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What's the best library manager these days? Do we not really need one anymore? What's the best way to get all the tv/movie metadata and images (poster, background, fanart, etc)?
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Apr 5, 2014 18:30
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I use Sickbeard for tv, Couchpotato for movies, and play with XBMC which only needs to use the local information they already downloaded.
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Apr 5, 2014 20:55
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Er, honestly as long as you're labelling your movies / episodes right XBMC kinda takes care of everything out of the box. Edit: Or I'm reading the question wrong, nevermind.
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Apr 5, 2014 20:57
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Despoiler posted:What's the best library manager these days? Do we not really need one anymore? Extra art downloader or whatever its called. Its built into xbmc.
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Apr 5, 2014 21:50
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Despoiler posted:What's the best library manager these days? Do we not really need one anymore? Check out Media Center Master for getting metadata and images, it works pretty great. I've tried a bunch of other programs that are for the same purpose, and for one reason or another I either couldn't get them to do what I needed it to do, so Media Center Master is the only one I've had luck using. ConanThe3rd posted:Er, honestly as long as you're labelling your movies / episodes right XBMC kinda takes care of everything out of the box. While this is generally true, I've had a bunch of instances where for whatever reason no matter what scraper I used and even if everything is named exactly as it should be, I'll have a couple of movies that get named/scrape something really weird. For example something like "One Eight Seven" would get named "The Mel Brooks Collection", so manual entry or using a library manager is something needed. Belle Isle Tech fucked around with this message at 01:30 on Apr 6, 2014 |
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Apr 6, 2014 01:25
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Belle Isle Tech posted:While this is generally true, I've had a bunch of instances where for whatever reason no matter what scraper I used and even if everything is named exactly as it should be, I'll have a couple of movies that get named/scrape something really weird. For example something like "One Eight Seven" would get named "The Mel Brooks Collection", so manual entry or using a library manager is something needed. On the rare occasion that something just doesn't scrape properly no matter what I do, I just add a .nfo file with the URL for the metadata and call it a day. This has only happened once or twice though, and I think the bug causing it has been fixed.
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Apr 6, 2014 01:34
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Anyone here using a lightpack with xbmc? I have a zotac AD10 and plugged the thing, connected the lights and downloaded and installed the two addons needed. I then found a config file on the net and set it where it is needed. However after restarting the box nothing lights up... I get a message when starting that XBMC is connected to lightpack so I don't understand..  quote:(InitLog) start of log /storage/.boblight/boblightd.log
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Apr 6, 2014 13:11
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Le0, have you checked that the config file is set up correctly? I've written an article or two on how to do so.
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Apr 6, 2014 18:15
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Hippie Hedgehog posted:Yes, well, no, that's where I'm saying I expected to find it, but it's gone. Are you running the nightlies? I don't know what did it, but it's working now. I renamed my .xbmc folder, went back to the latest Gotham beta. Now the audio works as long as I use pass-through.
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Apr 6, 2014 20:38
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Webbeh posted:Le0, have you checked that the config file is set up correctly? I've written an article or two on how to do so. Thanks for the articles. I finally found out that Boblight X11 does not work with the Zotac GPU. It works for movies but not in the menu.
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Apr 6, 2014 21:06
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For those curious about XBMC running on the Amazon Fire TV: I've gotten great results by running either one of the two Frodo-based builds linked here, under "Stable builds": http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Amazon_Fire_TV It plays every file I have thrown at it completely smoothly. I have the Aeon Nox skin running and it's pretty drat smooth. Not perfectly smooth - some 3d transitions when there's a lot of artwork are kinda jittery - but I have absolutely no complaints. I'm going to get rid of my ATV2 now before it starts to drop in value once people realize the Fire TV is a much better option. A developer has been pushing out test Gotham builds but the video stuttering is still an issue. I'll keep testing those out, but the Frodo builds are perfectly fine for my needs. Insanely happy with the Fire TV. Cawd Rud fucked around with this message at 23:11 on Apr 6, 2014 |
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Apr 6, 2014 23:08
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Has anyone figured out the poster vs banner issue between skins? Is it a file naming convention that sickbeard can handle?
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Apr 7, 2014 02:41
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Amazing how fast they managed to root the Fire Tv. We may need a seperate thread for it.
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Apr 7, 2014 04:59
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Anyone know where the "Suspend" option went from OpenELEC's power menu? Seems to be just shut down, custom timer, reboot, but no suspend option anymore. Running latest version with Confluence skin.
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Apr 7, 2014 13:21
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wolfbiker posted:Anyone know where the "Suspend" option went from OpenELEC's power menu? Seems to be just shut down, custom timer, reboot, but no suspend option anymore. Running latest version with Confluence skin. That hit me awhile back and someone else pointed this out, enable the Advanced/Expert level settings at the bottom in the Settings menu.
