[20 October 2010] C-200/A-200 NMJ UI PREVIEW (under development)

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(04-15-2010 05:02 PM)Specter Wrote:  Ok after watching the video many times i think it just looks ok, its an improvement but not something that trumps YAMJ in functionality. Maybe its coming later but until the video part of the GUI can scroll the entire page of movies using "page up' and "page down" ill be sticking o YAMJ.

Its great and all but when the movies are grouped in text entry format P-R thats a ton of movies and i do no think i will sit here and watch someone scroll through each movie one at a time, granted that they can see about 4 covers in the coulomb a wall view of my YAMJ setup shows 21 covers at once while in the P section.

Searching is great to use if you know what you want to watch because you can go directly to it but when someone is browsing to see whats there to watch this can becoming pretty tiring after passing the 0-9 category.

Hopefully there is a wall view option that acts just like the default YAMJ interface with page up and page down commands, pressing "menu" can bring up the menus for "0-9 and A-Z, categories and genres". Let the intilitext buttons still cycle through the modes like they do now "that part i do like, they got it right"

Again to sum it up my major gripe is that, using this GUI it has the ability to show 36 posters at once at a decent size and does it smoothly. But the handling when there is a large collection looks cumbersome. Hopefully im wrong and a wall view is coming

Oh, BTW, awesome job on using all space possible, Its great to see 1920x1080 in full use.

I've been anticipating the new GUI for a *LONG* time. I had high hopes for the new interface, but I agree with you here. I think the vertical scrolling will be too long with the single scrolling. I'd prefer a movie "wall" with just a bunch of covers, A-Z with pgup/pgdwn control.

I'd love for the ability to customize cover art & info via "folder.jpg" or "movie.txt" or similar format, since IMBD might not be able to scrape everything correctly.

I'll hold my negative comments back until I actually try out the new interface, but I was hoping for a more streamlined and built-in XBMC type interface without the need for a PC. I know this interface shouldn't require a PC from the looks of it, but the way my media is setup, I don't think it'll work well.