2012-07-29, 23:50
Let me start by saying that I love XBMC's ease of use and intuitive interface. It has become a great media hub for playing movies and TV shows. However, the other main reason I put my HTPC together was as an emulation box. I built a powerful system that should be able to support some more-recent emulators.
I have has nothing but the worst trouble dealing with Launcher and Advanced Launcher. From starting the game, getting it to show up in fullscreen, to exiting the game.. there always seems to be something going wrong. I downloaded the latest XBMC yesterday to replace my v10 install, and now my emulators don't work at ALL. At least before I could get them to start.
My biggest problems:
1) Starting an emulator in fullscreen then getting XBMC to resume fullscreen after (This is my #1 issue)
.. actually I think if that first problem was solved, it would fix most of the rest.
It seems like whenever I run ANY external application, XBMC either wont resume fullscreen or for some reason it changes the resolution. I have had problems with this for over a year. And since I don't have a mouse+keyboaard handy in the living room for the hours of configuration it takes to get just one application to work right, I need to constantly remote to the HTPC over the network.
In short, as much as I love XBMC for video playback, the external application launchers are so frustrating, it's making me want to switch to another front end. Can anyone relate or does anyone have any suggestions?
I appreciate you taking the time to read this.
Thanks,
Jeremy
I have has nothing but the worst trouble dealing with Launcher and Advanced Launcher. From starting the game, getting it to show up in fullscreen, to exiting the game.. there always seems to be something going wrong. I downloaded the latest XBMC yesterday to replace my v10 install, and now my emulators don't work at ALL. At least before I could get them to start.
My biggest problems:
1) Starting an emulator in fullscreen then getting XBMC to resume fullscreen after (This is my #1 issue)
.. actually I think if that first problem was solved, it would fix most of the rest.
It seems like whenever I run ANY external application, XBMC either wont resume fullscreen or for some reason it changes the resolution. I have had problems with this for over a year. And since I don't have a mouse+keyboaard handy in the living room for the hours of configuration it takes to get just one application to work right, I need to constantly remote to the HTPC over the network.
In short, as much as I love XBMC for video playback, the external application launchers are so frustrating, it's making me want to switch to another front end. Can anyone relate or does anyone have any suggestions?
I appreciate you taking the time to read this.
Thanks,
Jeremy