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Apr 7, 2014 14:57
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Even after changing to advanced and expert, for whatever reason "Suspend function" is grayed out and I can't change it from "Shutdown" to anything else. Very weird.
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Apr 7, 2014 15:20
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Cawd Rud posted:A developer has been pushing out test Gotham builds but the video stuttering is still an issue. I'll keep testing those out, but the Frodo builds are perfectly fine for my needs. Insanely happy with the Fire TV. Are you using wired or wireless?
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Apr 8, 2014 16:11
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wolfbiker posted:Even after changing to advanced and expert, for whatever reason "Suspend function" is grayed out and I can't change it from "Shutdown" to anything else. Very weird. Weird sorry I don't know. What version of OpenElec? You said latest but I'm not sure if that's stable or beta. USB stick or installed to an SSD/etc? What hardware? quote:A developer has been pushing out test Gotham builds but the video stuttering is still an issue. I'll keep testing those out, but the Frodo builds are perfectly fine for my needs. Insanely happy with the Fire TV. Is there a way to get XBMC on the launcher yet? That's a silly hold up I know but its for wife annoyance factor.
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Apr 8, 2014 16:52
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Running 3.95.4 from a USB stick on a Zotac AD10. I have three and have the problem on all. Did a fresh install and same problem.
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Apr 8, 2014 18:50
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Cawd Rud posted:I'm going to get rid of my ATV2 now before it starts to drop in value once people realize the Fire TV is a much better option. I had the same idea, and I just got $210+ for mine on eBay. I expect that price will creep down as more and more people become aware of the Fire TV, but judging from the questions I got, I don't think the prospective buyers were exactly on the bleeding edge. "How many channels does it have?" "The last one I bought lost its jailbreak. Can you re-jailbreak it for me?" There were also several questions about which add-ons were installed, which I was surprised about at first, since who cares when you can just install whatever you want when you get it. But I think there's a big group of people seeing the eBay market of pre-jailbroken ATV2s as one of the only pre-setup, no maintenance XBMC boxes available. They don't want to mess with the software at all, and they definitely don't want to mess with hardware. However they get it in the mail is how it will stay. A few sellers capitalize on that by jailbreaking them, loading it up with a million dumb and probably barely-functional add-ons, and then hyping up the content in their listings. It seems to work, since those listings get a bit of a premium. In summary, my protip is to throw a bunch of junk on there before you list it, since people all wanted to hear about the junk.
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Apr 8, 2014 21:04
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some_weird_kid posted:I had the same idea, and I just got $210+ for mine on eBay. I expect that price will creep down as more and more people become aware of the Fire TV, but judging from the questions I got, I don't think the prospective buyers were exactly on the bleeding edge. I think there is a big market for people getting them with icefilms/navi-x already installed so they can just give it to Uncle Larry and not have to spend lots of time setting it up.
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Apr 9, 2014 00:55
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I had a movie night a few weeks back and one of my friends recognized XBMC, kind of. When I went to navigate to the movie he said "Holy poo poo your apple tv is way smoother than mine!" and then mentioned something about it probably being full of adware and viruses from too much porn. For a lot of people, xbmc = jail broken ATV.
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Apr 9, 2014 01:52
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Legdiian posted:Are you using wired or wireless? The Gunslinger posted:Is there a way to get XBMC on the launcher yet? That's a silly hold up I know but its for wife annoyance factor. some_weird_kid posted:... In summary, my protip is to throw a bunch of junk on there before you list it, since people all wanted to hear about the junk.
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Apr 9, 2014 05:56
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If anyone else has a NUC that freezes on suspend sometime, ssh into it and execute this command to fix it - echo 0 > /sys/power/pm_async It'll hopefully be baked into newer builds of OpenElec going forward. My NUC is now perfect, that was my sole complaint. It's not a bad little emulator box either.
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Apr 9, 2014 15:40
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The Gunslinger posted:If anyone else has a NUC that freezes on suspend sometime, ssh into it and execute this command to fix it - echo 0 > /sys/power/pm_async I stopped using suspend a few years back because oe sometimes took minutes waking up from suspend to connect to smb shares. Does this still occur?
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Apr 9, 2014 16:41
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Esk1 posted:I stopped using suspend a few years back because oe sometimes took minutes waking up from suspend to connect to smb shares. Does this still occur? Not a problem here. It is up and running in about 2 seconds.
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Apr 9, 2014 17:35
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Now that OpenELEC doesn't allow you to suspend the computer when you're running from a USB stick or SD card, what are my options for CHEAP internal storage for my AD10s?
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Apr 11, 2014 11:41
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Has anyone been able to run XBMC on SteamOS? I really want a HTPC with the both of those, and haven't found a really solid solution to both of those yet.
