Remove Play/Stop Icons

[ermood]

Hello,

Is it possible to remove the Play/Stop icons that appear on the upper left corner between two videos?

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks,

Yannick

[Patriot_Ben]

Hello,

Is it possible to remove the Play/Stop icons that appear on the upper left corner between two videos?

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks,

Yannick

I don't think it is. I'll look into it.

[ermood]

Thanks,

If we can't turn them off wouldn't it be possible to just erase the images?

[Patriot_Ben]

Hello ermood,

Unfortunately no this is not possible on any of the mass production firmware. Is there a reason why you would need to remove these icons?

[ermood]

Hi Ben,

We are going to display some slideshows and videos. Every screen will have a 30min loop composed of different files. It would be better looking without these icons between all the files.

[snappy46]

Thanks,

If we can't turn them off wouldn't it be possible to just erase the images?

This might be possible if you have a little bit of knowledge of linux and able to telnet to your PBO. If you are using a Patriot stock firmware it more than likely uses squashfs which is can not be written too; fortunately linux provides a mount command that can be use to tell it to look somewhere else for a certain file(s). The trick would be to find those two images .... I think there are under resources somewhere ... I would have to look it up; and then overmount those 2 files (since you probably will not be able to erase them) somewhere else to an empty image file writing where you actually have write access (/usr/local/etc/ directory for example. I do not have access to my PBO right now so I can not be sure on the specific path but in a nutshell you would be looking at a command like that.

touch /usr/local/etc/stop.jpg
touch /usr/local/etc/play.jpg
mount -o bind /usr/local/etc/stop.jpg(empty file) /usr/local/bin/resources/images/stop.jpg
mount -o bind /usr/local/etc/play.jpg(empty file) /usr/local/bin/resources/images/play.jpg

If you have any knowledge at all about Linux you should have some ideas of what I am trying to do here. Of course it is possible that the empty file causes an error but I doubt it. It would be easy to run a little script to do this everytime your PBO boots up or to run this script manually whenever you need to remove those images.

Anyhow I think this might work; I can help with that if you want.

Cheers !!!

[ermood]

This might be possible if you have a little bit of knowledge of linux and able to telnet to your PBO. If you are using a Patriot stock firmware it more than likely uses squashfs which is can not be written too; fortunately linux provides a mount command that can be use to tell it to look somewhere else for a certain file(s). The trick would be to find those two images .... I think there are under resources somewhere ... I would have to look it up; and then overmount those 2 files (since you probably will not be able to erase them) somewhere else to an empty image file writing where you actually have write access (/usr/local/etc/ directory for example. I do not have access to my PBO right now so I can not be sure on the specific path but in a nutshell you would be looking at a command like that.

touch /usr/local/etc/stop.jpg
touch /usr/local/etc/play.jpg
mount -o bind /usr/local/etc/stop.jpg(empty file) /usr/local/bin/resources/images/stop.jpg
mount -o bind /usr/local/etc/play.jpg(empty file) /usr/local/bin/resources/images/play.jpg

If you have any knowledge at all about Linux you should have some ideas of what I am trying to do here. Of course it is possible that the empty file causes an error but I doubt it. It would be easy to run a little script to do this everytime your PBO boots up or to run this script manually whenever you need to remove those images.

Anyhow I think this might work; I can help with that if you want.

Cheers !!!

Thanks Snappy46,

I get the idea of what you are trying to do. My knowledge of Linux is somehow limited so I wouldn't launch myself in an area that's too dark for me.

I'll gladly follow your instructions as it looks to be a great way of doing what I want to.

Thanks a lot,

[ermood]

Would this thread help us?
http://www.patriotmemory.com/forums/...the-GUI-images