Xperience1080 (preview & svn)

z][ggy;512674 Wrote:going from 720 to 1080 is progression ie moving with the times so to speak, i fully understand that 720 scales fine but 1080 does give a beter clarity imo

Sometimes your eyes decieve you but be that as it may.
And the majority of users will be using 720p and some still using 480/540(SD)
So 1080 users are in the minority. Besides if all Skins were coded and the textures were 1080 also then i would imagine it would cause problems for alot of people using lower spec machines... getting of soap box now lol

Never meant to downplay the work by Team Blackbolt, they obviously did a massive amount of work to create the skin. This is a mod of that effort. I think a number of textures were basically remade from scratch, as well as re-coding of animations. That is nothing to sneeze at either. Great work all around, I'm just happy to have the benefit of so many people's hard work.

not really the resolution itself that draw me towards this mod. it's the texture/animation changes :-)

Did try it on the Asrock ION 330. It is useble, but the performance is just not good enough for my taste. Hope some of the stuff you did will also be in the next 720P version

Dannydeman Wrote:Did try it on the Asrock ION 330. It is useble, but the performance is just not good enough for my taste. Hope some of the stuff you did will also be in the next 720P version

You may not want to go into detail (because I think you've decided to not use Xperience), but which bits are too slow for you? I have the same PC and for me, the homemenu is fine, music in files mode is fine, pictures mode.. little slower, movies are the slowest part really, and got even slower when the metatag icons were added in later versions. Posterview is quite decent however, tho I choose not to display the fanart to keep the speed up.

But on reflection, I still think Xperience's speed in MyMovies is far preferable to any of the Aeon variations. Tried that Aeon Showmix the other day, eesh, someone took Aeon and made it crapper-looking!

I still keep going back to MediaStream tho... you can't beat the speed.

Can't wait to see some interesting music viewtypes in Xperience

had an idea tho.. could you not just run XBMC in 720p if you want Xperience to run well? Or does xperience1080 *only* run in 1080?

(I set my thumbquality to 512 in advancedsettings.xml)

Other ppl talk about downsizing their fanart/posterarts, but for me that's way too much involvement.

Quote:had an idea tho.. could you not just run XBMC in 720p if you want Xperience to run well? Or does xperience1080 *only* run in 1080?

I had the same idea the other day, i renamed folder 1080i to 720p and xbmc refused to load it and yes i changed the skin xml to default to 720p still no joy
I'm spent ages resizing all 1920 textures to 1280 which has made a big diference.

I am going to have to learn how to decypher xml so i can have a go at re coding it to 720p though i doubt i will manage it.

It's a shame as the skin really does shine in certain areas, But it's only for the upper
classes with mega quads of cash.

So will go back to using Xperience Beta 2(at least it works 100%) Just not as sexy.
Ps not trying to have a dig at you 1080 boy's and girls

Did you tried just to set xbmc to 720p and not change the skin?
I can't test that myself because I killed my mainboard and have to wait till wednesday till the new one arrives.

DDS support will help this soon enough.

PantsOnFire Wrote:You may not want to go into detail (because I think you've decided to not use Xperience), but which bits are too slow for you? I have the same PC and for me, the homemenu is fine, music in files mode is fine, pictures mode.. little slower, movies are the slowest part really, and got even slower when the metatag icons were added in later versions. Posterview is quite decent however, tho I choose not to display the fanart to keep the speed up.

But on reflection, I still think Xperience's speed in MyMovies is far preferable to any of the Aeon variations. Tried that Aeon Showmix the other day, eesh, someone took Aeon and made it crapper-looking!

I still keep going back to MediaStream tho... you can't beat the speed.

Can't wait to see some interesting music viewtypes in Xperience

had an idea tho.. could you not just run XBMC in 720p if you want Xperience to run well? Or does xperience1080 *only* run in 1080?

(I set my thumbquality to 512 in advancedsettings.xml)

Other ppl talk about downsizing their fanart/posterarts, but for me that's way too much involvement.

Well, I compare the smoothness to Xperience 720P (which is very smooth, much better then Aeon). I just feel that there is some delay when scrolling in a filelist for example. The blue glow goes first, and a few moments later I see the name. It bugs me. Also, the scrolling isn't that smooth when having Fanart on. Settings panel also has some delay.

I disabled all the animations, but that didn't help. The Asrock ION 330 just isn't right for the skin. I already overclocked it to 1.8ghz btw, just not enough.

D0nR0sa Wrote:Did you tried just to set xbmc to 720p and not change the skin?
I can't test that myself because I killed my mainboard and have to wait till wednesday till the new one arrives.

No joy my only display setting within xbmc is 1368x768 which is my tv's default resolution, so the only solution is a rewrite of all the screen coordinates, which is what i have been trying to do all day and i finally threw the towel in with it.
will stick with beta2 at least that supports us peasants who can't afford big shiny new 1080 lcds or plasmas:eek2::mad: