XBMC 11.0 Eden: Beta available now

Another issue/room for improvement with this is that pressing 'i' on the recently added items on the Confluence home screen should ideally take one to the info for that episode/movie but instead takes one to system info., which kind of breaks the use-case for the i key.

PaulC2K Wrote:I dont know if this is the wrong place to ask, seems fairly inappropriate to make a new thread about it though, nor could i find one that seemed relevant (to 'Recently Added'/'Latest Ep/Film' widget)...

I recently found out that home screen widget for 'Recently Added' widget (Confluences settings call it 'Recently added Videos', but on the home screen it shows as 'Latest Films/Episodes') no longer removes items which have been viewed, and its a change made directly to the core functionality.
Will we ever have the option to revert to the previous style? I liked being able to quickly see what had been added and hadnt been viewed yet, now it kinda feels exactly the same as the 'Recently Added' search type, except it shows far far less.

Maybe there was an important reason for this which im overlooking, but im hoping that even if there isnt (ie general preference), then maybe we could perhaps add the option to show or hide watched items from the widget?
It wouldnt be so bad if I could go into the 'recently added' view and disable viewed items, and it just influence that viewtype, but its a global change (or at least to that content-type)

It becomes particularly annoying if i have to redo a section of library and repopulate it with old content, and it floods the 'latest' list, and previously i'd just re-set it as viewed and order would be restored, now it doesnt care if its new or old, seen or unseen, its just a visual but less effective 'Recently Added' viewtype which has the convenience of 1 button press less, but shows far less items (Confluence shows just 4 items).

+1 I also noticed this and I completely agree with you.

Hi developers,

I'm curious - when is going to be a next beta release? There is a lot of bugs fixed since beta 1 release.

Thanks for your great job :-)

sedmy1 Wrote:I'm curious - when is going to be a next beta release? There is a lot of bugs fixed since beta 1 release.

I am not a developer, but it looks like the next beta is quite near...

---Alex

I'd love the ability to hide the on screen volume level meter. I don't wanna see it every time I touch the volume control on my remote.

Is there anything special I need to think about before upgrading from Dharma 10.1 to Eden beta when usin SQL library ?

Or is it just pressing next all the way ?

//Stellan

Not too sure if this is directly related to Eden, but since updating to V11, I'm unable to watch and .mkv file without it stopping constantly after 3 or so minutes of play. It just stops and is sometimes unable to continue playing from the position it originally stopped (I'll have to fast forward past that point for it to continue). Can't recall this happening in previous versions. Is anyone else experiencing this?

RichH Wrote:No problem at all, it is just that as a 32 bit app it does not fully utilise all available RAM. System has 8 gig so only way to fully use that was if XBMC was a 64 bit app. Hence my question, if there was any plans to release a 64 bit version at some stage.

Why do you think you need a 64b version? Seriously, why? If it's running fine with a 32b executable, it's not going to run any better in 64b. If it's not using all available RAM via a 32b executable, it's not going to use any more in 64b mode. The fact that you loaded your PC with more RAM than XBMC can effectively use is your problem. Now, if your 32b version were crashing due to lack of memory, that's one thing. It's not, so you have a solution looking for a problem.

beta2 is out btw.
http://mirrors.xbmc.org/releases/win32/x..._beta2.exe
http://mirrors.xbmc.org/releases/osx/xbm...a2-x86.dmg

Folks
I have a Noob question. I want to test 11.0 Eden and so installed on another machine and it appears to work like a charm. I now want to install on my actual media center and please tell me if this is a safe approach:

1. on Win7x64 copy c:\users\user1\appdata\roaming\xbmc to flashdrive. Open bottle of beer.
2. install XBMC 11.0 on the machine. And open another bottle of beer.
3. make no chance to media directories
4. play around and stay put with 11.0 if it is working. And open another bottle of beer.
5. if for any reason switchback is required....
(a) unistall 11.0 along with userdata
(b) install 10.1 again and open another bottle of beer.
© run 10.1 to bring up interface and help create user data
(d) exit from xbmc 10.1. And open another bottle of beer.
(e) copy from flashdrive replacing the userdata
(f) open another bottle of beer
(g) restart xbmc 10.1 and pat yourself on the back for brilliant work and take a long swig of beer.