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2011-03-05, 11:47
(This post was last modified: 2011-03-05, 11:49 by meridius.)
hi mate just bought your app just waiting for my ipad 2 now shame its 3 weeks away in the uk booo. lol
looking forward to using it, is ther anything i need to know before i pair it up so the pictures are right.
I have Fanart.jpg, Folder.jpg and banner.jpg in each folder and are setup in my lib in movies and tv shows but i dont use banners at all in my views so will the ipad app just get them ?
also does it make a new cache for the ipad app on the computer or ipad or does it just use the same cache that xbmc uses ?
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Please everyone, don't confuse a remote control with a skin.
A skin, since "running" on the same machine as XBMC, can look into directories for things like landscape.jpg or banner.png and show these as thumbnails instead of the ones XBMC got scraped.
A remote control can't. I can only present what XBMC gives me as a thumbnail for a certain item via http interface.
So for XBMC Commander to show posters, XBMC itself must be set up to scrape for posters (thats somewhere in the scrapers settings), and all items must be scraped to the library using this setting (just changing it won't help).
I know this can be a pain in the a**, and as far as i know team xbmc is about to change this sooner or later, allowing posters and banners to live side by side.
But right now (apart from some skins that "hack" around this) you'll have to choose once whether you want posters or banners, set up your scraper accordingly, and build your tv show library around this setting.
Again:
XBMC Commander won't download any banners or posters for you. It will "just" display whatever xbmcs interface offers.
It won't directly access your userdata directory or anything else on your htpc.
It will cache all thumbnails and metadata on the ipad for quicker loading though.
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Disney folder 40 films only 25 Showing in Commander
Disney Multi folder 28 films only 9 Showing in Commander
General Movies folder 69 films only 30 Showing in Commander
General Movies Multi folder 41 films only 3 Showing in Commander
Can anyone help me ive posted above but still no replies
I thought Grywnn might have replied
Here's me thinking hey i've purchesed App maybe i might get some support
ALL Films show up XBMC in Libarary Mode
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Jeez I did not know you had to wait a set amount of hours before posting again.
I do have Commander set up correct
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Sorry I thought I would ask a question about the (&) problem.
As I don't have the iPad yet still waiting for the 2nd gen, does this mean I have to look at all my movies and tv show episodes and replace the (& for and) to make it work or will this be fixed in a new update ?
Thanks
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Hi,
I'd hoped one of you could help me.
I installed XBMC on my computer (version 10.0) and the app on my ipad.
Even though I followed the instructions, I can't connect. The error shown is: A connection failur occurred
The operation couldn't be completed.
(kCFErrorDomainCFNetwork error 2)
I also tried it with the fre XBMoteC but it didn't worked.
My computer-iPad connection works for the RDP remote control and for the Air Video app, though.
Any help would be very much appreciated.
Many thanks in advance,
Benedikt