Hyperspin with movies

[Aabra]

Hey everybody.  Since this is my first post over here I thought I'd do something a little cooler than the usual hello.  I managed to configure Videolan to work beautifully in Hyperspin so I got this crazy idea.... and these are the results so far. 

I hope you enjoy it.  I'm curious as to why I've never seen this type of thing done in other video-supporting front ends.  I'm sure it's possible. 

Weird... the youtube tags cause errors and posting just the link without tags makes it work! 

[georgemcfly]

So you could use a wallpaper and the trailer from the movie to make that?
How hard is it to make themes for someone with no flash exp?

[billpa]

You dont need to have any Flash experience. It helps if you know how to cut out an image with Photoshop or Gimp. But all of the layout and animation is done in HyperTheme which is a simple to use program. It even shows a preview of what your theme will look like while you build it.

[Aabra]

Yeah, I honestly didn't spend a lot of time on each theme here.  (Which is why they don't really compare to most Hyperspin themes.)  Mostly because if I plan on making them for all my movies then I've got a long way to go.  It's not like mame games where if you make one theme it'll help everybody.  These are for me, and maybe a select few other people.

The basic steps involve downloading the movie trailer - typically the high quality quicktime one from apple's website.  I then use Adobe Premier to cut out the annoying 5 second long green preview image from the beginning of each trailer because.... it annoys me.  (This step is optional of course.)  I then use UltraFLV to convert the trailer to flv file.

After that I go to http://www.moviewallpapers.net/ - pick out a nice wallpaper, use photoshop to cut out a wheel image and maybe make any appropriate changes to the wallpaper.... slap it all together in Hypertheme and I'm away to the races.

[mcfreak]

Yeah, I honestly didn't spend a lot of time on each theme here.  (Which is why they don't really compare to most Hyperspin themes.)  Mostly because if I plan on making them for all my movies then I've got a long way to go.  It's not like mame games where if you make one theme it'll help everybody.  These are for me, and maybe a select few other people.

The basic steps involve downloading the movie trailer - typically the high quality quicktime one from apple's website.  I then use Adobe Premier to cut out the annoying 5 second long green preview image from the beginning of each trailer because.... it annoys me.  (This step is optional of course.)  I then use UltraFLV to convert the trailer to flv file.

After that I go to http://www.moviewallpapers.net/ - pick out a nice wallpaper, use photoshop to cut out a wheel image and maybe make any appropriate changes to the wallpaper.... slap it all together in Hypertheme and I'm away to the races.

... and then I package it all up and upload it to newsgroups so that everyone can steal my awesome work...

Seriously,  this looks great and would be a slick little frontend on a movies only HTPC.

[Aabra]

Well, my plan is to actually make this a sweet Xmas present for my parents.  I figure if I do 1 or 2 themes every day then I can get it up to 100 or so movies.  Buy them an external HD, a wireless gamepad to control it all, and the cables to connect my mother's PC to the gigantic TV they've got.  Should be pretty cool no?

Of course, I also plan on keeping it all for myself as well!  I'll also make a torrent of all my themes once I've got a bunch.  (Complete with edited trailer videos.)

[mcfreak]

You should get a Windows Media Center remote/Keyboard.  They are wireless and send keyboard commands to the PC.  I think that would be a better approach than the gamepad/

[Necro]

(Apologies if this comes across 'harsh' trying not to be but not sure how to word it another way)

The reason this hasn't been done is because a ton of media based front ends already exist that do similar things, and are partially automated (in the least) in the way that they do it.  Meedio/Meedios is the one I use.  XBMC is another.  There's one on Linuz that I compltely forget the name of.

I can enter 100 movies into Meedios in about...an hour. 

Now, biggest thing that's different would be the immediate showing of the preview and the wheel.  But, for a media PC that's interfacing to your home theatre setup, and going to be used by many people, I find something more menu driven and simple is better.

[pinballwizard79]

This is pretty cool.

I scored all 190 Three Stooges episodes on 40 DVD's a few years ago from a UK seller.

One of my previous arcades had all the episodes loaded & thats what I am going to do again but as a winter project on a day when the roads are too snowed over to drive into work (yay!).

Hyperspin looks so cool, I like it.

[Singapura]

I scored all 190 Three Stooges episodes on 40 DVD's a few years ago from a UK seller.

One of my previous arcades had all the episodes loaded & thats what I am going to do again but as a winter project on a day when the roads are too snowed over to drive into work (yay!).

Would you believe that I've never seen a Three Stooges episode? Also, when the roads here snow over, I'll have time to see a few