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[Osho]

Hi,

I am looking for a Track info plugin that would work well for TV display. The main functions needed are:

• The info should be visible from 10 feet couch distance.
• The info should show the album cover art with the typical track info.
• The info should probably have a changing background (similar to the changing background in the TheaterView) so there is little danger of any burn-ins for long tracks (I have tracks that go for 40 minutes). Preferably, this background could be one of the visualization.

I tried the "Best for TV" track info plugin but that didn't work too well for 2 reasons:

• The covert art isn't resized to fit the display size. I have high resolution covert arts and only 60-70% of the covert art is shown.
• It doesn't have a varying background.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

thanks,
Osho

[Osho]

bump.

Osho

[raym]

I don't think a good one exists. I've certainly never found one which met all my needs either so I ended up creating one myself using viz studio (within MC). It's actually a really good tool and you can knock up exactly what you want pretty quickly. Give it a go!

[Osho]

I don't think a good one exists. I've certainly never found one which met all my needs either so I ended up creating one myself using viz studio (within MC). It's actually a really good tool and you can knock up exactly what you want pretty quickly. Give it a go!

Is there a way you can post yours so others can use it?

thanks,
Osho

[raym]

Is there a way you can post yours so others can use it?

thanks,
Osho

http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=37320.0

[Osho]

Thanks raym for the link. I tried that. I like them. Better than everything else I have tried. But, I would like to improve what you have done further. Can you tell me how did you create this?

thanks,
Osho

[raym]

Honestly, i'm no expert. Fortunately it's pretty easy.... Play some music. Goto playing now, right-click and select Vizualisation Studio. Mess with the values as you please. You'll work it out from there. 

Use some of the other built-in vizualisations to see how they tick. This is what I did to give me some ideas.

[skeeterfood]

Too bad the text looks like complete crap...  What is that bitmap scaling up from an 8pt font?

-John

[bbrip]

Must admit that I also struggle adjusting the parameters to get what I want...  ?

Someone can lay up a simple instruction ?

Cheers
BB

[RobbieG]

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[Osho]

So, based on the pointers I get about visualization studio, I created a visualization for displaying covert art and info for TV. Here is a screen shot.



Give me your comments/suggestions.

I will post the visualization if anyone is interested in it.

thanks,
Osho

[skeeterfood]

I'm interested.

Thanks!

-John

[Osho]

It is at

http://us.f13.yahoofs.com/bc/45ae8f88_d2d5/bc/My+Documents/CovertArt+MC12+Visualisation.mjv?bfCLprFBrIcsYsSN

Save this file as CoverArt.mjv in C:\Program Files\J River\Media Center 12\Visualizations\Vis Studio\Custom folder. Then select Visualization -> Custom -> CoverArt in the display view right click menu.


Osho

[AoXoMoXoA]

it's pretty easy.... Play some music. Goto playing now, right-click and select Vizualisation Studio.

Odd, I cannot find this in my copy of MC12 (the latest version 12.0.147). Any ideas?

[Osho]

Odd, I cannot find this in my copy of MC12 (the latest version 12.0.147). Any ideas?

Select a visualization and then right click where the vizualization is showing. If you are not showing a visualization you can't see this (this stumped me first).

Osho

[AoXoMoXoA]

Tricky stuff, LOL.  I did right-click, but just not while there was a Viz running as I wanted to create one "from scratch". 
Thanks for the help

[skeeterfood]

http://us.f13.yahoofs.com/bc/45ae8f88_d2d5/bc/My+Documents/CovertArt+MC12+Visualisation.mjv?bfCLprFBrIcsYsSN

Can't get to the file...

-John

[Osho]

Can't get to the file...

I put it on another one of these free file hosting website.

http://storeandserve.com/download/705401/CoverArt.mjv.html

Is there a place on MC12 website where users can post such things? Or, add it as attachment to posts?

Osho

[AustinBike]

I would love to see something like this for tivo!