xTV Wrap View Mod using FanArt Backdrops

[Kris_Toff]

I have made a modification to the Xtv "Wrap" view to make use of fanart backdrop when available as movie-fanart.jpg along a movie.avi file...



If you want it, replace the XMC/skin/xTV/PAL16x9/CommonViewTypes.xml with this New CommonViewTypes.xml. (same in the PAL directory if you don't use the 16x9 screen format)

and the XMC/skin/xTV/PAL/MyVideo.xml with this New MyVideo.xml file.

Of course make a backup of the file before.

Enjoy

[Kris_Toff]

Of course, you should have the following in the folder for this to work:

movie.avi ->any movie file (not only avi of course...)
movie.tbn ->thumbnail/poster
movie-fanart.jpg ->backdrop

[Jezz_X]

It looks nice but those posters are very small IMO

[Kris_Toff]

Originally Posted by Jezz_X

It looks nice but those posters are very small IMO

Like that ?



If you want to see posters bigger, the CoverFlow view is probably what you need. I tend to prefer the backdrop images than the posters themselves...

It is very easy to change the size of the "focused" cover to twice bigger (). The main problem is that it can take away quite a lot of the backdrop image.
But I guess it comes down to personal preferences.

If others prefer/request this one instead, I will put up the files for download...

[aart]

great job you did man, I like it..

[rwparris2]

Looks great!

I like them small too. The fanart is 100% more attractive than any poster. In fact, is there anyway you could get the non-focused posters to be semi-transparent so they detract even less from the Fanart?

Is there anyway you could do one for TV as well? Except line up the thumbs vertically for wide-banners?

[Kris_Toff]

Originally Posted by rwparris2

Looks great!

I like them small too. The fanart is 100% more attractive than any poster. In fact, is there anyway you could get the non-focused posters to be semi-transparent so they detract even less from the Fanart?

Is there anyway you could do one for TV as well? Except line up the thumbs vertically for wide-banners?

You mean TV Shows ? I am not sure what you mean by thumbs vertically for wide-banners ? Like organize as a small stack of them on the left side except the focused one at the bottom left and larger ?

In my case, I have enabled library for TV Shows from the home page (I used the list view for the TV Shows with TV series plots, director, etc) but I use folders for movies... I just can't use library mode to organize so many (500+) movies the way I want.

I'll work on the transparency in the meantime and see how it goes...

[Jezz_X]

Kris Toff I didn't mean make the focus one 10 times bigger than the normal I just meant that if you upscaled them all buy about 20% I personally feel it would be better. But again its just personal apinion feel free to ignore it.

[Kris_Toff]

Originally Posted by Kris_Toff

I'll work on the transparency in the meantime and see how it goes...

Apparently, the only way to apply a diffuse transformation (transparency) to an image is through the <texture> tag. This option is not available for the <info> tag, which is used to display the ListItem.Icon image. (I have tried it in case but it doesn't work)

Unless the developers add that option to the info tag, I am not sure if there is a way to do that. At least I don't see it in any skins out there...

[rwparris2]

Sorry I wasn't very clear. But yes, a "stack" on the left of series banners with the focused one slightly larger is exactly what I'm talking about.