Night Release Thread

zilexa · 2010-06-16 21:45

NEW questions:

1.
But in what settings can I set the path for weather conditions fanart? It's not in XBMC itself I've checked all options twice already (did found other interesting options of this Skin!).

2.
btw in latest svn XBMC Subtitles is integrated (it used to be an optional script), I suppose Night doesnt support this yet because if I enable Subtitles in OSD I have to select the path of the script and when I browse to the correct path, I can not select OK...

3.
check screenshot, RecentlyAdded shows me empty lines and an empty frame. Same for movies (a few empty frames), is this a bug?

hikaricore · 2010-06-16 22:15

For linux users I thought I'd share my quick little bash script for extrafanart.

Code:

#!/bin/bash

mkdir extrafanart

cd extrafanart

for i in `seq 1 $1`

do

        wget http://www.thetvdb.com/banners/fanart/original/$2-$i.jpg

done

This script should be placed in a central location chmodded +x and run from the directory of the series in question.
The only thing you need is the total number of fanarts available on thetvdb and the series id number.

Example:

Code:

~/extrafanart.sh 11 94801

Don't ask me for help on using this, I've provided all the info you need.
Also you can expect this script to break eventually when the new site is put in place.
This could easily be modified to grab the series id in a number of ways but I'm far too lazy to make it complex.

Kallaide · 2010-06-16 22:29

Maxoo Wrote:1) Wherever you want. Just set the correct path in the settings.
2) Yup. extrafanart folder. (there may be some media manager that does it for you, but I don't know about them).

With EMM you select the Hi-res image you want (or let it auto select) for the Fanart and then all other Hi-res Fanarts are placed into the extrafanart folder for each movie. I also have it set to copy all fanarts to a separate folder so that XBMC can use that as the Movie Backgrounds, (this way the Movie Background images are only of the movies I have and then when new movies are added it automatically adds it's fanart to the list.)

Main reason for EMM for me is that it places ALL the files and images into the Movie folders on an external hard drive with XBMC. This allows me to just take the hard drive and connect it to any PC and use it exactly as I do at home.

Hudson_Hawk04 · 2010-06-16 23:48

Does the logo downloading script work if your media is stored on another machine on the network?

WhyS · 2010-06-16 23:58

Is there a way to change the viewtype: Wall, into three horizontal rows instead of four, as it currently is. And thereby make the posters a tad bit larger?

ppic · 2010-06-17 00:07

Hudson_Hawk04 Wrote:Does the logo downloading script work if your media is stored on another machine on the network?

yes just you must have the write permition on media store

Kallaide · 2010-06-17 00:48

WhyS Wrote:Is there a way to change to viewtype: Wall for movies into three horizontal rows instead of four, as it currently is. And thereby make the posters a tad bit larger?

I'm with WhyS, the Wall view, as nice as it is, does have a few drawbacks to view ability. Maybe adding a few different options to the number of rows and columns thus allowing each person to set it to exactly how they want.

That would be a huge task, however, I'm sure if you do it you could them claim to have the most customizable skin out there... Wink

WhyS · 2010-06-17 01:35

Kallaide Wrote:I'm with WhyS, the Wall view, as nice as it is, does have a few drawbacks to view ability. Maybe adding a few different options to the number of rows and columns thus allowing each person to set it to exactly how they want.

That would be a huge task, however, I'm sure if you do it you could them claim to have the most customizable skin out there...

Yeah, with the option to change it yourself would be wonderful. I was more aiming for maybe a modded viewtype or possible a "poster plus".
But whatever works, right?

I love the walls no matter which skin it is, since I have a fairly large collection it makes browsing much easier and faster. And Night's 3d wall is a winner. but the only [minor]downside is that the posters are pretty small.

mcborzu · 2010-06-17 01:39

About the wall I'll see what I can whip up, my current skin to do list is:
Put out a pre-merge version so I don't have to limit myself, this weekend it'll be done
Look into unicode fonts. I thought they were but oh well

Those are the two that take priority at the moment. I have 3 days free this weekend so we'll see about a different take on the wall...

Zoso161 · 2010-06-17 02:11

i absolutely love the new poster plus view for movies. For some reason, when i back out to the home screen and then enter back into movies, the info for the selected movie is already displayed, then the poster shifts over to it's left position. It only does it on the first movie each time i enter the movies section. I'm using a pre merge version of XBMC. It's the last nightly build that was available from a few months ago on XBMC.org. Any idea what could be causing this? Thanks for any help and all of the hard work you put into Night.

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