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Faid1

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« on: December 06, 2004, 06:45:00 PM »
I don't intend this thread as a huge "OH MAN XBMC SUX D00D", because XBMC is great. What I do want to see is MINOR things that you would change.

For me I'd start with:

-The 2X rewind is quite clearly not even close to being 2X. In fact, in comparison to the fast forward it's somewhere in between 4x and 8x, making rewinding nearly impossible.
-Make the rewind/ff display (the dots on a line) higher up into the picture.
-The Decibel meter uses Up on the directional pad to go right, and down to go left. Why not use Left for Left? Furthermore why was the graphical representation of this changed from a little while ago? Make it match the pause box, etc
-Why is MyVideos so far down on the list. Most people use XBMC for videos first and foremost.
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socrates

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« Reply #1 on: December 06, 2004, 07:19:00 PM »
I love the whole damn program, all i want is to be able to stream my dvd's from my pc dvd drive to my xbox, but cant so i guess that would be somthing that i would like to see worked on :) but like i said, its free, i aint complaining ;)
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« Reply #2 on: December 06, 2004, 07:57:00 PM »
To answer one of your questions get the skin Project Mayhem II, in the skin you can move the "My Videos" to the top of the list...but with this skin the home screen is scrolling...meaning if you keep pressing down on the d-pad the list "My videos" "My files" etc will scroll forever so when you can to the bottom the list will automatically start from the top....it's hard to explain but it might help you out.  Also with this skin, if you press the white button you can remove buttons, rename them, etc.

Project Mayhem II --->  http://www.chokemaniac.net

Need XBMC 2004-02-12 for the latest Project Mayhem II skin to work


As for changing volume, you may be able to change it in the keymap XML file, but I'm not sure cuz i haven't tried it myself, but I will when I get home cuz thats a good point.

Head over to the xbmc forums and see if they can help you out with your other issues...


-Matt
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« Reply #3 on: December 06, 2004, 08:54:00 PM »
sorry, you need XBMC version 2004-12-02 for the latest PM II skin to work
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Faid1

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« Reply #4 on: December 06, 2004, 10:01:00 PM »
Thanks for the help, I do have a recent build but don't use Project Mayhem mostly because I think the graphical represenations of the "Videos/Pictures/Weather" etc are bad in comparison to Project Mayhem 1.

This isn't a "problem" for me I'm referring to it being a "problem" for everyone. "My Videos" should be at the top for everyone, no question.
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« Reply #5 on: December 06, 2004, 10:32:00 PM »
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all i want is to be able to stream my dvd's from my pc dvd drive to my xbox


That is possible, I do that all the times with the dvd's that I have on dvd+r because my xbox doesn't read them.
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« Reply #6 on: December 06, 2004, 10:55:00 PM »
XBMC is the coolest program for the xbox. The one thing that i would like added to it, is the capability of fast forwarding music or rewinding. I have a feeling that someone is going to say that you can do this already, but damn, i have pushed every buton on my controller and i cant do it.
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« Reply #7 on: December 06, 2004, 11:03:00 PM »
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-The 2X rewind is quite clearly not even close to being 2X. In fact, in comparison to the fast forward it's somewhere in between 4x and 8x, making rewinding nearly impossible.

This cannot be helped by the XBMC team as Mplayer, which XBMC uses to play everything doesn't have a rewind or fast forward feature, this is the best that could be done, which is why they have the back button to go back 5 seconds and the up and left buttons to seek back a certain amount.
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Make the rewind/ff display (the dots on a line) higher up into the picture.

This is set by the user. Go into Settings>My Videos>Screen Calibration and change where you want subs to be, this will also determine where that display is.
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The Decibel meter uses Up on the directional pad to go right, and down to go left. Why not use Left for Left? Furthermore why was the graphical representation of this changed from a little while ago? Make it match the pause box, etc

Change it in the keymap to what you want. It's up/down because it turns the volume up/down, not left/right. The graphical representation depends on the skinner but it was changed from before as you used to have to go through the OSD to change it.
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Why is MyVideos so far down on the list. Most people use XBMC for videos first and foremost.

