I recently replaced my broke Philips Streamium SL300 with a brand new Popcorn Hour A-110 networked media tank. I’m really happy with the fact that it plays anything I throw at it. The internet based features (think Flickr, Youtube, Last.fm etc) are cool as well. On think that is seriously lacking is features for audio playback and searching. The default software is a really basic file system browser with, which can read playlist files.
I started working on an application to create a more useful browser based on ID3 tags. Still in the early stages though.
One thing I quickly ran into was the fact that the default player doesn’t allow you the set the image (you can set a background image, but you loose the overlay features if you do). The default image (if no image specified in the ID3 tag) looks like this:
Which is not really what I’d like to see when playing music.
It took me a while to figure out how to do it though, and it is not for the fainthearted:
- install telnet deamon
- telnet to popcorn hour
- cd to /bin/
- replace logo2.jpg or logo2hd.jpg (depending on you screen) with your image
- of coarse you can do this from a php or cgi script as well…
- have fun
Hi Peter,
First of all, congrats for your website!
Could you please provide an step by step instruction to replace the logo.jpg?
I be able to telnet to the popcorn and cd /bin/ but I dont´t know how to download the logo.jpg file to my window pc in order to see it and later on to replace it
Thanks you in advance