Thread reuse for WIP Build 557.
-Same as 556 with fix for the skin manager bug.

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Note from Build 556
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Hey folks, WIP Build 556 is up. I had quite some free time so I managed to come up with this one. 551 was a crappy release and I hope to make it up with this one.

Here's what's new:

*Fixed an issue with the Xml parser. It failes to parse out an xml document if a comment element contains ">"
*Slideshow is now random.
*Added a few more items to the language file
-STR_AUDIO_OPTIONS = Audio Options
-STR_AUDIO_PLAYDISC = Play Disc
-STR_AUDIO_MANAGETRACKS = Manage Tracks
-STR_AUDIO_OPENFILE = Open File...
-STR_AUDIO_OPENPLAYLIST = Open Playlist

-STR_AUDIO_SELECTOPTION = Select Audio Track
-STR_AUDIO_CD = Audio CD
-STR_AUDIO_PLAY = Play

-STR_EDIT = Edit
-STR_MOVE_UP = Move Up
-STR_MOVE_DOWN = Move Down
-STR_AUDIO_NEWTRACK = New Soundtrack...
-STR_MSG_DELETEST_ASK = Are you sure that you want to delete '%s'?

Note that the above item is in Xml, please see release notes for 551 for exact format.
*Added Xbox soundtrack management. The same usual stuff found in MS Dash. Copy, edit, rename, delete...etc, except CDDA to WMA or CD ripping. Currently facing a blank wall with the wma encoder.
*Removed the extra info when selecting a partition in FTP server. This causes all other ftp client except FlashFxp to crap out when listing directory. It seems these clients only honor the comment directive (220-) when logging in.
*Fixed the problem with WMV playback introduced in 551
*Fixed the problem with Audio CD playback introduced in 551
*Improved Skinning support.
-Items can now be stacked/ordered by adding the zIndex attribute, i.e., zIndex="5". Items with the same zIndex value will be drawn in the order they are found. zIndex don't have to be continuous, meaning you can use 1,2,3,5,8,10...n. This means that you can now draw in this manner: text, image, shape, text, text, image...etc. However, menu item is still on top of everything else.
-Fonts collection. You can now have a fonts collection and use them where they're possible. So, it is now possible to create Text items using different fonts. Format is:
<Fonts>
<Font Name="MyFont">mycoolfont.xpr</Font>
<Font Name="MyOtherFont">whatever.xpr</Font>
</Fonts>

Then use them like this:
<Text Left="180" Top="142" Source="SongTime" Font="MyFont" zIndex="2" />

-Added a few more items for text source
-SongTrack - concatenation of song and soundtrack
-SongBitRate - 128 KBPS...etc
-SongLength - 5:12
-SongFrequency - 44.1KHz (Almost always)
-SongChannel - Audio CD, Stereo or Mono

-Added a few more items to the color scheme for the media player (see more later)

*Music player is now fully skinnable and there are two ways to do it:
-1) Change the colors for the default music player skin. Refer to the following image for more info:

-2) Change everything and not just the color. Like the following:


-With the new music player, you can use everything that is available for skin (Text, Image, Shapes) including the new zIndex and Font attributes. The only thing that might prove challenging is the image for the buttons (Play, Stop...etc). This is composed of a single image subdivided into column of 8 by 4. Here's the image I used for the default skin and the one above:



Of course, the grid should not be included. The grid size don't have to be square. The default skin for music player comprises of exactly one image and the rest are all shapes and texts. The second image is a cheap ripped off of a skin from WMP, but that's the best I can do to demo the new feature. I think most of you know that graphic just ain't my thing

The new build comes with a sample skin. You can find it in your UX folder after you install it and it's named MPlayer.rar. Expand it and check skin.xml out. It should be farely commented. Here's the portion for music player:



Pretty straight-forward, I think. The skin file came from Kthulu's OrangeShapes Xml-only skin. Of course, with the new files, it's not so much of an xml-only skin now, is it?

I thinks that's about it. Most of the reported bugs from the previous version should be fixed now, except for the LiveUpdate and Proxy issue. Sorry guys, I tried a few proxy servers and I just can't replicate the issue. If you can capture the first 1kb from the packet and send it to me, I'll see what I can do about it.

As usual, please post anything you find in here. Enjoy folks, have a good day!

This sounds like an awesome release! Can't wait to try it out. Also unleashx, is there a skin tag for Artist? I've been looking for one and haven't come across anything besides Album and Song Title. Thanks again.

sorry but is this build in the usual places or somewhere else?

These are private builds to beta testers.

