XBMC 11.0 Eden: Beta available now

Thanks DEV Team. Eden Beta working flawlessly here (Win 7 install). Many hours of use over the last two days!

It seems to work OK for the most part on my Generation One AppleTV units, but there is a tendency for the cursor to go haywire during some movies when bringing up the on-screen menu (acts like someone is holding down the left or right key a lot). The new weather options are nice. I like how you can read chapter names during movies now, but a drop-down chapter list to select from wouldn't be a bad idea.

The most disappointing missing feature is still no meta tag reading support for video files (M4V or MKV) despite the fact the audio tag reader can read them if the files are renamed to audio files (meaning little effort would be required to adapt it to handle video tags). This makes it impossible for me to ditch the Apple interface since many movies I have are foreign and what not and the DB lookups don't recognize them. Besides, I spent a lot of time making my tags the way I want them (for various cover art, descriptions ,etc.) and it just ditches them in favor of some generic scraper look-up. Imagine if meta tag reading wasn't support for audio formats. Well, video has grown up, guys. Scraping along with AVI is so last decade. M4V and MKV containers both support modern tagging. XBMC should too, IMO.

It'd be nice if multiple XBMC boxes could automatically sync any updates to the database with each other as well so I don't have to manually do it across almost a half dozen boxes. The AppleTV interface is old and not updated for V1 boxes anymore, but it can still sync them all via iTunes with zero issues on that end.

Save your "Program it yourself" messages for someone else. I'm just telling it how it is for my setup. I use XBMC purely for the occasional AVI or MKV file I need to view in a hurry and little else at this point. I was hoping to go CrystalHD and Linux+XBMC at one point for full 1080p support, but the interface issues make that impossible. Hopefully, I'll find another all-in-one solution at some point. But with newer audio formats that come with Blu-Ray and now 3D Blu-Ray as well, sadly this (ATV Gen1 or Gen2 + XBMC) isn't going to be it any time soon regardless.

Thanks for the update anyway. At least weather works again.

I have a centralized database running for al my XBMC installations, when i tried it with Eden it was incredibly slow. Was something changed in the way Eden handles mysql databases?

Or do i have to make a new database for Eden?

hey! a big thanx! for all your hard work getting this ready it worked for a bit for me but now i get the splash and then i'm sent back to my login screen

i compiled on linux mint 12 using the steps i've posted here, and here is a debug log...

it ran a couple of times, i installed the youtube addon and the xeebo skin, then quit. when i went back in i switched back to confluence and turned on debugging, then next time i start, as described above.

EDIT: nothing a reboot didn't fix!

figofago Wrote:Thanks but still don't get it. If I understand it right, files copied to movies directory should be vissible even if not processed by the scraper (this would be great)? If so, it doesn't work for me. Still need to access files mode to see them. What is the expected behaviour?

The way I understand this is:

Files = looking at the file system you added as a video source so you see all the media files you have in that area.

Library = looking at the database which has recognised media files in you file system you added as a video source. Any media files it has not identified and added to the database will not show.

A3Baak Wrote:I have a centralized database running for al my XBMC installations, when i tried it with Eden it was incredibly slow. Was something changed in the way Eden handles mysql databases?

Or do i have to make a new database for Eden?

VonMagnum Wrote:It'd be nice if multiple XBMC boxes could automatically sync any updates to the database with each other as well so I don't have to manually do it across almost a half dozen boxes. The AppleTV interface is old and not updated for V1 boxes anymore, but it can still sync them all via iTunes with zero issues on that end.

http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=HOW..._libraries

VonMagnum Wrote:The most disappointing missing feature is still no meta tag reading support for video files (M4V or MKV) despite the fact the audio tag reader can read them if the files are renamed to audio files (meaning little effort would be required to adapt it to handle video tags). This makes it impossible for me to ditch the Apple interface since many movies I have are foreign and what not and the DB lookups don't recognize them. Besides, I spent a lot of time making my tags the way I want them (for various cover art, descriptions ,etc.) and it just ditches them in favor of some generic scraper look-up. Imagine if meta tag reading wasn't support for audio formats. Well, video has grown up, guys. Scraping along with AVI is so last decade. M4V and MKV containers both support modern tagging. XBMC should too, IMO.

Someday. It wasn't planned for Eden, but I do believe there is work being done on this front.

Quote:I was hoping to go CrystalHD and Linux+XBMC at one point for full 1080p support, but the interface issues make that impossible.

http://www.stmlabs.com/projects/crystalhd-for-appletv/

Very easy to install, and what I use on my ATV1+BCHD

Quote:Hopefully, I'll find another all-in-one solution at some point. But with newer audio formats that come with Blu-Ray and now 3D Blu-Ray as well, sadly this (ATV Gen1 or Gen2 + XBMC) isn't going to be it any time soon regardless.

AudioEngine will be in nightly builds shortly after Eden is done, if you can't wait for XBMC v12.

Ned Scott Wrote:http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=HOW..._libraries

Thx, should have looked it up myself

Eden is very fast compared to Dharma, thanks.

I am however not fond of the home splash screen, where is mostly black and just says xbmc eden beta (or whatever) in faint white lettering, can someone direct me to a link on this site about how I can make my own xbmc splash screen?

Thanks

tcman47 Wrote:Eden is very fast compared to Dharma, thanks.

I am however not fond of the home splash screen, where is mostly black and just says xbmc eden beta (or whatever) in faint white lettering, can someone direct me to a link on this site about how I can make my own xbmc splash screen?

Thanks

Try here:
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid...ash+screen

Edit: The link I posted is how to switch out the splashscreen. Were you actually looking into how to make your own?
If so I would think any photo editing software such as Photoshop or Gimp would work.
Heres a thread with a couple pretty nice ones users here made:
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid...ash+screen