2009-08-19, 19:48
Thank you for This brilliant media center!!!
I've got a pretty decent setup, A JVC-DLA-RS2 front projecter throwing a 10' CIH image and a powerful multichannel sound system, setup in a dedicated room. I rarely use anything but my HTPC for playback anymore and my Blu-ray,DVD and CD players just collect dust since HDD space has gotten so cheap.
So every few months, for the last years, I start thinking that I should get a good frontend for my home cinema and every time it's the same story. I try out a few apps (some free, some not) and after spending countless hours (witch I don't have) I give up for various reasons. Some cant be meddled with at all and don't play the files I want, others are slow and on the other end some are so complex that although I could probably get them to work in the end, it's not worth the trouble.
So about a month ago I get the bug again and my wife roll's her eyes back, thinking "here he goes again". After about an hour on google I download XBMC + skins and go into the cinema, not too optimistic. To my surprise (and even more my wife's) I come out 3 hrs later with everything working like it should, the right covers showing for 98% of my movies and all english speaking episodes (fixed the 2% later manually). A stunning look (auriga), an intuitive interface and to top it all my ipod touch controlling it all with the xbmc app. And I even had a special profile that the kids can use with another remote.
Now, 1 month later XBMC has not had any problems, it worked out of the box and just keeps working!
In the last month at least 4 of my friends have seen it in action and decided to go the same route.
So congratulations on creating a brilliant piece of software that has a lot of options and possibillities for tweaking, but doesn't force you to use any of it, if you just want to have a fancy looking gui. An excellent balance between power and user-friendlyness.
I've got a pretty decent setup, A JVC-DLA-RS2 front projecter throwing a 10' CIH image and a powerful multichannel sound system, setup in a dedicated room. I rarely use anything but my HTPC for playback anymore and my Blu-ray,DVD and CD players just collect dust since HDD space has gotten so cheap.
So every few months, for the last years, I start thinking that I should get a good frontend for my home cinema and every time it's the same story. I try out a few apps (some free, some not) and after spending countless hours (witch I don't have) I give up for various reasons. Some cant be meddled with at all and don't play the files I want, others are slow and on the other end some are so complex that although I could probably get them to work in the end, it's not worth the trouble.
So about a month ago I get the bug again and my wife roll's her eyes back, thinking "here he goes again". After about an hour on google I download XBMC + skins and go into the cinema, not too optimistic. To my surprise (and even more my wife's) I come out 3 hrs later with everything working like it should, the right covers showing for 98% of my movies and all english speaking episodes (fixed the 2% later manually). A stunning look (auriga), an intuitive interface and to top it all my ipod touch controlling it all with the xbmc app. And I even had a special profile that the kids can use with another remote.
Now, 1 month later XBMC has not had any problems, it worked out of the box and just keeps working!
In the last month at least 4 of my friends have seen it in action and decided to go the same route.
So congratulations on creating a brilliant piece of software that has a lot of options and possibillities for tweaking, but doesn't force you to use any of it, if you just want to have a fancy looking gui. An excellent balance between power and user-friendlyness.
