(2014-03-04, 05:46)Maseo Wrote: No, it's a system wrought with ambiguity. Despite your claims, XBMC is not intuitive.
Your sausage analogy is an oversimplification. XBMC is very complex and one doesn't need to research or view YouTube videos to learn how to eat a sausage.
Now, I have done some more research and found an answer. So I'm directing this to frankharrison - hopefully he'll read this if he hasn't already found a solution.
To the new user, one must be aware and remember that downloading a video is not an actual function of XMBC. Nor is viewing it. Correct me if I'm wrong anyone (admin) but XMBC is an operating system like Windows XP, 7 or 8. Thus add-ons are it's versions of apps or "application programs." So, when you're viewing a video using an add-on like "1channel" or "IceFilms" it's the app (add-on) and not XBMC you're dealing with.
Yes Ned Scott, I know you've probably face-palmed and said aloud "Isn't this what I've told you?"
So frankharrison, by your original post I assume you were trying to download from within the Icefilms plug-in. I assumed that because your description.
Anyway, go to video/add-on and right-click the add-on where you will be presented with a menu. The menu will give you three choices, the last one being "Add-on Settings" You will find what you need from there.
OK guys ?
You bring up a lot of good points, and you've explained the situation very well. I'd probably be one of the first people to say that XBMC could be a lot easier and more intuitive to use, and I don't disagree with you on that. It's more that you seemed to blame allowing add-ons for part of that complexity, that I took issue with.
Generally, users like OP aren't that common because people will first have to learn how to install an add-on before having issues with the add-on, and the first add-ons they come across are add-ons from the XBMC.org repo. It's a more gradual learning curve, where the user first becomes familiar with XBMC's basic functions, then explores more features, learns about those, etc. That learning curve can still be improved, and we try to do what we can do make the UI and settings better, but it's typically not as bad as what happens with OP, where they are dumped into the middle of what is typically considered "advanced" usage.
There's been a big increase in devices that have these add-ons preinstalled, along with a big increase in interest in those add-ons. XBMC.org can't really help those add-ons follow or develop usage standards because they violate our
forum rules (wiki), which creates an unfortunate communication gap and community gap. It's hard to collaborate on "best practices" when the new popular add-on can put XBMC.org in hot legal water. Still, we allow users to install add-ons, because we're not here to police anyone. Open source is all about being able to use software however you want to use it. So if you want to blame the fact that XBMC allows third party add-ons, go ahead, but no matter how much XBMC's core becomes intuitive (or not), users will always have the option to use XBMC in ways we didn't think they would use it.