XBMC Media Center : Setup Guide, Knowlege Base & Support - Page 3

Wasn't meant as a critiscm mate, knock youreslf out - but you can see even at this early stage, the types of queries being asked. A quick search in the xbmc forums would answer most if not all.

No I only have one TV Show folder.

I have three total:

DVD's
HD Movies
TV Shows


I think a future version of Dharma will do this. They say DS is not stable and I would rather wait.


Agreed. And noobs like us are not always welcomed with open arms. It's nice to have a place to bounce these kinds of questions off of.


Please let us know when the new version hits.

Change your view to Library mode and see if it does the same. When you go into Videos pull up the menu (you can usually doing it by hitting left on the keyboard) and select View: Library

Do not be put off by the guys on those forums. Much like here they are willing to help if you make the effort to find the answers your self.

Thanks. I will give that a shot tonight.

All we need it HD sound and we are on !!!! I love this program.

My subtitle issues I had with WMC are gone !

Now to sit down and watch something and see if my stuttering picture is also resolved.

Watched on movie last night and had zero issues. Sound was pretty good even if not HD and no stuttering or pausing. I am a happy camper.

A really useful plug-in to get for XBMC is the Subtitles plug-in. If you have a movie with no subtitles you can use this plugin to call out to Opensubtitles.org and it will download the appropriate subtitles for your movie; surprisingly too it's of the more functional plug-ins on XBMC.

Quick question:

I just installed the latest nightly build and cannot get AEON to install. Downloaded from the github page, point XBMC to the zip file, and it errors almost right away.

Any idea what would cause this?

EDIT: Also tried the build linked in the first part of this guide with no luck. The download link to the skin is also dead, so I grabbed it of XBMC.org's link.

If you're new to XBMC I would recommend staying away from the nightly builds at first. What you're experiencing is why I make this recommendation. Sometimes the tiniest of build updates will break a skin or plug-in.

If a skin isn't available through the Add-Ons section I'll go through the forums for the latest release. That is where you can find out if there is issues with the skin and the current nightly/release or if it's even being updated. Some of the modders will also note which version is required to make it work right in the first post.

Got it sorted out. I downloaded the wrong file off the github page...duh. I did find the proper one via the XBMC forum.

I am new to this, and I did have one other question....
For some reason I cannot get my music to load. It sees the folders, but they all appear empty in XBMC. Any idea why that might be?

Congrats on the sticky.

There are a couple of things I wish metadata fetchers would do, and none currently support -

- 'extrafanart' support. Skins such as Night can cycle through different backgrounmds for movies and tv shows, makes it a much more pleasant experience. They look for these in a folder called extrafanart. Some of the fetchers can get all the pictures but you have to move them into that directory manually or with a script.

- A single actors directory. Actor info goes into an '.actors' folder under each movie, but it produces a lot of duplicates. The scraper could create a single \\actor folder at the root, and then symlink it. I think this is an XBMC issue though, I will suggest it.

- Movie sets - this is a nice Xbmc feature which I think on ly Ember supports.

I'm actually thinking of writing my own scraper program.

Thanks, that looks like where I actually found it myself. And thanks for putting this thread together. Been very helpful.

Still not understanding why it doesn't see my music though.
They are MP3 format, in a folder called PUBLIC MUSIC and then in subfolders by album. XBMC sees the folders, but nothing inside of them.....

Is everything tagged properly?

I apologize in advance for the long post...

I'm just pulling my hair out here...I've followed this and no love. First, I installed XBMX RC2 and tried to play a BD ISO and nothing (sometimes a pop-up says "playback failed, check log"... I have't checked any logs, will probably go to the XBMC forums with log help, if needed.

I used ClownBD to convert the ISO to a mt2s file and now XBMC plays the movie. This would be fine, but it takes soooo long for ClownBD to fnish.

I discovered your guide and was excited to see I can use TMT to get BD payback...

So, I installed TMT5 (trial version...could this be my problem??) and dropped the playercorefactory.xml into the described directory and still nothing. I did notice that I had to edit this file so the path to uMEDVDPlayer is correct (see copied line below). *Note: I am running Win7 64 Pro, so Program Files has the added (x86)..should there be a space after "Program Files" between the (x86)? I'll try removing the space...

C:\\Program Files (x86)\\ArcSoft\\TotalMedia Theatre 5\\uMCEDVDPlayer5.exe

The next line in the .xml refers to "D:" Should I be changing this to the server path where my ISO's are stored? Leave it alone?

I launched 7MC and the TMT 5 plugin is present and it works...

I really, really want BD's to play through XBMC (ISO or folers...don't care). I'm guessing it shouldn't matter which style I choose (ISO or folders), but I have all my DVD's ripped to ISO and would prefer to keep that the same.

Win7 64 Pro OS
i3 550
ASUS P7H55M-PRO MB (4 Gig of RAM)
Using the on-board Intel Graphics

I have a question....I've never tried XBMC but have messed around with Mediabrowser for a while. Can I install both programs at the same time without conflicts to see which I like better? I have Windows 7 btw if it matters.

Mediabrowser is a plug in for 7MC specifically, so yes you can.

The views in XBMC natively do what MediaBrowser does for 7MC.

If you want you can even set XBMC to launch from WMC:

http://www.mediasmartserver.net/2010...-media-center/

I know English is not your first language but you type it quite well.

However, in your contractions you are using the ` grave accent key instead of the ' apostrophe key.

Maybe you already knew this and it's just matter of keyboard layout, but I figured you would like to know if you didn't already know.

Thanks and keep up the great work!

I currently use back row... and I have a number of backgrounds downloaded for each movie I have.

Safe to assume they will not cycle then ?

New skin in development which looks really good - http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?t=86762
This is what makes XBMC so great, other platforms simply don't have such a large dev community.

jimjimmyjones85, I don't have backrow and I did a quick search, I don't think the skin supports extrafanart yet. I know Night does and that's what I use.

[edit] Here's the skin comparison wiki - http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title..._skin_features
According to it, not sure if Backrow supports that yet.

The TVTunes Plug-In and better Netflix integration make XBMC really compelling again. Maybe I need to go back in the mean time until there is a proper review of the HDHRP