[RELEASE] reFocus 0.9.5

(2012-04-28 23:23)Galefury Wrote:  Here's another small tweak, blue seekbar. It includes chapters code (if available). I disabled the cache progress bar, it looks better without and I have no use for it. You can enable if you want, just ask here. It's just a single file, drop it in 720p folder. Back up original file first, just in case. Enjoy.

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It's very nice. Thank you.

(2012-04-28 23:23)Galefury Wrote:  Here's another small tweak, blue seekbar. It includes chapters code (if available). I disabled the cache progress bar, it looks better without and I have no use for it. You can enable if you want, just ask here. It's just a single file, drop it in 720p folder. Back up original file first, just in case. Enjoy.

download for 0.9.5

download for latest GIT

Fantastic!
Again I agree in every respect.
This fits, feels and looks fantastic in blue, brilliant edit!
Please keep at it Galefury, your turning out some Incredible stuff here and I simply can't get enough of it.

I love your vision and sincerely hope you can get this vision into a reality.

Thanks again,
Can't wait to see what's next

Edit:
1 minor niggle:
On the new git compile of refocus, the blue haze has been removed from the skin (which i think is an overall marked improvement) ... however, this new seekbar mod has the haze included.

As this doesn't fit in with the rest of the new git versions look could you point me to the pice of code I need to edit, to disable the haze, so that I still have the blue bar, just without the haze present.

Also, would you be able to do the volume/audio/video popup menus in blue too? ... As I think this look new look is just wonderful and so easy on the eye

Thanks again,
Pat~

quick question guys, does refocus support dts hd flags when pressing info to get more movie info etc?

just wonderings since im currently using makemkv on some bluray discs

Hello guys, sorry if this has been covered before but I am a newbie to XBMC and 245 pages in this thread is a lot to read through. So first of all, love this skin! Thank you for all of your hard work and sharing with the rest of us... and now my questions:

For movies, when I select "movies" directly from the home screen, all the poster images show up. However, if I enter it through videos > movies, it displays a generic image that says "cinema" for all of the movie files. Is this normal?

Also when I change the view types for TV shows, and I wanted to check out the tiled view (or whatever view that uses poster-like images), it seems to just use the "wide banner" image and squishes them. I think the wide banner images came from when I was using the Confluence skin, how can I get it to fetch the right type of images for this skin? I know the FAQ says that current XBMC cannot display both the banner and poster simultaneously, but can it display posters only instead of the distorted banners?

Like I said before, I am very new to XBMC, so I apologize if I am asking stupid questions... and I know mostly likely these problems are just me doing something wrong. Any help will be greatly appreciated though. Thanks in advance!

Hi,

Your first question sounds ok (if I've interpreted it correctly).

Entering through "videos" takes me to my files mode/views and therefore does not display the Information available or stored in the library mode "movies".

So unless I have mis-interpreted your question, this sounds like perfectly normal behaviour.

For your second questions, it could be a few things.

1: Do you have posters available for tv shows?
2: If yes... Then they should enable when you change the view to "thumbnails" view while viewing the tv series library.
3: if no, install the "artwork downloader" plugin by Martjin, then set that puppy running, it will grab everything you need for your library and will allow you to use additional views in other skins etc too (extra fanart etc)

Something helpful that would help aid resolving your issue, would be either a picture of your settings page, or just write down what you have enabled and disabled in the skin settings/options, mainly to ensure we don't suggest something you've already checked/tried/enabled etc

I hope this is of some help to you,
Pat~

hey thank you for the quick response!

I believe you are correct, that entering via "video" takes me to file mode. But I could've swore that if I go into my TV show folder, it displays fanarts even in file mode. Is that something different? Also, when I used Confluence, I think entering the movie section under file mode still displayed posters, but maybe that's just different skins behaving differently.

I didn't install additional plugins to download extra artworks, I only used the default xbmc scrapper, grabbing info/images from thetvdb.com. I guess that's why there weren't tv show posters, then?

Some additional info for my setup. Since I am using ATV2, I am not sure what the best way to capture screenshot is. I am also not sure if I need to worry about storage space issue if I start grabbing a bunch of extra artworks... =P

When having Fan Art enabled is there a way to turn the blue tint back ground into dim black?
I don't mind editing xml.

It's not controlled by a setting, it's actually a semitransparent blue image. You must replace it with another.

@galefury,

I've just stumbled across some of your old posts and never knew just how many edits you had done for refocus.

Have you consider, or are you currently working on a FuryFocus type mod

Some of the things you have modded, such as clear art, views, colour changes, OSD changes etc etc are fantastic and a mod version with all your personal touches included would be fantastic.

I also noticed zombie robot did a horizontal Menu which looked good too, I'd love to see your vision of refocus as looking back over your modes it seems you have a true vision for this skin that I think many really appreciate.

Any way,
Thanks again and hope to see more edit soon

Pat~

(2012-05-03 13:44)Galefury Wrote:  It's not controlled by a setting, it's actually a semitransparent blue image. You must replace it with another.

Thank you for the reply. What is the image name?