Hey Guys. First of all, just wanted to say how stoked I am about all of this. I've been using Zoom Player for a few years now, and have just been using its built in filemanager and that's pretty much been the interface for my HTPC. Started looking into other stuff, been looking at XBMC, MP, Boxee, and others, and have settled on XBMC, loving it.
Second, I do take my hat off to the XBMC developers, but ultimately there are things about Zoomplayer that I wanted to retain so I've opted to utilize the externalplayer feature. So I wanted to shout out a thanks to the guy making/patching the new builds to make the external player work (
http://ocs.nl/xbmc/XBMCSetup-Rev17621-jester.exe). I believe that it's moby-uk? I apologize if I'm getting the name wrong, but the thanks is going out just the same.
As a matter of FYI, I spent the last day finalizing my remote stuff. I've used HIP, I was using Girder for a while (what a pain), then yesterday I messed with the IR Suite and Translator, and finally ended up deciding on and loving intelliremote. It's working great.
But now onto my question (and sorry for the long rant, first post here and just wanted to shout some thanks). When I close out of Zoomplayer and then XBMC loads back up, there are a few things that happen:
1) When zoom closes, I see my desktop for about 1-2 seconds. I figure this is completely normal since XBMC is coming back into the foreground.
2) When XBMC comes back it brings me back to exactly the same location where I was previously. PERFECT!
3) There is a 15-45 second delay before the keyboard/remote responds to my up/down/any keys/buttons. When it does respond the 'list' I'm looking at goes away very briefly (1s) so I'm just looking at the XBMC background picture, and then the list comes back exactly where it should be and now I have control.
The question: Is this (#3) normal behavior? It's certainly not critical, but when I'm done watching a show I want do simply right click on it and delete it. But with this kind of delay it's annoying to me (and much more to my wife) that it takes so long.
Thanks, and sorry again for the long post.