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Customizing, Skin Setup Options

Last edited by Manuel Reimer

General Options (only non self-explanatory options are described)

  • Font: Used Font, all Fonts installed on your system are shown

VDR menu: Common Settings:

  • Create Log Messages for image loading: show log message for each image loading process. Usefull
    for debugging, but causes many log entries
  • Number of Default Menu Entries: Number of menu items for the default menu view.
  • Adjust Font Size - Default Menu Item
  • Adjustment of narrow menus: the narrow menus (main, schedules, channels, timers,
    setup) can either be adjusted left or right.
  • Scale Video size to fit into menu window: no / yes / auto: with “auto” the video window is resized
    when the detailed EPG Window is displayed in Schedules and Recordings menu to be completely visible.
  • Header Height (% of OSD Height): Default: 7%
  • Header Icon Size (Square Header Menu Icons)
  • Footer Height (% of OSD Height): Default: 7%
  • Rounded Corners for menu items and buttons
    • Radius of rounded corners: if rounded corners are used, radius in px.
  • Use Channel Logo background: display theme specific background (clrMenuChannelLogoBack) for channel
    logos in menus what’s on now / next, channels, timers
  • Fade-In Time in ms (Zero for switching off fading): Default 0, active fading
    for main menu caused sometimes trouble in some special setups. Activate on
    own risk ;)
  • Menu Items Scroll Style: “Carriage Return” after scrolling is complete, or “Forward and Back again”
  • Menu Items Scrolling Speed
  • Menu Items Scrolling Delay in s: period which menu element has to be selected
    till scrolling starts
  • Adjust Font Size - Header
  • Adjust Font Size - Date
  • Adjust Font Size - Color Buttons: Font for color buttons
  • Adjust Font Size - Messages
  • Adjust Font Size - Detail View Text: Font for detailed EPG & recordings view text
  • Adjust Font Size - Detail View Header: Font for Header date/time and short text
  • Adjust Font Size - Detail View Header Large: Font for detailed EPG & recordings
    view title

VDR Menu: Main and Setup Menu

  • Use narrow main menu: display main menu in narrow or standard style
    • Width (Percent of OSD Width): if displayed narrow, width of this menu
  • Use narrow setup menu: display setup menu in narrow or standard style
    • Width (Percent of OSD Width): if displayed narrow, width of this menu
  • Number of entires per page: number of menu items shown per screen
  • Use menu icons: yes/no
  • Main menu title style: way how VDR version in menu header is displayed:
    “VDR” plus VDR version, only VDR version, no title
  • Display Disk Usage: Display Disk Usage in Main Menu
    • Size (square, Percent of OSD Width)
    • Free Disc Display: free time in hours (estimated) or free disc space in GB
    • Adjust Font Size - free
    • Adjust Font Size - percent
  • Display Timers: Display active Timers in Main Menu: “yes”, “small without channel
    logos”, “no”
    • Maximum number of timers to show in main menu
    • Width of Timers (% of OSD Width)
    • Width of channel logos (% of timers width)
    • Adjust Font Size - Header
    • Adjust Font Size - Title
  • Show Timer Conflicts
  • Header Logo Width / Height: Header Logo is scaled to fit into the header, these
    values are used for correct scaling
  • Adjust Font Size - Menu Items

VDR Menu: Schedules Menu

  • Use narrow menu: display menu in narrow or standard style
    • Width (Percent of OSD Width): if displayed narrow, width of this menu
  • Number of entires per page
  • Mode of EPG Window: “small window” with settings for fade in and scroll speed / delay
    or “full screen”
  • EPG Window Fade-In Time in ms (Zero for switching off fading)
  • EPG Window Display Delay in s: period which schedules menu element has to be
    selected till fade in of epg window starts
  • EPG Window Scroll Delay in s: period which epg window has to be opened till
    window text starts to scroll
  • Height of EPG Info Window (Percent of OSD Height): Height of text window which
    is shown for schedules menu elements
  • Border around detailed EPG view: border to be displayed in detailed EPG view
  • Display Reruns in detailed EPG View: via epgsearch service
    • Number of reruns to display: Default 5
    • Use Subtitle for reruns
  • Display additional EPG Pictures in detailed EPG View: if set to yes, additional
    EPG pictures will be shown at the end of the detailed EPG view. The pictures have
    to be named as eventid_number.jpg with number from 1 to 9.
    • Number of EPG pictures to display
  • Detail EPG View EPG Image Width: Default 210px
  • Detail EPG View EPG Image Height: Default 160px
  • Detail EPG View additional EPG Image Width: Default: 525 px
  • Detail EPG View additional EPG Image Height: Default: 400 px
  • Adjust Font Size - Menu Item
  • Adjust Font Size - Menu Item Small
  • Adjust Font Size - EPG Info Window
  • Adjust Font Size - EPG Info Window Header

