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Matt

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MC Skinning DSP (experimental)
« on: October 27, 2003, 04:25:05 pm »
Media Center 9.1.290 adds an experimental skinning DSP layer.  It allows you to fine tune how your Media Center looks by changing colors, making it black and white, among other things.

To try it out:

1) install 9.1.290 (or later), run it, and close it
2) use regedit and edit this path: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\JRiver\Media Jukebox\Megamorphis

The settings are as follows:

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DSP - Enabled

0: false
1: true

DSP - Mode

1: color shift (uses colors -- shifts by ([Color] - 128) so use 128 for no change)
2: old fashioned (sepia) (ignores colors)
3: black and white (ignores colors)
4: inverts

DSP - Red
DSP - Green
DSP - Blue

number: used differently by different modes

3) restart MC
4) to edit further, first close MC, make a change, and then restart

This is totally experimental.  It may not work.  It may be gone in a future build.  It may give Media Center back hair.

Let us know what you think and if you get any cool looking results :)
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Re:Media Center Skinning DSP (experimental)
« Reply #1 on: October 27, 2003, 04:33:54 pm »
Could this lead to people being able have MC's skins match their Windows settings?

Am I correct in assuming this works somewhat along the lines of WMP's color picker?
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Re:Media Center Skinning DSP (experimental)
« Reply #2 on: October 27, 2003, 04:36:51 pm »
Cool, works fine.

It's a bit like the color themes in MS Media Player or Winamp5
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Re:Media Center Skinning DSP (experimental)
« Reply #3 on: October 27, 2003, 05:03:05 pm »
Hey, this is pretty cool. I was just playing around a little bit and came up with this...



I imagine with this, you could introduce a new mode that just pulls all of the values from Windows display settings and get MC to match again, yes? That could make a lot of people happy...
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Re:Media Center Skinning DSP (experimental)
« Reply #4 on: October 27, 2003, 05:04:14 pm »
Now that is some cool stuff!!
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Re:Media Center Skinning DSP (experimental)
« Reply #5 on: October 27, 2003, 05:26:29 pm »
Quote from: Doof on October 27, 2003, 05:03:05 pm
I was just playing around a little bit and came up with this.....
ScubaSteel?  8)

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I imagine with this, you could introduce a new mode that just pulls all of the values from Windows display settings and get MC to match again, yes? That could make a lot of people happy...
Yes, looks like "to have a heart" for skin haters  ;)

I think it will work best for more simple skins, maybe someday it can influence icons and fonts in a different way than the rest of the skin? Anyhow, her comes WinDozeNegative ;D
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Re:Media Center Skinning DSP (experimental)
« Reply #6 on: October 27, 2003, 05:59:52 pm »
Quote from: knickelfarz on October 27, 2003, 05:26:29 pm
I think it will work best for more simple skins, maybe someday it can influence icons and fonts in a different way than the rest of the skin? Anyhow, her comes WinDozeNegative ;D

Wait!  Michael Jackson is white even when inverted... how can that be?  

(the pic in the lower right looks like him with the resized image I'm looking at, even though it might not be. )
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Re:Media Center Skinning DSP (experimental)
« Reply #7 on: October 27, 2003, 06:09:42 pm »
Quote from: kiwi on October 27, 2003, 05:59:52 pm
Wait! Michael Jackson is white even when inverted... how can that be?
LOL, I wouldn't be astonished about that...  :P

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(the pic in the lower right looks like him with the resized image I'm looking at, even though it might not be. )
Well, I hope Björk is not reading in this forum  ;D
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Re:Media Center Skinning DSP (experimental)
« Reply #8 on: October 27, 2003, 06:25:52 pm »
I think the lower left image is a bit more accurate.
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Re:Media Center Skinning DSP (experimental)
« Reply #9 on: October 27, 2003, 07:00:38 pm »
Very nice.  I like it.  :)

In skins with rounded corners, the "transparent" area sometimes shows up colored... sometimes pink, sometimes another color.




Also, it'd be good to be able to focus the color shift onto certain parts of the skin.  I like my text on white background.

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Re:MC Skinning DSP (experimental)
« Reply #10 on: October 27, 2003, 07:11:46 pm »
Btw, what's DSP?
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Re:MC Skinning DSP (experimental)
« Reply #11 on: October 27, 2003, 08:21:42 pm »
It is Digital Signal Processing. As in audio, your intercepting the signal and altering before it reaches it's final destination (the amp for audio...the video card for video).

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Re:MC Skinning DSP (experimental)
« Reply #12 on: October 28, 2003, 04:55:45 am »
Sepia seems a little tooo pinky orange to me but that could just be me.

Overall this is WOW!!!

Too cool!!

Can anyone give me some tips as to what values to use??

I tried from like 10 to 500 for all colours and am not having much luck :(
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Re:MC Skinning DSP (experimental)
« Reply #13 on: October 28, 2003, 08:23:27 am »
Quote from: Nila on October 28, 2003, 04:55:45 am
Sepia seems a little tooo pinky orange to me but that could just be me.

Overall this is WOW!!!

Too cool!!

Can anyone give me some tips as to what values to use??

I tried from like 10 to 500 for all colours and am not having much luck :(
Did you set the enable to 1?  Then stop and start MC?
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Re:MC Skinning DSP (experimental)
« Reply #14 on: October 28, 2003, 08:37:30 am »
Yeah :)

I got it working - I just mean results in terms of pretty ones - all my effects that I got as results were like glowing white and nearly impossible to read etc.

Just wondering what kind of values would give me useable nice effects.

Cant wait till options for this are built into MC - it'd be nice if they could be applied dynamically like WMP cause then we'll have all the skins with the ability to change colour.

Not sure if u already do it - but one idea I had would be to first make the skins black and white - then apply the colours to them (or maybe make it as another option).
That way we could get the shapes of all the skins with our own colour tints (otherwise pre-set colours can look awful when overlaid (orange on green = ugly brown etc)).

Just an idea


Love this addition!!
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Re:MC Skinning DSP (experimental)
« Reply #15 on: October 28, 2003, 09:45:35 am »
Quote from: xen-uno on October 27, 2003, 08:21:42 pm
It is Digital Signal Processing. As in audio, your intercepting the signal and altering before it reaches it's final destination (the amp for audio...the video card for video).

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I always thought 'S' was "sound" - which didn't make sense to me in this context.
Thanks.
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