Comments on: Release 0.4.5: An interim release

By: chendo

chendo — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 06:33:21 +0000

Latest Remote Buddy has built in XBMC behaviours, if anyone cares.

By: ggt667

ggt667 — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 19:00:09 +0000

Does XBMC use liba52? or does it use quicktime? itâ€™s essential for it not to use quicktime according to this link: http://www.thismuchiknow.co.uk/?p=24 but use liba52 or similar for 5.1 sound on a MacMini with optical output.

By: elan

elan — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 18:54:59 +0000

@Bender:

1) No such key command right now. When we go into full-screen mode we either capture all the screens or just one. I can see how it might be useful, however.

2) This is probably XBMC dealing with “glitches” in the stream. I’ve noticed that “fast video” even when skipping around, which is probably similar to what happens after a commercial section has been cut out. I think one of the other developers (elupus or vulkanr?) was looking into it at one point.

By: ggt667

ggt667 — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 09:01:20 +0000

Did anyone make a pool/forum/fucntionality-rating for skins yet?

By: ggt667

ggt667 — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 08:05:40 +0000

Problems with the area that the mouse pointer is allowed to use when in 1080p or 1920×1200, it looks like the area( of size 720p or 1024×768 ) for the mouse pointer is the upper left corner of the 1080p or 1920×1200 screen size.

The consequence of this is that there is a reverse L shape of approx 30% the screen lower right that the pointer never reaches.

By: JayBird

JayBird — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 13:09:42 +0000

@Bender: I totally agree with point 1, that would be really useful.

By: Bender

Bender — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 02:47:59 +0000

2 things:

1…..is there a key command for the monitor blanking? i like to keep the monitor blanking on, but occasionally while watching something, i want to have access to my imac screen. if there was a key stroke to disable and enable it it would be perfect.

2…..for some reason, when i first start to watch a video file (mostly avi), the screen will flash a few times between the video and the menu, and then will play the video in slow-motion for about 2 or 3 seconds. the audio will then kick in, and the video will align with audio, and then it plays normal. whats weird is that it will do this again at certain spots in all the video files (it seems like it does it exactly where the video would have normally cut to commercial and back).

By: Jman

Jman — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 16:30:30 +0000

I know this will probably be low priority (especially as you didn’t know what it was initially) – but is there any chance we might see the karaoke (mp3+cdg) feature enabled?

thanks again for all your hard work.

By: elan

elan — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 19:48:27 +0000

@weavus: Can you describe what the situation was when you saw the mouse cursor? Window/full-screen, multiple monitors, etc.

@jms_uk: iTunes/iPhoto/Aperture/etc. integration is definitely on the list.

@azrael, @Phullup, @ChoccyHobNob: I’ll be improving the upscaling support, and fixing that issue in the next release.

@ChoccyHobNob: Apropos those two different video resolution settings, I found it a bit confusing too. I’m interested to know if any Mac users actually set the option to anything other than “Best Available”.

@jms_uk and @Aj: I’d be interested in getting Windows DLL loading working for codecs, which would probably allow WMA Pro and other Windows-only codecs to work on other platforms.

@Andy: We’re working on greatly improved remote support right as we speak, including for high end remotes like the Harmony. Stay tuned.

By: Andy

Andy — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 16:20:23 +0000

Thank you for all your efforts. I’m using this now as my primary media center software on my mac mini. Your work lets me play high definition content using familiar, easy to use xbmc structure.

I have a question: Have you given any thought to launch and control (e.g. harmony universal remotes)? I recall the command/key mapping on my xbox remote for xbmc was excellent and intuitive.