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Custom nfos are certainly posisble.

It's easier to use a program like ember media manger described earlier, to create the NFO file for you. It will let you select which movie on iMDB the film corresponds to, and then create the nfo and download some art for it.

XBMC will use the nfo instead of searching online. If the film is already showing up in XBMC just identified incorrectly, you'll have to refresh it (click I and choose refresh), to get it to use the nfo.
 
Can someone please advise how they have their power options etc. set when running XBMC off windows so that everything boots smoothly every time? I get problems sometimes when turning the HTPC back on it showing XBMC in a shrunken res window or similar.

Anyone got their power on/off with a remote to work as smoothly as a normal A/V appliance yet?
 
I have my power options in Windows to never switch anything off. Ever.

I'm using a genuine Microsoft RC6 remote/receiver, as I believe these are about the only ones that are capable of switching the PC back on from standby.

By installing XBMCcustomregis (linked in the first post) along with the AutoHotKey script it comes with, XBMC always stays in focus (and if not, pressing the "Green Button" on the remote brings it back to focus)

I have been successfully putting my HTPC into standby and waking it up with the remote for a long time :)
 
I am using an old Zotac S775 motherboard with onboard Geforce 9300 and Frodo at the moment. All seems great stability wise but i am having a flickering issue. Every now and again in the menus or while playing movie it will flicker :( I have no idea what the issue is and dunno if i should throw in the towel and buy something newer.
 
Confused said:
I have my power options in Windows to never switch anything off. Ever.

I'm using a genuine Microsoft RC6 remote/receiver, as I believe these are about the only ones that are capable of switching the PC back on from standby.

By installing XBMCcustomregis (linked in the first post) along with the AutoHotKey script it comes with, XBMC always stays in focus (and if not, pressing the "Green Button" on the remote brings it back to focus)

I have been successfully putting my HTPC into standby and waking it up with the remote for a long time :)
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Is the on off button on set to stand-by then instead of hibernate or shut-down or whatever the other options are? I'll give it a try :)
 
It's quite probably set to Standby.

In XBMC some skins can "interpret" the shutdown/suspend message, and pop up a prompt asking you what you want to do - I'm using Aeon Nox and it gives me the message, so I just choose "Standby".
 
Okay, so still working on the custom NFO thing but I've run into another problem...

15 movies are not showing on XBMC and as far as I can tell, they've all been scraped ok. Does anyone know how I can get these added into my movie library on XBMC? I've been searching for help all day to no avail.
 
Can you see the movies if you browse in "Files" mode? If you press the context menu key (or right-click), you'll get the little menu, choose "Movie information"

If they've been scraped correctly, it will show the relevant details - if not, then it won't show the right details. You can choose "Refresh" and perform a manual search.
 
NVP said:
Can someone please advise how they have their power options etc. set when running XBMC off windows so that everything boots smoothly every time? I get problems sometimes when turning the HTPC back on it showing XBMC in a shrunken res window or similar.
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Do you have XBMC set to use a Full Screen Window? This solves a lot of problems. In Settings -> System --> Video, set it as Full Screen, and below it, Use Full Screen Window.

Alternatively, try mapping ALT+Enter to your remote, and click that whenever it drops to a small window.
 
buckeejit said:
Okay, so still working on the custom NFO thing but I've run into another problem...

15 movies are not showing on XBMC and as far as I can tell, they've all been scraped ok. Does anyone know how I can get these added into my movie library on XBMC? I've been searching for help all day to no avail.
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Which movies are they, and how are the files named?
If you get the Universal Scraper plugin, it will find movies that XBMC's native scraper doesn't.

If your movies are on imdb, you can create a very simple text file called movie.nfo, and have it contain something like this:

Code: 
<movie>
        <title>Sin City (Recut, Extended, Unrated)</title>
</movie>
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0401792/
With this example, it'll get the info from the imdb page, and use the title listed instead of the one at imdb. All the rest of the data will be taken from imdb.

More info on constructing the nfo file here:
http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Import-export_library
 
TV Cards

Gents, I'm just getting my head around this and from what I gather the way to do this is by having a myth/media portal backend pushing to xbmc via an API of some sort. (right?)

Now this brings me on to hardware.... I'm looking at DVB-S or/and DVB-T cards that have good compatibility Linux/Windows but importantly would like to know what the cpu consumption of these cards is like.

Any help would be much appreaciated
 
Soo.. I'm currently running Eden and all is working exactly as I want - is there any benefit of looking to upgrade to Frodo or would I be doing it just for the sake of it?

All media is currently stored on a NAS, library configured on Mysql and custom menu items using Aeon Nox link to smart playlists to show what/where I want :)
 
StooM said:
Soo.. I'm currently running Eden and all is working exactly as I want - is there any benefit of looking to upgrade to Frodo or would I be doing it just for the sake of it?

All media is currently stored on a NAS, library configured on Mysql and custom menu items using Aeon Nox link to smart playlists to show what/where I want :)
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I don't see any need to upgrade, certainly not yet. XBMC 11 does everything I need/want.
 
I upgraded to Frodo so notifications in Couch Potato V2 worked. Can't say I've noticed much/any difference between Eden and Frodo besides the HD Audio update, both appear to work as well as each other and the Aeon MQ4 theme works fine on both too :)
 
Subliminal Aura said:
TV Cards

Now this brings me on to hardware.... I'm looking at DVB-S or/and DVB-T cards that have good compatibility Linux/Windows but importantly would like to know what the cpu consumption of these cards is like.
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supported linux devices.
http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Hardware_Device_Information

if you want hidef you'll need dvb-s2 and dvb-t2 devices.

saving the streams takes very little cpu, playing them back (offset by vaapi or vdpau hardware decoding) or transcoding does.
i have a small ION2 dual core atom machine with a 1TB 2.5" drive, running ubuntu precise, mythbackend and xbmc as the frontend.
it's powerful enough to record multiple streams and playback but not transcoding.
 
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Hi guys, I have OpenElec v2.00 final with XBMC 10.... What is the easiest way to transfer files from my laptop to the hard drives on to the XBMC machine? Laptop has Windows 7 and both are connected to the same router.
Thanks.
 
Do you want to just access the files that are on your laptop, or do you want to store the files on your OpenElec machine?

If the first - create a share on your laptop of the folder where the files are located, then on XBMC go to "Add Source" and browse the network for the files.

If the second... then you'll need to copy the files across somehow - doing that on Linux is not my area of expertise - so I'll leave that to someone else :)
 
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