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TRaSH
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Possible to make separate moviedb.
Kids/main movies not the cripled smartlist of profiles way.
That's still 1 big miss with xbmc where wmc+mb made it better with databases and entry points.
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I'll throw my suggestions into the pot:
1) Picture-in-Picture: Currently in Eden's Add-on Video [playing], you have the overlay of video controls (rewind, stop, play fast forward, close caption, etc.) for what is on the screen now. When you hit backspace, the video addon menu appears. You can scroll through the choices and when you select, the main video window quits playing the current selection, displays the generic video wallpaper, and the lower right, shows the loading circle to denote it is trying to load the new selection.
***What I'd like*** is in the menu of choices, once the currently video is playing, is that a small window to the right of the screen loads the scroll selection. Yes, I know that it would take resources to actually to stream two different (and possibly HD) videos which precludes many older systems (CPU and GPU), but since we can do it now within web browsers, we should be able to make a second [preview] player.
2) Stored relative paths. I've installed several repositories outside of XBMC's main one. I download the zips to a single directory, fire up XBMC and go to System --> Addons --> Install from zip. And for each one, I have to scroll through selections and sub menus each time for the zip directory.
***What I'd like*** would be System --> Addons --> Install from zip selection then next selection --> install all or some. With 'All' you point to the directory and it installs all the zips in the directory. 'Some' allows you to point to the zips directory then select with one mouse click or using shift or control to make multiple selections --> then okay to install. If that is not possible then at least have XBMC remember where I pointed to for the first zip file so that subsequent Install from zip selections will go back to the same directory/folder of the first time -- instead of clicking through again to drive, directory/subfolder.
3) Visual XBMC: ***What I'd like*** is to have a program in the style of Visual C++ that shows on the fly UI and back-end development for XBMC itself and/or addon development.
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I'd love to see some more intuitive ways of managing the library locations. When I first set it up I had no idea how to add the locations of my files. I assumed there'd be a place to add them in settings under video and audio headings.
I'd also love to see an easier way to choose the artwork downloaded. Now, what happens is the season artwork isn't of the same set of images and looks poor, to have one images from various image styles. Would be nice to have a more convenient way to manage this.
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2012-03-27, 21:29
(This post was last modified: 2012-03-27, 21:29 by Ned Scott.)
Anything that is currently an add-on and works great as an add-on will stay as an add-on. More things that are in XBMC core will eventually break away and also become add-ons. They might be included-by-default add-ons or not, but they will still be add-ons. This more modular approach to XBMC will allow updates for things between major releases, decrease bloat, decrease settings bloat, decreased application size, etc.
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I would like to see:
Support for DTS Audio files
Support for DTS Audio Iso Images
Full TV integration
PVR support
Parental control based on ratings
BluRay Menus (I am not sure, but VLC seems to get something started)
"Earth" Screensaver from PS3 :-)
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