Doesn't indicate whether it has a "Learning" mode...

As I said, be wary....

Personally I use the Harmony 650 which list price is £80 but you can find it for half that online (Amazon/Ebay/Etc).

It does all the macro stuff and charges through a mini-usb (like most phones/kindle/etc) and therefore you don't have the issue with the kids stealing batteries.

The advantage of the screens is the "help" function when things get out of sync it can walk you through turning things back on/off so you are all in sync again.

I have nearly completed my "GregiBoy" update for YAMJ with new layout of data and graphics. Andy has been testing the code and it all seems to work fine.

I thought a good addition to this is to provide some alternate skins have put together a preview of some that I have prepared and are nearly ready.

These will appear dark on a computer screen compared to the player and are best viewed as a photo on the player for comment. I have to get the colour balance and lightness correct before publishing so I'd appreciate any comments so please spend the time to have a look.

I have named them for easy reference.

I have used the "Movie Information" screen as an example but the background is reflected across all other YAMJ pages.

This is the one based on the standard ACR stuff:-



This is "Space Fire":-



This is "Moon Water":-



This is "Royal Ripples":-



And this is "Hubble Bubble":-



I have also put together an animation of this for when YAMJ is loading or busy and it appears in the right position of the screens.



I hope you all take some time to have a look and all comments will be gratefully received.

Like the skins Greg
Nice job - looks like we'll get the Jukebox sorted out once and for all
I'm working on where to display the seventh category - the on with 'New' etc in it
Andy

Yeah, I suppose I'm being cynical but ACR could have done this ages ago or are their developers not up to the task? I think not!!!

When I get my contribution all together, I may call on you to put together the installation instructions if you don't mind, me still being a Linux Noob.

On the "New" catgory, I suppose logically the popup should be displayed on the bottom LH corner of the screen.

If you want a hand with anything. let me know.

Greg

Here's a preview of the "Movie Information" page:-

wow very impressive nice work

Hi Andy,

I was just putting together my package and decided to do some checking and I have found what I feel is an inconsistency with one of the filters. When you go to the "Year" filter, the split up is in decades eg: 1990-1999, 2000-2009 until it reaches 2010 when it is then 2010-2010 and then Last Year, This Year. When the 2010-2010 filter is applied, only the title in 2010 show.

To me this should be 2010-Now or 2010-[Blank] followed by Last Year then This Year and all titles from 2010-Now should show..

Do you agree?

Also I am getting some bad inconsistencies on what is actually written by YAMJ in the XML files for the Audio Details compared with what MediaInfo shows and what actually the case.

maybe Stuart needs to have a look at it?

I'll use and example to illustrate (I have plenty of others, every title):-

War of the Worlds (I encoded this from the DVD so I knew what tracks are there and that was how I noticed it)

MediaInfo reports (Totally correctly)

Audio #1
ID : 2
Format : AC-3
Format/Info : Audio Coding 3
Mode extension : CM (complete main)
Format settings, Endianness : Big
Codec ID : A_AC3
Duration : 1h 51mn
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 448 Kbps
Channel(s) : 6 channels
Channel positions : Front: L C R, Side: L R, LFE
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth : 16 bits
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 358 MiB (14%)
Language : English
Default : Yes
Forced : No

Audio #2
ID : 3
Format : DTS
Format/Info : Digital Theater Systems
Codec ID : A_DTS
Duration : 1h 51mn
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 755 Kbps
Channel(s) : 6 channels
Channel positions : Front: L C R, Side: L R, LFE
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth : 24 bits
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 603 MiB (23%)
Language : English
Default : No
Forced : No

YAMJ writes this in the XML which shows 3 audio tracks and is totally incorrect

<audioCodec>AC3 (en) / DTS (en) / AC3</audioCodec>
<codecs>
<audio count="3">
<codec bitrate="448" channels="6" codecId="A_AC3" codecIdHint="UNKNOWN" format="AC-3"
formatProfile="UNKNOWN"
formatVersion="UNKNOWN"
language="en"
langugageFull="English">AC3</codec>
<codec bitrate="754" channels="6" codecId="A_DTS" codecIdHint="UNKNOWN" format="DTS"
formatProfile="UNKNOWN"
formatVersion="UNKNOWN"
language="en"
langugageFull="English">DTS</codec>
<codec bitrate="UNKNOWN" channels="6" codecId="UNKNOWN" codecIdHint="UNKNOWN"
format="UNKNOWN"
formatProfile="UNKNOWN"
formatVersion="UNKNOWN"
language="UNKNOWN"
langugageFull="UNKNOWN">AC3</codec> </audio>

And this also:-
<audioChannels>6 / 6 / 6</audioChannels>

I am using exactly the same version of MediaInfo GUI and MediaInfo CLI installed in YAMJ.

This is a Y2K bug. You should have indexes for decades 1990-2000, 2001-2010, last year, this year

I suspect that the indexes haven't rolled over correctly, you should try setting "forceIndexOverwrite=true" to change the indexes

Thanks Big O.

Will give that a go tomorrow...

I've got another small problem trying to get my animated popup working.

<idleImage> /usr/local/etc/loading/POPUP_LOADING_01.fsp </idleImage>
<idleImage> /usr/local/etc/loading/POPUP_LOADING_02.fsp </idleImage>
<idleImage> /usr/local/etc/loading/POPUP_LOADING_03.fsp </idleImage>
<idleImage> /usr/local/etc/loading/POPUP_LOADING_04.fsp </idleImage>
<idleImage> /usr/local/etc/loading/POPUP_LOADING_05.fsp </idleImage>
<idleImage> /usr/local/etc/loading/POPUP_LOADING_06.fsp </idleImage>
<idleImage> /usr/local/etc/loading/POPUP_LOADING_07.fsp </idleImage>
<idleImage> /usr/local/etc/loading/POPUP_LOADING_08.fsp </idleImage>

What have I got wrong in the syntax here?