[mythtv-users] Theme stuff

[Another Sillyname]

2009/3/30 Robert McNamara <robert.mcnamara at gmail.com>:
> Since folks are announcing themes, I figured I would toss out a bit
> more information on mine.  I mentioned it a while back when it didn't
> have a name, but might as well mention that it's now called Graphite.
>
> I've been working on some MythVideo improvements lately, so I've more
> or less gotten to make MythVideo changes based on my theme desires,
> and keep my theme up to date with the changes.  My current work is
> towards integrated TV Subtitle/Season/Episode support in MythVideo.
> Doug Vaughan wrote a TVDB grabber script, and we have spent some time
> collaborating on the MythVideo behavior with it.  the result is a
> patch that adds support for those fields, as well as parses the season
> and episode out of filenames when they are added.  You'll see some of
> that here.  Of course, there's also fanart, banner, and screenshot
> support in MythVideo now, so that is used.  The patch sets up the
> MythVideo grabber to pull down images with a naming scheme that is
> recognized elsewhere... namely, in the Watch Recordings screen, which
> also now supports fanart, banners, and coverart.  So, let's say you
> have a few seasons of 24 archived in MythVideo, and you use the new
> grabber with them... it will set up 24 fanart/banner/coverart such
> that the next time you record 24 in Myth, your watch recordings screen
> might look something like...
>
> http://robertmcnamara.smugmug.com/gallery/7063231_gGk9H#475946775_9mrYU
>
> Note that the Watch Recordings Screen is smart enough to pick the
> latest season's image, if multiple seasons of images are available.
>
> Here is some screencap'ed video of the theme in action.  Istanbul is
> pretty bad when using the OpenGL theme painter, so there are some
> blips and weirdness in the capture that are not present when using the
> theme.
>
> http://www.fecitfacta.com/tvepsupport.ogg
> http://www.fecitfacta.com/PBB-fanart.ogg
>
> "Random" image types are now supported, so I'm having a play with that
> for Graphite.  I'll likely ship it with next to no background images,
> with a script to prompt the user for a few directories for Movie
> fanart, game images, etc. so that there are randomized, context
> sensitive watermarks as backgrounds for the menu screens.
>
> Here's me goofing with that:
>
> http://www.fecitfacta.com/randomimages.ogg
>
> Anyway, enjoy, I hope to have it out right about when .22 is.  I'm
> mostly adding screens as they get ported to MythUI so I'm mostly
> keeping up.
>
> Robert
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Very nice Robert

Lot's to look forward to with .22