While You Were Sleeping: Skins #2

While You Were Sleeping: Skins

#2 (12/2/11)


Lots of action has happened this past month in the world of MediaPortal Skins. A lot of tweaking, adding, fixing and intergration for all to enjoy! Now I know what you are all thinking: “Why do they continue to call the tomato a vegitable?” I know.... it mistifies me too. But I think if we all pull together, we will be okay. While I cant help with the tomato dellima, I believe that you take a moment to read the following info you will learn more about what your favorite skins have been up to. Either that or we can all learn how to remove rust from bumpers with nothing but peanut shells!

 


New Skins


PureVisionHD Xmas Edition  -  Web  -  Forum

 xmasscrnsht

While not entirely a “new” skin, it sure looks different. Now you can do more than just deck the halls, you can deck the HTPC with this holiday themed skin from PureVisionHD. They have even added some holiday animations! Check it out!

Recently Updated


aMPed  -  Web  -  Forum  -  Wiki  -  Gallery

 ampedscrnsht

Ever a popular skin, aMPed has made some recent changes to bring about better integration with plugins as well as many graphics changes like new splash screens, higher res icons and many more:

• Improved Expanded Video/TV OSD (with Video/Audio/Subtitles menus/options)
• Basic Home Editor auto updates user mods
• Menu links - between mvCentral and YouTube.fm and from Pandora and Now Playing to YouTube.fm
• Higher res logos and splash screens
• Improved TV-Series Group Views
• Other small graphics improvements

Plugins Added:
• World Weather Plugin (0.2.5) (displays weather on Basic Home and current Temp/weather icon on most windows)
• yrWeather plugin (1.0)
• Latest Media Handler Plugin (1.0.0.7)
• mvCentral (1.0)
• MyEmulators (4.0)

Plugins Updated:
• Youtube.fm (0.8)
• InfoService (1.6.6)
• Trakt (1.3.0)
• HTPC Info (1.3.1)
• IMDB+ (1.4.0)

Fixed:
• Folder Icons not displaying in Recorded TV
• Media Overlay/Preview displaying on top of thumb images in some cases
• Settings Screen for TV -remove unsupported/obsolete options
• SMS style Virtual Keyboard where 18pt text does not fit on button

4:3 or 16:9 aMPed gives you a great skin that can be used for all screen sizes!

 

Avalon  -  Web  -  Forum  -  Wiki  -  Gallery

 avalonscrnsht

The team that has brought you Maya, have raised the bar with Avalon 1.0!

Changed:

  • [Plugin] rework of SubCentral
  • [General] BasicHome weather using WorldWeather plugin

Updated:

  • [Plugin] LatestMediaHandler to version 1.0.0.7

Added:

  • [TV] 4TR Icons (thx Bleazle)
  • [Plugin] WorldWeather plugin support

Fixed:

  • [General] mainmenu item not highlighted when return from submenu
  • [Plugin] wrong id in mypics hiddenmenu
  • [TVSeries] playedcolor in tvseries "noinfo" layout (again)
  • [TV] replace old tvguide rec png`s

 

Frames  -  Web  -  Forum  -  Wiki  -  Gallery

 framesscrnsht

Frames is a simple (No plugin dependency and no configuration/menu editor), clean and intuitive skin designed for MediaPortal 1.2.x based on ideas of other skins and sources.

Frames is a grey coloured skin with accents in blue at a resolution of 1280x720 (Displays also nice at 1920x1080).
All screens are designed in such a way that all information will be diplayed within frames with a limited use of fanart in a uniform and functional way.

Optional you can choose between a 8 or 10 rows TVGuide/MiniGuide and there is also a possibility to show infotags with extra information about menu items and buttons to use (MiniWiki).

Updates done:

Plugin support added for:

  • - IMDb+
  • - YouTube.fm
  • - mpNZB
  • - yrWeather
  • - World Weather
  • - HTPCInfo
  • - mvCentral

Also the existing plugin support is updated to be compatible to the latest versions (Trakt 1.3.0, TVSeries 3.1.3, ...)

Fanart support is added for MyMusic and music related plugins (Last.fm, Rockstar, mvCentral, ...) and a overlay is added for Fanart so it is less dominating and information is better readable.

Weather information on BasicHome/Home is now available via World Weather plugin (Replacement of weather via InfoService)

Notification icon (Bottom right corner) is visible when a new version of a installed extension is available including a Installation button in the menu (Main screen of plugin).

