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- nul7 - 2009-06-23

smcnally75 Wrote:Just in case my question was missed Smile

If it was answered previously, I apologize.

Oops, sorry for missing it. More than likely frame extraction from disc images will not be a feature, but you never know what the future may hold. We could just create an internal media player that plays the media and use that to extract the frame, but my attempts at that failed miserably. I could get it to work for some files but not others, or would play all media fine but could not capture the screen shot, or used directx and would make it where it could capture the screen shot but a bug in directx kept it from playing properly with the method I was using.


- nul7 - 2009-06-23

r422 is in the first post. Just a bugfix/tweak release mainly to get the frame extraction bug taken care of.


- flipped cracker - 2009-06-23

do you think you'll make a tv shows mode in the future?


- nul7 - 2009-06-23

flipped cracker Wrote:do you think you'll make a tv shows mode in the future?

Yes, once we get everything with the movie section sorted out, we'll move on to TV, then music.


- skunkm0nkee - 2009-06-23

nul7 Wrote:Yes, once we get everything with the movie section sorted out, we'll move on to TV, then music.

Fantastic. The movie stuff is brilliant and I'm eagerly looking forward to the TV stuff Big Grin


- nul7 - 2009-06-24

skunkm0nkee Wrote:Fantastic. The movie stuff is brilliant and I'm eagerly looking forward to the TV stuff Big Grin

Thanks! If there's anything we can do as far as custom features for MiniMeedia let us know (it's my skin of choice. Wink).


- skunkm0nkee - 2009-06-24

nul7 Wrote:Thanks! If there's anything we can do as far as custom features for MiniMeedia let us know (it's my skin of choice. Wink).

Excellent, thanks Big Grin I'll be sure to let you know if I think of something


- anoobie - 2009-06-24

Feature Request:

Option to crop the black bars (top and bottom) from extrathumbs.

something similar to this tool would be nice.


- nul7 - 2009-06-24

Just FYI, the TMDB API is back up.


- nul7 - 2009-06-24

anoobie Wrote:Feature Request:

Option to crop the black bars (top and bottom) from extrathumbs.

something similar to this tool would be nice.

Well... Ember is adding the black bars to the extrathumbs so they can be scaled to 1280x720. lol I can just make it optional to resize as close as possible without adding the black bars.


- uncertainty - 2009-06-24

I just have one flag issue im trying to figure out. Im running r422 with the latest Aeon Aurgia skin and the only flag not showing is the dolby digital flag. It shows the 5.1, but does not show the dolby sign in front of it. All other audio flags (ie aac, dts) are viewable. BTW the dolby flag shows fine within ember, just not within xbmc. If you need logs let me know ...

edit: I checked the .nfo files that are being created for the dolby movies and they all look like this one

<audio>
<language>eng</language>
<codec>AC-3</codec>
<channels>6</channels>
<bitrate>640 Kbps</bitrate>
</audio>

Also if I just let xbmc import a dolby movie without using the .nfo file created by ember, the dolby flag shows fine.

thanks again


- anoobie - 2009-06-24

nul7 Wrote:Well... Ember is adding the black bars to the extrathumbs so they can be scaled to 1280x720. lol I can just make it optional to resize as close as possible without adding the black bars.

Is it possible to keep the aspect ratio of the movie for the thumbs? For example if the movie is 1280 x 544, the thumb generated is also 1280 x 544 instead of adding the black bars to make it 1280x720?


- smcnally75 - 2009-06-24

nul7 Wrote:Oops, sorry for missing it. More than likely frame extraction from disc images will not be a feature, but you never know what the future may hold. We could just create an internal media player that plays the media and use that to extract the frame, but my attempts at that failed miserably. I could get it to work for some files but not others, or would play all media fine but could not capture the screen shot, or used directx and would make it where it could capture the screen shot but a bug in directx kept it from playing properly with the method I was using.


Yeah, images can be a pain to deal with. I'll keep crossing my fingers Smile I have too many image files to even think of converting them all!


- smcnally75 - 2009-06-24

What are the "XBMC Communication" settings used for?


- nul7 - 2009-06-24

uncertainty Wrote:I just have one flag issue im trying to figure out. Im running r422 with the latest Aeon Aurgia skin and the only flag not showing is the dolby digital flag. It shows the 5.1, but does not show the dolby sign in front of it. All other audio flags (ie aac, dts) are viewable. BTW the dolby flag shows fine within ember, just not within xbmc. If you need logs let me know ...

edit: I checked the .nfo files that are being created for the dolby movies and they all look like this one

<audio>
<language>eng</language>
<codec>AC-3</codec>
<channels>6</channels>
<bitrate>640 Kbps</bitrate>
</audio>

Also if I just let xbmc import a dolby movie without using the .nfo file created by ember, the dolby flag shows fine.

thanks again

Hmmm.... everything looks correct in the tag. I think this is a problem with the skin or XBMC not picking up the AC-3 codec? If it picks up other codecs, then that means the formatting in the nfo is correct. Might want to ask in the Aeon forum to see what's going on.

anoobie Wrote:Is it possible to keep the aspect ratio of the movie for the thumbs? For example if the movie is 1280 x 544, the thumb generated is also 1280 x 544 instead of adding the black bars to make it 1280x720?

Yes definitely.... I'll just add a few options to it:

Use native resolution
Resize
> W
> H
> Add padding

smcnally75 Wrote:Yeah, images can be a pain to deal with. I'll keep crossing my fingers Smile I have too many image files to even think of converting them all!

Better to cross your fingers than hold your breath in this case. lol