[ronie]

Sweet as - thanks I have all but done the changes now For the life of me though I cannot work out how to increase the size of the background border... I've moved the scroll bar over and adjusted the size but I can't work out the border... Can you tell me where to change that one at?

no sure what 'background border' you mean.
post a screenshot and i may be able to tell.

EDIT:
I have worked out adding the view - I needed to add a toggle control in custom_SkinSettings.xml pointing to the custom name for my view. I've done that now, but I now have two Thumbnail views to select from and they aren't right after each other - where do I change the name for the view and how do I order it so it comes right after Thumbnail?

in MyVideoNav.xml, the relevant line is:

Code:

<views>50,51,52,53,54,55,57,58,59,590,592,596,598,599</views>

this defines the order in which the views appear in the skin.
the current thumbnail view has id 53, so list yours after that one.

1. When paused bring up the video info and default controls of the transparency skin

when you pause a movie, xbmc will show DialogSeekbar.xml.
i think you need to code the code from VideoOSD.xml to that file than.

2. When the movie is playing and the mouse is moved bring up the gamepad controls and no video info

yeah, if you replace the T! VideoOSD.xml code with the one from PM3.HD,
it should get you a long way.

not sure if any other adjustments would be needed though.