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

revned Wrote:Ofcourse, here you go:
http://img35.imageshack.us/img35/7575/musictest2.png

Thanks, Im going to lower the image so that the icons from Rapier will show in that white area.

in another thread kurtwarwick came up with the idea of having a cd wall with random cd covers during playback:



at first i was a bit scared if a thing like this wouldn't eat all your cpu resources, but it turns out it almost runs as smooth as a breeze:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCfjJX_5B88

I'm so glad I'm going to be updating the old Xbox to a little HTPC soon.

This thread just blows me away with how cool this skin really could be.

ronie Wrote:in another thread kurtwarwick came up with the idea of having a cd wall with random cd covers during playback:



at first i was a bit scared if a thing like this wouldn't eat all your cpu resources, but it turns out it almost runs as smooth as a breeze:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCfjJX_5B88

That looks cool !!!
I prefer that to visualisations

Steveb Wrote:That looks cool !!!
I prefer that to visualisations

I'd like to have this kind of background during music playing also. Visualisations are Ok to have but I don't particularly fancy them. It would be nice to have this as an option or maybe have some key that swaps between visualisations and wall but definitely interesting.

I understand that this creates a changing wall using your own cd covers and not some preset stock images. In fact I believe that Windows 7 Media Center does just that whey you play music.

ronie Wrote:in another thread kurtwarwick came up with the idea of having a cd wall with random cd covers during playback:



at first i was a bit scared if a thing like this wouldn't eat all your cpu resources, but it turns out it almost runs as smooth as a breeze:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCfjJX_5B88

I won't use it, but it's a nice feature for people who haven't got 100% fanart in their library. By the way, it would be cool to be able to browse albums in this album wall view. I think some other skins already have this. I've got more than 800 albums in my library so a wall view (or whatever it's called) would be a great addition!

adsoto Wrote:I'd like to have this kind of background during music playing also. Visualisations are Ok to have but I don't particularly fancy them. It would be nice to have this as an option or maybe have some key that swaps between visualisations and wall but definitely interesting.

most likely i'll add this cd wall as an option.
i'm not sure if it would be easy to add a 'switch' button to the osd that allow you to switch between visualisation / fanart (slideshow) / cd wall.
i'll have to test if it can be done in a sane manner.

adsoto Wrote:I understand that this creates a changing wall using your own cd covers and not some preset stock images.

true, but you need to set it up yourself.
you'll have to copy all cd covers to a folder and select the folder in skin settings.
at least, that how i think i'm going to implement it.

stokedfish Wrote:I won't use it, but it's a nice feature for people who haven't got 100% fanart in their library. By the way, it would be cool to be able to browse albums in this album wall view. I think some other skins already have this. I've got more than 800 albums in my library so a wall view (or whatever it's called) would be a great addition!

yup, it's one of those to do things.
there certainly will be a wall view in Transparency! at some point. ;-)

Quote:true, but you need to set it up yourself.
you'll have to copy all cd covers to a folder and select the folder in skin settings.
at least, that how i think i'm going to implement it.

Not to sound ungrateful but I kinda hope you implement this in the same way that you have CDART and CLEARART, maybe pulling the FOLDER.jpg. The additional folder seems like an AEON style hack that never sat well with me.

On the other hand I have no idea what goes into implementing it so if its way more work then consider this post moot!!!

maocul Wrote:Not to sound ungrateful but I kinda hope you implement this in the same way that you have CDART and CLEARART, maybe pulling the FOLDER.jpg. The additional folder seems like an AEON style hack that never sat well with me.

i know what you mean and i feel the same way.
if there was any other method, i'd certainly use it.

problem is, all the cd covers need to be in the same folder,
the skin can't just recursively scan all subfolders for cd covers.

what i did is copy over a bunch of images from xbmc's cache folders:
userdata\Thumbnails\Music\0
.
.
.
userdata\Thumbnails\Music\f

to a new folder and that's it. it only takes a minute or two to set up.

now i could use the cache folders directly, but for some reason a lot of artist thumbs ended up in there as well.
i'm not sure why, as it seems artist thumbs are supposed to be cached to userdata\Thumbnails\Music\Artists ?

Hello,

Congrats for the skin and the ongoing mods. I love the CD coverart wall.

I'm looking into moding the tvshow screen.
I would like to have a wall of tv screens (proper picture still to be found) with a bunch a screencap (typically found in thumbs) cycling on them.
At the moment I have hacked the python script to fetch thumbs in the episodeview table and pick 4 of them at random in the list.
The script executes each time the tvshow button is pressed. So screencaps change between going to and back from the tvshow window. It is too static for what I'd like to obtain.
It basically works BUT (and it's a big but, which I like, that I can't deny) the script running each time the button is pressed makes it a real ressource hog.

And here comes the question :
For the CD coverart wall, did you copy the coverarts in a directory once and for all or is it something that the recentlyadded script does each time XBMC is launched ?
Anyway, I'm gonna try that and see if it works smoothly for me ...