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Keito posted:Is drive bender similar to unionfs/aufs/etc in that they take several partitions or folders and make them appear as a single mount point? If you can only access files from the primary drive in xbmc it probably has problems with the way drive bender links the rest of your stuff into the hierarchy. I'm using DriveBender on my WHS2011 box as well and don't see the issue. It just browses as normal. Pretty strange! But again I'm on Windows. Edit: added Radbox to the video add-ons section.l EC fucked around with this message at 18:07 on Feb 28, 2013 |
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bEatmstrJ posted:I'm using Frodo with the Xperience skin but I don't have any songs in my library. I do however use DI.fm a lot to listen to music. Is there anyway I can add a shortcut to the main music screen without having to go through music add-ons/di.fm etc. I can't seem to add a favorite to the main music section. I haven't looked at Xperience in awhile, but the other day the author posted that he was going to be adding one or two add-on shortcuts to the music tab, which should do what you want. Just follow the thread over at XBMC.
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jonathan posted:It would be nice to figure out a way for XBMC to automatically detect 3d SBS content, or atleast let me tag it as such somehow, and then implement a 3d interface during playback. As it stands, the interface is almost unusable when the projector's SBS mode is on. I'm not at home right now, but there's a thread on the XBMC forums that talks about this. I'll try to remember to link it tomorrow. At one point there was even a patch to implement something, but I don't know if it works for Frodo.
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Cross posting from the HTPC thread, I wanted to let people know that MeediOS has shut down: ----------- I'm sure only old-school HTPC guys will even remember Meedio, but it's open source successor finally gave in and shut down today. The project is still on SourceForge, but the website is going to close. Meedio was the follow up to myHTPC, a very basic front-end that was very popular in the early 2000s. Back then there weren't a lot of options. I think MediaPortal was around, and XBMC was still confined to the original Xbox. JRMC was doing a music thing. myHTPC was written by two guys working for Enron at the time, and they had been promising a follow up software to it for months and months. When the big Enron controversy went down, they lost their jobs and decided to form a company and sell the expected follow up to myHTPC, now called Meedio. People were outraged, as you might expect when asked to pay for something. A new website and forums were launched, and people were actively watching as expected release dates were blown off and the project was delayed. Meedio was shockingly ahead of its time on release. A stand alone configuration app let you control almost every single piece of your front-end. Multiple libraries were not only supported, but actively encouraged. It used tags to store media, and you could literally filter and sort by any tag in the library, so the possibilities were endless. I helped one guy setup a very slick library for all his recorded UFC fights, searchable by fighter, year, etc. The actual GUI was completely configurable, and dropping new items in the menu was extremely simple, especially compared to the XML voodoo required to do something similar in XBMC. It had an add-on system that just simply didn't exist anywhere else at the time, and wasn't replicated until relatively recently. Unfortunately, all of this came at a price. There were no new setup wizards, very little documentation, and troubleshooting was very difficult. Importing media required creating your own tag strings (my TV show import looked like \<SeriesName>\Season <SeasonNumber>\<EpisodeNumber> - <Name> if I remember right), and the skin building was incredibly hard. Still, people really took to Meedio. I remember testing XBMC at the time (2005/6 maybe) and being very cramped by the limitations. Plug in authors really took to Meedio, and there were a wide variety of crazy poo poo you could add to the system. One guy write a scraper that cloned all of TV.com's data, and released an importer that allowed you to pull in all kinds of info your library. That was the very early beginning of TheTVDB.com (before the admins went power crazy). MovieDB got a start there as well. Eventually, the two man team started struggling. I don't know their financial status at the time, but I'm sure Meedio sales were never great. It was easy to pirate, and they gave away copies to their most loyal users who were beta testers. They were working on a PVR add-on which, looking back, was overly ambitious (and would cost users more money). They eventually did release it, but it didn't work for most people and folks vented a LOT if anger into the forums. For a long time after that, things were quiet. The community had pretty much worked around all the bugs and limitations it could, and some incredibly talented skinners came along and really lived up the feel. I should note that using Meedio was a breeze once everything was working. The skins didn't have much in the way of animations, but they were quick. It was my main front end for a LOOONG time. After an extended period of silence from the devs, a surprise announcement was made: Meedio was being purchased by Yahoo!. A final version was released, one that didn't require any sort of licensing, and Yahoo released an application based on the Meedio code that hooked into a bunch of Yahoo services (I can't for the life of me remember what it was called). As with most Yahoo stuff, support and updates never happened, and as far as I know the two original devs got sucked into the Yahoo black hole. Some of the plug in developers and Meedio enthusiasts soon started MeediOS, a completely rebuilt Meedio using the same concepts, but completely open source. From my understanding, in MeediOS everything was a plugin: skin engines, database types, input types, everything. This meant you could have a SQL and/or mySQL backend, based on the user's needs. They got far enough to release betas, although at this point XBMC had organized itself and had versions for multiple OS types already released (MeediOS was Widows only). I was still fairly active on the forums at the time, and participated in testing various things, but never felt comfortable enough to put it into active use. The next time I rebuilt my HTPC, I switched over to XBMC and never looked back. I'd look in on the forums from time to time, and although they were active, it seemed like the core app was in a holding pattern. This morning I received the email saying the site was shutting down for good. Sorry for the lengthy post, but I wanted to pour one out for ol' Meedio. RIP.
