2012-04-15, 10:18
I am a big fan of XBMC and am a huge fan of how it visually displays my media and the ability to tweak this UI. When it came time to to revamp my home entertainment center I wanted a dedicated XBMC set top box, so I purchased an Acer Revo R3700 and ran got live to run on the R3700. Here is where my frustrations begin, although I can play my videos fine for the most part, where or how do I begin to make it look visually stunning with the fanart on tiles displaying television shows? Or how do I get my movies to look on my screen where I can see more than one movie at a time and when I select the movie another screen pops up showing synopsis, audio, resolution, view trailer option, actors, etc... and all with fanart as the backdrops?
I guess the big question is how do I tweak my HTPC? I've got the dedicated Acer R3700, keyboard it came connected to my home receiver via HDMI. All the media comes from a drobo which has about 8TB of content. Do I have to create a new build with new tweaks from my laptop and reload the entire system with every update or adjustment? From there how do I properly display my movies and television shows? I go to library mode and every movie title takes up like 30 tiles and not every tile leads to the movie and so I have to not use library mode and navigate through the file system. I have changed all my files such that they conform to the naming structures for the most part like having one video file within each file that has the name of the movie along with the year (for scraping reasons, right?).
I also want to use my harmony 1000, eventually. I'm new to this XBMC and want to thank the community for helping me out.
I guess the big question is how do I tweak my HTPC? I've got the dedicated Acer R3700, keyboard it came connected to my home receiver via HDMI. All the media comes from a drobo which has about 8TB of content. Do I have to create a new build with new tweaks from my laptop and reload the entire system with every update or adjustment? From there how do I properly display my movies and television shows? I go to library mode and every movie title takes up like 30 tiles and not every tile leads to the movie and so I have to not use library mode and navigate through the file system. I have changed all my files such that they conform to the naming structures for the most part like having one video file within each file that has the name of the movie along with the year (for scraping reasons, right?).
I also want to use my harmony 1000, eventually. I'm new to this XBMC and want to thank the community for helping me out.