removing images from MFS

[Ego]

Greetings:

My apologies if this has been talked about before, but I couldn't find much information with searching. I have two HDVR2's, and have TiVoWeb/telnet/ftp/etc installed. I've noticed over the past year of owning these things, that slowly, the big, bright, intense blue directv logo in the upper-left corner of the 'Now Showing' menu is starting to burn into my TV (and no, I don't leave it on the now-showing list for no reason, I only go in there to pick a show, delete a show, etc). I'd LOVE to get rid of that image from MFS, but I haven't a clue how to do that. Could anyone offer a quick and painless TCL script that does this? I believe the image in question is as follows (on an HDVR2 anyways):

/Resource/Image/DirecTVBannerLogo.1

Many thanks for any help.

Regards,

Chris

[TheWickedPriest]

This image is actually incorporated into the background MPEG clips: DIRECTV_Blue.mpv, DIRECTV_BluePlusTiVo.mpv, etc. -- all the DIRECTV_*.mpv clips except the ones that say "NoBrand". I haven't tried replacing these yet, but that would be the way to go. (You might just copy the "NoBrand" versions over the branded ones.)

I don't know where, or if, /Resource/Image/DirecTVBannerLogo.1 is used.

[Ego]

Originally posted by TheWickedPriest
This image is actually incorporated into the background MPEG clips: DIRECTV_Blue.mpv, DIRECTV_BluePlusTiVo.mpv, etc. -- all the DIRECTV_*.mpv clips except the ones that say "NoBrand". I haven't tried replacing these yet, but that would be the way to go. (You might just copy the "NoBrand" versions over the branded ones.)

I don't know where, or if, /Resource/Image/DirecTVBannerLogo.1 is used.

Thanks a bunch! This is definitely on the right track. It makes sense that its an mpeg, not just a png, since there is motion in that image. Anyways, how does one go about replacing or deleting? Can it be done through TiVoWeb (I don't see an obvious way), or does one need to write a TCL script to do so? If so, is there a "model" script I can work from? My TCL scripting abilities are next-to-zilch, but I'm skilled in shell scripting, so I tend to learn new scripting languages quickly.

Thanks for the help!

[havanahjoe]

I removed the background videos from all the menus in my HDVR2 (I like to keep my TV behind all the menus and it also makes it a little faster). To do it I just used what I learned from alphawolf's script (made for Series 1 DTiVos). What you need is a list of the files, you can do this in tivosh and then running

mls /Resource/VideoClip

Then get ahold of the file dbset.tcl (included in alphawolf's zip) and then run

dbset.tcl /Resource/VideoClip/DirectvBlue.mpv:8192:1024:2400 File 0

Replace the whole DirectvBlue.mpv:8192:1024:2400 with each entry from the mls list that you want to delete.

Better make sure you have a backup in case you want to restore everything to the way it was.

Now, if you want to replace the backup with someone else, then you would need to findout the fsid of the video you want, and instead of File 0 use File fsid of the video.

I don't know how to insert a video into mfs in order to do this. But I'm thinking that the best thing to prevent burn-in on your plasma is to remove all of these static images that will damage it in time.

Hope this helps!

[Ego]

Wow, this is EXACTLY what I needed! Thank you! I'll give it a shot in the morning, with any luck, the burn-in will stop, and I can start trying to reverse the process (I've heard from numerous people that playing all static for hours on-end will help, and it has helped a little so far).

Thanks again!

[Ego]

well, I gave this a shot. Got rid of all the "obvious" sounding ones in /Resource/VideoClip. That didn't solve the problem of the blue directv logo, but it got rid of the background (ie, leaving live-tv running as the background) when going from Live TV to the TiVo central menu (but NOT when going to the Now Showing screen.

So, my next question would logically be then, how do I go about determining what to toggle with dbset? I've browsed through MFS through TiVoWeb, and most of it is greek to me, so I haven't a clue what to look for, and even if I did, I don't know what's dangerous to delete (Yes, I have a backup, but still).

So, any advice on seeking out these buggers, would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks for all the help, I REALLY appreciate it all of you.

Regards,

Chris

[havanahjoe]

I don't remember exactly which ones I removed, but since you've already got a backup, just keep removing all of them there. I removed most of them one by one, checking now playing each time until that background was gone. So keep trying.

Good luck

[Ego]

I removed all of the ones in /Resource/VideoClip, and nothin', the only thing that's happened is the removal of the background of TiVo Central. I see no other changes throughout the system (and yes, I did a resource update with tivoweb, and several reboots). Is there something else I need to do to flush out cache somewhere?

Thanks,

Chris

[FredThompson]

@havanahjoe,

where is the post by AlphaWolf you mentioned?

[dodgeitdeal]

I POSTED THE QUESTION AND I GOT THE HELP I WANTED THANKS EVERYONE
HAve Found a way to do it check out the help i got from JAIME OVER HERE

http://www.dealdatabase.com/forum/showthread.php?t=49133

I WAS WRONG THIS DIDNT WORK EITHER
but your can try it but it didnt work for me :(


if you need it it is the zip on http://www.dealdatabase.com/forum/showthread.php?t=13705 by alphawolf all hail the might alphawolf,,, it took me for days of digging but i finally found dbset