Hi All
Inspired by this thread in the German language forum thanks to Lehmden
Just been trying the very latest Frodo release of xbmc, not bad at all, setup was a breeze, had all folders setup for media in under 30 minutes, enabling the pvr for ARGUS TV, took 10 min, but that was with using an existing installation of ARGUS (rebranded 4TheRecord in case you did not know), and just pointing the pvr plugin to the correct ip.
Very smooth running through menu's in fact so fast you could easily blast past the media you wanted to select
Remote support still very hit and miss, but now with the standard keyboard\mouse settings, xbmc seems to recognise the back button of my M$ mce remote as keyboard escape, which never worked previously for me.
Scanning media was good and did not slow or stop xbmc from doing other tasks ie playing video, so another plus there, information for the most part was accurate, the downside was, if no info found, you were not informed of that, so you could go into the movie library and find x amount of movies missing, if you did not remember them, rescanning needs to be done against these files manually, a real time consuming thing, same applied to TVSeries and Music.
For me, MP still beats xbmc hands down regarding what is not found on a full scan of media folders.
The other thing I did like, if you hovered over live tv, you were informed of current\upcoming recording, that to me was a really nice touch, epg I hated, you had to choose a program and ok it, which brought up the info screen, hittingthe ok again, takes you back to the last tv station viewed as live tv, so this is a bug, really got me jumping around the whole epg and a complete pain just to read what the program was about.
Recording works fine from the GUI, just don't try and record a series, not supported in any way with the current release, again makes it pretty unusable for a 10ft experience
Comskip is supported, at least on my singleseat system when playing back recorded tv.
Overall what I missed was
Full M$ MCE remote support.
Easy zoom mode access, again via remote as in the blue button, the one built in non-linear stretch for 4:3 is not the best.
Feedback for not found media whether TVSeries\Movies or music.
Recording TV Series is currently impossible, unless manually added.
In MyVideos or MovingPictures, if I hit a letter on remote it sends sms keypress, allowing easy movement around my media, I know I already stated how fast xbmc is, but you easily go straight past the movie you wanted
Info option about playing media, as our i button works, you can get a timeline up, which has access to filename, media settings, but there is no way of getting a quick glance information screen of what you are watching, without going backwards to the media list, important to me when i walk in on a part way playing tv program and I want to know whats it about.
Screenshots taken are from a early prototype of Titan, so ignore quality, and have been hacked to work with my ARGUS TV system
Now this is what I meant by information about program, none of the pretty bits in the very next picture gives me that compared to MP
Inspired by this thread in the German language forum thanks to Lehmden
Just been trying the very latest Frodo release of xbmc, not bad at all, setup was a breeze, had all folders setup for media in under 30 minutes, enabling the pvr for ARGUS TV, took 10 min, but that was with using an existing installation of ARGUS (rebranded 4TheRecord in case you did not know), and just pointing the pvr plugin to the correct ip.
Very smooth running through menu's in fact so fast you could easily blast past the media you wanted to select
Remote support still very hit and miss, but now with the standard keyboard\mouse settings, xbmc seems to recognise the back button of my M$ mce remote as keyboard escape, which never worked previously for me.
Scanning media was good and did not slow or stop xbmc from doing other tasks ie playing video, so another plus there, information for the most part was accurate, the downside was, if no info found, you were not informed of that, so you could go into the movie library and find x amount of movies missing, if you did not remember them, rescanning needs to be done against these files manually, a real time consuming thing, same applied to TVSeries and Music.
For me, MP still beats xbmc hands down regarding what is not found on a full scan of media folders.
The other thing I did like, if you hovered over live tv, you were informed of current\upcoming recording, that to me was a really nice touch, epg I hated, you had to choose a program and ok it, which brought up the info screen, hittingthe ok again, takes you back to the last tv station viewed as live tv, so this is a bug, really got me jumping around the whole epg and a complete pain just to read what the program was about.
Recording works fine from the GUI, just don't try and record a series, not supported in any way with the current release, again makes it pretty unusable for a 10ft experience
Comskip is supported, at least on my singleseat system when playing back recorded tv.
Overall what I missed was
Full M$ MCE remote support.
Easy zoom mode access, again via remote as in the blue button, the one built in non-linear stretch for 4:3 is not the best.
Feedback for not found media whether TVSeries\Movies or music.
Recording TV Series is currently impossible, unless manually added.
In MyVideos or MovingPictures, if I hit a letter on remote it sends sms keypress, allowing easy movement around my media, I know I already stated how fast xbmc is, but you easily go straight past the movie you wanted
Info option about playing media, as our i button works, you can get a timeline up, which has access to filename, media settings, but there is no way of getting a quick glance information screen of what you are watching, without going backwards to the media list, important to me when i walk in on a part way playing tv program and I want to know whats it about.
Screenshots taken are from a early prototype of Titan, so ignore quality, and have been hacked to work with my ARGUS TV system
Now this is what I meant by information about program, none of the pretty bits in the very next picture gives me that compared to MP
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