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 proof of concept: themes per series - 2008/09/11 17:46 I have had a quick play with a per series theming as some of the images on www.thetvdb.com could be good. Here is a bit of proof of concept code. I don't understand the menu code so I have not touched it so the menu looks awful however.




The image is stored as series/banner/background*.jpg and there are additional files I have included the ones used for that grab.
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background.jpg-background_colour :#FFFFFF
background.jpg-focus_colour :#00FF00
background.jpg-link_colour :#000000
background.jpg-nobuttons :
background.jpg-text_colour :#000000

File Attachment:
File name: seriesthemes.zip
File size:6933 bytes
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 Re: proof of concept: themes per series - 2008/09/11 17:53 In the perfect world we could do a search for fan art a www.thetvdb.com specifing a safe area, the system would return us the image and the set of colours to use either ot stand out or to blend in. I would be happy to ask over there --
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 Re: proof of concept: themes per series - 2008/09/11 18:26 It would be fairly trivial to download the fanart with the parser, all the details are in banners.xml. There can be quite a few fanarts though and all hi-res so not very practical to automatically download them all.

There are also thumbnails which we could use in the configuration to allow the user to select which are to be downloaded for each series (sounds like alot of work). The xml also contains a list of colours that we could use for the menu. Player : Netgear EVA700 & Popcorn A-100 (081106)
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 Re: proof of concept: themes per series - 2008/09/11 18:34 Pernod wrote:

There are also thumbnails which we could use in the configuration to allow the user to select which are to be downloaded for each series (sounds like alot of work). The xml also contains a list of colours that we could use for the menu.

Do you think its worth trying to code up ? I would be willing to try and investigate.

If we built a background selector, do you think its worth trying to make it work form the TV as you could claim its configuration and therefore we could do it from a real computer browser which could make the experience more pleasant. --
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 Re: proof of concept: themes per series - 2008/09/11 18:51 Do you think its worth trying to code up ? I would be willing to try and investigate.
Go for it

Selecting backgrounds to download from the TV would complicate the interface too much, but you could assign a quick key to step through each background already downloaded.

1. The parser should be updated to download all fanart thumbnails.

2. New configuration page 'TV Backgrounds' would have dropdown selection of TV series in database. Selecting will display fanart thumbnails for series and allow selection.

3. Selected fanart will be downloaded to cache folder, then copied to the existing banners folders for the series.

4. Add 'Change Background' quick key to TV pages.

Sounds fairly straight forward

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 Re: proof of concept: themes per series - 2008/10/12 08:13 Any progress with this?

Once themoviedb.org gets itself more established we could do the same for movies. Player : Netgear EVA700 & Popcorn A-100 (081106)
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 Re: proof of concept: themes per series - 2008/10/12 14:32 Pernod wrote:
Do you think its worth trying to code up ? I would be willing to try and investigate.
Go for it

Selecting backgrounds to download from the TV would complicate the interface too much, but you could assign a quick key to step through each background already downloaded.

1. The parser should be updated to download all fanart thumbnails.
[/qoute]Done[quoute]

2. New configuration page 'TV Backgrounds' would have dropdown selection of TV series in database. Selecting will display fanart thumbnails for series and allow selection.

[/qoute]Done, and all nice and ajax too [quoute]

3. Selected fanart will be downloaded to cache folder, then copied to the existing banners folders for the series.
[/qoute]Done[quoute]

4. Add 'Change Background' quick key to TV pages.
[/qoute]Not yet done[quoute]


Sounds fairly straight forward

Nigel

Doing the support on the buffalo NAS I ended up dropping my database so I need to recreate the table and do the change background bit ( I assume the last chosen will be used until next selected ). I will hope to post a branched of release from the last stable release in the next 2 weeks ? --
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 Re: proof of concept: themes per series - 2008/10/12 15:01 Ok, no rush, just wanted to know that it was still happening. Player : Netgear EVA700 & Popcorn A-100 (081106)
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 Re: proof of concept: themes per series - 2008/10/12 15:13 Do you want it when I think I have finished with it or when I think it might be first useful. Its going to be quiet a large patch for you to integrate.

ps, I have recreated the database table so I can continue ( I need a poke sometimes ). --
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 Re: proof of concept: themes per series - 2008/10/12 16:53 Just send the complete files when it's finished Player : Netgear EVA700 & Popcorn A-100 (081106)
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 Re: proof of concept: themes per series - 2008/11/11 04:36 Pernod wrote:
Just send the complete files when it's finished

I got this nearly to a state where its useful and functional, but not as wonderful as I know it could be. However I have become more busy at work until February ish so shall I hand it over as is. --
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 Re: proof of concept: themes per series - 2008/11/11 05:56 Ok, either post or email your changed files and I'll merge with mine. Player : Netgear EVA700 & Popcorn A-100 (081106)
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