MikeBeecham Wrote:Hi again X2biris...another couple of issues I have come across:

1) When updating movie library, the info panel at the bottom tells me it is currently downloading, etc...thats fine. However, when updating the music library, nothing is shown. You kind of have to guess when it's done.

2) When looking at pictures and listening to music at the same time, the Now playing display is situatied at a wierd X/Y coordianates, covering a lot of the photo...this, I would say, is a biggie!


Mike

hambo71 Wrote:1st- a million thank yous. This skin is truly a work of arrt in both ease of use and the way it looks. I appreciate the huge effort you have clearrly put into it.

I to am missing the instant fan art fom version 1 and, despite your instructions can't gt it working in the latest version, The fan arrt only appeas when I hoeoer a particular movie or tv show (I am using windows XBMC). Loed how it loked in the 1st version of the skin(i.e instant fan arrt backdrop as you navigated thrrough movies/tv shows and would appreciate your help in getting it working in the latest version.


Thanks again.

MikeBeecham Wrote:Sorry X2biris...but I found one further *blip*....

When in info or showcase mode and you scroll from movie to movie, you see the fanart for that movie flashup for a nanosecond, disappear to show the default grey background, then a few seconds later the fanart fades back in again...

...looks a bit wierd actually. Is anyone else seeing this?

Mike

Tension113 Wrote:Have a great time.. Don't spend too much time thinking about additions for the skin while you're away..


A couple people had asked me for this awhile ago, but I haven't been around.. Been busy dealing with some pretty important things.. (Actually Rock Band 2 came out for Ps3 O:-) )

This fixes Poster view and adds Showcase to both Adult and Clips..
and also adds the Rss feed for the lowered scroller..

I think this will be incorporated into Vol. 4, but in case that's a ways off, here ya go..

http://rapidshare.com/files/156829752/Rss.rar.html

Extract into the 720p folder of the skin

luthepa1 Wrote:Hi all,

I have been searching this thread but have not found my answer :-(

I have downloaded Horizonz v3. Awesome theme! love it! But I too have the issue with the TV shows and wideicons being squashed horizontally. Reading this thread I see there is a widecase view. But I just cant seem to find it or active it. Could someone please help me?

When I go to view mode selection I only have 4 possible selections. If you scroll to the end you can select an option to what views are avialable by toggling them on/off. I read somewhere in this thread that this is where you can enable the widecase view. But I dont see it here either! I have tried these things while in movies or TV Shows. Just cant find it. please help.

Thanks in advance,

DrP.

pletopia Wrote:i hope that wide banners aren't taken out .. i use them for my tv shows and i REALLY like them .. there are so many other view types that are so similar that can be taken out for example "Poster" "Showcase" "Info" are all very nearly similar at least poster and showcase

and yes .. as was stated in the above post .. currently in V3 to use wide .. you need to be in Library .. its disabled in File mode as of that build

SirBC Wrote:I'm a fan of the widecase view for my TV shows as well.

Zelgadis Wrote:library view dont support ogm or mkv videos?
cos i got the tvshow.nfo and thumb to showed but "0" episodes.

yes i did perform "scan new content" still nothing.

Chipy Wrote:Hello,

i have mod the paket from Tension113 with RSS Feed.
Now, the Icon for showed ans unshowed TV Episodes is online and in the Infoscreen is now show / unshowed Number of Eposides.

I hope this is OK Tension113 ?

http://rapidshare.com/files/158485053/Rss_new.rar

fluidman Wrote:would it be possible to have different dvd-cover-overlays (your overlay is awesome by the way) for different types of videos? Ie use the regular one for normal videos and have one for blu-ray and one for hd-dvd vids...

if the filename is movie.avi it uses the regular one, if its movie.br.avi it uses the bluray one and when its movie.hddvd.avi it uses the hddvd one?

daje Wrote:I wonder why I haven't tested this mod/skin before!

Been using Aeon (which is superb) since may or so, never went back to pm3, but felt that some things were missing. The new Stark will hopefully do the trick when it arrives, although after trying Horizonz I feel everything is exactly how it should be in my mediacenter.

Keep up the good work xb2iris, Horizonz is the best I've seen yet and i totally love it! Beers are on me if you ever visit my city

Jhcheslik Wrote:I just wanted to say that you did excellent job of filling out the void I found in Aeon. (Not that its bad)

Although...



See bolded word. ^^

I really want fanart for games! I cannot think of nothing cooler than displaying fanart when a game is 'selected'. (In showcase that is.)

Any update on this possibility?

Bram77 Wrote:I'm adding this amazing mod to the XBMC-Favorites installer. Thanks a lot!

xb2iris Wrote:game fanart would be great, as would music fanart... but the xbmc peops will eventually sort that out... or i hope they will...

midgetspy Wrote:I know this was gone over a lot before, but I have to bring it up again because it's the only thing about this skin that constantly bugs me. The UI is really intuitive except for this single thing and it drives me bonkers, hehe. It's the OSD during full screen video playback.

Currently, there are 2 OSD items:
- the "info OSD": Shows poster, title, info about movie, etc.
- the "playback OSD": Shows progress bar, total length, current time

Right now, the playback OSD comes up when you pause and the info OSD comes up when you press "i".

The info OSD is used for checking up on some info about the file that's playing. It's large, it shows up right in the middle of the screen and covers much of the movie, and it contains a bunch of text that I need to take a second to scan through and read. If I'm going to read info off a large dialog that covers much of the screen, I'm probably going to want to pause the movie since I can't see it playing anyway.

The playback OSD is small and unintrusive (bottom of the screen) and displays only 2 things (time elapsed/total time). Forcing me to pause the movie in order to check how much is left is really silly, as this is info that one would commonly wonder while watching a movie. It only takes a second to check the dialog and you can easily continue watching the movie while you look at that dialog. And I definitely wonder how much is left more than I wonder the title/info of the movie I'm watching, haha.