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Apr 12, 2014 05:11
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IUG posted:Has anyone been able to run XBMC on SteamOS? I really want a HTPC with the both of those, and haven't found a really solid solution to both of those yet. I just run XBMC and Steam together on a windows pc. What part is unsolid to your situation, maybe it's something I've tackled.
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Apr 12, 2014 22:57
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I just got my Amazon Fire TV set up with the latest nightly (4/12) but things didn't work well until I turned off MediaCodec support. Now everything is sweet and someone is about to pay me over 200 American dollars for a used Apple TV that I bought for $99 almost 3 years ago. There were some people saying they got better performance with audio pass through off but I actually turned it ON since the Fire TV's HDMI out goes into a receiver that can decode both. Does that sound right?
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Apr 12, 2014 23:22
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redhalo posted:I just run XBMC and Steam together on a windows pc. What part is unsolid to your situation, maybe it's something I've tackled. It's an AD10, so it's not that powerful. Plus, you have to pay for that OS. What am I, made of money?
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Apr 13, 2014 00:19
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IUG posted:Has anyone been able to run XBMC on SteamOS? I really want a HTPC with the both of those, and haven't found a really solid solution to both of those yet. Any reason you can't just load it up with a minimal Ubuntu install and put XBMC and Steam on there afterwards? That's what Valve supports, but if you're not a huge fan of Ubuntu you should be fine going with another distribution too. I can at least say that both programs run great on Arch Linux.
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Apr 13, 2014 00:38
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Keito posted:Any reason you can't just load it up with a minimal Ubuntu install and put XBMC and Steam on there afterwards? That's what Valve supports, but if you're not a huge fan of Ubuntu you should be fine going with another distribution too. I can at least say that both programs run great on Arch Linux. I did that just for XBMC, but it had problems waking from sleep at all, or not having audio. I was bouncing around from OS to OS to get the best HTPC for XBMC, and ended up with OpenELEC. I just want a good system for XBMC and Steam for streaming only, primarily XBMC.
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Apr 13, 2014 00:41
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This is a weird one. I am trying to help a friend out who bought a tiny Windows 7 box to run XBMC on. It's some Zotac with a GPU that handles the videos just fine. The major issue is the IR remote it comes with clicks everything twice. So if I am trying to navigate through a list of shows it will skip every other episode. Incredibly frustrating. I tried Googling the issue but I get a bunch of unrelated Linux stuff and editing the advancedsettings.xml file did nothing (I tried raising the <remoterepeat> and <remotedelay> numbers to crazy high values and it has done nothing. If anyone has experienced this weird issue I'd appreciate any tips you might have.
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Apr 14, 2014 03:55
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Miyamotos RGB NES posted:This is a weird one. I am trying to help a friend out who bought a tiny Windows 7 box to run XBMC on. It's some Zotac with a GPU that handles the videos just fine. Do they have the external IR receiver installed? I believe you have to disable the internal IR receiver if you use the external one otherwise both pick up the signals. You can turn it off in the BIOS or just put black tape over it.
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Apr 14, 2014 05:36
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Drevoak posted:Do they have the external IR receiver installed? I believe you have to disable the internal IR receiver if you use the external one otherwise both pick up the signals. You can turn it off in the BIOS or just put black tape over it. 1) Why did this thing come with an external IR receiver if it had an internal one 2) You're a drat genius Thank you!! 
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Apr 14, 2014 12:09
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Miyamotos RGB NES posted:1) Why did this thing come with an external IR receiver if it had an internal one It lets you use the remote on another machine if you want and/or just in case the built in CIR is blocked by a line of sight obstruction or perhaps another application like for example if you had the HTPC wired up to the TV but behind a wall.
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Apr 14, 2014 12:30
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The Gunslinger posted:It lets you use the remote on another machine if you want and/or just in case the built in CIR is blocked by a line of sight obstruction or perhaps another application like for example if you had the HTPC wired up to the TV but behind a wall. Oh yeah! I totally forgot about the "store it behind the TV" thing, but still really weird that it would come with a USB IR port that then created two IR devices instead of just one of those extender things that use a headphone jack. Not complaining but man I was ready to start editing registries; I would have never thought of this. 
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Apr 14, 2014 14:30
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Is there a way to get animated gifs viewable in the Pictures of XBMC? I did some googling and couldn't find any real solutions. I'm running XBMC 12.0 and it might work in the Gotham betas but I don't want to upgrade just for that, has anyone tried it?
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Apr 15, 2014 18:44
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amitlu posted:Is there a way to get animated gifs viewable in the Pictures of XBMC? I did some googling and couldn't find any real solutions. I'm running XBMC 12.0 and it might work in the Gotham betas but I don't want to upgrade just for that, has anyone tried it? That would be sweet. Please let us know if you find a solution or if it does work in gotham.
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