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For the cinema experience script I made a 14 minute demo awhile back: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COUXAcICpuE&feature=youtube_gdata_player It could be added to the script info in the OP. Because pimping my own poo poo.
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Poster art and fan art improve over time. Installing frodo final caused poster images to repeat and skip etc the first time I scrolled through (on an i5 htpc with 8gb ram on a Gbit lab). This is about a 150 movie library. After another reload or two it was much improved.
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Feb 3, 2013 21:19
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GateheaD posted:Cool and all, but how hard would it have been for you to put your camera on a desk, the floor, some books, a tripod, etc? Tough because it was a cell phone and I didn't have anything to place it on far enough away from my screen. I have an HD cam somewhere I could redo the video next time.
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Feb 5, 2013 18:51
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monkeybounce posted:I have mine set to a MiCasaVerde Vera and have scenes for specific actions. Well thats the coolest loving thing I've read today. I'm about to strip the lighting out of the theater room and do ceiling pot lights with a dimmer switch, but I need to research what to use for automation.
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Feb 8, 2013 20:04
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What is the most Songza like plug-in for XBMC at the moment which is: A) Free B) Works in Canada Grooveshark seems to require some sort of payment setup. Works over the website but if I use the XBMC app it asks for credentials Songa is awesome and ideal, but The theater room is open back into the Bar/sitting room. The Theater sound system does double duty for the bar. Songza works great but to use it I have to have an ugly browser window open. An XBMC visualizer with song info would be so much more slick.
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Feb 8, 2013 20:08
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monkeybounce posted:I use Z-Wave and a VeraLite. It's the exact same thing as the Vera, but without the network router built in, so it's cheaper. So I've looked at both products, Why the Mi casa Verde AND Z-wave ? Don't they do similar things ?
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Feb 9, 2013 07:19
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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 wonder if there is a way to detect SBS and transcode it into sequential or checkerboard or whatever the blurays use. That way the projector would know to switch modes automatically.
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Mar 5, 2013 20:06
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FreakyZoid posted:Anyone else having big problems with TVDB at the moment? I'm getting 503 errors from it more frequently than I'm able to connect. A tvdb plugin update was pushed out to me last night when I started xbmc. Might be reklevant ...
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Mar 6, 2013 18:48
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two questions: Why does my entire music library disappear every couple days forcing an entire rescan ? I think it might have something to do with xbmc opening before the NAS drive has enough time to wake up. his is a windows 7 install with Stable Frodo 12.1 but its been happening since Frodo or possibly since I set everything up on a nas. Second, I've been trying to boot into the OpenElec installer off a USB drive. It hangs after the first Line (SysLinux 4.0 etc etc). Is there a way I can just install the right stuff onto the USB stick without the installer ? This seems to be a very common issue with no answers on the forums, dating back to 2010.
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Mar 28, 2013 05:24
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Fillerbunny posted:Which flavor OpenELEC installer are you trying to use? The "Intel" installer is for onboard Intel graphics chips, not necessarily Intel CPUs. I'm using an i5 laptop with hd3000 Intel graphics. I tried the Intel build as well as the generic build. The installer seems the same on both though.
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Mar 29, 2013 06:52
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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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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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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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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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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. Can someone explain what I would gain from using a MySQL database ? I see it talked about often here. Alternatively, could I just create a trakt account and gain much of the same functionality ?
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So in Picard, do I cluster my entire library, then "save" which moves them over to my temp sorted directory ? I'm just wondering which process wipes the old metadata and puts in the new stuff. Secondly, for some reason hitting the "tagger" button on musicbrainz.org doesn't communicate back to Picard to tag the song. It does nothing. Picard says it's listening on port 8000. Is this a firewall issue ? Edit: Apparently "Save" moves the files, not copies them. I deleted the moved files thinking they were copies, and killed 1/3 of my music library, on a network drive, so recovery isn't an option. And it was done a song at a time, not by album, so every album is missing a few songs. Damnit. jonathan fucked around with this message at 02:38 on Jul 7, 2013 |
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Jul 7, 2013 01:32
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How would I go about grouping several movies into a jonathan fucked around with this message at 01:03 on Jul 12, 2013 |
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Jul 12, 2013 00:59
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Perfect. I will get that set up, I already have .nfo files for those rips because they exist on themoviedb (I created them there) but not imdb. Another issue related to above: If it exists on themoviedb but not imdb, why does it not automatically use themoviedb for scraping ? Instead it isnt recognised unless I put themoviedb url in an nfo file to point it where to scrape. I am using the default movie scraper, and I have themoviedb as the default site to scrape from and pull fanart.
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Jul 12, 2013 02:31
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Someone a few weeks ago mentioned a tool that will do Genre tagging for your music collection that works well with xbmc. I cant find the post now. I've run MusicBrainz Picard on my entire library, everything is in order, and used foobar2000 to then do replaygain scans. Last issue is genre tagging.
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Jul 28, 2013 19:55
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I rerecorded a video demoing XBMC Cinema Experience. Shows some trivia, a THX bumper and then the show begins. For some reason this movie doesn't trigger a DTS bumper. Not sure why. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNGr4t99jwA
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Jul 29, 2013 04:57
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wolfbiker posted:That's cool and all, but after two or three times aren't you thinking to yourself "start the loving movie already". It's like the crap that was at the beginning of VHS tapes and DVDs that you would always have to skip through. The advantage to using XBMC is the elimination of such stuff. No. But I only use it during social gatherings. Not if I'm just downstairs alone re watching Terminator 2. Alternative smug response: If you had the setup I did, perhaps you'd think it was impressive!
