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Re: Customizing VMC Menu (Solved)

admin — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 23:54:02 GMT

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Re: Customizing VMC Menu (Solved)

crzykidd — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 23:39:49 GMT

I am waiting for myDVD :)

Re: Customizing VMC Menu (Solved)

dgaust — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 23:24:40 GMT

You would, but who wants to use MyMovies :D

I used the app about to create a custom strip called video and have added all the video programs I have installed (myTV, mcorganizer, my trailers se and playmovie).

Then I disabled to Photos & Videos strip.

Re: Customizing VMC Menu (Solved)

crzykidd — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 23:13:05 GMT

Yes, but if I do that wont I loose the myMovies tile?

I think the aproach I am at now is making my own custom trip for the tiles my wife needs. I got a new one added called Main Menu, and I got the myTV Main and New Eps added. Now I am trying to find the info for adding myMovies. I cleaned up sports and all of that, so the number of stipes I have is low now.

Re: Customizing VMC Menu (Solved)

dgaust — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 22:17:10 GMT

You wouldn't need to customise the strip using the hack, you could use Advents MC Menu Customiser to drop the myTV app into the space where my movies is (to the left of the recorded tv tile).

That's what I've done.

Re: Customizing VMC Menu (Solved)

admin — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 18:35:38 GMT

I wonder if you could change the LiveTV or TV Guide tile to start myTV actually. Try replacing the AppId and EntryPointId with the values provided in another thread (can't be bothered to look them up right now :p)

Otherwise you could add myTV to the strip in place of, but not simultaneously as My Movies.

Re: Customizing VMC Menu (Solved)

crzykidd — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 18:14:38 GMT

So myMovies adds a custom icon for myMovies in the TV & Movies stirp. How can I add myTV here? This would make it perfect for being wife friendly.

Here is the xml from the dll for this section:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><uidescription platform="Television"

xmlns:home="http://schemas.microsoft.com/MediaCenter/ehshell/MediaCenter.Home"><home:App AppId="[TV]" Title="#SM.TV.Title"><home:PackageMarkupQuickLink ResourceProviderId="Spotlight" TitleId="2011" ImageBaseName="StartMenu.QuickLink.MoreTV" TargetPageId="2012" TrackingId="-201" ViewTemplate="QuickLinkView" AppId="[TV]" EntryPointId="[TVMorePartnersEP]" Priority="99"/><home:PartnerQuickLink ViewTemplate="QuickLinkView" AppId="[TV]" EntryPointId="[TVPartnerEP]" Priority="4"/><home:QuickLink Icon="SM.RecordedTV" Title="#SM.TV.RecordedTV" ViewTemplate="QuickLinkView" AppId="[TV]" EntryPointId="[TVRecordedTVEP]" Priority="0"/><home:QuickLink Icon="SM.Movies.Library" Title="#SM.Movies.Library" ViewTemplate="QuickLinkView" AppId="[TV]" EntryPointId="[MoviesLibraryEP]" Priority="5"/><home:QuickLink Icon="SM.TV.LiveTV" Title="#SM.TV.LiveTV" ViewTemplate="QuickLinkView" AppId="[TV]" EntryPointId="[TVLiveTVEP]" Priority="1"/><home:QuickLink Icon="SM.TV.Guide" Title="#SM.TV.Guide" ViewTemplate="QuickLinkView" AppId="[TV]" EntryPointId="[TVGuideEP]" Priority="2"/><home:QuickLink Icon="SM.Movies.OnTV" Title="#SM.Movies.OnTV" ViewTemplate="QuickLinkView" AppId="[TV]" EntryPointId="[MoviesOnTVEP]" Priority="6"/><home:PackageMarkupQuickLink ResourceProviderId="NetTV" TitleId="101" ImageBaseName="StartMenu.QuickLink.Browse.TV" TargetPage="BrowseHome.mcml" TrackingId="-200" ViewTemplate="QuickLinkView" AppId="[TV]" EntryPointId="[TVBrowseEP]" Priority="6"/><home:QuickLink Icon="SM.Movies.PlayDVD" Title="#SM.Movies.PlayDVD" ViewTemplate="QuickLinkView" AppId="[TV]" EntryPointId="[MoviesPlayDVDEP]" Priority="5"/><home:QuickLink Icon="SM.TV.Search" Title="#SM.TV.Search" ViewTemplate="QuickLinkView" AppId="[TV]" EntryPointId="[TVSearchEP]" Priority="3"/><home:QuickLink Icon="SM.TV.Setup" Title="#SM.TV.Setup" ViewTemplate="QuickLinkView" AppId="[TV]" EntryPointId="[TVSetupEP]" Priority="3"/></home:App></uidescription>

Re: Customizing VMC Menu (Solved)

jhoff80 — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 03:17:37 GMT

See the edit above, I was able to make it show three strips if there were multiple copies, and I assumed that'd work for a third strip. I hadn't actually installed the third strip to know for sure, but assuming we can make VMC recognize placeholder=2 as the third strip it might still be possible.

Re: Customizing VMC Menu (Solved)

dgaust — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 03:12:22 GMT

Where did you read that?

I did try changing it from 2 to 3, and then enabling 3 strips, but it only displayed 2 of them.

Re: Customizing VMC Menu (Solved)

jhoff80 — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 03:00:46 GMT

Another thing that might be useful to people here is that apparently you can change the max number of oem strips (for example, myTV, or myMovies, or BigScreen weather, etc.) to more than 2, using the Startmenu.xml

Edit: Unfortunately I was mistaken, you can make many copies of the same two start menu strips (I was able to make 3 myTV strips, for example) but VMC doesn't recognize OEMPlaceholderIndex ="2" to make it a third different strip.

Re: Customizing VMC Menu (Solved)

dgaust — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 23:14:16 GMT

Yeah, you needed an x64 version of resource tuner. Good that you found one.

I haven't played around with it as yet, but Advent (who made the MCE Menu Customiser) is working on updating it to make editing the menus a GUI.

Re: Customizing VMC Menu (Solved)

jhoff80 — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 22:52:21 GMT

I just went to try this and i got the message in resource tuner "This file has no resources." Maybe it doesn't work in x64?

Edit: Used a different program and it worked great, thanks.

Re: Customizing VMC Menu (Solved)

hansolo77 — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 08:09:06 GMT

Anybody have any idea how to add the Internet TV Beta button to the TV bar for my dad's Living Room HP machine? It's also missing the "Explore" option under the Online Media bar.

Re: Customizing VMC Menu (Solved)

aanda6 — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 22:27:01 GMT

Hi, i just found this method posted over at Australian Media Centre Forum. I wanted to thank you as this is perfect! I have finally been able to remove pictures from the strip, and have live tv appear as the first menu item.

Cheers,

aanda6

Re: Customizing VMC Menu (Solved)

crzykidd — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:07:11 GMT

Thanks for the post. I will give this a try tonight :) One step closer to making it Wife Friendly.