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Captain Matchbox posted:Is there a good addon to short list a few movies from the library to watch later? I might take a crack at doing one of these, I'm always losing track of what I'm going to watch. I really like Rapier since it has an In Progress thing, so often times I'll start up a movie I intend to watch for 20 seconds so it gets added to that list then I'll watch it later. quote:Ace is shaping up to be a really nice skin. I am using it on my xbmc installs now, at least until black drops xperience onto the repo. Might be worth glancing at again if you only looked at it when it first came out. Yeah I really like this skin too, I think I picked it up the last time you linked it. I just want the author to support the more advanced watched widget/progress addon and then it would be perfect.
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Just noticed this interesting addon for removing videos you have watched. I might look into it for deleting watched episodes or series I don't care about keeping. http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=162517 Also just found this "beta" addon that can delete a file after watching it, I remember someone asked about that back in the day. http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=162770
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Is there a way to make a profile that doesn't use the advancedsettings.xml file? In my house I have a network setup with a SQL server. However, I want to take my Zotac mini PC to a friend's house with a thumb drive loaded up with content. I made a new profile, and set the profile to have it's own media. However, it still connects to my database and shows that content. I want to pre-load that profile with the contents of the thumbdrive only, to make sure it works, as they're curious about a HTPC setup. But I don't want the contents of my thumbdrive to be written to the server, as it's temporary only.
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Apr 24, 2013 23:12
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IUG posted:Is there a way to make a profile that doesn't use the advancedsettings.xml file? In my house I have a network setup with a SQL server. However, I want to take my Zotac mini PC to a friend's house with a thumb drive loaded up with content. I made a new profile, and set the profile to have it's own media. However, it still connects to my database and shows that content.
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Apr 24, 2013 23:14
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Don Lapre posted:Are you using windows? If so then a different user account should have its own xbmc setup. No, I'm using XBMCbuntu, and I was using the XBMC profiles. I can't really see an easy way to duplicate the XBMC user, or really want to do that if I can avoid it. I'd like the system to power up and go to the default user, and then log out/in to the "Mobile" profile when I take the system with me somewhere.
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I have a bunch of really neat desktop backgrounds, organised into movie theme, misc, automotive etc. Is there a way to incorporate these into xbmc somehow ? It would be neat if they were displayed during some aspect of xbmc, perhaps while listening to music or something. I do use them as slides mixed in with movie trivia when using Cinema Experience script. But it seems like I could be doing more with them, I'm just not sure what.
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Apr 24, 2013 23:30
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jonathan posted:I have a bunch of really neat desktop backgrounds, organised into movie theme, misc, automotive etc. Is there a way to incorporate these into xbmc somehow ? It would be neat if they were displayed during some aspect of xbmc, perhaps while listening to music or something. I do use them as slides mixed in with movie trivia when using Cinema Experience script. But it seems like I could be doing more with them, I'm just not sure what. Depending on the theme, you can set the background of a specific menu item (movies, pictures, tv shows, etc) to a folder full of images. I'm pretty sure that there's a slideshow screensaver, either built in or available on the repo, and that you can set that to a folder. Then just disable music visualizations and you'll be set. kri kri posted:Just noticed this interesting addon for removing videos you have watched. I might look into it for deleting watched episodes or series I don't care about keeping. These are great. After a few people here try it out (including myself) I'll add them to the OP. I need to add that Ace skin as well, and probably run through all the various subforums to see if there's anything new or interesting to add.
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Apr 24, 2013 23:34
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EC posted:Depending on the theme, you can set the background of a specific menu item (movies, pictures, tv shows, etc) to a folder full of images. I'm running Aeon Nox, which is really slick and professional looking. I don't want to screw up the themed artwork with my own stuff. It just wouldn't fit as well.
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Apr 24, 2013 23:49
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jonathan posted:I'm running Aeon Nox, which is really slick and professional looking. I don't want to screw up the themed artwork with my own stuff. It just wouldn't fit as well. While Nox looks amazing, the default backgrounds do not. It's like some neckbeard hurriedly picked up his camera and snapped a collection of uninspired shots using somewhat relevant trash scattered around the basement to replace the nonfree images that used to come with the skin. Having you customize the skin by providing your own pictures and present them integrated as part of a beautiful whole was one of the main design goals behind the original Aeon.
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Apr 25, 2013 00:43
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Keito posted:While Nox looks amazing, the default backgrounds do not. It's like some neckbeard hurriedly picked up his camera and snapped a collection of uninspired shots using somewhat relevant trash scattered around the basement to replace the nonfree images that used to come with the skin. I'm not sure if I disagree or that maybe you're using an older version ? The backgrounds in my version look pretty good. I just went ahead and stuffed a bunch of poo poo into those background directories though and it looks very good now. Thanks!
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Apr 25, 2013 02:10
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IUG posted:Is there a way to make a profile that doesn't use the advancedsettings.xml file? In my house I have a network setup with a SQL server. However, I want to take my Zotac mini PC to a friend's house with a thumb drive loaded up with content. I made a new profile, and set the profile to have it's own media. However, it still connects to my database and shows that content. If you make the new XBMC profile it will make it's own folder in /userdata/profiles/username and in there you could add another advancedsettings.xml which that user will then use, I think even if you leave it blank that will be enough to stop it using the master users advancedsettings.xml.
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Apr 25, 2013 02:36
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In Aeon Nox, is there any way to simply stop the slideshow backgrounds? I don't care about changing them; I just don't like having the slideshow. I tried manually choosing a single image from each category as the background, but I either wasn't choosing the right option or couldn't find the correct directory where the default backgrounds are located.
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Apr 25, 2013 16:49
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Quixzlizx posted:In Aeon Nox, is there any way to simply stop the slideshow backgrounds? I don't care about changing them; I just don't like having the slideshow. I tried manually choosing a single image from each category as the background, but I either wasn't choosing the right option or couldn't find the correct directory where the default backgrounds are located. Its in your windows username/appdata/roaming/xbmc/addons/skins.aeon Nox/backgrounds I'm going from memory from last night but the directory structure should be similar to that. You could just remove the images from the directories you don't want.
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Apr 25, 2013 17:14
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You don't need to mess around with skin files. In the same place where you set folders of images as backgrounds, there is an option to just select a single image as a background.
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Apr 25, 2013 17:18
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evilalien posted:You don't need to mess around with skin files. In the same place where you set folders of images as backgrounds, there is an option to just select a single image as a background. I understand that, but I couldn't seem to navigate to the folder with the actual images in them so I could assign single images as the backgrounds. Hopefully the directory above will work.
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Apr 25, 2013 17:20
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Quixzlizx posted:I understand that, but I couldn't seem to navigate to the folder with the actual images in them so I could assign single images as the backgrounds. Hopefully the directory above will work. When you select single image for a menu item it starts you in the default folder the skin stores backgrounds in, and you can just select one of the listed images. At least that is how it functions for me. It also shows you the current path you are in which should look like special://skin/backgrounds/movies which corresponds to the path that jonathan posted above.
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suddenlyissoon posted:I might be picking up a android phone soon and I'll definitely be putting XBMC on it. Currently, my iPhone is running it and connecting remotely to my NAS using AFP. Is that possible on android or is there a better alternative? I know SMB isn't possible and have never seemed to get NFS working. I'm sure the rest was answered, but when I was running XBMC on my Infinity Tablet I used SMB share flawlessly so I'm not sure why you said it's not possible? As I recall though I had to uninstall something in Windows7 in order for the shares to show up.
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Apr 25, 2013 17:31
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Smb definitely works, but I found that I had to disable home group sharing in windows 7 and then set the sharing permissions afterwards for it to be visible to other devices.
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Apr 25, 2013 18:23
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I have the Next Aired addon configured to refresh listings daily at 2:30AM, but whenever I open it, I quite often have to wait for it to download listings for all my shows. Does anyone else experience this?
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Apr 25, 2013 19:43
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Thermopyle posted:I have the Next Aired addon configured to refresh listings daily at 2:30AM, but whenever I open it, I quite often have to wait for it to download listings for all my shows. Stupid question, but is your machine actually on and awake at 2:30 am? I used to have this issue and it drove me nuts until I realized my machine wasn't awake when it was supposed to update... It doesn't wake to update.
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Apr 25, 2013 21:25
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monkeybounce posted:Stupid question, but is your machine actually on and awake at 2:30 am? I used to have this issue and it drove me nuts until I realized my machine wasn't awake when it was supposed to update... It doesn't wake to update. Not a stupid question, but yeah it's on.
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Any idea what plugin brings this up at the end of an episode? Could be the skin, too, I guess..
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kirbysuperstar posted:Any idea what plugin brings this up at the end of an episode? Could be the skin, too, I guess.. Trakt i think. It updates your account on this website: http://trakt.tv/ You can also set it to ask for a rating out of 10 instead of binary good/bad.
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Apr 26, 2013 11:43
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Yeah, that's the Trakt plugin.
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Apr 26, 2013 11:47
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StorrowS posted:Trakt i think. It updates your account on this website: http://trakt.tv/ You can also set it to ask for a rating out of 10 instead of binary good/bad. Yep, it's Trakt. You can disable it in the plugin configuration.
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Thanks for that. It's uh, been a while since I watched anything with XBMC so I didn't quite know what was happening there.
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Does anyone have any advice on diagnosing buffering problems? I'm using this setup: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004V4G2W6/ref=wms_ohs_product?ie=UTF8&psc=1 and up until recently it's been perfect at playing 1080p/720p videos on my NAS, but recently, seemingly at random, I've been running into issues where the video has to buffer (usually every 13 seconds on 720p files) and I can't figure out what the problem is. Since the problem started I've tried increasing the buffer size in advancedsettings.xml, making sure Windows 7 (32bit) is completely updated, updating XBMC, and updating the software on my server. Both the XBMC computer and the NAS are connected to a gigabit router, and I don't have a single problem using VLC to watch files from my laptop. Sometimes exiting XBMC and running the program again fixes the problem, sometimes not, same with restarting Windows.
