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Title: Media Center 10 - Theater View
Post by: kanman on June 23, 2004, 07:51:17 pm: Hi All,

Just download the demo for MC 10. I am trying the Theater View and had 2 questions:

1) Is there another skin other than :Acoa (brown one)

2) There doesn't seem to be any display options, when I select display option all I get is to "go back" is there another option that I have to install?

Thanks for the help,

Kevin
Title: Re:Media Center 10 - Theater View
Post by: Matt on June 23, 2004, 07:59:42 pm: Quote
1) Is there another skin other than :Acoa (brown one)

Right-click on Theater View and pick "Configure Theater View" to choose skins.

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2) There doesn't seem to be any display options, when I select display option all I get is to "go back" is there another option that I have to install?

Display options show up when there is a display for files that are playing. (so they're empty if playback is stopped)

Thanks Kevin.
Title: Re:Media Center 10 - Theater View
Post by: kanman on June 24, 2004, 06:49:19 pm: Thanks Matt, that worked great!

Also, are there any tools to create custom Theater Views - i.e. backgrounds etc or to add data - i.e. the current zone that is playing?

Again, thanks for your help

Kevin
Title: Re:Media Center 10 - Theater View
Post by: Matt on June 25, 2004, 08:41:39 am: Quote from: kanman on June 24, 2004, 06:49:19 pm
Also, are there any tools to create custom Theater Views - i.e. backgrounds etc or to add data - i.e. the current zone that is playing?

There aren't any tools, but skins are in the [MC]\FullSkins folder. Make a copy of one and edit main.xml. It's pretty simple once you get the hang of it.
Title: Re:Media Center 10 - Theater View
Post by: cncb on June 25, 2004, 09:21:59 am: Is there a list somewhere of the "special" text we can have in Theater View? For example, I tried to replace "[Time]" with "[Zone]" and this did not work.
Title: Re:Media Center 10 - Theater View
Post by: kanman on June 25, 2004, 07:02:40 pm: Thanks again Matt,

The editing is going well, just one more question...is there a variable that I can use like the [TIME] variable to display the current zone? I also use netremote and in the app I use MP.Zone to pull zone info - just wondering if there was anything like that I could use in Theater View.

Thanks for your help!

Kevin
Title: Re:Media Center 10 - Theater View
Post by: cncb on June 25, 2004, 08:04:28 pm: Gee, great question. What am I invisible? :'(
Title: Re:Media Center 10 - Theater View
Post by: kanman on June 30, 2004, 08:07:15 pm: Still wondering about the above question that cncb and I have about "special" text/parameters that we may be able to insert into the main.xml - for instance [zone] to display the current zone.

Thanks
Title: Re:Media Center 10 - Theater View
Post by: cncb on July 02, 2004, 02:16:40 pm: Are we to believe that no one knows the answer to this simple question?? It makes multi-zone operation somewhat useless if I can't tell what zone I'm controlling in Theater View...
Title: Re:Media Center 10 - Theater View
Post by: cncb on July 07, 2004, 09:51:23 am: Can someone at JRiver please answer this?? I am afraid I will have to look to something other than Media Center for multi-zone playback since there is currently no way of telling what zone I'm controlling in Theater View. Thanks.
Title: Re:Media Center 10 - Theater View
Post by: Matt on July 07, 2004, 10:05:42 am: The next build of MC 11 will add [Zone]. (along with the existing [Time] and [Location])

If your thread doesn't get answered, please just give it a simple bump.

Thanks.
Title: Re:Media Center 10 - Theater View
Post by: cncb on July 07, 2004, 10:38:17 am: Ok, thanks. If you look above we tried to "bump" it twice. Since it was going to be ignored the third time, I had to resort to begging...