Re: xPLMediaNet - MVP Menus - Is this a good idea

["Rob Lamb" <those@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tony,

sounds good to me. Looking forward to the MVP device..... DId you
have any luck with the bitmap graphics? If I can help in anyway just
ask.

Rob

--- In ukha_xpl@xxxxxxx, "Tony Tofts" <tony@x> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Any opinions on this please?
>
> The MVP menus are slow to generate because they have to go thru a
number of
> processing stages to get to a suitable format for the MVP
>
> I'm thinking that on fixed skins (that's any skin that isn't
background.bmp)
> xplmedianet could look for a .mvp extension before a .bmp.
This .mvp would
> be a fully compressed and ready to send image.... If it doesn't
find a .mvp
> then when it has finished preparing the bmp it will send it to the
mvp and
> then create a .mvp ready for next time...
>
> This should vastly improve the performance of fixed skin menus?
>
> It doesn't help with the movie thumbnail rendering, but this
should be
> somewhat improved over xplrionet, since there is a 'thumbs'
scanner you can
> run that pre-creates the images for the menu system to use.
>
> Thoughts please?
>
> Many thanks
> Tony