Mediastream :: The Wait Is Over ! Options

[Cocophone]

Thanks for fixing the DVD menu button. I had just posting asking about it in the xbmc.org forum. I can't wait for the update.

[Dynam!c]

First of all a big thanks to Team Razorfish for this stunning skin! It was really worth waiting for

The blades are superb. I was waiting for a skin using a lot of animation, because it makes the experience much more intense. U guys really worked that out fine.

I really like the new fixes and updates in the new release, though i was wondering something:

With the blade placed to the left side of the skin (which is very good), i think it would be nicer to replace the "clock", "weather" and "now playing" to the right side of the screen. Also letting the feed disappear underneath the menublade makes it much cleaner, in my humble opinion.

Hope you guys can do anything with my feedback. Keep up the good work!

This post has been edited by Dynam!c: Aug 14 2008, 03:07 PM

[AlexKidd]

Great job,this skin is amazing .One thing please,think a 4:3 SDTV compatible version thanks(the problem for this version is a characters are very small).

[kalojero]

Hi all! first of all congrats to all the team for this great skin, it's very cool! I'm an spanish user and I like to use the filmaffinity portal to do the scan of my movies , but the size of the downloaded thumbs with this are very small resolution and it looks very bad. I suggest that it will be great if it can download the thumbs with more quality images like the imdb. I don't know if it's possible or not, but it will be good. Another question I have is if could be possibly to do a file view that shows the movie plot too, not only using the database view. That's all thx for the great work!

This post has been edited by kalojero: Aug 15 2008, 07:58 PM

[PantsOnFire]

A couple of suggestions:

* The option to disable 'filesize' information when viewing MyVideos in 'Files' mode. Most other skins let you choose whether or not this information is present.
* For the skin to remember the 'previous cursor position' when going 'up a level' when browsing content. (would made browsing music a lot nicer).

Finally, the full-screen vis for music, is fine enough. But would people not rather see huge artwork on the screen? -- however I will say that I do appreciate the other infos this skin provides, such as next tracks, prev track etc.etc. -I realise the idea of this skin is to be blade-centric but dosen't it just make a whole lot more sense to use the screen space? (also given that the artwork display size is not sooo huge when browsing the content).

The text size.. I fear this could be quite an issue... the skin has been developed so that it looks a certain way right? images, amongst text, kinda like a nice classy magazine (morely when in library view). But does noone find this text just a wee bit too small? It's great to be able to fit so much info on the screen yes, but at what sacrafice? -would a wee scrollbar look so obscene really?

I run this on a 36" SD tv, 16:9, component cables. My tv is not the most incredible picture, but still I do find the text just a wee bit too small for comfort.
-those with HD tellies, how are you getting on?


Just my thoughts.
It's fantastic overall though, and the clock-size increase/decrease and blade positioning are nice options.

Pants

[Dynam!c]

I wanted to report a tiny bug:

When deleting a favorite, there is no text that says delete... Though the option works

[PantsOnFire]

Is there any way to get the skin to remember the last view style? For example, when you view videos by library, then back out to the main menu, when you return again the view is by Files, not library.

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[GLiTcH]

omg i love this , default for sure // looks very goos at 720p on my samsung 40" lcd:o

[JustMeD]

New Release v0.87

As some of you may have noticed we have the privilege of getting MediaStream packaged with the latest T3CH release. However anyone can pick up our latest version of MediaStream from http://teamrazorfish.co.uk

Since the last release we've made the following changes
Added: Toast dialog
Added: Option to see fanart when browsing TV Shows list (not really advisable on Xbox)
Added: DVD menu button to Video OSD
Added: File path to video info dialogs
Added: Option to hide plot in Video OSD
Added: German translation (thanks to tjost)

Fixed: Changed ordering of menu items on home and removed the option to hide Weather menu item so as to avoid any more flashing background issues
Fixed: Clock display so it should work for all time formats
Fixed: Title on Select and Network Setup dialogs
Fixed: No Thumb label on focused thumb in Media Preview view
Fixed: Positioning of Categories selector on Settings screens

Updated: Now Playing UI on home no longer overlaps the blade when the blade is sitting to the left
Updated: Tidied up the weather on the home screen
Updated: Moved position of volume/mute icons so that they are not covered up by dialogs etc
Updated: Renamed Sounds.xml to sounds.xml to work on case sensitive O/S's

As usual, we appreciate any feedback you can give us

[phistyle]

sweet....loving the fast updates....I'm going to try it out when I update my xbox with the latest t3ch release and see how it goes....keep up the good work...

[GLiTcH]

theres an error i found on the music on the vis. screen


as you can see the upcoming and previous songs display same song, also on the on the milkdrop setting text.
also hope to see a repeat/shuffel buttons on the player. i have to set it to pm3 to have my music on repeat n shuffel. whats wierd is that it was displaying the songs right at one time b4 i updated to newest xbmc/n mediastream skin version

also would like to see a direct link to my games/emus n apps when using the progams tab

instead when i click on an option it takes me to my sources, which display my list of games/apps n emus
also would like to have a wallpaper when browsing my games,apps,emus - the keyborad n mouse dont match with it, imo
overall, this skin is taking over pm3 great job

This post has been edited by GLiTcH: Aug 19 2008, 09:54 PM

[Hitcher]

theres an error i found on the music on the vis. screen

as you can see the upcoming and previous songs display same song, also on the on the milkdrop setting text.

Know issue.

also would like to see a direct link to my games/emus n apps when using the progams tab

instead when i click on an option it takes me to my sources, which display my list of games/apps n emus

Have you tried to then set them as default?

[jeffmik]

This skin looks great and I find it easy to use - I like that you can remove unused items (for me, programs and games) from the main menu.

However, I cannot get it to scrape and add in the info and icons for my TV shows and movies. I installed Mediastream with the aug 19 TECH the usual way, by copying everything over then replacing /userdata with my backed up copy.

I can't find a manual or a readme - any pointers?

[GLiTcH]

Know issue.
Have you tried to then set them as default?

how do i do that?
still learning the curves to this skin
thanks

[jeffmik]

However, I cannot get it to scrape and add in the info and icons for my TV shows and movies. I installed Mediastream with the aug 19 TECH the usual way, by copying everything over then replacing /userdata with my backed up copy.

To clarify the problem: In library wide mode, I can see the list of shows but they all say "0 Episodes" even though that isn't the case. I have my directories shared and can view and play in file mode.