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Apr 27, 2013 21:22
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Maybe the hard drive the hard drive the files are stored on is dying.
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It could be, but I have 3 drives in the server, and as of two weeks ago one of them is a refurbished drive straight from Western Digital and the other is a brand new 2tb Red drive. I've tried playing files from each drive in the server and the problem happens no matter what disk it's reading from. edit: and also I don't think that's the problem because I haven't had a single problem playing from my laptop for extended periods of time rather than the XBMC computer, and occasionally restarting XBMC completely fixes the problem..for about an hour or two. GobiasIndustries fucked around with this message at 14:27 on Apr 28, 2013 |
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wolfbiker posted:Maybe the hard drive the hard drive the files are stored on is dying. Sounds like a skipping drive to me.
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Recently added would be much more useful if it didn't include watched movies. You can filter them out, but that just hides the watched ones, doesn't repopulate the list with more unwatched movies.
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IUG posted:Sounds like a skipping drive to me. What exactly is a skipping drive? And again, it's only happening with the XBMC computer, NOT my laptop, and it's happening with files played from all three drives in the server, not just one. edit: When I press O on the keyboard, under the section starting with C, there's a bunch of stuff and then cache: 0B 100%. When the buffering occurs the cache always drops to ~13% . When it says 0 B does that mean there's no caching going on whatsoever? edit2: could a bad network cable be causing a bad connection with the router perhaps? GobiasIndustries fucked around with this message at 23:42 on Apr 28, 2013 |
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Traxxus posted:Recently added would be much more useful if it didn't include watched movies. You can filter them out, but that just hides the watched ones, doesn't repopulate the list with more unwatched movies. With Aeon Nox's latest added widgets it hides all watched ones which I kind of wish it didn't, I'm getting bored of always seeing the same list of movies I never get around to watch. Maybe I should change to a random movies widget instead... Are you talking about the playlist in the movies sub menu? If so, you could make a smart playlist to do exactly what you want, it's pretty easy. Go make a new playlist, call it latest unwatched or whatever you want, set the rule "play count less than one", order by date added, sort decending and you're done. You can disable the default "latest" sub menu item and add your new playlist in its place unless your skin has poo poo customizability.
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Keito posted:With Aeon Nox's latest added widgets it hides all watched ones which I kind of wish it didn't, I'm getting bored of always seeing the same list of movies I never get around to watch. Maybe I should change to a random movies widget instead... That sounds like a good solution, I've been doing some customizing with aeon nox, that sounds like something I could do.
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I'm running openelec on my AD10. I'd like to run xbmc on another computer so I can share settings between the two xbmc copies. Using my AD10 to change settings and such isn't fun nor easy. I'd like to do all the tweaking and customizing on my desktop and then clone that setup to the AD10. Would setting up a mysql database be the way to go to do this?
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Drevoak posted:I'm running openelec on my AD10. I'd like to run xbmc on another computer so I can share settings between the two xbmc copies. Using my AD10 to change settings and such isn't fun nor easy. I'd like to do all the tweaking and customizing on my desktop and then clone that setup to the AD10. Would setting up a mysql database be the way to go to do this? Yes for your database. For your settings you can use the XBMC backup addon.
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GobiasIndustries posted:What exactly is a skipping drive? wolfbiker posted:Maybe the hard drive the hard drive the files are stored on is dying. It is a bad joke.
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GobiasIndustries posted:edit2: could a bad network cable be causing a bad connection with the router perhaps? It sounds to me like you have network issues. Have you been able to try something like VLC on your HTPC? You need to eliminate some possibilities first.
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GobiasIndustries posted:Does anyone have any advice on diagnosing buffering problems? I'm using this setup: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004V4G2W6/ref=wms_ohs_product?ie=UTF8&psc=1 and up until recently it's been perfect at playing 1080p/720p videos on my NAS, but recently, seemingly at random, I've been running into issues where the video has to buffer (usually every 13 seconds on 720p files) and I can't figure out what the problem is. Since the problem started I've tried increasing the buffer size in advancedsettings.xml, making sure Windows 7 (32bit) is completely updated, updating XBMC, and updating the software on my server. Both the XBMC computer and the NAS are connected to a gigabit router, and I don't have a single problem using VLC to watch files from my laptop. Sometimes exiting XBMC and running the program again fixes the problem, sometimes not, same with restarting Windows. Are you running through a receiver / AVR? Your audio output settings could be causing buffering if there are options selected that your receiver doesn't support (or if you had a receiver and have since removed it). I run into this issue if I bypass my receiver and go straight to the TV.
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