Well i got a big ass bug any time I try and select a skin UnleashX just reboots and then after that just trying to go into the skin menu will reboot it

Seems that my whole skin menu is buggered up maybe a bad compile

Check out the errors in the screen shot of the skin menu click to get it bigger


Going to try down grading and reupdateing Oh and I'm not upgradeing from build 551 if that makes any difference

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EDIT:

Well downgraded and re upgraded again and got the excact same thing of the skin menu being corrupt with other stuff (Not always the same stuff either) anybody else got this problem or is it just me

I get the same thing with the xbox rebooting when selecting the Skin menu. Sometimes it freezes too. I guess I have to get used to the same skin for a while. Also, the time elapsed on the Audio player is missing a digit. For example, when the time is 00:35, it only shows as 00:3. Kinda like the mp3 info (bitrate, etc) is covering it. Either that or the font is too big.

Got the same thing. I'm working on it and will be releasing an update once I figure it out.

Hey mr. unleashx i don't want to sound like a bother but don't you think it's time for a public release? I'm reading about these Wip releases and notice that your adding alot of cool features but theyre introducing new bugs. So can't you use this new free time to clean up the bugs and make a public release and leave any other advancements you have planned for the next build for the next Wip build? We're starving here! Thanx for your time.

I'm working on it. The features I'm adding is too insignificant, rest assured, I'm concentrating on major bugs to come up with a beter version.

Build 557 is up. Fixed Skin Manager bug. Please post bugs here.

Please keep posts in this thread related to subject matter only. Any other post with different subject should be on new/another thread.

Thanks all.

Ok It's probably old news but

I couldn't update from build 556 to 557 probably due to the error also working its way into the live update code. It would download and then compile and reboot but the validating screen would not appear and i was stuck in the old build.

I had to downgrade to 548 to update to 557 succesfully

Just thought I'd post it for all the people who updated to 556 and might have this error

And maybe incase its still there in 557

I couldn't update either to 557 from 556 and had a hell of a time making 548 update to 557. All good now.

I didn't have any problems upgrading from 556 to 557.

Open file manager browse to my Music folder and press A on any MP3 file, plays fine the first time but back out (B or Back) and tri to play another one and the xbox frezzes.
Haven't tried this with any other file type.

keep up the great work, but only if you enjoy it.

great release!!
just one (maybe stupid question): can i use the mplayer skin with another unleashx-skin? or is it always packed together?
the ftp-bugs seem to be fixed, no need to switch to avalaunch any longer!!
have to say that you did an outstanding work here, unleash! thank you so much!!
will test the ftp thing with a friend for xbox2xbox transfers...

That was a bug in 551. I mentioned it in a thread. It works fine now in 557. Are you sure it updated for you? Press Y and check the version number. The only thing that doesn't show is the name of the song in the playlist.

Ok. Just downloaded the 557 build. I missed the last build (556 was it?) so I just upgraded from the release before 556 (whatever build that was). Anywho first off I went to change the filter flicker and it needs to be on 3 for me. When I go from 2 to 3 all the text goes slighty blurry. It looks blurry on 3,4, and 5. 0 is way to bumpy 1 is too bumpy and so you have to watch going from 2-3 to be able to see the text become blurry. If you are just looking at the screen you probably couldn't tell that the text is slightly blurry so its not a huge deal. Second I told UnleashX to check for updates. I went out and saved and rebooted and went back into Live Update and it was set to no again. It doesn't seem to want to save that setting. Also I left the flicker filter on 0 while I was typing this a the screensaver came on. When I got out of the screensaver the screen wasn't all jumpy like it usually is. But when I went to save it became all jumpy again. I don't have any music on my xbox right now so hopefully I can get some on it and test the new skinned audio player. Thanks for the new build James. Keep up the good work!

Ok well this is probably some skinning bugs with the new player but
circled in pink are the errors

Click for bigger image

* song title obstructed by skin

* funny icons not there in the non skinned version or James own screenshot

* The last one of the song times not showing in the playlist is true even for an unskinned version they only show after being played

yeah it says 557 ed deleting the game save still didn't work

Bug confirmed:
As Jonathan2007 said, the flicker filter keeps resetting back to 5 if you return from the screensaver.

I don't know that is set back to level 5. It still showed 0 on mine but it may have looked like level 5 if that is what you are implying . Did you get the fuzzy text like I mentioned? P.S. Thanks for your releases of Surreal64. Keep up the sweet work!