Already been said. With PM 2 just change it.
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The one thing that i would like added to it, is the capability of fast forwarding music or rewinding.

You can do it, but only with the remote. As soon as a music OSD is implemented then you'll be able to with the controller. In fact..... perhaps you could configure the keymap to use the triggers just as with movies.

Hope this helps
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Faid1

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« Reply #8 on: December 07, 2004, 02:06:00 AM »
QUOTE (Morien @ Dec 7 2004, 07:35 AM)
This cannot be helped by the XBMC team as Mplayer, which XBMC uses to play everything doesn't have a rewind or fast forward feature, this is the best that could be done, which is why they have the back button to go back 5 seconds and the up and left buttons to seek back a certain amount.


That is fine. I remember a build of XBMP about a year and a half ago where you would click A, and a Windows Media Player like display would come up and you could fast forward and the lowest setting was about a minute per second that you used it. Glad we at least dont have to deal with that.


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This is set by the user. Go into Settings>My Videos>Screen Calibration and change where you want subs to be, this will also determine where that display is.

Doesn't work on my TV, at least not the build I used.


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Change it in the keymap to what you want. It's up/down because it turns the volume up/down, not left/right. The graphical representation depends on the skinner but it was changed from before as you used to have to go through the OSD to change it.


Fair enough. The new colorful display for it should be reverted to have a consistent look.

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Already been said. With PM 2 just change it.


It really should be the standard.

This post has been edited by Faid1: Dec 7 2004, 10:07 AM
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« Reply #9 on: December 07, 2004, 02:22:00 AM »
QUOTE (gamerguy999 @ Dec 7 2004, 07:04 AM)

That is possible, I do that all the times with the dvd's that I have on dvd+r because my xbox doesn't read them.

how u do that???

i been wanting to kno that for a min now
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« Reply #10 on: December 07, 2004, 05:29:00 AM »
New Colourful display for volume control?  Not sure how colourful yours is, but the one in CVS is not particularly colourful.  You can remap it to whatever buttons you like in keymap.xml - the reason it is on up and down is it is more intuitive to think of pressing up to increase the volume.  The problem IMO is that the volume bar is displayed horizontally instead of vertically.  Fixing that will take a fair amount of code shuffling, however.

Videos the default?  Fair enough - just change it in the skin - how hard can that be?  Note that many people use XBMC solely for music - we have to find a common middle ground.  Luckily, it's all skinnable, and with newer versions it's all controllable from within the GUI (at least if the skin supports it)

PM2 cannot be made the default skin - it contains copyrighted images.

Would you prefer that REWd was removed altogether?  If not, please name one application (on ANY platform) that allows rewinding of videos (non-DVD).
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« Reply #11 on: December 07, 2004, 07:41:00 AM »
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how u do that???

i been wanting to kno that for a min now


Me to, i have it set up and can see the video files off the dvd drive on my pc but when i click on them nothing happens, or one of the files lets me see a black screen for a few seconds then back to xbmc, someone suggested that it might be a network thing but i just wanna know how other people have theres setup?
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« Reply #12 on: December 07, 2004, 07:57:00 AM »
A normal SMB share is how i do it...
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socrates

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« Reply #13 on: December 07, 2004, 08:33:00 AM »
And you stack and click on the ifo and it runs fine? cause i have tried everyway, i can stream movies and music fine from my comp,i can even streasm avi files off of a cd from the dvd drive of the pc fine but streaming dvd's just wont work.
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« Reply #14 on: December 07, 2004, 09:20:00 AM »
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you stack and click on the ifo and it runs fine?


Yeah, thats what I do. It could be your dvd drive on your pc or your network. I have a dvd drive in my xbox and a dvd burner, and the dvd drive works for streaming but the dvd burner doesn't.

I have never had any problems streaming a dvd from the dvd drive.  If it is possible, try a different dvd drive and see if it works, if it doesn't, then I say it is probably your network(it might not be able to get the video to the xbox fast enough).

This post has been edited by gamerguy999: Dec 7 2004, 05:21 PM
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