[Windows Phone] XBMC REMOTE for Eden and Frodo

(2012-03-12 19:48)nicbot Wrote:  I love this remote except for 2 crucial things IMO.

1. When viewing TV Shows, the art used is huge and it takes FOREVER to scroll to the show you want to watch because of this. Maybe using banners would be a better idea I would rather deal with a text list rather than the current huge art.
2. Please implement ignore articles when sorting/listing movies, shows and artists. IE - 'The League' should land in the 'L's' not 'T's'. <-- I'm not sure who wouldn't want this.

Thanks again for your amazing work.

Hi, there's a new version at MS for testing,v1.7.
It addresses both these issues and some other stuff aswell (wol). I'm a bit uncertain about the solution for the first issue though. I can't reproduce the problem on my xbmc and wp7. I always see a nice banner.

Hopefully the new version will available in a few days time.

Awesome stoked to check it out! I'll have to have a look at my xbmc setup to make sure it's nothing in there causing the non-banner display of tv shows.

Thanks and keep up the good work!

Really Really Nice work! Bought this and am very pleased with the ease of use, number of features cramped in and the Very cool design, so kudos to You sir for a fine Product! Only bug encountered is that I Can't Scroll through videos locally, as it'll just FC to start When getting to A. Also cannot go straight to start letters, due to same bug.

World be nice to hear if I'm alone with this bug, so please comment.

(2012-03-16 15:57)Tarakini Wrote:  Really Really Nice work! Bought this and am very pleased with the ease of use, number of features cramped in and the Very cool design, so kudos to You sir for a fine Product! Only bug encountered is that I Can't Scroll through videos locally, as it'll just FC to start When getting to A. Also cannot go straight to start letters, due to same bug.

World be nice to hear if I'm alone with this bug, so please comment.

I have had this issue as well. I've been away from my htpc for a bit, but will try and see if I see the issue again today. Just to reiterate, scrolling through my video collection within the remote causes a crash to home screen. My collection size is about 300 movies.

-n

Ok. I've been digging around a little bit in the stacktraces from Microsoft but can't really seem to find anything related to this.
I'll keep trying to see if I can get this error to occur and also see if I can expand my movie collection a bit and see if that might cause it. (Doubt it though since I got 1400 albums scrolling without issues)

Please post if you think you find something that might cause this.

I might have found something..
Could you try the "Clear Local Data" button that's located under the settings page?
Might be a serialization issue that causes the issue.
I've also rewritten alot of functionality regarding the thumbnail Uri's which could potentially cause some problems.
Other than that, I've also corrected a bug in the fast app switching functions.

Thank you for looking in to the matter so fast! Have tried clearing data and unticking store data locally but it seems to persist.. I have about 500 videos in the library, and it's located on a whs 2011 server, if that's at all helpful..
Unfortunately I don't have anything in my music library ATM so can't test if it's only related to videos, but tv series works fine Though.

I'll try rescraping my movies in xbmc and let You know if that made any difference.

Man, MS's approval process must be painfully slow. Still haven't seen 1.7 hit the market

Anyways, thank you Zetterlund for your quick response and help. I will try your suggestions tonight when I get home. Although I've tried the clear data option in the past with no change, I will try it again for good measure and will post back.

Just to note a little more on the video collection crash issue... If I open my video collection in the remote and rather than just start scrolling I hit the first letter and then select another letter to jump down (like 'k' for example) I can then scroll around quite a bit. But when I get to certain points in my library it will crash. For example, if I open my video collection and jump to 'G', then scroll down I can scroll down for days. If I jump to 'G' and scroll up, I get the crash when I get to about the D's. This would happen every time and after enough testing it seemed to happen at specific points in my library.

So after all of that I decided to go through the metadata of my library and clean it up since I had a few vids in there that were kind of random with little or no metadata attached. Items that would xbmc couldn't scrape or would only be viewable from the directory view within XBMC for example. Anyhow, I cleaned all of these up and still had the issue on my remote /sigh.

Tonight I will clear the local data on my phone and give it another shot just to be certain since I can't remember if I actually did that after all that library cleanup :/ ...Kind of a faceplam moment lol.

Thanks!

Yes, the testing process has very recently become a major problem. It used to take 3-5 days but now it's more like 7+ days..
Glad to tell you though that 1.7 should be on marketplace within 24 hours. (Unless that part has been slowed down as well, or something else screws up)

I will try to submit v1.8 after that which should (most likley) solve the library issues and some other stuff.

Update 1.7 is now available in the Market Place :-)