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kri kri posted:New skin to check out, Ace. I kind of like it using it for an hour or so. Says its missing some files for me, unfortunately. I'll dig into it tomorrow.
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What are you using to launch the emulator? I remember that AdvancedLauncher supported passing key presses through to emulators for this purpose.
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Ashex posted:I'm using Rom Collection which is overkill for what I'm doing, I only plan to play one game at a time. I looked at AdvancedLauncher but the online manual didn't mention that. I'll definitely check it out later though. What OS are you on? If you're on Windows, you can use EventGhost to manage this stuff very easily. I setup different profiles for different emulators so I could close, save/load state, etc. If something like that exists on Linux I've never heard of it (but I would totally put it in the OP if there is one).
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In my experience with wireless (and that EXACT scene, although it will happen with any scene with a lot of tiny moving objects) no, increasing the buffer won't help. I lived with it for awhile and then went to a wired connection, and have never had a problem since.
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TraderStav posted:Oh... That would be quite right now, wouldn't it. Suppose I originally thought of it in the grey area as we discuss other streams and such. I kind of went with the theory that if it wasn't allowed on the official XBMC forums, then it probably shouldn't be mentioned in the OP. Talking about it in general terms is probably ok, as long as we don't start posting "HOW TO WATCH ALL OF THINGS FOR FREE" guides and keep it to technical talk. What say you thread: should I add it to the OP?
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Yeah I gave up on all that, especially because it didn't find half of my music videos. So I just made a folder with nice file names and made a favorite shortcut to that. No fancy art or images or anything but gently caress it.
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fourwood posted:Okay, why can't I figure this out... what the hell do the stars mean in the TV episodes listings? Some episodes have a star, some don't. I can't seem a way to turn them on or off, and I've found nothing to tell me their significance. I'm using the Aeon Nox skin with fairly default settings, if it makes a difference, but I seem to recall them being there on the standard skin, too. I've not used Nox is some time, but it's probably meant to designate watched episodes, right?
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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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Anveo posted:I've moved from a Boxee to an AD12/Synology and I've got XBMC 12.1 setup and working pretty great with my movies and TV shows. I have a large collection of Rifftrax movies, shorts, and MST3K episodes but I don't want them lumped with everything else. I'd love to have separate "categories" for each of those on the XBMC homepage. How would I got about doing something like that? Unless something has changed recently, you're stuck crafting custom NFOs for them and making smart playlists for each "category".
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Frodo 12.2 is outquote:About a month and a half after the release of XBMC 12.1, we are happy to announce XBMC 12.2 with substantial fixes for 12.1 and 12.0 across all platforms. Fixes include:
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From the OP. I just checked and it looks like the FAQ is still being kept up to date.EC posted:A special note about upgrading to Frodo from previous versions
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FISHMANPET posted:Hmm, that all looks super simple, as I don't have any addons to speak of and I'm not doing anything with thumbnails, so I guess I'll just backup my library, and upgrade the two instances. One thing that will trip you up is the Recently Added list change. It used to show just the items most recently added to the library, now it shows the the items most recently created (by file date attribute). This works alright depending on how you use it, but is weird at first.
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Try out Tag & Rename. The trial should let you see what type of tags the files have, and let you copy one type to another. It won't be as hands off as Sickbeard, but it'll be pretty easy.
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The pHo posted:Trakt is, was and always will be the buggiest god damned plugin you can ever add to XBMC. Unless things have radically changed in the last few months, which I sincerely doubt they have. Things have radically changed since the Frodo release. The add-on pretty much always works without much finagling, including watched status syncing. I do wish they'd drop the horrible "totally ninja!" and "weak sauce  " from the rating screen, though.
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jonathan posted:I'm using a 3TB NAS and use XBMC 12.2 to watch content. This is done via an htpc in the theater room and soon I will be using a small zotac for upstairs in the living room. I think the main draw for MySQL is having one central database for your watched tags and resume spots, allowing full sync between multiple clients. So you can stop watching a show in the living room and pick up from where you left off in the bedroom. Keito posted:trakt has an alternative numbered rating scheme that I think is fully integrated in the plugin, just switch switch to it in your account settings on the site. Can't guarantee it'll remove the cheese from being displayed within XBMC as I've disabled the feature, but one can hope. I didn't know this, thanks.
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XBMC 13 April/May builds are now available for those who love that bleeding edge. Changes include but aren't limited to: - FFMPEG 1.2 (crazy long list of changes) - Settings Refactor: quote:The Settings Refactor is like-wise quite huge, but worth discussing in a bit more detail. Previously, settings were entirely dependent upon XBMC’s graphical user interface (GUI). If you didn’t manually change a setting in that interface, the setting could not be changed. Skinners had no access to the settings. Outside applications (like the official Android and iOS remotes) couldn’t interact with them. Any attempt by users to run XBMC as a server were hamstrung by the fact that you couldn’t actually control most of the server features without physically launching the XBMC GUI. A bunch of other stuff that sounds neat like better movie set management and the web interface supporting physical keystrokes. Not that this is very much in an alpha state and you probably shouldn't install on your main machine.
