Drazzilb Wrote:Already asked this question this is what was replied
http://forum.xbmc.org/showpost.php?p=678304&postcount=188

However I'm 100% with you. PVR is the icing on the cake for XBMC and its Skins.

skullmonkey Wrote:The mod is great but still no SKIN SETTINGS in the System menu? Why?

btw, please write the date of the update under the download link. It's easy to track it.

Thanks

loggio Wrote:Qualar,

The issue Drazzilb is talking about with thumbnails/posters lagging, and being "slow" is real, i experience this also. It's the skin that's doing it, it's not a hardware issue. I have reason to believe the issue is with the thumbnails not loading in the "background"

ReFocus had this issue also, but only with it's poster view. When using confluence and most other skins i could scroll extremely fast through thumbnail views/poster views etc without issue, though when trying to scroll fast through ReFocus's 'poster view' it would quickly become slow and unpleasant. I raised the issue with the developer and he tried to tell me it was a hardware issue also, though upon further investigation, he released a new version that fixed the issue. I believe he changed thumbnails to load in the background just like they do in confluence and many other skins.

I'm having the EXACT same issues with ALL versions of rapier.

Quoted from Jeroen (creator of ReFocus) "For me Confluence loads all images too, so it could be down to how fast the system is. That said though I did notice that I forgot to set the poster images as textures to load in the background. I have now also set it to always preload 4 images. So I'm hoping this will speed it up for you. It did for me although nothing earth shattering. If you have to scroll through a large library though I would advice to use the scrollbars as that will always be much faster."

Hope this helps, if you do this for most views the skins speed will be greatly improved i believe. Maybe you could contact him for further info on how he fixed it. But a assure you, it's a problem with the skin and NOT hardware.

cheers,
and great work btw

qualar Wrote:If someone get get more info from the refocus developer about how to do this I will make the changes.

loggio Wrote:Qualar,

I'm looking into it now, I've found the problem. Got it running faster already. I will modify and upload my fixes in due time. Stay tuned.

Also,

I may be missing something, in library "sort by: name" where is the option to change ascending or descending ? all my movies are Z-A and i cannot change this..


Loggio.