Sharpe Wrote:I did take a look and tried to get something to display when randomise was activated. Sorry but I could only get it display when the playing controls were activated. I'll probably need some help with it when I get round to it again

Quote:In the meantime I've been working at putting together a Pre-Eden version of Back Row (getting the recently added stuff to work right, removing obselete xmls and so on). I've posted up a direct download link to that version if anyone is using a current nightly build and wants to try it. Still working on things - like file mode views and so on but thought it worth putting something out for testing.

kiboy6 Wrote:...Sounds great....would love to try it out but will stick with the stability of Dharma for now

kiboy6 Wrote:....I'm still puzzled by the slight slugishness of transitions on my BackRrow though...

I copied my entire XBMC profile folder onto my new and quite powerful laptop. (Intel i3 2.13 Ghz CPU, 4GB ram). I then ran the exact same version of XBMC (10.1) on that machine. While the black screens between, say, home screen and movies library are shorter, they are definitely still there. (maybe 3 or 4 seconds as opposed to 7 or 8 on my main Atom CPU Shuttle HTPC).

If nobody else experiences this, I'm wondering if there's some bloat in my profile folder causing the delays. As I said, on both systems Confluence is perfectly snappy.

Here is a debug log of me starting XBMC going into "TV shows" returning to Home, going into Movies, then quitting.

Thanks very much if you have time to look into this. Sorry for banging on about this - if BackRow is just a lot more CPU intensive than, say, Confluence, I can certainly live with the slow transitions. However, if there's something I can fix in my profile folder I would abviously love to take care of it. Perhaps the tidying up of old xmls you mentioned for the Eden realease of BackRow will help me out too?


Thanks so much

Sharpe Wrote:No worries - I'll see what I can do about the transition (window closing) animations in the library views. As for preventing some views from loading - you could always manually remove the includes for the views you wanted to prevent loading in the videonav.xml. A long term solution would be some sort of skin options to manually exclude the views.

kiboy6 Wrote:Hi Sharpe,

Just to maybe add to that exciting and extensive to do list....

I was wondering if it might be possible to:
a) Add custom submenu buttons to the user chosen home menu choices
b) Configure the order of submenu buttons on all submenus.

To explain a) further:
I have a home menu entry for the youtube addon. Unfortunately my connection is too crap to have torrents proceeding on one PC while I stream youtube on the other.
For that reason I need to pause my torrents when watching youtube vids.

At the moment I have put a shortcut to the utorrent controller addon under TV shows. However it would be much more logical to have it under my youtube home menu entry - at the moment there is no way of doing that through the skin options.

Perhaps these are problematic changes and there's a reason why you haven't implemented them before - but if not I think it would be very cool to add this extra "configurability"

Thanks!


Incidentally, on the subject of the utorrent controller. Is this something you / a lot of people use? If so I reckon it's crying out for some skin integration as ATM its not very user friendly. (To pause "all torrents" you have to select a single torrent and then bring up the context menu).
I have no idea if many people would be interested in this, or if it's even possible at skin level, but a simple submenu button to pause/unpause all torrents would be a massive boon to me. May be of no interest to you, but just throwing it out there

Edit - Actually I suppose by far the easiest way to achieve this would be via a change to the utorrent addon. If "pause/resume all torrents" could be chosen as a favourite then the task of adding this as a button would already be possible with Backrow. I made the request about the utrrent addon here

kiboy6 Wrote:Hi Sharpe,

Been thinking about one more feature request to add to the list!

When watching a movie I like to recreate the cinema experience as much as possible. That means I am reluctant to pause / rewind etc unless I have to.

However, when I do have to do so I would love the option to not see anything to do with the running time, or the actual time. It would be great to have an optional navigation theme which just showed a symbol for pause / rewind / skip etc without any indication of how much movie has elapsed or remains, or what the actual time is.

This would be especially invaluable when watching a downloaded sporting event you don't know the result of - often the running time can be a big giveaway of what the result might be.

Again, don't know if you/others would share my desire for this, but thought I would throw it out there, as personally I think it would be a cool optional change to the XBMC experience.

Thanks so much as ever

mcoto Wrote:I like having the time when I pause etc. I especially like knowing exactly when the movie will end so if its late I can start looking for a reasonable break time or if the kids want to watch a movie I can plan their bed time properly.

One feature I'd like is a HD filter for my movies. I have duplicates of several films (I still use the original xbox in a couple of rooms)

Thanks again for all the hard work. Especially thanks for the new SVN for the dailys. I had to upgrade to a more recent version and I really missed back row on that TV

M