MediaBrowser

[DemonSeed]

Yes I Do!! Just love tinkering with everything I run across! Cant help my self!
I would love to find a way to make it work for me but still haven't found the door.

 

[zephram]

Australian TV Logos For "My Channel Logos" program

I wanted to use the MyChannelLogos Addon for media center to put on the logos for Australia but first i need to make them!

so the program is here http://mychannellogos.com to save other aussies from having to make their own i did it for you and they are here. If you live in the US then your channel are preloaded and mychannellogos will scan your guide in Media Center and assign them automatically. anyway you look at it, it's nicer than than the name showing up in the guide.

 

[DemonSeed]

A peek at some more modded thumbs. I have Tyborg working on a new addition to StarkCovers! The ability to add overlays to the TV Show thumbs. I cant what for this to get added! What do y'all think?

 

[t41]

DS - i should know this, but how are you getting the black? Mine is staying blue even with loading my own ehres.dll files or loading the black theme. Unless my settings are wrong.
Please help

 

[DemonSeed]

In the config setting inside MB you'll find something about color, change that to black.

 

[t41]

yeah it says LightSkyBlue changing to black

<ListViewWatchedColor>LightSkyBlue</ListViewWatchedColor>

to

<ListViewWatchedColor>black</ListViewWatchedColor>

do that and this is error I get - here is file

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<ConfigData xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
  <EnableRootPage>true</EnableRootPage>
  <IsFirstRun>false</IsFirstRun>
  <ImageByNameLocation />
  <OverScanScaling>
    <X>1</X>
    <Y>1</Y>
    <Z>1</Z>
  </OverScanScaling>
  <OverScanPadding>
    <Bottom>0</Bottom>
    <Left>0</Left>
    <Right>0</Right>
    <Top>0</Top>
  </OverScanPadding>
  <EnableTraceLogging>false</EnableTraceLogging>
  <DefaultPosterSize>
    <Height>220</Height>
    <Width>220</Width>
  </DefaultPosterSize>
  <GridSpacing>
    <Height>4</Height>
    <Width>4</Width>
  </GridSpacing>
  <MaximumAspectRatioDistortion>0.2</MaximumAspectRatioDistortion>
  <EnableTranscode360>true</EnableTranscode360>
  <ExtenderNativeTypes>.dvr-ms,.wmv</ExtenderNativeTypes>
  <TransparentBackground>true</TransparentBackground>
  <DimUnselectedPosters>true</DimUnselectedPosters>
  <EnableNestedMovieFolders>true</EnableNestedMovieFolders>
  <EnableMoviePlaylists>true</EnableMoviePlaylists>
  <PlaylistLimit>2</PlaylistLimit>
  <InitialFolder>C:\ProgramData\MediaBrowser\StartupFolder</InitialFolder>
  <EnableUpdates>true</EnableUpdates>
  <EnableBetas>false</EnableBetas>
  <DaemonToolsLocation>C:\Program Files\DAEMON Tools Lite\daemon.exe</DaemonToolsLocation>
  <DaemonToolsDrive>E</DaemonToolsDrive>
  <EnableAlphanumericSorting>true</EnableAlphanumericSorting>
  <EnableListViewTicks>false</EnableListViewTicks>
  <ListViewWatchedColor>black</ListViewWatchedColor>
  <ShowUnwatchedCount>true</ShowUnwatchedCount>
  <ShowWatchedTickOnFolders>true</ShowWatchedTickOnFolders>
  <ShowWatchTickInPosterView>true</ShowWatchTickInPosterView>
  <DefaultToFirstUnwatched>false</DefaultToFirstUnwatched>
  <AutoEnterSingleDirs>false</AutoEnterSingleDirs>
  <AssumeWatchedBefore>2008-06-23T00:00:00-04:00</AssumeWatchedBefore>
  <InheritDefaultView>true</InheritDefaultView>
  <DefaultViewType>Poster</DefaultViewType>
  <DefaultShowLabels>false</DefaultShowLabels>
  <DefaultVerticalScroll>false</DefaultVerticalScroll>
  <BreadcrumbCountLimit>2</BreadcrumbCountLimit>
  <SortRemoveCharacters>,|&|-|{|}</SortRemoveCharacters>
  <SortReplaceCharacters>.|+|%</SortReplaceCharacters>
  <SortReplaceWords>the|a|an</SortReplaceWords>
  <AllowInternetMetadataProviders>true</AllowInternetMetadataProviders>
  <EnableFileWatching>false</EnableFileWatching>
  <ThumbStripPosterWidth>550</ThumbStripPosterWidth>
  <RememberIndexing>false</RememberIndexing>
  <ShowIndexWarning>true</ShowIndexWarning>
  <IndexWarningThreshold>0.1</IndexWarningThreshold>
  <PreferredMetaDataLanguage>en</PreferredMetaDataLanguage>
  <ExternalPlayers />
  <Theme>Black</Theme>
  <FontTheme>Default</FontTheme>
  <ShowClock>true</ShowClock>
  <EnableAdvancedCmds>false</EnableAdvancedCmds>
  <Advanced_EnableDelete>false</Advanced_EnableDelete>
  <UseAutoPlayForIso>false</UseAutoPlayForIso>
  <ShowBackdrop>true</ShowBackdrop>
  <InitialBreadcrumbName>Media</InitialBreadcrumbName>
  <ViewTheme>Diamond</ViewTheme>
  <AlphaBlending>50</AlphaBlending>
  <ShowConfigButton>true</ShowConfigButton>
  <EnableSyncViews>true</EnableSyncViews>
  <YahooWeatherFeed>USFL0468</YahooWeatherFeed>
  <YahooWeatherUnit>f</YahooWeatherUnit>
  <PodcastHome>C:\ProgramData\MediaBrowser\Podcasts</PodcastHome>
  <HideFocusFrame>false</HideFocusFrame>
</ConfigData>

thanks for help

 

[DemonSeed]

No not like that!
Here.

