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Hi guys, I thought I would spice up XBMC a little by adding a short start up movie. Are there any places that have such things? at least 720p at that.
Also, on the windows version, is the xbmc logo that comes up at the beginning just an image file? and is it assessable without having to extract skin files and whatnot?
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Ok scratch that; due to xbmc startup shenanigans (loading the interface at the start, not as optimised as it could be) startup movie ends up playing slow for a few seconds, creating blockyness and turning out to be a great waste of time. Plus I get "loading" after the splash which also buggeres up the experience.
Oh well.
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Refocus does this with some XML wizardry. Take a look at it and try tofigure it out. I tried and got stumped.
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I know how to make a startup playlist, that part is fine. It's just a shame the xbmc UI takes too much memory to initially kick in at the start, so playing back a hd vid at the same time becomes a waste of time.
Audio works well for this though, but it's not what I wanted.
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2011-11-29, 11:39
(This post was last modified: 2011-11-29, 11:43 by Ned Scott.)
It's no secret that the XBMC GUI isn't as optimized as it could be. Eden (v11) does bring us closer, though.
That being said, no name calling or I'm turning this car around.
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I think the devs were actually looking into something like that for an upgrade notice screen. They wanted something animated to give the impression of "working/something is happening/hour glass". At least I recall that idea being thrown around. I have no idea if it's actually going to be done.
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I don't know about you guys, but on my box (AMD 6000+ proc, 2GB RAM), I only see the logo for 6-8 seconds before it's ready to use. I'm not saying it wouldn't be eye-candy to see something animated, but not sure I'd even notice it between the time I turn on and turn around to walk to the couch and it's ready to go.
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I was thinking something like the xbox 360 logo type of thing with an animated bit and a sound. Might also be extra nice for folks using the live versions.
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