2009-07-17, 15:06
Hi,
Firstly apologies if this has already been asked and answered before, i have tried to solve this one on my own.....
I downloaded XBMC (windows, ver 9.04.01) and also the Aeon Theme (Version 0.91). I added some media within the 'Videos' menu and all the relevant data, i.e. movie details and images was downloaded automatically so when I went into 'Movies' from the root menu I could see the images.
I thought that while browsing the main root menu (Music, Movies, TV-Shows ect) the backgrounds should change accordingly with the media you have already added, i.e. if I have a James Bond movie the background for James Bond will appear when i browse across 'Movies' within the main menu. All i could see was different colour backgrounds - red, blue, purple ect.
After doing some checking I thought it was because I didn't have the latest (beta) version of Aeon so I used GIT to download this and changed to this latest skin. This time I still had movies images when I went into the Movie menu but I had only black backgrounds when on the root menu. After some more research I found I also needed a newer version of XBMC so I downloaded a Nightly Builds version (ver 21741) and copied the .dll files & aeon skin required into the xbmc directory and tried again.
Since this most recent download I've gotten the colours back when moving across the menu options but still no images based on the content of my movies folder.
Please please can someone point me in the right direction.
My other problem is with Music album covers - it doesn't seem to download any at all. I added a couple of albums but no images were downloaded - It did seem to querey data though on the album but no images. I tried inserting a music CD into the computer and it recognised the album and downloaded the album names but again no image for the album, where am I going wrong with this?
thanks for any help
Firstly apologies if this has already been asked and answered before, i have tried to solve this one on my own.....
I downloaded XBMC (windows, ver 9.04.01) and also the Aeon Theme (Version 0.91). I added some media within the 'Videos' menu and all the relevant data, i.e. movie details and images was downloaded automatically so when I went into 'Movies' from the root menu I could see the images.
I thought that while browsing the main root menu (Music, Movies, TV-Shows ect) the backgrounds should change accordingly with the media you have already added, i.e. if I have a James Bond movie the background for James Bond will appear when i browse across 'Movies' within the main menu. All i could see was different colour backgrounds - red, blue, purple ect.
After doing some checking I thought it was because I didn't have the latest (beta) version of Aeon so I used GIT to download this and changed to this latest skin. This time I still had movies images when I went into the Movie menu but I had only black backgrounds when on the root menu. After some more research I found I also needed a newer version of XBMC so I downloaded a Nightly Builds version (ver 21741) and copied the .dll files & aeon skin required into the xbmc directory and tried again.
Since this most recent download I've gotten the colours back when moving across the menu options but still no images based on the content of my movies folder.
Please please can someone point me in the right direction.
My other problem is with Music album covers - it doesn't seem to download any at all. I added a couple of albums but no images were downloaded - It did seem to querey data though on the album but no images. I tried inserting a music CD into the computer and it recognised the album and downloaded the album names but again no image for the album, where am I going wrong with this?
thanks for any help