 

[t41]

thats how i was first changing it, but did not change at all - that's why i went into the config file itself - i can get the weather to change fine, but not the blue to black. still same thing
Even reset all defaults and started over - still get the blue - not sure why.

gonna restart pc see if it helps, at a loss.
thanks

 

[DemonSeed]

Show me whats blue

 

[t41]

ok I guess it is just the loding page - if that's all the blue in it than I'm ok now.

Thanks again - i guess it wasnt catching for some reason before

 

[DemonSeed]

Yea that may only work with the Vanilla theme. I don know for sure.

 

[zay]

I am about to make the move to upgrade to the newest version of MB, any tips I need to consider before starting? Will the new one over write the old one? Or, should I uninstall the old one first before installing the new one? Also, does anyone know if the reg key in the entry point for this one, is the same as the old one?

 

[DemonSeed]

Yes it will over wright, in fact it seems to be better if you do!

As for the regkey yes its the same as it was.

 

[DemonSeed]

Zay I would like your help with something please.


I want to have a easy way to view photos with MB and came up with a pretty good solution.
But I need your help to Finish the code. I placed and changed some I found to put a lot of photos in a folder of there own and add an empty.avi in the folder with each picture.
But I need you to add to it so it will all so rename the pictures to folder.jpg, and would also like it to copy the picture and the copy be named backdrop.jpg.

This is what I have so far

@echo off

for %%a in (*.*) do (
md "%%~na" 2>nul
move "%%a" "%%~na"
) 
Echo empty.avi placed in
Echo    %~dp0
Echo. > empty.avi
FOR /f "tokens=* delims= " %%a in ('dir/b/x/ad/s "%~sdp0"') do (
Echo    %%a\
Echo. > "%%a\empty.avi"
)

Will you complete it for me please?

I have tested it and it works well at showing the pics with Media Browser specially in thumbs view



EDIT:
You know now that I think about it can you wright one to do this.
Rename all the *jpg files "in the folder with the batch file" to be called backdrop, backdrop1, backdrop2 and so on.
And copy the first image only and name it folder.jpg And add an empty.avi to the folder.

That way I can just hover over the folder in MB and it will cycle through the pictures on the main screen.

Thanks a lot!
DemonSeed

 

[DemonSeed]

As normal with these you need to be viewing it through firefox to see the animation.

My Boxset Collection:
Here is mine using shortcuts from a folder and pointing MB to it.
i.e. C:user/documents/Movie Box Sets/The Matrix, The Matrix - Shortcut, The Matrix Reloaded - Shortcut, The Matrix Revolutions - Shortcut, backdrop.jpg, backdrop1.jpg ect. + a folder.png
I dont put more than one movie in a folder in my storage of my movies so I can keep a true count of everything. And if I want to jump right to any of my titles from my main browsing for my movies with out going any deeper. I personally like it this way so this might give you some options to work with.

 

[zay]

Ok couple of things to clarify:
You want all the .jpg (except the first one) to be called backdrop1 and so on? The first one is skipped, and renamed to folder.jpg?
Where is empty.avi coming from?
Or, do you want it to create a file called empty.avi?

 

[DemonSeed]

Ok couple of things to clarify:
You want all the .jpg (except the first one) to be called backdrop1 and so on? The first one is skipped, and renamed to folder.jpg?
Where is empty.avi coming from?
Or, do you want it to create a file called empty.avi?

Yes but the name list starts at backdrop. then backdrop1 ect.

Yes skipping the first and renaming it to folder will work fine.

Yes create the file empty.avi. This way MB will see and look in the folder.

Thank GOD you showed up!!!
I have been tring for 3hrs to work on the first one I showed but could not for the life of me figure out to get it to stop moving the damn bat to a folder and cutting off the last part of the command list.

Man I have been pulling hares!!! I mean IT HELP ME PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[zay]

yeah I tested your script, and it created the folders fine (the first part came from that file2folder huh? lol), but the other part you added, is moving the batch file as well, and generating a missing batch file error. Give me some time to work on this for you. I am working on a major backup issue with a mail server, but I will make sometime to do that for you. I am also working on getting the moving png files to work in IE7. I know why it does not work, I am working on a work around. With the invent of IE7 and onward, there is mode called quirks mode that allows browsers to be backward compatible, that functionality went away. FF, safari, Opera, and a few other browsers still have that function. I will keep you in the loop. But I will put a high priority on that script for you.

 

[DemonSeed]

SWEET!!! Thank You!!! Your The Man!!!

lol yea what I have there works great as two bat files BUT NOT AS ONE as I found out!

I have been tiring to do it on my own but was just LOST!

 

[zay]

If running them as one causes a problem, sometimes what I do is have one batch file call another batch file to do the other part for you. Let's say your second batch file is called move.bat, on the last line of the first batch file type this Call move.bat