[RELEASE] MediaStream v1.60 (2010-01-26)

This should have been released a few days ago but I've been caught up with some ideas I'm working on for a new skin.

There's been a few changes since the release of v1.50 and a number of fixes too. The main changes are as follows:

• Added: Fanart for music
• Added: the ability to show weather fanart (needs weather fanart images to be placed in the custom weather backgrounds folder)
• Added: ability to display weather fanart on Weather screen as well as Home screen
• Added: ability to display animated weather on home (requires animated weather images to be setup in an icons folder off of the custom weather backgrounds folder)
• Added: full screen versions of the Home screen backgrounds
  

• Updated: skin now uses a single multiimage for the backgrounds on the Home screen
• Updated: added year to Video OSD for episodes (was going to add air date but that's not available)
• Updated: tidied up the display on the File Manager screen
• Updated: tidied up transition from File Manager screen back to Home screen
• Updated: tidied up positioning of progress bars on scan dialogs
• Updated: Chinese (Simple) translations (thanks to taxigps)
• Updated: Spanish translation (thanks to nabz)
• Updated: Greek translation (thanks to ydatografida)
  

• Fixed: conditions for displaying the various parts of the video OSD
• Fixed: Don't display watched/unwatched overlay in List view or Info List view when viewing seasons data
• Fixed: made sure progress bar does not appear when full screen video is not being viewed
• Fixed: animations on Home screen
• Fixed: issues with options for weather on Home screen
  

• Removed: options to set a single custom background image for any of the screens (if you want a single image then place that image in a folder and set the folder)
• Removed: all the split images that used to be used for the default backgrounds
  

You can download the skin at the following link - MediaStream v1.60

Latest Movies on Home:


Weather Fanart:


Media Preview view with media flags:


New layout for Episodes view for unwatched episodes:


Episodes layout for watched episodes:

Thanks for the updates.

Edit:

Working on new skin........... you made me curious.
Explain give me a teaser/hint.

I've updated the first post with the proper download link now.

Please post feedback if you do try it. Thanks


PS The new skin is still in the very early stages but I want to concentrate more on TV Shows/Episodes and Music on this one as I feel that most skins create some fantastic views for Movies but not so many for TV or Music.

Thanks for the updates!
I'll download it now and test it on my Xbox.

Will try to upload (tonight) Mediastream-x(box) based on version 1.6

Hi again
i'm using mediastream 1.60 on my xbox, using Spanish language
As I can see there's an error with the localized strings caused by UTF-8 vs ANSI.
Please change the Strings.xml file for this one.

Spanish Strings.xml

Edit: Added new strings (Show animated Weather / Show Weather fanart) and changed string 31710.

nabz Wrote:Hi again
i'm using mediastream 1.60 on my xbox, using Spanish language
As I can see there's an error with the localized strings caused by UTF-8 vs ANSI.
Please change the Strings.xml file for this one.

Spanish Strings.xml

Edit: Added new strings (Show animated Weather / Show Weather fanart) and changed string 31710.

Your file has now been added to SVN. Thanks

There are 2 little things....

Sort by rating for music doesn't work. This is very strange.. should be method id 23 but somehow it works now for movies and not for music anymore
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=62146

Custom Background Previews for weather does not work.

Nice job!

Is there a way to force the plot to be shown for unwatched episodes? I have that option ticked off in the settings, but it doesn't seem to be working.

Any ideas?