tomas.hylander at gmail
Mar 12, 2010, 1:31 PM
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Re: Video Backgrounds (Elkin Fricke)
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I've tried it but its mostly useful for "wait"-animations and other small
blips and not real video-backgrounds.
/Hylsan
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> Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:46:29 +0100
> From: Elkin Fricke <managementboy [at] gmail>
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-theming] Video Backgrounds
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> On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 10:33 AM, <dave [at] givemehelp> wrote:
> > I'm currently attempting to create my own theme,
> >
> > Is it possible to have video as a background like in these examples:
> >
> > http://www.dedoimedo.com/images/computers_new_2/xbmc-background.jpg
> >
> >
> http://www.zath.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/windows-7-media-center-menu-over-video.jpg
> >
> > I've been trailing through the wiki, list to find information on it and
> > the only hint I can find is a task for 0.24:
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> > http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/5763
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> > Which seems to suggest that this may be possible in the future?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Dave.
> >
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> Hi Dave,
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> not that I know of. You could use an animation of several files, but I
> have never tested if it works. I might do it tonight to see how it
> looks.
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> from the Wiki, you could use these tags for a background image:
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> <!-- Animation attributes (used instead of filename or gradient)-->
> <filepattern low="0" high="30"
> cycle="reverse">imagefile%1.png</filepattern>
> <delay>500</delay>
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> cheers,
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> Elkin
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