Win 7 32 bit
XBMC Ver 13
I am at a loss here.
I cannot get the advancedsettings.xml to work. I created it (in xbmc/userdata folder) specifically to adjust the skip forward and back time settings.
Doesn't matter however I format it the skip stays at 30 forward 30 back.
I carefully copied the wiki example but no change.
Yes, I restarted my system after every change
Any guidance would be appreciated.
(2014-05-10, 01:15)dubstepper Wrote: [ -> ]Win 7 32 bit
XBMC Ver 13
I am at a loss here.
I cannot get the advancedsettings.xml to work. I created it (in xbmc/userdata folder) specifically to adjust the skip forward and back time settings.
Doesn't matter however I format it the skip stays at 30 forward 30 back.
I carefully copied the wiki example but no change.
Yes, I restarted my system after every change
Any guidance would be appreciated.
How about posting the xml file to xbmclogs.com so someone can take a look at what you're putting there.
check xbmc.log to see if your advancedsettings is being read or maybe a reason it's failing. Debug is not needed to see this. Post the contents of advancedsettings.xml are its contents wrapped in <advancedsettings>......</advancedsettings> tags? Did you put it in your userdata folder?
Thanks for the prompt reply.
I have this advancedsetting.xml file in my XBMC/userdata folder.
It seems to have NO effect.
<advancedsettings>
<usetimeseeking>true</usetimeseeking>
<timeseekforward>60</timeseekforward>
<timeseekbackward>-20</timeseekbackward>
<timeseekforwardbig>400</timeseekforwardbig>
<timeseekbackwardbig>-400</timeseekbackwardbig>
</advancedsettings>
Yes, it's indented - doesn't show as such here on this forumn.
Did you look in xbmc.log as Dilligaf suggested above? If it's reading the xml file you will see it towards the start of the log. Also, is the file named advancedsettings.xml (note the 's' at the end)?
The other thing you might try is adding <video> </video> within <advancedsettings> </advancedsettings>
Ok.
Yes, spelling is advancedsettings.xml
Checked XBMC.log. It seems XBMC is looking in a different folder than userdata
it says it's lookng here:
No settings file to load (special://xbmc/system/advancedsettings.xml)
I will try putting the file in that folder and see.
I obviously don't understand where this folder is
special://xbmc/system/advancedsettings.xml
I tried putting the advancesettings.xml in the xbmc/system folder but the log says no file to read
Any guidance as to where to put this file.
Can you post your xbmc.log to xbmclogs.com?
The message you see is normal on a windows platform.
In my case, it's followed by: NOTICE: Loaded settings file from special://profile/advancedsettings.xml and it loads correctly.
In my case (depends on how you have windows setup) the correct windows directory for the xml is:
C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\userdata where USERNAME is the windows user that you're running xbmc from.
Should be:
<advancedsettings>
<video>
<usetimeseeking>true</usetimeseeking>
<timeseekforward>60</timeseekforward>
<timeseekbackward>-20</timeseekbackward>
<timeseekforwardbig>400</timeseekforwardbig>
<timeseekbackwardbig>-400</timeseekbackwardbig>
</video>
</advancedsettings>
Indents don't matter, it's probably best to leave them out
Testing finished and it works. Once we got the right directory to put the XML file in and right script it worked first time.
Thank you Learningit & Dilligaf - I really appreciate your patience.