2008-11-04, 02:53
Been using heavily modified MediaPortal for past 2 years, and am just loving XMBC! You guys have done fine work here!
Made the final switch to it this weekend. (Finally got it working with my second monitor/LCD, Vista64 remote, and the new ffmpeg posted in the forums makes playback smooth on my quadcore.) Thank you!
I've only had a few hours to play with it thus far, so kindly forgive any ignorance. I figure fresh impressions from an experienced MP user could be worthwhile, so here are my suggestions:
- I miss the way MP handled skipping forward/back. By pressing quickly in succession: once skips 15 seconds, twice = 30 secs, 3x = 1 minute, 4x = 3 mins, 5x = 10 mins, 6x = 30 mins, 7x 1 hour, etc. (User-adjustable, but frankly the defaults are all you really need.)
- A "delete" menu item w/confirmation, to easily delete a video. (Or did I just miss that?)
- Could you make the "Info" menu and "Menu" menu use the same key when browsing videos? Is there a conflict? It'd save a button on my remote!
- Could the "Backspace" button always go "Back"? If I bring up movie details, I have to use the "End" button to close the dialog. Dialogs and settings-screens should use "Back" to close too. (Maybe I can do these myself with a custom keymap.xml?)
- Built-in support to open on second (selectable) monitor (of different resolution). (I see there's work being done here. Can't wait to dump Ultramon!)
- I have a very large movie/tv database (thousands of files) and so it took a LONG time to update the database. I had several crashes while it was doing so, especially if I tried to do other things inside XBMC while it was updating. Since large databases are becoming more common, it might be worth investing in a multi-threaded look-up, rather than just the background thread it seems to use now?
- Having "TV" and "Movies" as top-level menus would be nice, since they're both different viewing activities. I currently have them both listed under "Videos" as different sources, of course, but if I want to switch it means navigating through several trees and losing my current location. Nitpick, I know.
- The default "swoop" sound gets annoying over time. (XBMC graphics are much nicer than MP's, but not its sounds.)
Made the final switch to it this weekend. (Finally got it working with my second monitor/LCD, Vista64 remote, and the new ffmpeg posted in the forums makes playback smooth on my quadcore.) Thank you!
I've only had a few hours to play with it thus far, so kindly forgive any ignorance. I figure fresh impressions from an experienced MP user could be worthwhile, so here are my suggestions:
- I miss the way MP handled skipping forward/back. By pressing quickly in succession: once skips 15 seconds, twice = 30 secs, 3x = 1 minute, 4x = 3 mins, 5x = 10 mins, 6x = 30 mins, 7x 1 hour, etc. (User-adjustable, but frankly the defaults are all you really need.)
- A "delete" menu item w/confirmation, to easily delete a video. (Or did I just miss that?)
- Could you make the "Info" menu and "Menu" menu use the same key when browsing videos? Is there a conflict? It'd save a button on my remote!
- Could the "Backspace" button always go "Back"? If I bring up movie details, I have to use the "End" button to close the dialog. Dialogs and settings-screens should use "Back" to close too. (Maybe I can do these myself with a custom keymap.xml?)
- Built-in support to open on second (selectable) monitor (of different resolution). (I see there's work being done here. Can't wait to dump Ultramon!)
- I have a very large movie/tv database (thousands of files) and so it took a LONG time to update the database. I had several crashes while it was doing so, especially if I tried to do other things inside XBMC while it was updating. Since large databases are becoming more common, it might be worth investing in a multi-threaded look-up, rather than just the background thread it seems to use now?
- Having "TV" and "Movies" as top-level menus would be nice, since they're both different viewing activities. I currently have them both listed under "Videos" as different sources, of course, but if I want to switch it means navigating through several trees and losing my current location. Nitpick, I know.
- The default "swoop" sound gets annoying over time. (XBMC graphics are much nicer than MP's, but not its sounds.)