 

Mustayaluca  -  Web  -  Forum  -  Wiki  -  Gallery

mustshot

This great skin is like a grab bag of goodies! Lots of great ideas from many different projects all meshed into one skin. Development of this one has stepped up quite a bit in the last month, so lets look at what all has been done:

  • Media - Added new plugin background image.
  • Video - OSD changed aspect ratio logo to resolution, added audio channels logo.
  • Plugins - Added support for mpNZB v1.5.2.
  • SubCentral - Fixed hidden menu appearing when launched for MovPics or MP-TVSeries.
  • BBC Weather - Updates for plugin v0.4.1.43
  • Home/Plugins Menu - Updates for broken MP weather plugin.
  • YouTube.fm - Minor skin updates.
  • WorldWeather - Added support for plugin v0.2.5
  • Settings - Added BG gfx for skin image.
  • Media - Added new next page and skin update available gfx.
  • mvCentral - Updates for v0.5.0.193, icl. OSD display.
  • YouTube.fm - Updates for v0.8.2.258.
  • Home/Plugins - Fix for weather license expired, info removed.
  • yrWeather - Added support for v1.0.0.0
  • Media - Updated playlist gfx.
  • References - Minor change to playlist layout.
  • Music - Fix for now playing button in playlist not going to now playing screen.
  • YouTube.fm - More updates for latest version of plugin.
  • Trakt - Fixed error in shouts xml.
  • Media - Fixed default settings image, added downloading logo.
  • References - Added missing checkbutton control.
  • Translations - Added French translation.
  • Rockstar - Added now playing button to hidden menu.
  • Updates for latest version of plugin and added custom group images.
  • Trakt - Added support for related movies and shows.
  • BasicHome - Added animations to most recents.
  • Music - Added hyperlink parameter support to mvCentral->youtube.fm and yourtube.fm->mvCentral
  • BasicHome - Fixed Music Videos entry in Music sub-menu to point to mvCentral.
  • Plugins - Added some image caching to some frequently used static images.
  • BasicHome - Updated the deprecated Most Recent Properties to use LatestMedia properties.
  • BasicHome - Added some more image caching to basichome.
  • BasicHome - Updated editor to support World Weather plugin for 5-Day and Summary.
  • Configuration - Removed all settings that are not used by Mustayaluca (not much left).
  • Configuration - Added setting to Mustayaluca->Video to disable Background Video. Note: change only takes affect after next playback (not during).
  • Configuration - Some more fixes related to skin name (wasn't loading config plugin).
  • Configuration - Disabled the Update system in config plugin.
  • Installer - Fixed install issues with MPEI package.

 

StreamedMP  -  Web  -  Forums  -  Wiki  -  Gallery

SMPscrnsht

Redundancy has never been thrilling for me, so I refuse to tell you how great the development, design and over all project StreamedMP is. If you have never at least tried this skin, then I would not go so far as calling your a “bad MPer”, but u would be pretty silly! Never-the-less, there has been some improvements and changes made recently, so here they are:

  • Added support for mvCentral plugin, added quicklist entry to basichome editor.
  • Updated BasicHome, StandardHome and myPlugins top right weather. Data comes from World Weather plugin.
  • Updated BasicHome to support 5-Day weather from World Weather plugin. No longer uses InfoService plugin.
  • Added support for yrWeather plugin. Thanks ysmp!
  • Added support for World Weather plugin.
  • Added World Weather and yrWeather to BasicHome quicklist entries. People upgrading should edit existing entry and point it to one of the new plugins.
  • Added World Weather plugin to install package. Remember to configure World Weather in MediaPortal Configuration plugins section.
  • Updated support for YouTube.fm plugin, thanks ysmp!.
  • Updated Fanart Handler plugin library to v2.3.1.534.
  • Updated Latest Media Handler plugin library to v1.0.0.7.
  • Updated install package to force overwrite of fonts on install (hopefully avoid any conflicts when incompatible fonts).
  • Fixed issue where we set default skin to DefaultWide if user does not choose StreamedMP as default. Also now only set back to DefaultWide on uninstall if still set to StreamedMP.

Note: Remember to configure World Weather in MediaPortal Configuration plugins section. This is now used to provide weather on the Home screen.

To open into the World Weather or YR Weather plugins, you must configure your BasicHome screen and point the weather item to the appropriate plugin.



Okay guys and gals, that’s a wrap for this most recent installment of While You Were Sleeping! Keep checking back each week for more news from MediaPortal and it’s most awesome community!

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