Ok so i have now encorperated a OSD that displays the song title, artist, album and chan number and name for 5 seconds at the start of each song.

I have updated the installer script so it should still be good to download as per the above link.

If you just want to update the xmonline.sh script here are the changes:
after:
[code]egrep "<artist>|<album>|<songtitle>|<channelnumber>|<channelname>" xmonlinesong.out | sed 's/<\/[a-z]*>//' | sed 's/^..<artist>/ Artist: /' | sed 's/^..<album>/ Album: /' | sed 's/^..<songtitle>/ Song Title: /' | sed 's/^..<channelnumber>/ Channel #: /' | sed 's/^..<channelname>/ Channel Name: /' >&2
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Add:
[code]
egrep "<artist>|<album>|<songtitle>|<channelnumber>|<channelname>" xmonlinesong.out | sed 's/<\/[a-z]*>//' | sed 's/^..<artist>/ Artist: /' | sed 's/^..<album>/ Album: /' | sed 's/^..<songtitle>/ Song Title: /' | sed 's/^..<channelnumber>/ Channel #: /' | sed 's/^..<channelname>/ Channel Name: /' > xmsongnow.out
Here=`cat /home/mythtv/.xmonline/xmsongnow.out`
sleep 10
Xdialog --rc-file /home/mythtv/.xmonline/bluebox.rc --left --title "XM Radio" --no-buttons --infobox "$Here" 800x200 5000
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Rocky,

Hey that sounds great! Am away from home at the moment but will try it out as soon as I get back!

Sounds like a fantastic addition!

Thanks for your efforts!

can someone help me out, it seems as if this replaced my games button, I have tried retrieving it, but to no avail, i'm still new at this so I may need specific instructions. I assume I just need to edit an xml file but i'm not sure which ones. Please & Thanks

hey np....edit the /usr/share/mythtv/library.xml

add the following wherever you would like the games to show up on your list:
<button>
<type>GAME</type>
<text>Play Games</text>
<text lang="IT">Giochi</text>
<text lang="ES">Juegos</text>
<text lang="CA">Jocs</text>
<text lang="NL">Spelen</text>
<text lang="FR">Jeux</text>
<text lang="DE">Spielen</text>
<text lang="DK">Spil</text>
<text lang="IS">Spila leiki</text>
<text lang="PT">Jogar</text>
<text lang="SV">Spela spel</text>
<text lang="JA">ã^²ã^üã^à</text>
<text lang="FI">Pelit</text>
<text lang="ZH_TW">é^Á^Êæ^Ȳ</text>
<text lang="SI">Igranje iger</text>
<text lang="ET">Mängud</text>
<text lang="NB">Spill</text>
<action>PLUGIN mythgame</action>
<depends>mythgame</depends>
</button>

hope that helps

Rocky,

Had to do a re-install to get it to work, and also had to make one change:

PLAYER="xine -Bphq -G 1920x1080 --no-splash

with the PLAYER="xine -Bphq -G 800x600 --no-splash it ran is a small window in the top left corner of the screen.

Works great!

Thanks

Glad you like it. one of my friends is also using hd resolution and suggested that i add an option to the installer for picking resolution. I think i will.

I have been looking at options on how to display the song info on the menu screen before you launch the player to make for fast browsing but can;t quite figure it out. If anyone has any suggestions it would be appreciated.

I just upgraded to version .20 of myth and of course the new install replaced all od the menus and the changes made by the XM install.

It is my understanding that myth .20 changed the way the menus are handled.

Will the current package also work on myth .20 without breaking anything?

Well i tried to upgrade to .20 myself and it broke the crap out of everything so i had to reinstall.

Since im too lazy to read through the 400 pasts on how to upgrade i was just waiting for another knoppmyth upgrade to get it but if you wanted to give me the low down on how to do it i will upgrade and make sure it is .20 compatable.

From R5D1 I just follow cecil's write up and it worked like a charm for me.

I tried that and ended up with my frontend not matching my backend and all of my themes fonts were huge.
I did exactly this:


followed by a reboot and kaboom

Are you running the front end and backend on different machines?

same machine

That is weird.

I did try just running the current script, but it did not work.

I had to do a restore to get things back to .20 so it looks like it will need some changes.

paste me the contents of the /usr/share/mythtv/library.xml so i can see the changes

I am not at my machine now, but will send as soon as I can.