Aeon on an ION?

Zombie, if you need beta testers, let me know, cause im interested.
Also, im able to translate it to Portuguese.

@Revenge

Check out Aeon Nox. Runs great on my ION 330

dascmo Wrote:@Revenge

Check out Aeon Nox. Runs great on my ION 330

i would also recommend Aeon Nox great lightweight aeon skin

ZombieRobot Wrote:i would also recommend Aeon Nox great lightweight aeon skin

Zombie, hows your skin going?
Im keenly interested as I want to run it on an Apple TV 2.

Loved Aeon Nox, try it, it's like having Aeon but without lag in my Shuttle XS35GT.

I've tried Aeon Nox, and it works very smooth.

So, what will be the differences between Aeon Lite and Aeon Nox?

Aeon Nox seems nice at first. The homescreen is smooth, the font is good and bold. But using it bit more I see it's drawbacks. I quite often browse youtube and other video plugins in xbmc.. thumbnail view in skins like mediastream/pm3 are great for this, there is no ideal view in Aeon.

The cd spinning graphic when playing music (sat at the home screen) is nice, but 'now playing' info is compromised when on any other screen; it is relgated to the topleft of the screen in a font much too small. Fullscreen video is very nice, the osd is lovely, and the same goes for the INFO when you hit I on a movie. Heres where things are less sweet on an atom proc... coverflow, still chugs a fair amount, stick to non-coverflow showcase and you're talking. With a movie playing, I hit tab to drop out of fullscreen. The video continues to play (in a smaller window) behind your line of movie posters (showcase view). Looks odd. Playback seems to chug after a while also (might be movie-dependent of course).

Showcase view for music is nice but I prefer a list view for the individual tracks.. the result? Its nice that xbmc remembers view layouts but going from showcase, to list, then back to showcase when you back out feels quite an un-natural experience.

TVShows, bannerview seems quite nice (provided you've got the right banner artwork- ie horizontal rectangular shaped image)- else it looks stretched. But for me, I couldn't seem to switch to another view after picking this view?

Nox I feel would benefit from some kind of vignette image effect for the backgrounds, like in the pre-Aeon days. -if you have a directory of images at random for backgrounds, theres a good chance one of them will obscure the 'now playing' info on the homescreen making it illegible.

Overall I thin Aeon Nox is great if you have a well-managed, tidy local media setup. But for pulling stuff from the web I think other skins facilitate that a bit better. To see it at it's best, ie coverflow, I would guess the images could do with being lower-res. (my posters are all about 1MB each), the fanart- whatever xbmc pulls em down as.

The thumbnails do seem incredibly crisp I will say, I am guessing the samplerate/thumb quality is quite high.

Aeon MX also runs great on my Asrock 152D

Too many god damn versions of Aeon... because of this i gave up on this skin a long time ago. News of Zombie's new skin sparked my interest again, but i've learned not to hold my breath. Will be good to try out :-)

Keep up the good work.

Loggio

So I haven't had much time coding wise for the last two weeks because of new baby boy but i can see some time coming up in the next couple of days hopefully after that i will be at about 90% to 95% done before i can release a alpha download atv fans may have to wait until after the alpha release i have jailbroken my atv2 and am testing the skin at the moment all i have to say is wow what a sh#t experience it is i dont think its my skin i could be that its still a new development of xbmc but there are a lot of bugs with the skin on the atv that will need to be addressed after alpha release. on pc its crazy fast blows the lid off showmix speed wise will keep in touch soon for alpha download