrote:I think you could place the background first as the static image and change the picture on the theater screen over it. I dont think that would be the problem, but I am not sure how you would "distort" the image to fit the theater screen.

you put the fanart images behind the backdrop, so you don't have to worry about them exactly fitting the movie screen. and by using a rotate animation, you can create a slight angle.

ronie Wrote:sure you can .png files as backdrops. it doesn't matter if they're .jpg or .png



you put the fanart images behind the backdrop, so you don't have to worry about them exactly fitting the movie screen. and by using a rotate animation, you can create a slight angle.

Thats why you are Skilled Skinner and I am just guessing :-P

Is there any way to achieve this? Can you give us any pointers?

Thanks
Zeljko