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Trickle style view.

Status: Unplanned
by ‎01-21-2011 11:48 PM - edited ‎03-13-2011 12:24 PM

It would be nice to be able to have a trickle style view like this. 

 

UPDATE:  Even though WD says that this is not possible, you can check this out HERE.   This is a work around, but gives you almost the same effect as the 1st view.  Now if WD would just allow pngs for the Cover Art, to display correctly (right now you have to save pngs, then manually change the extension of the png to jpg for it to show the transparency correctly (?????) I don't understand why this is, and pngs will not show up for "@@poster".  And allow pngs to be displayed as folder icons (with transparency), since right now folder icons will not display transparencies correctly no matter what and pngs will not display as folder icons.

 

NOW INTRODUCING THE ANODIZED TRICKLE THEME.  Get your Trickle on.

Gallery_trickle5.jpg

 

And if WD would change the way the gallery scrolls, from Linear to centered continous scrolling.

 

Trickle.jpg

 

or this

 

Trickle2.jpg

Status: Unplanned
Thanks for your idea. We love this style as well. Unfortunately,this type of on the fly graphic scaling isn't suitable/capable by the hardware platform that WD TV is running. It simply does not have the graphic engine to handle complicated task like this. And it is correct that it may even slow down the UI performance.
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by on ‎01-26-2011 10:52 AM
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That would be a fantastic enhancement. 

by on ‎01-29-2011 08:31 AM
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Agreed.
by on ‎02-01-2011 04:22 AM
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Agreed, that would be amazing!!!

by on ‎02-01-2011 11:08 PM
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I'd definately buy the unit then (if I wouldn't already have it :-)).

by on ‎02-10-2011 12:18 PM
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Agreed.

by on ‎02-11-2011 04:59 AM
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Agreed.

by ‎02-15-2011 01:45 AM - edited ‎02-15-2011 01:45 AM
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That would be nice

by ‎02-24-2011 02:13 PM - edited ‎02-24-2011 02:15 PM
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This would be excellent !!

 

Come on WD please stand up to the challenge!! Or at least comment whether the firmware is capable of this?

by on ‎02-26-2011 02:51 PM
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The firmware is NOT capable of it.   That's why it doesn't DO IT.  

 

I think what you're asking is if the HARDWARE is capable of it.   And I guarantee you that it IS.   It's got a microprocessor and can run any software someone cares to write for it.

 

But whether or not you'd LIKE it?   Doubtful.

 

It'd be as SLOW as molasses.   The processor isn't as powerful as it'd need to be to be able to manipulate all those image files in the amount of time the users would demand to have a seamless and quick UI.

 

So, I for one hope WD doesn't even spend time considering this.

by on ‎02-28-2011 02:40 PM
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Hi Tony

 

Thanks very much for the insight. I'm not a programmer of any sort so wasn't aware of the limititations, just thought it was worth asking!

 

 Ahh well not too worry, at least I can forget about the idea. :smileysad:

 

BTW may i thank you very much for your TVDB XML data fetcher, which I stumbled upon in this forum. Excellent work and very much appreciated!!

 

THANKS AGAIN.

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