(2013-11-29, 01:50)dalben Wrote: I have nothing to add other than great skin. Thank you for the work and your openness to new ideas and tweaks. This sits on my xbmc in the living room and guests are always impressed by the setup.

If you ever consider a stripped down lite version for quicker responses on less powerful devices (I have 2 pivos xios boxes as well) let me know and I'll happily be a tester for you.

(2013-11-29, 06:12)jurialmunkey Wrote: @Scott00007 & dalben -- maybe in the future, but its a long way off I'm afraid - I don't use any very low powered devices so its not really priority for me at the moment (and would require significant rewrites of the skin -- in reality, to get good performance increases it would probably have to be rewritten from scratch). However, there are some things you can do that might improve the responsiveness of the skin a bit:

Don't set any custom backgrounds in 'Skin Settings > Backgrounds'. Set everything to use the global background and set the global background to the default ("special://skin/extra/backgrounds/01.jpg"). Then set the following options in 'Skin Settings > Views':
-- >> Show fanart - OFF
-- >> Don't fade background - ON
-- >> Show cover reflections - OFF (optional)

(2013-11-29, 01:29)jurialmunkey Wrote: @PatrickBateman

-- re: 'down' closing the info rather than making it smaller -- This is on purpose. My logic was that you press 'info' to see info about the movie/episode but you don't want plot spoilers. Then you press 'up' if you want to read the plot. Then after you have read all the info/plot you would want to close the info completely -- by having down close the info it saves having to press down twice. I know it might feel a little weird after getting used to the old behaviour, but it makes sense once you get used to it. I'm happy to change it back if there is some scenario I have overlooked where there is some value in shrinking the info rather than closing it.

-- re: going to info from the navigation controls (play/pause etc.) -- the behaviour that should occur is that the nav controls disappear and the info appears in its place. The info should then act as normal and when you close the info the navigation controls should reappear. I couldn't reproduce whats happening to you -- are you using a custom keymap by any chance? Can you pastebin your keyboard.xml here -- I have a feeling your info button might be mapped to back when the controls are up...

-- re: clocks moving with passthrough audio -- fixed in latest git.

So to summarise: the first issue is expected behaviour, but I am willing to hear reasons to change it; the second shouldn't be happening and I can't reproduce it; and the third is just something I overlooked and should now be fixed.

(2013-11-30, 00:33)jurialmunkey Wrote: @PatrickBateman

I gather that your remote buttons are mapped to key presses and that your info button is mapped to 'Ctrl+G'. Generally this key combination is what is mapped to the 'Guide' button which defaults to bringing up the navigation controls (play, pause, seek etc.) when playing a video. There is no need to change what keypress the remote is mapped to because we can just change what that keypress combination does instead.

What we need to do is use a text editor like notepad to edit your custom keyboard.xml in the userdata/keymaps directory (on linux it is ~/.xbmc/userdata/keymaps/keyboard.xml on windows it is %appdata%\XBMC\userdata\keymaps\keyboard.xml).

I'm guessing that under <VideoOSD> in the <keyboard> section - Ctrl+G is going to be set to 'Back' when you want it to be set to 'Info'. Either that or its not there at all which means it goes to the default which is 'Back'. If it is there, simply change it to be <g mod="ctrl">Info</g> and save and restart xbmc.

If its missing from the videoosd section then add it in -- i.e. <g mod="ctrl">Info</g>
If there isn't a videoosd section at all then add it in under the <keyboard> section as such:

Code:

<VideoOSD>
  <g mod="ctrl">Info</g>
</VideoOSD>

See here for more details about editing the keymap -- http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=keymap

(2013-08-26, 23:04)lysin Wrote: is there any way to pause a movie/tv show to Info screen (showing the cover and access to synopsis)?