VDR Menu: Channels Menu

  • Use narrow menu: display menu in narrow or standard style
    • Width (Percent of OSD Width): if displayed narrow, width of this menu
  • Menu Items display mode: Transponder Information / Current Schedule / None
    • If “Current Schedule”: Schedules with time information
  • Number of EPG Entries in Schedules Info Window
  • Adjust Font Size - Menu Item
  • Adjust Font Size - Menu Item Small

VDR Menu: Timers Menu

  • Use narrow menu: display menu in narrow or standard style
    • Width (Percent of OSD Width): if displayed narrow, width of this menu
  • Adjust Font Size - Menu Item
  • Adjust Font Size - Menu Item Small

VDR Menu: Recordings Menu

  • Use narrow menu: display menu in narrow or standard style
    • Width (Percent of OSD Width): if displayed narrow, width of this menu
  • Number of entires per page
  • Mode of recording Window: window / full screen
  • Border around detailed recording view: analogue to “detailed EPG Info”
  • Display additional EPG Pictures in detailed recording View: if set to yes, additional
    pictures will be shown at the end of the detailed recording view. All jpegs in the
    recording directory will be used.
    • Number of EPG pictures to display
  • Use folder poster if available: use folder poster provided by tvscraper
  • Width / Height of manually set recording poster: used for correct scaling
  • Adjust Font Size - Menu Item
  • Adjust Font Size - Menu Item Small

Channel Switching:

  • Fade-In Time in ms (Zero for switching off fading): Default 300ms
  • Height of Channel Display (% of OSD Height): Default 25%
  • Left & Right Border Width: Default 15px
  • Bottom Border Height: Default 15px
  • Background Transparency in Percent: for graphical themes, sets transparency of background
  • Background Style: only for non graphical themes, transparent logo background or not
  • Channel Logo Position: left / right / do not display. If set to “do not display”,
    the whole screen width is used for channel display.
    • Channel Logo original Width: Default 260px (used for correct scaling)
    • Channel Logo original Height: Default 200px (used for correct scaling)
    • Use Channel Logo background: use theme specific image (skinElements/channellogoback.png)
      as backgrond image for channel logos
  • Kind of time display for current schedule: elapsed or remaining time
  • Display Source Information: display Channel Source Information (used Satelite)
  • Display Signal Strength & Quality: Set this to Zero if you want to disable the
    display of signal strength & quality (for instance if your dvb drivers does not
    deliver this values)
  • Display Poster or Fanart from TVScraper
    • Border in px around poster / fanart
  • Display previous and next Channel Group
  • Adjust Font Size - Header: Font for Channel / Channelgroup Name
  • Adjust Font Size - Date
  • Adjust Font Size - EPG Text
  • Adjust Font Size - EPG Infotext
  • Adjust Font Size - Channel Source Info
  • Adjust Font Size - Channel Group
  • Adjust Font Size - Next/Prev Channel Group

Replay:

  • Fade-In Time in ms (Zero for switching off fading)
  • Height of Replay Display (% of OSD Height)
  • Left & Right Border Width
  • Bottom Border Height
  • Adjust Font Size - Header
  • Adjust Font Size - Text

Audio Tracks:

  • Fade-In Time in ms (Zero for switching off fading)
  • Width of Tracks Display (% of OSD Height)
  • Height of Tracks Display (% of OSD Height)
  • Position (0: bot. center, 1: bot. left, … , 7: bot. right): The following
    positions are possible, starting at bottom middle:
    0: bottom center
    1: bottom left
    2: middle left
    3: top left
    4: top middle
    5: top right
    6: middle right
    7: bottom right
  • Border Top / Bottom
  • Border Left / Right
  • Adjust Font Size - Header
  • Adjust Font Size - Buttons

Messages:

  • Fade-In Time in ms (Zero for switching off fading): Default 300ms
  • Width of Message Display (% of OSD Height): Default 90%
  • Height of Message Display (% of OSD Height): Default 10%
  • Bottom Border Height: Default 10px
    Remark: with different sizes and a large value for the bottom border height you
    are able to achieve a positioning for the messages box analogue to the positioning
    of the audio tracks display.
  • Adjust Font Size

Volume Display:

  • Fade-In Time in ms (Zero for switching off fading): Default 300ms
  • Width of Volume Display (% of OSD Height): Default 40%
  • Height of Volume Display (% of OSD Height): Default 10%
  • Bottom Border Height: Default 10px
    Remark: the volume display is always positioned in the center of the screen,
    with bottom border it can be moved to the top.
  • Adjust Font Size

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