Does anybody else miss having a way to check how much is left in their movie?

IMO there are a 2 ways to use these OSD dialogs that both make more sense than the current one:

1) Add playback OSD to "i" view
pause button - leave as is, showing only playback OSD
"i" button - shows both the info OSD and the playback OSD

2) Switch them around
pause button - shows only the info OSD
"i" button - shows only the playback OSD

I'd love to hear what other people think of this issue, hopefully we can convince xb2iris to modify it for us! :0)

midgetspy Wrote:I know this was gone over a lot before, but I have to bring it up again because it's the only thing about this skin that constantly bugs me. The UI is really intuitive except for this single thing and it drives me bonkers, hehe. It's the OSD during full screen video playback.

Currently, there are 2 OSD items:
- the "info OSD": Shows poster, title, info about movie, etc.
- the "playback OSD": Shows progress bar, total length, current time

Right now, the playback OSD comes up when you pause and the info OSD comes up when you press "i".

The info OSD is used for checking up on some info about the file that's playing. It's large, it shows up right in the middle of the screen and covers much of the movie, and it contains a bunch of text that I need to take a second to scan through and read. If I'm going to read info off a large dialog that covers much of the screen, I'm probably going to want to pause the movie since I can't see it playing anyway.

The playback OSD is small and unintrusive (bottom of the screen) and displays only 2 things (time elapsed/total time). Forcing me to pause the movie in order to check how much is left is really silly, as this is info that one would commonly wonder while watching a movie. It only takes a second to check the dialog and you can easily continue watching the movie while you look at that dialog. And I definitely wonder how much is left more than I wonder the title/info of the movie I'm watching, haha.

Does anybody else miss having a way to check how much is left in their movie?

IMO there are a 2 ways to use these OSD dialogs that both make more sense than the current one:

1) Add playback OSD to "i" view
pause button - leave as is, showing only playback OSD
"i" button - shows both the info OSD and the playback OSD

2) Switch them around
pause button - shows only the info OSD
"i" button - shows only the playback OSD

I'd love to hear what other people think of this issue, hopefully we can convince xb2iris to modify it for us! :0)

Quote:changed that osd too many times... not a priority anymore coz i'm finally happy with the way it is... makes sense to me... so, maybe the only thing that'll change there is the graphics for now... if i even choose to look at it again... it works... so, lets be happy with it until it gets priority again... and info buttons should show media info like it does when u click it in the libraries... makes sense to me...

pletopia Wrote:x2biris .. anyway you can either take out Poster view or Showcase instead of widecase for now since they are like nearly the same viewtype (i'd say Poster View)

dynamix Wrote:Good to hear from you, xb2iris! Good luck with bringing Horizonz to the next level!

R111 Wrote:Poster view is old. Showcase is the new in thing. widecase is still useful.

Doraemonn Wrote:Showcase is by far the best view there is, simply gorgeous.

PLEASE X2BIris, don't forget to include Chipy's watched/unwatched badges for all views, they're utterly indispensable when it comes to TV Shows, and very useful for Movies as well.

Glad to hear you're back in the game by the way, I really look forward to v. IV!

midgetspy Wrote:I know this was gone over a lot before, but I have to bring it up again because it's the only thing about this skin that constantly bugs me. The UI is really intuitive except for this single thing and it drives me bonkers, hehe. It's the OSD during full screen video playback.

Currently, there are 2 OSD items:
- the "info OSD": Shows poster, title, info about movie, etc.
- the "playback OSD": Shows progress bar, total length, current time

Right now, the playback OSD comes up when you pause and the info OSD comes up when you press "i".

The info OSD is used for checking up on some info about the file that's playing. It's large, it shows up right in the middle of the screen and covers much of the movie, and it contains a bunch of text that I need to take a second to scan through and read. If I'm going to read info off a large dialog that covers much of the screen, I'm probably going to want to pause the movie since I can't see it playing anyway.

The playback OSD is small and unintrusive (bottom of the screen) and displays only 2 things (time elapsed/total time). Forcing me to pause the movie in order to check how much is left is really silly, as this is info that one would commonly wonder while watching a movie. It only takes a second to check the dialog and you can easily continue watching the movie while you look at that dialog. And I definitely wonder how much is left more than I wonder the title/info of the movie I'm watching, haha.

Does anybody else miss having a way to check how much is left in their movie?

IMO there are a 2 ways to use these OSD dialogs that both make more sense than the current one:

1) Add playback OSD to "i" view
pause button - leave as is, showing only playback OSD
"i" button - shows both the info OSD and the playback OSD

2) Switch them around
pause button - shows only the info OSD
"i" button - shows only the playback OSD

I'd love to hear what other people think of this issue, hopefully we can convince xb2iris to modify it for us! :0)

harryzimm Wrote:@ midgetspy

I feel the same about the osd. I reckon option 1, adding the progress bar to info view would be the best solution. I dont think switching them makes much sense, after all when you push the info button you expect some info about the movie to be displayed.

I might give this a shot myself actually because having to pause the movie just to see the progress is i bit of a pain.

Anyway , not complaining xb2iris. The skin is shit-hot.

cheers

pletopia Wrote:@midgetspy

on my htpc (running plex) .. but by default it seems since V3 that 't' is keymapped to pull up the info panel .. 'i' pulls up the debug panel .. and 'o' pulls up the progressbar panel

looking at my keymap.xml .. i found these in the FullScreenVideo section under keyboard

<i>CodecInfo</i>
<t>Info</t>
<o>ShowTime</o>

hope that helps

eQUIV Wrote:I've mentioned this before, Xb2iris' response was this