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Theater View television series
Matt:
I spent a little time today thinking about how to do a more graphical series view for television shows.
We have always shown a text list for series, because switching to thumbnails shows something like this:
A couple changes today help make the view look like this:
1) The ability to do Cover Art > Get From Internet on television programs and browse and select artwork from TheTVDB
2) A change of aspect ratio for movie and television thumbnails views to better accommodate poster artwork
3) As you arrow around, the backdrops load immediately for the selected program instead of waiting for you to enter a series
leezer3:
Better, but we now need series info, so therefore an info panel tailored to suit :)
I agree with the basic sentiments from MrHaugen's thread below on how to implement this.
Another little idea mind (You've got most of this already, so I'd hope fairly trivial to implement)-
How about allowing the images from the TVDB to be placed as a skin component in the XML file?
This then lets you drop to a single row of portrait thumbnails of series covers, and place the current backdrops as much bigger splash images.
Overlay info on that, and you're getting to where I'd like theatre view to be personally.
Edit:
Midly unclear at the moment, and I'm not really in a position to try- Can I now allocate one coverart image to a TV series, as well as the thumbnails?
-Leezer-
raym:
Hmmm... my tv series view looks the same as it always has (like image 1) yet my movies view looks like image 2 except I only get 1 row of HUGE thumbs per screen ?
Matt:
--- Quote from: raym on October 10, 2011, 08:55:16 pm ---Hmmm... my tv series view looks the same as it always has (like image 1)
--- End quote ---
Try using Cover Art > Get From Internet on your television.
raym:
--- Quote from: Matt on October 10, 2011, 09:37:26 pm ---Try using Cover Art > Get From Internet on your television.
--- End quote ---
Umm, I don't particularly want to do this but I made a backup of my library and tried it. No change.
My default video view is a simple Genre>Filename setup.
See screenshot.
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