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| Topic: | LP's TSU9600 PackAndGo file. This thread has 39 replies. Displaying posts 31 through 40. |
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| Post 31 made on Tuesday May 6, 2008 at 14:18 |
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Wow this is some nice work.
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| Post 32 made on Monday October 20, 2008 at 08:23 |
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I've uploaded a new TSU9600 PackAndGo file this morning per the latest configuration file I'm using here at the house. It can be downloaded here. Enjoy!
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| Post 33 made on Monday February 23, 2009 at 14:13 |
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I've uploaded a new TSU9600 PackAndGo file today per the latest configuration file I'm using here at the house. Updates of note are to my DVD Juke and XM Radio activities. To learn more and to download said file hit up the first post in this thread which can be found here. Enjoy!
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| Post 34 made on Tuesday March 3, 2009 at 14:36 |
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Lowpro,
You inspired me to buy a TSU9600 to try and control my Sony 400disc changer as well. It's on order and hopefully I'll have it later this week. But in preparation for the remote and the DVD Juke, I also got the latest DVD Profiler software and started cataloging my collection in the player as you suggested. However, I can't figure out how to add the second blank disc for titles that have extra feature discs. My first problem came with the extended edition LotR trilogy boxes. The software recognized the disc and associated 3 other discs with each box. But it only gives one collection ID for the set. When I tried to enter the subsequent discs manually by inserting them into my PC they were recognized but I got an error when I tried to add it to my collection (hopefully as a new ID#) as it said they were already in my collection.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Wayne
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| Post 35 made on Tuesday March 3, 2009 at 22:36 |
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In order to add the additional discs for a given title, so that each disc has its own Collection ID you need to manually add them. This is done via the "Add by Title" tab. From this tab uncheck the box, "Download profile from Invelos" then fill in the title field and add the disc.
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| Post 36 made on Wednesday March 4, 2009 at 08:36 |
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That worked great, just what I was missing.
Thanks,
Wayne
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| Post 37 made on Wednesday March 4, 2009 at 12:18 |
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Lowpro
Are the bulk of your images .png or .jpg. JPG files should take less space then .png files. You can also alter the amount of (lossy) compression if you are willing to give up some quality. Jpg compression works by breaking the image up into 8 x 8 squares starting at the upper left corner. In each 8x8 square reduces the number of different colors in the 64 dots. For example if there are 2 red's and 2 light blue's that are very close to each other, the program reduces it to 1 red and 1 light blue, and marks both reds the same and both light blues the same. The more compression you ask for when doing the compression the more colors are removed and made the same. The trick is to reduce the number colors until it starts to show. Just consider that in the 64 dots they are all a shade of green, then reduce the number of shade's to 4 to 6. This would be a big compression without much change in color. If on the other hand the 64 colors are all over the rainbow, cutting the number of colors down to 4 to 6 could be very destructive. One way to help the compression when you are doing graphics over pictures is to reduce colors that do not matter as much. If your background is a blue gradient with pictures on the background. By changing the background to a solid "Single" color of blue, the compression will not waist any colors on several shades of blue. Each 64 bit square is considered separately when doing the compression.
I hope this helps.
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| Post 38 made on Wednesday March 4, 2009 at 18:38 |
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I use PNG images exclusively using the "Save for web..." option in Photoshop. Each are saved at the lowest color depth possible which still maintains what I'd consider acceptable image quality, so as to minimize the size of each image file which ends up getting downloaded to the remote as an end result. Only on rare occasion will I save an image as a 24-bit PNG for instance. These are cases where severe dithering would occur otherwise as seen in the remote. As for JPG images, when you insert a JPG image to your configuration file the editor converts it to a 24-bit bitmap. As such, it is not possible to take advantage of the JPG format as you've outlined as said JPG files never make it natively into the XCF, much less get downloaded to the remote. JPG support is nothing more than a "let me convert that to a (bloated) 24-bit bitmap for you" which is the last thing you want if you are concerned about utilizing the paltry 64 megs of memory in the remote in the most efficient manner possible. During the beta test of the editor prior to initial release I tested out the JPG support which as documented clearly gives the user the impression the file type is natively supported. As you can imagine, with the large number of image files in my XCF I was extremely excited per the space savings JPG images would provide. Didn't take me but a few test runs to discover what was actually happening sad to say. While true JPG support never came to be I was hoping at the very least the JPG support provided would be clearly defined in the documentation. It was not unfortunately.
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| Post 39 made on Thursday October 22, 2009 at 19:43 |
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LP's TSU9600 XM Radio Channel Logos:
For those interested my current XM Radio Logos are now available for download. The channel logos cover the compliment of XM's channel offerings as of June 2009. The graphics used were taken from the Channel Lineup PDF document posted at XM's website while at 225% zoom in Adobe Reader. Screenshots taken from my TSU9600 configuration file are available below for your viewing pleasure. Enjoy!
XM Radio Favorites: 01, 02
XM Radio Music: 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10
XM Radio News: 01, 02, 03
XM Radio Sports: 01, 02, 03
XM Radio More: 01, 02, 03, 04
XM Radio Keypad: 01
Per these channel logos...
The surrounding part of each button is actually a panel using a PNG transparency. The actual buttons containing each channel logo do not use a PNG transparency and are positioned on top of their respective background panels as seen here. This method allowed for quite a substantial savings in memory once downloaded to the remote as only the background panel which is used to visually make up the surrounding part of each button had to be saved as a 24-bit PNG to retain a clean PNG transparency. The actual graphics used for each channel logo could then be saved at a much lower color depth reducing the file size of each significantly.
Additional notes:
The below download link is to a stripped down version of my TSU9600 XM Radio activity in XCF format (PEP v1.1.20) which was then zipped. The XCF contains a device used solely to store buttons which contain learned IR codes for the Polk XRt12 XM Reference Tuner. The rest of the XCF in turn references those IR code buttons as needed. As such, if you intend on opening this XCF in PEP 2 while retaining the IR codes and action lists referencing those IR codes you must first open the file in PEP v1.1.20, then saving the device containing the IR code buttons to "My Database". From there you simply need to update the action list of each IR code button to reference the same IR code from "My Database" instead. At that point you'll be able to open the XCF in PEP 2 retaining the IR codes. I don't use PEP 2 otherwise I would have taken these steps already. Of course if you are downloading the XCF for the graphics only it doesn't matter.
[Download File (1.03 MB)]
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| Post 40 made on Tuesday November 3, 2009 at 20:06 |
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A stripped-down version of my XM Radio activity is now available for download.
For more details and to download see Post 39 of this thread. Enjoy!
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