I have found another bug also. I was playing around in the latest public release of UnleashX. I was trying to find a new skin to use. I happened to change to default and it showed the change but when I pressed A again it wouldn't save and exit the menu. I hit A several times and it just stayed on the menu. Finally I B'd my way out and rebooted. It was back to my previously selected skin. I also tried this in the latest WIP (557) and it had the same effect. Most people probably wouldn't find this bug though since almost no one wants to go back to the default skin (with all the other great skins out there to choose from instead). I didn't try editing the config.xml and setting the skin to default but I bet that would work. Just not trying to save it from inside UX.

Fixed the flicker filter bug already, as well as the game saves bug.

Jezz_X,
Sorry, I forgot to package the "Agency.xpr" font which forces it to use the menufont instead (fallback). If yiou take a look at the skin.xml, it is refering to "Agency" which is not in the mplayer.rar. Just create an 8pt font and name it agency, drop it in the skin's folder. It should work.

And yes, the song title is under the image (zIndex). And lastly, for songs other than Xbox soundtrack, I only fetch the info when they get played, hence the time not showing till they get played.

nice! did you read about the new linksboks release?

"....Some more work is needed, but this library can (I think) be integrated quite easily into "host" applications (in XBMC or dashboards for example)..."

maybe this is something for future work but first of all try fixing the few bugs and make a public release please! there are some great improvements (ftp, audio-player..) which all the other user should know of!

greatings, moviecut

I just can't understand why you would want a web browser in your dashboard. A dash shouldn't be bloated with every little game and feature. Just boot up linkboks if you wanna use it. It doesn't take that much longer. MxM includes minigames. I just don't see the point. They can't be that much fun and if you really wanted to play them just make them separate and boot them up. Otherwise it just slows down the dash for others (even though the minigames might be very small but still ). And a web browser would be a lot bigger than some games I would think. Anyways I don't think including stuff that is un-neccessary for basic dash operation is a good idea.

I might have found a bug with the video screensaver. Anyone of you have been downloading from your XBOX to your PC and the screensaver video (when it comes on) starts blinking in and out? It stops for me as soon as I stop downloading anything from the xbox. This is on 557.

Yeah thats confirmed with me as well maybe using too many threads

557 bug,

When the list is open on the audio player, if you quickly select a different song after selecting one and playing it, it trys to start the next song but just loops back to the start of the song after about 3 seconds.

Also, The IP used to get displayed in Settings --> Network even when DHCP was selected. It shows fine on the main screen, but shows as 0.0.0.0 in the settings and the gate way is showing up as 192.168.1.100 but its actually 192.168.1.1

Thats all for now as most of the others i have found have been listed already.

Found another......Not so much a bug but if you select a default folder for the copy function, is shows the path, but after rebooting, the path is not longer visable but still goes to the drive you chose.


Sublogic

Purely cosmetic but when you delete files (which is what I've done; could happen with others), the message box gets cut off at the top. I'd post a picture but I can't find my AV input bridge for my computer.

maybe a little bug: when downloading a game-preview-video i always get an error message window but very short after that a successful window...
i can confirm, that there is a problem with the IP. it was reseted to 0.0.0.0 after i rebooted my xbox. but that was only ont time. maybe i can reproduce it...

something more i noticed (not only in the last build):

- dvd-size isn`t displayed correctly in file explorer (it shows me over 6gb, but the game was only 3,5gb big)
- my i-net connection gets lost, when i cancel a preview-download in the middle of the download. i must reboot the xbox to get access to internet again.
- what about "add to queue" automatically when pressing x-button? i think it whould be very usefull (i liked this function in avalaunch very much)
- i have some mp3s, that aren`t played correctly. it stocks right at the last 5 seconds mostly...i have uploaded an example but i`m not shure, if i can link it here. write me a pm an i will give you a link.
- is there a chance not only to skip an mp3 but roll forward in it (don`t know the english word for it ). i whould like to see this (of course in the media center, too. don`t know, why it`s already in there? i can scroll through avi-files, which mostly INCLUDE mp3! so why only skipping on mp3s?)

greetings,
moviecut

hmm, can`t edit my last post got one thing left to say. i installed surv-u on my pc and now i can access it via unleashx ftp-browser in the file explorer. i added d-drive and h-drive of my laptop to access it via xbox. home-directory i set to d:, but i can`t go up one step to go to h-drive! tried it by linking h-drive on d-drive, but it doesn`t work. is there a chance to get access to both drives without switching home-directory on the pc?

Entering an FTP Site Address longer than 20 characters gets cutoff to 20 only. This can be seen in the Edit Site of the FTP Browser after adding a site.

Damm that music player is looking really nice

Good to see that UnleashX is still in development, i'm looking forward to the next release!

Yeah I think it was originally set up for IP addresses only

Very good findings, guys. Thank you very much. I'm just wrapping things up, expect a WIP release a few hours from now.