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Jul 29, 2013 19:16
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I think the Cinema Experience thing is cool as poo poo, especially the slides and trivia timer. I set it, everyone gets their popcorn and booze and gets their text messages and Facebook out of the way. Then the THX intro plays and that's kind of the "shut the gently caress up and sit down" queue. On the other hand, I 100% agree that it could be overdone, and certain people may not be into it. So far the consensus has been positive. Then again if they don't like my free snacks, free booze and free early bluray screenings they can go poo poo on their hat.
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wolfbiker posted:Before I moved I had a setup very similar to yours so my opinion has nothing to do with jealousy. My smug comment was not serious at all. Nothing in my setup is very expensive, and would be very easy to reproduce cheaply. My entire speaker setup was $850 and that included a 12" klipsch sub that I gave to my parents.
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Hogburto posted:If I had an awesome theater setup for multiple people with refreshments and everything, I'd like the THX thing, a turn off cell phones message, and as many buffer clips as people need to be able to detach themselves from their phones (I have no problem just holding the off button in my pocket until the phone functions go offline, but some people are phone crazy). What I'd really like is a cell phone frequency scrambler. It turns on when I hit play and turns off when I pause. gently caress tha FCC(CRTC).
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Is there any talk or development in getting 3D working more seamlessly ? Such as auto detecting HSBS rips and adjusting to a HSBS interface, OR perhaps reencoding HSBS material to the native bluray 3D format (I forget what its called) I have a few 3D movies that I'd like to rip to my NAS setup, but I don't want to degrade the quality to that of hsbs. So I load the physical disc.
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Atarian posted:Thanks for the tips, guys. I went with a NUC. Probably huge overkill for my needs, but now I can enable all the flashy crap I want and I'm sure it wont hurt for emulator and plugin performance. my small form htpc is an i5 laptop with 8gb ram. I have no regrets. I software decode high bitrate lossless audio bluray rips without issue. Aeon NOX runs ultra smooth.
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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. edit: Gave it a shot. Its nice that the interface works in SBS now. Having trouble getting XBMC to scan/tag movies as 3d. Also searching for discussion related to this. adding "3dsbs" to the filename doesn't seem to work. Ideas ? jonathan fucked around with this message at 21:05 on Sep 9, 2013 |
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wolfbiker posted:I use EMM for scraping metadata for all my movies, so I just added a 3D genre in that and would check 3D for any movie that applied, and now I just go to browse, genres, and choose 3D. I tried this but I don't think thats the avenue I'm looking for as a solution. In the newest monthly of XBMC, it says it can auto-detect hsbs content, and label it as such. And switch to hsbs mode when playing those files. The hsbs interface works, but it's not detecting hsbs files, I have to manually go into hsbs mode in xbmc.
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Reverted back to latest stable of XBMC. Alpha 7 works ok, but there are random stalls/freezes, and lots of options are missing. Hardware decoding seemed to be fixed for my HD3000 with Alpha 7, however there is a documented bug where playback randomly fast forwards, which happened to me.
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Sep 16, 2013 20:48
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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.
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Sep 18, 2013 17:36
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EC posted:My favorite is still metropolis. I'm not a big fan of the heavy fanart skins, and metropolis is easy to use. Yes, I forgot about that one. Also very professional looking.
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wolfbiker posted:I have an AD12 and just got a 7.1 capable receiver. Is OE running on the AD12 capable of sending 7.1 to my receiver? I'm new to the world of 7.1, I'm old and used to 5.1. Yes. System --> system --> audio output. Bump it up to 7.1 and turn on all the audio types. Even people with 5.1 receivers should be using the 7.1 option.
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Sep 28, 2013 00:03
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EC posted:Why is this? Because your receiver does a better job of down mixing than xbmc does. At the very least, your receiver knows how to downmix properly. Who knows if the guys who took until 2013 to get 7.1/HD audio support really know exactly how functions like that are supposed to be implemented.
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I'm waiting for the Boxee Box port to be stable. Weeee!
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g0del posted:No, this is wrong. The AD12 uses an AMD chipset, and the AMD linux drivers do not support HD audio. See here and here. My bad. I still stand by my answer for OS's that support lossless/HD codecs. Good to know about the OpenElec drivers!
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Cross posting this from the Boxee thread: So I installed XBMC onto my boxee box today. The instructions are pretty easy and straight forward. Install Boxee+Hacks. Copy Custom build xbmc onto thumb drive, insert into box, reboot. XBMC! It's using Gotham Alpha 10, no crashes, runs a little bit sluggish but boots quicky from my cheap kodak 16gb thumb drive. Thought I crashed it when I was downloading 3 skins and scanning 4 sources at once. But it just stalled for a second. http://boxeed.in/forums/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=263&sid=ea8372e342acf472c3f7e74d0ea98b3f
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This plex home theater seems to be just a fork off XBMC... Tried to use it but apparently I need plex server to run, so now plex server is scanning.
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Not xbmc related, but I figure this thread would have the largest audience of people who might know: Which device has decent netflix support as well as decent local storage support ? I'd like to send and receive an SD card or a thumb drive and load it up with movies for my parents to watch. I have a spare boxee box but it's buggy. I was hoping for something a bit more simple for my retired parents to use. edit: 1080p support is a must.
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The website mentions the roku only does AAC and MP3 audio formats... Is that including formats wrapped in mkv ? Most of my titles are encoded in DTS
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There was a post in this thread awhile back, maybe in the summer, with a link to a forum post on how to set up MusicBrainz Picard to strip id3 tags from songs. Anyone able to dig up that post ? Im having a hell of a time.
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