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@@ -101,6 +101,52 @@ In this example, as a dirty hack just create a folder in your channel logo direc With softhddevice as output plugin, use a Version newer than Revision f640ebde (0.5.1, 10.10.2012) to achieve a correct display of the screen resolution during channel switching. +EPG Search Integration +------------------------- +nOpacity fully supports the alternative "schedules" menus provided by the EPG search plugin +(schedules, what's on now, what's on next, search results, favorites and "user defined times" +menu). If using the EPG search menus, please set "replace original schedule" to "true", +parallel usage of the vanilla VDR schedules menu and the schedules menu provided by EPG +search (with a dedicated main menu entry) is not supported. Please keep also in mind that +changing the schedules display behaviour needs to restart vdr, because nOpacity reads the +EPGSearch config only once at startup. + +If you use the default settings to display the EPG search schedule menus (if the file +epgsearchmenu.conf is not available in the epgserarch plugin config directory), everything +should work rather well out of the box. Just set "show progress in now" to "true" to achieve a +correct display of the progress bar in the "what's on now" view. + +Beside using the default settings you can also set up your own epgsearchmenu.conf file to +control the information which is diplayed in the various menus. All tokens described in the +epgsearchmenu.conf file in the epgsearch plugin sources (subdirectory ./conf/) are supported. +For me these entries for the different menus showed the best result: + +MenuWhatsOnNow=%chlng%:4|%progrT2S%:5|%time%:8|%status%:3|%title%:15|%subtitle%:25 +MenuWhatsOnNext=%chlng%:4|%time%:8|%status%:8|%title%:15|%subtitle%:25 +MenuWhatsOnElse=%chlng%:4|%time%:8|%status%:8|%title%:15|%subtitle%:25 +MenuSchedule=%time%:8|%status%:8|%title%:15|%subtitle%:25 +MenuSearchResults=%chlng%:12|%time_w% %datesh%:6|%time%:6|%status%:2|%title%:15|%subtitle%:25 +MenuFavorites=%chlng%:4|%time%:8|%status%:8|%title%:15|%subtitle%:25 +WarEagleIcons=1 + +Per default EPG search provides the short channel name (%chsh%), which is different to the "regular" +channel name for some channels. If %chsh% is used, for those channels no channel logos are displayed +if they are not appropriately renamed. + +The order of the tokens in the different sections of the epgsearchmenu.conf is not relevant how the +information in displayed in the skin. In fact the skin displays the various tokens in the way that +each menu item is displayed in three lines: +line 1: date and time information, status information +line 2: title +line 3: subtitle (if available) + +The first line is created out of the following tokens (if set) in this order: +%time_d% %time_w% %date% %datesh% %time% %timespan% %status% %t_status% %v_status% %r_status% + +Display of reruns of a show in detailed EPG View: if activated in the setup menu, nOpacity displays +the reruns of a show via the EPG Search service interface in the detailed EPG view. + + Setup Options ------------- @@ -111,6 +157,10 @@ Setup Options * VDR menu: - Fade-In Time in ms (Zero for switching off fading): Default 300ms +- Scale Video size to fit into menu window: yaepg Patch needed +- Display Reruns in detailed EPG View: via epgsearch service +- Number of reruns to display: Default 5 +- Use Subtitle for reruns - Width of narrow Menu Bar (% of OSD Width): Width of menu bar for the main menu, schedules menu and channels menu. Default: 30%. - Width of Disc Usage and Timers Display (% of OSD Width): Default: 12% |