[paul]

I resized all the thumbs except the "...shadow" ones. (They were the offending articles) and it works fine like that now.

I've just about got a version of Auriga ready to go, just a few new patches to add when I get home (can't pull from Git at work). I've got weather conditions working. Genre is working, with standard home menu pulldown. Included the other dialog and endtime mods and the like.

I'll do some testing, and if all successful I'll put a release out there.

Don't mean to be stepping on toes or anything, just figure if we both have a crack at it, when it's all done we can combine the best of both versions.

Will recheck the thumbs thanks i have most of cf2009 mods working with the new submenu, though no fix as yet to keep the menu bar stuck in one place will try to work out how to do that on saturday + there is a problem with showcase in flat mode will look at that too on saturday unless you find a fix before me

Hey Paul, check this out, I have xbox and for some reason auriga with your lite mod runs real slow, it Aeon used to run 10x better with the other lite mode, anyways that mod is not getting updated so I though this might help you.

Check out this - PngOtimizer, I've tried it and it works perfectly, reduced most of the pngs by 30%. Though I did not see any speed improvements in the skin. See if it helps you.

http://psydk.org/PngOptimizer.php

Thanks.

Have tried that in the past with my mediastream and horizon mods and found it did make the file sizes smaller but when you pack them up into a textures.xpr it reconverts all textures to bitmaps so for the xbox there is no real advantage but may benefit the apple tv users on here. will try with the next release to see if it helps them out so thanks for the suggestion.

run slow here on the appletv as well...

ere not much i can do about it but will have a look at png optimizer to see if it helps you guys

For appletv I found best way to increase performance is to reduce the size of the media in the media folder to 50% which has a dramatically effect on performance of Aeon Auriga.. appletv cant handle 1080p anyway so.. my 2 cents

But the graphics are allready reduced by 50% reduceing them further by 50% will not look good at all besides if you reduce them too far it actually makes things worse as it then has to upsample everything to the desired resolution.

thanx alot for your work on this lite version of the skin!!

i just found this so im very sorry if its been asked a million times ..

what is the best app to batch convert a whack of pictures to the correct ratio for best performance / quality for the xbox , running in 720p .. ? .. what is the best size ?

oh and 1 small thing that would be awesome if you could add .. the sleep timer needs preset times (30 , 60 , 120 , 240) .. best place to add them would be when sleep timer is highlighted you can push left or right to pick , ala PM3 ..

thanx again!

Theres a shutdown timer in it sleep timer, as for your backdrops etc i would stick with 960x540 and for batch conversion of those i use irfanview but for the main textures i do all of them by hand one by one gets better results that way + i can adjust the transparency to my likeing...

Don't know what it is but this version has the most free memory of all the Aeons I've tried. I have 18mb on average in showcase and if I let it sit it will level out to 20mb free.

Running smooth too.

Thanks Paul.

Good to hear that's roughley what i get too...

when you guys use list view and scroll up and down, do you get a pop up saying "operation not permitted"? not sure why i am getting this and it's been bothering me ever since.

another thing i notice between the lite version and original is that my RSS feed scrolls extremely slow on the home screen...

Strange not heard of that one before what you running it on?

Thanks a lot for the new version. Running very smooth here! I have an amazing 31MB of free RAM on my XBOX using the backdrops I've posted earlier, being in the home screen with nothing playing.

Christ how the hell have you achieved that did you just whack in your backdrops?
If thats all i will definately swapp mine out for yours as i have got them... jus have not had time to try them yet..

That's awesome.

Haven't had a chance to test out this one yet, but will soon. Been working on my one. Running really well, just need to find a fix for the genre poster mod to get it working properly with Auriga and I'll throw it out there.

Got a lot more freemem than I did with my last one ((Stark)(to those who got to test it)).

No problem if you want i could upload my updated .xmls incase i noticed something you may have missed, and it's possible you may have fixed something i may not have fixed yet. in which case i will upload all my .xmls + any new textures that have been changed in the last few updates from git