Black Mamba Theme [ Edited ]

[BigRoo]

hi Dev,

Firstly your theme looks very cool.

Im trying to upload to my SMP like others have done but im getting an error

I downloaded the zip and extracted it.
Went into the "Black Mamba by DeVicious V1.0" folder then rezipped it as black Mamba.zip – then tried to upload via chrome and I'm getting error message "Invalid file please correct file".

What am i missing here?

Cheers in advance

[Rubicon99]

Hey BigRoo

Make sure your zip file doesnt include the top level directory i.e only zip the directories and files inside "Black Mamba by DeVicious V1.0.  

Was a mistake I made with another theme a while back.  By the way I'm on the SMP and using chrome as well.  Can confirm the theme works great.

Thanks Dev.

[DeVicious]

@ BigRoo

i wouldn't know a thing about SMP, if I hadn't googled it I wouldn't even know what it is lol

@ Rubicon.. thank you very much for helping me out here, I'll make you my SMP PR guy now :-)

[ritaben]

Sorry DeVicious but I have another question.

On the SMP at the Home screen the time & temperature (no icon) are show in the botton right hand corner of screen, but on other views they are shown either in the bottom right hand or top right hand of screen with an icon. Is this happening on the HUB also, if so can they be shown in the top right hand corner for all views.

Cheers

[mMcCorner]

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DeVicious wrote:

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The link works fine and has worked fine the entire time, probably you had an older upload in your browser cache. if the link still seems broken for you hit "ctrl & R" on a German keyboard this would be "STRG & R"

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 I don't understand what you mean by properties

those are regular JPG files 72dpi 240 x 366 pixels

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the download worked. the theme is great. thank you.

by the way, you're right. I am looking for the best resolution for display of the "cover art" / "album art" for CDs. The display is in "now playing" pixilated (artifacts?) Do not know the correct name in English. Perhaps you have a tip?
Maybe 300x300 72dpi or 240x240 better for a good Cover (high quality first).

[DeVicious]

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ritaben wrote:

Sorry DeVicious but I have another question.

On the SMP at the Home screen the time & temperature (no icon) are show in the botton right hand corner of screen, but on other views they are shown either in the bottom right hand or top right hand of screen with an icon. Is this happening on the HUB also, if so can they be shown in the top right hand corner for all views.

Cheers

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With the first update the start page will be interactive, include the games and rss and some other stuff. just bear with it for the moment, 2 weeks and this will look different

[DeVicious]

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the download worked. the theme is great. thank you.

by the way, you're right. I am looking for the best resolution for display of the "cover art" / "album art" for CDs. The display is in "now playing" pixilated (artifacts?) Do not know the correct name in English. Perhaps you have a tip?
Maybe 300x300 72dpi or 240x240 better for a good Cover (high quality first).

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the goal is to get the highest resolution possible, why stop at 300x300? :-), I wouldn't do anything as of yet since a friend of mine is working on a solution for Audio Covers

[nuraf]

Your theme definitely looks sexy Devicious! Thanks for all your hard work!

[BigRoo]

Thanks Rubicon.

I worked that out with some help from another  member here.

I put the image and screenshot folders and all the xml files in a zip file and uploaded via chrome. That part worked.

I deleted the wdtv folder from my USB HDD  and then went to the player itself.

I selected appearance and could see the black samba file there so i selected that and installed it.

I didnt get any noticeble change of appearance with the black backgrounds etc. The UI was still the stock looking one.

Although now when the player starts i get the normal "WD Live" splash screen and a few seconds later as its going through the start up process i get the "WD Live Hub" splash screen.  How do i get rid of that and why wouldnt the theme have changed?

Cheers 

[DeVicious]

BigRoo

again I wouldn't have a clue because I know absolutely nothing about your SMP device, may I suggest you look that up in the appropriate forum as i can only answer questions for the WDTV LiveHub or things that are related to the theme. Maybe Rubicon can help you in private message, as far as I can judge from the quick infos i gathered the installation process of the theme is completely different from the live hub. Sorry I can't help you a little bit here, i just don't know.