Hitcher Wrote:Don't forget to alter the <thumbsize> setting.

LaTropa64 Wrote:I honestly prefer the IMDB ranking. The way the star rating calculates things seems a little messed up. A movie with only a 5.6 ranking on IMDB still gets 3 stars. That's way too high... a 5.6/10 is generally a crap film.

Hitcher Wrote:How takes notice of the ratings anyway?

strangedaze39 Wrote:If you guys want to prepare your artwork for the new info view (which will require at least 1080p or 720p depending on your set for maximum resolution). Here's a great artwork site, it has itunes style, and my favorite part is every cover is sharp and is rid of all the small text that you find on posters (like opening 3-5-02 or the credits) It doesn't have everything but it sure has a lot.

Give it a go:
Get Video Artwork

djh_ Wrote:Actually, you don't have to set the thumbnail cache size very high at all now. The king size posters are read straight from the original file and bypass the cache anyway, and I've found that a 400px cache size is ample for all views. Helps performance no end.

sirreef Wrote:Wow, and I thought all my hard work went generally unnoticed.

Thanks for giving us a bit of a ad. Especially in an Aeon thread ... it's like an ad during the Superbowl.

So as not to totally hijack this thread, I would love to be a part of XBMC and future developments. I'm just not the world's best "coder" and I just don't have the time to truly devote to development when I'd rather just play with graphics. Anyone is welcome to hit me up over there and offer coding assistance ... might even be a paying gig.

Anyhow, out of the country until March 2nd and then I get to hook up Stark. Oh boy oh boy oh boy! So excited.

Nazgulled Wrote:Like someone said, it's an option, but I'm not sure what you mean... A movie rated at 5.6 is only 3 stars? No... A movie rated at 5.6 could be rounded to 5.5 (is more close to 5.5 than 6.0) and it would show 5 stars and a half. How come it would show only 3 stars?

djh_ Wrote:I'm actually going to post a pre-release guide tomorrow for stuff like thumbnails and naming conventions.

CapnBry Wrote:Hey a skin that uses hdflagging information, nice! (even if it is only using the filename for now) For the record, you can't have DTS and Dolby Digital in the new system because they are both audio codecs and only the "best" is exported to the skin (the first with the highest channel count). May want to revise the layout to be resolution | acodec | channels.

djh_ Wrote:Well, it only bypasses the cache for the info pages which use one thumbnail at a time. The cache is actually very important as without it the coverflows etc. would just die. I'm working on a desktop which uses samba shares over wireless, so I've plenty of experience with that. The big thumbnails load instantly unless the hard drive has to spin up, which is fair enough. On the HTPC they're actually stored on, there's no discernable load time at all.

In fact, while XBMC performance under Windows 7 (my install, at least) seems to be entirely unpredictable, the skin-wide performance on my less powerful XP machine is sublime. Really smooth.