Folder View annoyance [ Edited ]

[nXtIak]

So I just got my WD TV LIVE Streaming 2011 new model today.

I have a 15TB unRAID NAS that I store all my stuff in, I used my old WD TV LIVE PLUS to watch videos from it. Works great. I only use folder.jpg in each movie folder to show thumbnail art.

Got the WD TV Live since I wanted the new UI and possible speed improvements.

I like how it saves the last viewed network share, so when I select Videos from the main menu, it shows my NAS without me having to choose Server, select my server, then connect etc like the old WDTVLIVE+.

One thing that irks me is the VIEWs.
The old WD TV Live PLUS looks like this:

Now the new WD TV Live Streaming looks like this: 

Ughhh... soo ugly.

Hopefully WD fixes the metadata ability for items stored on a nas/network share, then the white boxes will be filled with information and I won't be as grumpy.

Buuuuttt... they should add a new view for JUST the FOLDER coverart!

[TonyPh12345]

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nXtIak wrote:

Buuuuttt... they should add a new view for JUST the FOLDER coverart!

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That's what custom themes are for.   

[mostlyharmless]

I'm with the OP on this one...

I would like to customize the theme to act a little differently, and a little more like the Plus.

What I would really like to do is modify the stock theme itself, however I do not see how to get a copy of the stock theme for the wd tv live streaming media player so I can modify it....

I see the one for the wd live hub... 

Also I see in other threads the tv live streaming has limited capacity for storing themes, if I add a usb stick, will it use that to store the themes I want to upload to it so I can mess with customized theming. 

[TonyPh12345]

You can get the stock theme out of the GPL package.

http://support.wdc.com/product/download.asp?groupid=1011&sid=161&lang=en

[nXtIak]

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That's what custom themes are for.   

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I just got this. I don't see anywhere to get themes, and the theme option on the WD TV LIVE only shows 1 (the current installed default one), I don't see anywhere to get new themes.

I'm already spending a lot of time using the WDTV meta data windows program some people have made in the live hub forum to get my stuff on my NAS to show up correctly with it's metadata, I don't have time or care to learn how to make/modify themes..... anyways just saying.. WD took a step backwards with this one.

[Pecker]

I agree, that's not too good.

One other thing I don't care for with the old version which appears to have passed forward to this is that the highlighting of the selected item isn't very clear.

As in your pics,on the old WD the item selected has a thin blue border, whilst on the new model it appears to be orange, but if anything even thinner and less noticeable.

It'd be nice if the folder image of the highlighted item could be normal brightness and all the other images dimmed, and/or the selected folder could do to 'pop out' and become a little larger.

Steve W

[Noki388]

Sorry for bumping this thread. I agree with the OP on this and wanted to know what the best way of getting a similar folder view to the old GUI. Noticed on some of the user themes they had changed the galley view to achieve this. Is it possible to do easily without making any other changes to the default GUI.

[TonyPh12345]

Sure it's possible.

In fact, I've done it. 

[Pecker]

That's better!

How did you do that?  Difficult?

Steve W

[Noki388]

Yes Yes Yes,

Please please please share