[Skin]Lighter Confluence for XB0X

[WannabeGT4]

I have about a 450 item movie library with fanart enabled as well. I thought all fanart was saved as dds by default now; I must be mistaken. It's still strange that the default background uses more RAM than the fanart images.

If you want to try the files I'm using they are here:
http://wannabegt4.myftp.org/720p-NoBack ... oading.zip

[xbs]

I'll try it.

Changed every background to false gives me 28080 of free mem but the fanart gets pixelated!? Do you notice this too?
I'm running xbmc4xbox @ 720p, default thumbsize and default fanart height.

Could we came up with an optimized same quality/smaller footprint background image?

[WannabeGT4]

You're right. The fanart is pixelated. I hadn't noticed it before as the info was covering most of it.

I did some testing and found that when background loading is not used, it tries to load the fanart as a thumbnail. This can be seen below in the last 5 lines of each debug log. Notice in the first log the requested minx x miny is 1024 x 720. The same request in the second log is minx x miny 192 x 192, which is the same as used for the thumbnails.

Debug log with background loading:

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06:12:16 M: 27590656   DEBUG: JpegIO::Read - Requested minx x miny 192 x 192 - using minx x miny 158 x 233
06:12:16 M: 27590656   DEBUG: JpegIO::Read - Using scale_num of 5, 159 x 235
06:12:17 M: 27996160   DEBUG: CApplication::OnKey: 168 pressed, action is 2
06:12:17 M: 27918336   DEBUG: JpegIO::Read - Requested minx x miny 1024 x 720 - using minx x miny 1144 x 643
06:12:17 M: 27918336   DEBUG: JpegIO::Read - Using scale_num of 9, 1080 x 608

Debug log without background loading:

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06:15:14 M: 26750976   DEBUG: JpegIO::Read - Requested minx x miny 192 x 192 - using minx x miny 156 x 235
06:15:14 M: 26750976   DEBUG: JpegIO::Read - Using scale_num of 5, 157 x 235
06:15:15 M: 26378240   DEBUG: ------ Window Deinit (DialogBusy.xml) ------
06:15:16 M: 27176960   DEBUG: CApplication::OnKey: 168 pressed, action is 2
06:15:16 M: 27099136   DEBUG: JpegIO::Read - Requested minx x miny 192 x 192 - using minx x miny 256 x 144
06:15:16 M: 27099136   DEBUG: JpegIO::Read - Using scale_num of 3, 360 x 203

I'm thinking that the changes I made only exposed a bug and that extra RAM won't be saved if it gets fixed. I'm going to leave the code alone for now and focus on textures.xpr.

[skatulskijean]

@XBS
Hallo xbs

On the last nightly the globalsearch not Work !
When you search a Artsist seperatly example Sade , search will not work!
When you search all with Sade - It find Artist Sade!
When you search a Game it works not!


Thank again for your nice work!

Regards Jan

[xbs]

@XBS
Hallo xbs

On the last nightly the globalsearch not Work !
When you search a Artsist seperatly example Sade , search will not work!
When you search all with Sade - It find Artist Sade!
When you search a Game it works not!


Thank again for your nice work!

Regards Jan

Did the same script worked before on a earlier nightly?
If it did then it's a XBMC issue rather then a script issue.

[skatulskijean]

Sorry XBS!

Have many changed on scriptmodulen and addons for my new Jan'sXBMC4XBOX and two allbums from Sade was not correct scraped and the HD was full!
Artsist Searching works but Game searching not!


Regards Jan

[Dom DXecutioner]

I've made the changes to the xml file but have not gotten around to posting change but I will tonight.

[Dom DXecutioner]

Ok... here's the latest update to the "content.search" script... including changes to the "script-Content_search-main.xml" which includes new controls for the game search section. I would have created a diff file but I just learned to use svn today and I'm not all the great at; although easy enough, I need to be a bit more orgnanized in the way I handle the subversioning. Sometimes I get overzealous with changes cause I can't make up my mind, so I decided to hold off on that... still, xbs does have this in the svn repo and should not be too big of an issue to create and understand the diff; however, I'll provide some info.

- remove all the unnessary fanart controls as the script just needs one control and will populate the image on its own
- added new controls for the game section
- to search games, your games must be installed in the following folder "F:\Games"
- games, tvshows, and music fanart is not available as of now but will be included in the next update
- the script does not yet take advantage of the new strings but it will in the next update

Any issues with not finding content you is there, you know the drill, debug log is needed... you need not enable the debug function in xbmc as it currently spams the hell out of your debug log when you use it. Relax! I'll change that once everything is good and less buggy

http://www.mediafire.com/?cm8e6v3mm6i2ofh

[xbs]

Committed. Thanks Dom.

[skatulskijean]

On the last nightly is a error on Search

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File "Q:\skin\Confluence Lite\scripts\content.search.py", line 599, in ?
                                                w = GUI( 'script-globalsearch-main.xml', os.getcwd(), searchSTRING=_searchString, contentTYPE=_searchContentType )
                                            TypeError: XML file(Q:\skin\Confluence Lite\scripts\resources\skins\Default\PAL\script-globalsearch-main.xml) for window is missing

Dependencies!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks

Jan

[xbs]

Jan,

Could you open content.search.py and replace

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script-globalsearch-main.xml

with

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script-Content_search-main.xml

and see if it works?

TIA

[skatulskijean]

@XBS

Yes it works!!!

[xbs]

OK, thanks.
I'll fix it when get home.

[Edit] Fixed

[xbs]

Dom,

Noticed now that the fanart seems to be getting pixelated like background="true" isn't working... I'll need to re-check later.

[Edit] It's pixelated even with the multi fanart images

[xbs]

Any bugs or suggestions?
I'm not looking for extra features yet.

[Dom DXecutioner]

Dom,

Noticed now that the fanart seems to be getting pixelated like background="true" isn't working... I'll need to re-check later.

[Edit] It's pixelated even with the multi fanart images

I'z b thinkin' dis is more of an xbmc as oppose to skin... i read in the forums dat dis waz hatenin' to fanart in gen... i culd b wrong!

[Dom DXecutioner]

Any bugs or suggestions?
I'm not looking for extra features yet.

Ummm... aren't features part of suggestions? I'm just sayin'... I would "suggest" incorporating my "featured" script, which will display random, unplayed, items as oppose to "recently added"; after all, you can simply navigate to the recently added button for those items. Just a "suggestion!."

Also, as a "suggestion", you should open a new thread entitled "[RELEASE] Confluence Lite" with screenshots and other pertinent info... again, simply a "suggestion!"

[skatulskijean]

Bugs What the Skin Confliuence Light have :

1)Can not access all plugins for the Homescreen (is not a pfad isue on the plugin is a skin bug)
2 When i open a plugin exemple youtube and i go back to the Homescreen and i will switch again to he plugin when i select video or plugin works on all other skins but not on confluence light!
3) When i will access online media streams (example 1 Channel or others) the skin play the stream on Backround and i must manual switch to the video (on all the other skins works)

Thanks again for your work !


Regards Jan

[xbs]

@Dom
Suggestions aren't necessarily NEW features... that's all

Yeah, I probably should have created a new thread.

@Jan
1 - Could you name one plugin that doesn't work so I can test?
2 - I'll look into that...
3 - Are you launching the plugins in other skins from home screen also?

Thanks!

[skatulskijean]

@xbs please give my build a chance and make a second installation on your xbox !

I think this is better to fix any isue what is with the Skin!

Why my build have the most top acctall plugins and addons adapted from main (xbmc)

one example is Mp3 Search or Radio but it give more!!!!


Regards Jan !