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kri kri posted:Does this mean we can run a client on our servers more easily then? That's what it seems to say if you read the article. Could be interesting...
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It would help to know what OS you're running. Assuming Windows. There's a folder in \userdata that stores all of the settings. Check the wiki for exactly where for other OSs as well. That probably won't fix your issue though. You might want to create a debug log and see if there's anything strange in there.
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Or having the older name be nice an pretty and keeping the original file name. Very helpful.
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If I set a season image manually, does it copy the file to the XBMC home directory, or does it always reference the original location I specified?
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evilalien posted:All thumbnails get cached inside the XBMC userdata folder. Thanks, worked great.
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Would it be possible to delete the video library and start over from scratch to see if the problem happens again? Back it up first, obviously. Otherwise you'll have to enable the debug log and do an update to see if you can spot anything.
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Go into the library, find the artist, hit I, and it'll pull up the info screen. If there isn't any info for that artist, it will use the default scraper to find it. You can download other scrapers for different metadata, and there's an option to download info for the entire library in there somewhere.
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Make sure the source is set to music first off (it sounds like it is but you never know). Then go to settings > music, and make sure you have something listed for default service or album/artist information. Mine are set to Universal Album Scraper and Universal Artist Scraper. If you want to do everything in one go check box "download additional information during updates." At this point hitting Info on any artist or album should cause XBMC to go out and get bio, fanart, etc. All of this will depend on your files having the correct ID3 tags for artist/album of course.
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Bag of Sun Chips posted:Two questions: Check out Trakt. I'm pretty sure it has an option to
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I've been out of the loop HTPC/XBMC wise lately, anything I need to add in to the OP? Or anything that needs to be updated?
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Thermopyle posted:Of users who like watching movie trailers in XBMC with something like The Trailers, would you be interested in paying $1/month for a better plugin? I'd probably kick you $5 just to test it out, but frankly with The Trailers working for basic streaming stuff I doubt I'd stick with it for very long. Unless I got addicted to the advanced features, anyway. I hope XBMC gets around to supporting paid add-ons at some point.
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Le0 posted:Hmm okay I will try to give it a whirl. It'll do it internally, there's a method for exporting the individual files if you want.
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XBMC 13 Gotham has a new preview release. Here's the details:quote:As has been the case for a few months now, for those who just can’t wait for a write-up about the newest alpha but tend to steer clear of the bleeding edge of nightlies, the new build should typically be available on the 1st of the month at mirrors.xbmc.org/snapshots. I bolded the stuff that looked interesting.
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XBMC 13 "Gotham" August Cycle is now available, and includes some cool stuff, including 3D support (something I never saw coming, so that's pretty cool). Link. Also, hope you aren't still holding on to that WinXP system, because XBMC is dropping support for it. quote:For those keeping track, we’ve just completed alpha #7 in the August cycle, which includes two absolutely massive new features: Stereoscopic 3D support and Android Hardware video decoding. As always, the monthly alpha build is available on our Snapshots page, and the typical warning applies: this is alpha software; things are very likely to break. With that said, let’s look at what we’ve been working on.
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jonathan posted:Im wondering if 3d support automatically kicks out a proper 3d. As in, will the TV/Projector change to 3d automatically ? I think I will need to try this out. No, I doubt it, since half SBS stuff isn't true HDMI 1.4 Approved Official Patented Three Dee.
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Atarian posted:Pretty sure its in this repo https://code.google.com/p/bluecop-xbmc-repo/downloads/list Didn't that (and most of bluecop's stuff) stop working at some point? It has been awhile since I looked at the XBMC forums, but I don't think there's a good way to stream Amazon stuff via XBMC. On a side note, having used it recently, the 360 interface is great.  I should probably go through the XMBC forums and see if there's any OP worthy skins/add-ons that I've missed. Anything else need to be added while I'm at it? Edit: I just skimmed the WIP skins, the first page of each skin subforum, and the video/program add-ons, and didn't see anything worth noting. 
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kri kri posted:Artic skin is alright, nice blend of a bunch of different skins. Amber was made 1.0 and is in the main repo. Amber seemed like a gussied up Confluence clone, and Artic has way too much wasted space in the screenshots. I suppose I'll add Amber since it's in the repo and people might like that sort of thing.
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jonathan posted:I just went through a bunch of skins, and at the end of the day, Aeon Nox still looks the best to me. Interface looks professional, scrolling looks good. Everything else looks somewhat amateur. My favorite is still metropolis. I'm not a big fan of the heavy fanart skins, and metropolis is easy to use.
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Just a heads up, iOS7 breaks AirPlay compatibility with XBMC. They don't have a timeline to fix it, either.
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bam thwok posted:How's chromecast compatibility coming along? I have no idea what that is! I just saw the AirPlay thing on Twitter and thought if mention it here, since ios7 is the hot new thing.
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