XBMC

[paradisiac]

hi, media centre is being a pain so am thinking of using XBMC. is there a skin that will let me sort my movies by genre and also give a synopsis of the film and not just the poster pic when highlited?

 

[paradisiac]

I don't have the 'media information' option

 

[paradisiac]

still no joy on another note, pluggins/addons. are these dependent on what version (windows/mac/linux/live) or can I just google them and download any?

 

[paradisiac]

Have you got XMBC 11?
http://xbmc.org/natethomas/2012/03/24/xbmc-11-0-eden/

how do I find out?

 

[paradisiac]

ok, I might be being dumb (im running xbmc in windows) but I don't have a system info bit

I have in my view options - list, big list, thumbnail, wide icons

 

[paradisiac]

ok found the system info (had to change skin) :
XBMC 11.0 (compiled : Mar 21 2012)

I have iplayer and itv player working but 4OD and Demand 5 give script errors when I select them

I get where the media info is meant to be, but I only get those I listed, no media info option.

 

[paradisiac]

There had been a fix made for those, but its not in a release form yet.
Am on my phone atm so will post details when I get home.

Did the scraper download info when you added the movies?

scraper?
I used media center master and got that to create XBMC metadata

 

[paradisiac]

ok sorted out scrapping and now its working. but is there any way to manually change the genre in the metadata?

 

[paradisiac]

well i added all my video, spent hours manually changing the genres, for it to then just update itself and overwrite them.