The SageMC Screenshot Thread

[jaminben]

Originally Posted by QueOnda

Very Very nice. BTW, where do you get your covers? I like the in dvd box look.

I get the covers from http://www.cdcovers.cc/ then edit them to the right size. Its a pain having to edit them but I think they look better than the ones from IMDB.

The in dvd box look is included in the import.

[kricker]

What about grabbing images from nicecovers.com, they have a dvd image version already.

[jaminben]

Originally Posted by kricker

What about grabbing images from nicecovers.com, they have a dvd image version already.

Doh!! I tried that site before and thought the images looked too low res, but...... I've just tried again and realised that you can click on the title at the bottom of the image to get a higher res version

Thanks for making me revisit

[QueOnda]

Jaminben, where do you get your backdrop's? And what do you have to name the images? I going to go ahead and start getting images, unless you get them automatically?

[bialio]

Originally Posted by grooves12

Any progress on this front with the latest releases of SageMC?

Yep. The support is there, now it's just up to me to find time to put something together.

btl.

[jaminben]

Originally Posted by QueOnda

Jaminben, where do you get your backdrop's? And what do you have to name the images? I going to go ahead and start getting images, unless you get them automatically?

Unfortunatly I dont get the images automatically There is some good news though, I have collected 100+ of what I consider to be the more popular films and uploaded them to rapidshare. Its the first time I've used rapidshare so I'm not too sure if I've done it right but you should be able to download from the link below for free.

I got the original images from http://www.themoviedb.org/ by the looks of it the websites search engine now works but if it doesnt then use IMDB to get the film code and paste it on the end of their address, if that makes sense.

http://www.meligrove.com/movie?id= (No IMDB Number)

http://www.meligrove.com/movie?id=tt0114746 (With IMDB Number)

And the link to my 100+ collection via rapidshare -

http://rapidshare.com/files/17075653...t_Pack_One.rar

If you didnt already know the default install of Sagemc now supports fanart for movies, music & tv you just have to enable it, this is thanks to MeInMaui who no doubt spent a lot of time making fanart posiible, so Thankyou Mike My import should be coming very shortly unless I've messed something up.

Oh, One last thing. Fanart can be placed within the movie folder named background.jpg or you can have one folder that contains all your fanart but must have the exact same name as your movie. I use the second option.


Regards

Ben

[mikejaner]

Sooooo.. I made a really lame attempt to merge the coloring I am used to with the SageTV STV3 and the look of MCE using my Zero Skillz in Paint.net. Let me know if you likey. If so I can package.

On another note, is there any cool themes anybody has done lately, like nBlue? I would love to see the themes possibilities with SageMC.






Edit:
Download Link
https://my.syncplicity.com/share/wc8...SageMCSage.zip

[LehighBri]

This is sweet... can you package this up and make available for download??

[mikejaner]

Originally Posted by LehighBri

This is sweet... can you package this up and make available for download??

Done, see above.

[Skacey]

Here are some initial Previews of a new Theme called Vickie - loosely based upon Victorian Influences. I'm going for a darker, more organic look to contrast the more technology based themes.

[Mitch G]

That's very pretty.
I really like your idea of contrasting modern technology with a 19th century look and feel.


Mitch

[Slipshod]

Steampunk SageTV! Excellent!

Nice theme, looking forward to it being done. I'll have to see how the wife feels about it, but I like what I'm seeing so far.

[jaminben]

I've just started work on a new import for SageMC which will replace the current TV Sub Group with one that I've copied from Media Portals TV series plugin. Its very early days but I thought I'd get some input from the community to see what other people would like or maybe don't like.

I've attached two images, one showing what the original TV Sub Group looks like and the new version.

What I've done so far is:

1. Scrolling Title Text.
2. Episode image (changes when you select a different episode).
3. Cover Art (static cover art image).
4. Episode synopsis panel which I'm hoping I can get to scroll up automatically.
5. Episode selection with scrolling text and original recording date.

So if you have any ideas or suggestions then I'd really like hear them before I get too far into development of this import.

Regards

Ben

[jphipps]

I guess I would have 2 questions:

1. How would the display look for a series that has no cover art
2. Would the controls over each show be done by scrolling to the airing and hitting either select to play or option for other actions?

Thanks,
Jeff

[jaminben]

Originally Posted by jphipps

1. How would the display look for a series that has no cover art

I had thought about trying to make a default image which would display if no other cover art was found.

Originally Posted by jphipps

2. Would the controls over each show be done by scrolling to the airing and hitting either select to play or option for other actions?

I was going to allow the user to use "select" to carry on to the next screen which is a TV Info Screen or "play" which would just play the file. This is the way its currently setup in the default screen.

[PGPfan]

So far, I like the look of it! One recommendation - make it configurable so that a user could perhaps have the 'info panels' moveable anywhere horizontally - I think it'd look good on the left rather than right of the screen.

-PGPfan

[jaminben]

Originally Posted by jphipps

2. Would the controls over each show be done by scrolling to the airing and hitting either select to play or option for other actions?

I've had another thought about this, I think it maybe better to have "left" as back as normal, "right" to move to the full screen tv info screen, "select" to bring up a panel for other options like "delete" etc and lastly "play" just plays the episode.

Originally Posted by PGPfan

So far, I like the look of it! One recommendation - make it configurable so that a user could perhaps have the 'info panels' moveable anywhere horizontally - I think it'd look good on the left rather than right of the screen.

See attached screenshot.

I've also gotten rid of the title text and replaced it with a fanart banner, it'll default to text if no banner is found.

[jphipps]

I think i may be better to have select for play to stream line playing the recording, and have right go to the TV info screen, and option to delete, etc to make that also more streamline. That is always been my one problem with SageMC, alot of things seem to take too many screens or buttons to get to what you want.

Another thing that my look good is using show banners like the plugin for the default STV...

Thanks,
Jeff

[jaminben]

Originally Posted by jphipps

I think i may be better to have select for play to stream line playing the recording, and have right go to the TV info screen, and option to delete, etc to make that also more streamline. That is always been my one problem with SageMC, alot of things seem to take too many screens or buttons to get to what you want.

Another thing that my look good is using show banners like the plugin for the default STV...

I'll see how it feels with the buttons, when you say show banners what do you mean? I have an image in my last post which has a banner instead of the show title, is that what you mean?

[jphipps]

Sorry, yep that is what I meant...

Thanks,
JEff