A (Very Unofficial) Aeon FAQ
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II. SETUP - GETTING THE "MOST" OUT OF AEON

2.1 How do I organize my media library for Aeon? What meta-files do I need and where should they be stored?

Aeon supports a number of meta files, including some that are not natively supported (yet) by XBMC. Getting everything to work for the time being until has required some hacks and work-arounds, and your files must adhere to Aeon-specific naming conventions and organization. An excellent visual guide with pictures and examples of the various meta information recognized and displayed by Aeon is available in this thread (based on this original version without pictures - good for quick reference).

2.1B All my files are already organized/named another way! What can I do?

If you already have your files named or organized differently than Aeon requires, don't worry - there are a number of utilities to batch rename/move your files. This thread is a good place to start.

2.2 How do I get the icons for bluray, movie studio, etc. (aka "Media Flags") to show up?

NOTE: THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST COMMONLY ASKED ABOUT FEATURES OF AEON AND REQUIRES SOME PATIENCE AND READING TO GET WORKING. PLEASE READ THE GUIDES CAREFULLY.

Since the release of Stark, Aeon has the ability to display png images, called "media flags", highlighting certain meta information about your movies, including the studio, source type (e.g., bluray, hd-dvd, etc.), resolution and audio type. However, native support for media flags has not yet been added to xbmc, so Aeon uses a bit of hacking to get the job done. A detailed guide to setting up your library for media flags is available here and here.

2.2B Is there a way to turn off all the "?" icons for flags that I don't have configured?

Yes, you can turn off either just the default "?" icons (they will be replaced by blank spaces) in the settings under Customization -> Advanced -> Views; or you can turn off media flags altogether by ticking Flags: On/Off from the library menu bar.

2.3 Landscape thumbs for tv series?
Yes, Auriga is the only skin that uses landscape thumbs for tv series, and yes, that means you will have to download a whole new image type for each of your tv shows. Call it egoistic, call it unfair - the issue has been debated and the developer understands how you feel, but you will have to get over it and move on if you want to use Auriga. (Update 6-May-09: There is now a mod for going back to poster-sized thumbs for tv shows, starting here (keep reading through the next few posts to get to the files)). If you are new to Auriga, you actually have the advantage that most of the hard work has already been done for you. Landscape tv thumbs have already been created for dozens of tv series and are indexed here and hosted on thetvdb. Since the thumbs must be named "folder.jpg", you should use a batch renaming tool to rename all your existing folder.jpg files to something like "poster.jpg".

2.4 Where can I get fanart and thumbnails for my media?
Movies: the default resource for movie fanart and posters is themoviedb.org (TMDb for short). XBMC scrapes TMDb for posters and fanart by default. In addition, getvideoartwork.com has a very large database of high resolution posters without any studio copy, similar to the posters displayed on itunes and apple tv. Another site that shouldn't go without mention is IMP Awards, especially helpful for foreign-language movie posters.

TV Shows: TheTVDB.com is the "mother" of all tv meta-data sites and is the default site scraped by XBMC for tv episode information, thumbs and fanart. You should be able to find what you need there, or you can request it in TheTVDB forums.

Music and Other: htbackdrops has a large collection of high res backdrops/fanart for music artists, as well as a growing section of backdrops for generic categories (e.g., generic-videos, generic-settings). A very nice aeon-specific "settings" backdrop is also here.

2.4B What size do my thumbs and fanart need to be?
There really is no "optimum" size - so long as the pixel height of your images are at least as great as your screen resolution height, your images will not be stretched. The dimensions of your images are important though; fanart and tv show thumbs for multiplex should be 16:9 and poster thumbs should be 2:3. Of course, larger images will generally look nicer, and you should not have to worry too much about performance issues since (theoretically) everything is handled by xbmc's internal caching operations.
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[FAQ] A (Very Unofficial) Aeon FAQ - by Leeuw - 2009-05-05, 05:31
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