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Backdrop SkinAbout the Backdrop skinThe concept of this skin (as the name suggests ) is to display as much as possible of available backdrops (fanart). The skin uses very smooth and nice animations (menu's, facades, images and so on) to make use of the new MP1.2 possibilities. The skin will only display a limited amount of information on each screen to keep it as simple as possible (less is more). Navigation will follow a very strict schema so all screens work in the same way thus making it easy for new users. Hope you will enjoy this as much as I currently do And I forgot to mention one thing... the skin is fast. Switching back to basichome from another page is instant (less than one second) and this with full fanart support for all menu items The menu in basichome will automatically fade if a user is idle for five seconds. And then only the backdrop, time (and if media is played the now playing overlay) is shown. Turns the basichome into a screensaver This skin will only support MP1.2 and I will release the first version of this skin as soon as MP1.2 Beta is available. The skin is my first full HD (1920x1080) skin. This skin will only support MP1.2. The skin skin is developed for 1920x1080. Screen Shots
Installation1. Run the new MPEI installer tool and update the list from online location. Then choose CLR and follow the step by step wizard. 2. Enable the Infoservice plugin in MP Configuration to make RSS feed and weather to work. 3. Open MP configuration and set Backdrop as your skin if this is not already so. 4. In MP configuration make sure "Start with basichome.." option is selected. This is the only supported home menu. 5. In MP configuration make sure that MP-RSSTicker is disabled. 6. In MP configuration make sure that Fanart Handler plugin is enabled. Goto Configuration to edit the options for this plugin. Read the http://code.google.com/p/fanart-handler/wiki/UserGuide for more information on configuring the fanart handler plugin. 7. Run the menu editor. 8. (Optional) The installation zip file only contains a small number of images. To add images and get a higher experience from the skin add your own images to the "Animation\xx" subfolders ro the fanart handler folders. For example add TVSeries backdrops to the tvseries subfolder. ForumA sub-forum is located on the MediaPortal website. For up-to-date information and community support please use this forum. Credits
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