2010-01-28, 20:11
Poster Tagline/Video Info mod
This mod will change Alaska's Poster view & Video Info screen. It does the following:
- shifts the focused poster to the left (wrapped & fixed views)
- adds a movie's Tagline & Duration, repositions Genre text.
- adds optional MPAA & IMDb Top 250 rating flags (Individually enabled via Alaska Settings)
- adds German MPAA rating flags & replaces ALL other MPAA flags with simpler, more legible ones
- adds Star & IMDB Top 250 ratings to Video Info screen
- allows either default 5-star or optional 10-star ratings in Video Info screen
- adds space on Video Info screen for MPAA rating text (if available)
- adds number of episodes & unwatched to TV poster views
DOWNLOAD
Requires Alaska Final (NOT Alaska Revisited) as of 03/22/2010
To install, simply extract to your Alaska folder. It will overwrite various xml & Graphic files so you should back up Alaska first in case you want to revert back.
The edited xml files are:
CustomSettings.xml
DialogVideoInfo.xml
Includes.xml
Includes_Animations.xml
Includes_Objects.xml
VideoOverlay.xml
Viewtype_Poster.xml
Important Notes
- If you have personally modified any of the xml files mentioned above, you will need to merge the changes you previously made into these files or vice versa. The best freeware tool I have found for that is WinMerge and a couple aspirin.
- I've always used Ember Media Manager to scrape my movies (it scrapes the tagline & IMDb top250 rating) so I am not sure if Xbmc will internally scrape Taglines/Top250 info (It has been reported to me that the latest nightly builds may do so). If you do not have any Taglines or Top250 info when only using XBMC's internal scrapers you will need to use a third party media manager such as EMM.
- The revised Poster view allows for some very long Titles now (as seen in the preview screenshots) but if you have some very, very long titles then the Viewtype_Poster.xml can be edited to remove the Genre & Duration to allow more room. The pertinent section has been commented.
- This also modifies poster placement in TV Shows. As an added bonus the TV Show poster view now includes the number of episodes & Unwatched episodes. If you don't want that info on your TV Show poster views, the Viewtype_Poster.xml file can be edited and has been commented to easily remove it.
- Regarding the MPAA flag on the poster view. The only problem anyone may run into with Now Playing screen overlapping it is if they have the RSS feed set to show on all screens and not just the Home screen. Sorry, I can't do anything about that as that pushes the Now Playing window up almost to the bottom of the non-focused posters.
- The IMDb Top 250 flag will only show if the movie is ranked. Both the MPAA & IMDB flags can be turned on/off separately via Settings (Default is Off).
- I added xml code to hide the rating text on the Info screen if it only consists of the rating. For example, if the MPAA tag in a movie's nfo file is just "Rated R" then no text will display (the flag image still will) but if the MPAA tag is "Rated R for strong language and violence" then that exact phrase will be displayed on the Info screen.
Additional Screenshots
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Change Log
03/22/2010
- Updated DialogVideoInfo.xml & Includes_Animations.xml with latest changes/fixes by Hitcher
03/17/2010
- Updated Includes.xml to include a fix by Hitcher
- Applied fade animation to Video Info IMDb flag
02/25/2010
- Updated to include latest changes/bug fixes from Hitcher
- Added optional 10-star ratings for Video Info screen
02/20/2010
- Combined Tagline mod with Video Info mod
This mod will change Alaska's Poster view & Video Info screen. It does the following:
- shifts the focused poster to the left (wrapped & fixed views)
- adds a movie's Tagline & Duration, repositions Genre text.
- adds optional MPAA & IMDb Top 250 rating flags (Individually enabled via Alaska Settings)
- adds German MPAA rating flags & replaces ALL other MPAA flags with simpler, more legible ones
- adds Star & IMDB Top 250 ratings to Video Info screen
- allows either default 5-star or optional 10-star ratings in Video Info screen
- adds space on Video Info screen for MPAA rating text (if available)
- adds number of episodes & unwatched to TV poster views
DOWNLOAD
Requires Alaska Final (NOT Alaska Revisited) as of 03/22/2010
To install, simply extract to your Alaska folder. It will overwrite various xml & Graphic files so you should back up Alaska first in case you want to revert back.
The edited xml files are:
CustomSettings.xml
DialogVideoInfo.xml
Includes.xml
Includes_Animations.xml
Includes_Objects.xml
VideoOverlay.xml
Viewtype_Poster.xml
Important Notes
- If you have personally modified any of the xml files mentioned above, you will need to merge the changes you previously made into these files or vice versa. The best freeware tool I have found for that is WinMerge and a couple aspirin.
- I've always used Ember Media Manager to scrape my movies (it scrapes the tagline & IMDb top250 rating) so I am not sure if Xbmc will internally scrape Taglines/Top250 info (It has been reported to me that the latest nightly builds may do so). If you do not have any Taglines or Top250 info when only using XBMC's internal scrapers you will need to use a third party media manager such as EMM.
- The revised Poster view allows for some very long Titles now (as seen in the preview screenshots) but if you have some very, very long titles then the Viewtype_Poster.xml can be edited to remove the Genre & Duration to allow more room. The pertinent section has been commented.
- This also modifies poster placement in TV Shows. As an added bonus the TV Show poster view now includes the number of episodes & Unwatched episodes. If you don't want that info on your TV Show poster views, the Viewtype_Poster.xml file can be edited and has been commented to easily remove it.
- Regarding the MPAA flag on the poster view. The only problem anyone may run into with Now Playing screen overlapping it is if they have the RSS feed set to show on all screens and not just the Home screen. Sorry, I can't do anything about that as that pushes the Now Playing window up almost to the bottom of the non-focused posters.
- The IMDb Top 250 flag will only show if the movie is ranked. Both the MPAA & IMDB flags can be turned on/off separately via Settings (Default is Off).
- I added xml code to hide the rating text on the Info screen if it only consists of the rating. For example, if the MPAA tag in a movie's nfo file is just "Rated R" then no text will display (the flag image still will) but if the MPAA tag is "Rated R for strong language and violence" then that exact phrase will be displayed on the Info screen.
Additional Screenshots
...
Change Log
03/22/2010
- Updated DialogVideoInfo.xml & Includes_Animations.xml with latest changes/fixes by Hitcher
03/17/2010
- Updated Includes.xml to include a fix by Hitcher
- Applied fade animation to Video Info IMDb flag
02/25/2010
- Updated to include latest changes/bug fixes from Hitcher
- Added optional 10-star ratings for Video Info screen
02/20/2010
- Combined Tagline mod with Video Info mod