[rodries]

Right now: If your Wii is powered off, and you power it on, go to Homebrew Channel, and load 1.1.2, does everything work fine?

[rodries]

Have you tried older versions? In what version did it break? If it’s not working in other versions either, I don’t see how it could be a WiiMC issue.

[rodries]

A couple quick things:

@sm – yes we have two different layout configurations, one for 4:3, one for 16:9, with the widths/heights/positions of elements adjusted to fit

@sm – your images look great. I would personally not use a glass effect. I think simpler is better in this case

-caching is a must if the feature is used – I don’t see the point in having this optional. If someone has enough storage for a 350MB episode, and wants to view the episode image+data, they can suffer with another 0.5MB being used. Always loading these on the fly is a silly option IMHO.
-a cached format can be determined now (eg: XML files named to match episode, with image file also matching, in a folder called “cache”)
-it can be populated with sample data for testing purposes. then you can figure out how to retrieve missing data from the GUI
-I would suggest someone to find (or write) an application that will download the cached meta data/images so someone can do this without requiring their Wii be online. We could (potentially) use the same format as some other media center app uses – someone will need to investigate and weigh the pros/cons
-don’t forget some effects (eg: lens flare, shadows, etc) can be done with GX. I personally don’t know how to do them, but this is a possible alternate to large images.
-that’s all I can think of for now.

[rodries]

boondoklife, do these screenshots represent actual features to be added? You have weather/phone/email icons, is it realistic to add those features? If so how do you intend to?

For episode descriptions, other info, and images, how are you proposing those be stored/retrieved/etc? I think the technical hurdles need to be addressed (and possibly coded) before we ask Sam M. to start adding new things to the GUI.

Regarding the menu/icons in a video to allow scaling, resizing, changing subs, audio stream, etc, I think that idea would need to be fleshed out (ie: how does changing each of these settings actually look like from a UI perspective) and then it could be implemented.

[rodries]

All I know is that there isn’t enough buffering on dvdnav over SMB for a pleasant experience (it’ll keep rebuffering every few seconds), so that option is disabled.

[rodries]

No. I have a USB ethernet adapter – there still isn’t sufficient buffering on dvdnav to enable DVD menus.

[rodries]

Yes you’re right.

[rodries]

Yes, change the subtitle and/or codepage.

[rodries]

Yes it’s by design. DVD menu support uses dvdnav, and dvdnav over SMB doesn’t buffer enough to be usable. So it’s disabled.

[rodries]

I can’t decompress that file for some reason.

[rodries]

New string:

msgid "Inactivity Shutdown"

msgstr ""

Changed strings:
“Backward” became “Skip Backward”
“Forward” became “Skip Forward”
“This directory contains more entries than the maximum allowed (2000). Not all entries will be visible.” became “This directory contains more entries than the maximum allowed. Not all entries will be visible.”
“This playlist contains more entries than the maximum allowed (2000). Not all entries will be visible.” became “This playlist contains more entries than the maximum allowed. Not all entries will be visible.”

Note that the changed strings have been updated in SVN for all language files already. Please work from those copies. http://wiimc.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/source/lang/

[rodries]

Great! I’ll take that off my to-do 😀

[rodries]

You can confirm MMS still works in 1.1.3? I saw a report that it doesn’t, but if at least one MMS URL works then it’s not a problem on WiiMC’s side. Please re-confirm for me. Thanks! 🙂

[rodries]

No, you don’t need a modchip. But newer Wiis don’t play anything.

But notice he’s saying commercial DVDs play fine – so you can rule some things out by that statement.

[rodries]

Perhaps you’re burning in the wrong format. Only ISO9660 is supported, not Joliet or UDF.

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