Just back from vacation and starting to read through the thread. Thanks at all for helping out
I try to get back on all unanswered issues but just one after the other. And I have to skip the issues that will need more time to dig into. I will come back on these in the next days. If I forget anything feel free to remind me after some time...
Maleficium Wrote:I'm starting to use some videos in RCB and it gave me some doubts about how to get the results I want.
In my MAME collection I'm using the "Marquee in List" for the main window (Cabinet at left, Title up right, Snapshot down right), there's some way to display the videos (when available) only in the down right instead of the Snaps ? (They appear in whole area preventing Cabinets and Title to appear)
How to bring the videos full screen/widowed ? Stop, play, etc ?
I have to check the video playback with MAME videos myself again. I can't remember how it works atm.
Fullscreen video usually should be available when you presss "Play".
Greg. Wrote:maybe i AM thick, cos im not out of the woods yet, while it imported this time it asks me which rom from the zip i want and it returns immediately to rcb with popen or without re-executing xbmc in stanalone mode. pretty sure im running the rcb service as needed with eden.
Try to activate
Do not extract zip files. This should solve this issue.
scaylabs Wrote:Been using the addon successfully for a few weeks and thought I'd mention a little piece of FREE software I found very useful. It's called SQLite Database Browser and can be found here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/sqlitebrowser/
What it does, if you haven't guessed by now, is let you see your whole ROM database in a Excel-like structure, making for very simple edits of names, descriptions, etc. I have a very large collection (8000+) and needed a way to set favorites without going through them in RCB (takes too long to load), as well as correcting a lot of names that haven't been found by the scraper. The file you want to edit is the Mygames.db.
Thanks for mentioning it here. I also use this tool to check and work with my databases. There is also some work behind the scenes on a tool that lets you edit the rcb nfo files in a more comfortable way. It is developed by a user and should be available soon (just waiting for my time to test it in detail).
scaylabs Wrote:Also, I imagine most of you are using XBMC and the Rom Collection Browser in your living rooms so someone might find this interesting as well, it's an arcade controller I just built:
It is wireless, thanks to a pair of Xbox 360 controllers, and connects to windows via a receiver made by microsoft. Very high WAF!!
Wow, absolutely cool. May I order one?
Did you plan and build this all by yourself or are there some templates and/or instructions available on the net?
mwaterbu Wrote:Since the XBMC4XBOX forums are down for an indefinite amount of time, I figured I would post here. The latest release of XBMC4XBOX stated that they had switched over to using the libjpeg-turbo library, which should help performance with thumbnails and loading images in general.
Will this help rcb's performance on the XBOX? Or does support need to be added for this library?
I have to admit that my xbox is full of dust atm. But I always had the plan to get it up and running again to check if everything in RCB is still working with current xbmc4xbox releases. As you describe it I think that the new features should work out of the box with RCB. But I did not test it myself. I hope to get this done in the next weeks.
wellspokenman Wrote:(I tried RCB 1.05 but it was a bit unstable). Pity - the 'ignore all future errors' is a great help during import:
What exactly did not work with 1.0.5? It should be as stable as 1.0.1 and I hoped to release it (or 1.0.6) as next stable version to the repo.
wellspokenman Wrote:The degree symbol (as in 720°) in a rom file name will crash the plugin during an import. I looked at xbmc.log to confirm that it was an RCB error that caused the unexpected xbmc termination. I can fetch this for you if this is news to you, but I suspect that it's not.
Yes, an already known annoying beast. I should at least manage that it does not freeze XBMC completely.
wellspokenman Wrote:Nox skin compatibility has been a major issue - I've had to revert xbmc back to confluence. The documentation suggests that RCB is skin-independent, but this hasn't been my experience. Specific problems in Nox are speed (xbmc confluence+rcb confluence is 10 times faster) and interface. The nox version of RCB sets the filters to the left, and does not let you see the prev+next options for each category. This results in a column of options that all say 'all'. Your default in confluence is much better, as I can clearly see which one is year, publisher etc. The InfoWall option of Nox, however is a great balance between pretty and functional for a large collection, as it displays over a dozen roms at a time, and cover recognition is often faster and easier than reading a list of text.
Atm there is a bit of versioning chaos as Nox and Aeon MQ are out in new versions that already support new RCB version 1.0.5. But in XBMC repo there is still the "old" RCB version 1.0.1. This may cause some compatibility issues between the skins and RCB. I hope that I get a stable release in the repo soon. This should at least resolve some of the compatibilty issues. I also had no time yet to test the new skins deeply.
All other usage or perfomance issues should be addressed in the skin specific forums/threads as I don't have any influence on their development.
wellspokenman Wrote:As speed has been such a large issue for me, I miss a feature to interrupt a collection load. Say I accidentally click on MAME with favourites de-selected for example - that mistake will cost quite a bit of time.
This would be a handy feature but I guess it will not be possible technically. But I will check if it can be done. In the meantime you could check some of the
browsing addon settings if they can improve your situation a little.
wellspokenman Wrote:Another thing that takes some getting used to is if I accidentally choose NES, instead of SNES, then quickly correct my filter it will not interrupt the NES collection load. But, once NES has loaded it won't trigger the selected SNES one automatically either. So I then have to load a third collection (or toggle favourites), wait for that to load, then make the correct choice. I guess this is really just another side-effect of not being able to interrupt a collection load.
I noticed this too and it is quite annoying. But I am afraid this will not be easy to solve. All the event handling thing in XBMC and working with different threads to load the lists and filters was a PITA to implement. I guess that I have to dig much deeper in XBMCs inner workings to find out how to do this smoother. But I just don't have the time these days to do this.
wellspokenman Wrote:As I said though, this is a fantastic addon in it's current form, and I am grateful for it as is. If you intend to continue development, then by all means add this feedback to the pile.
Thanks for your input. Always appreciated. Although I am adding more tasks to my list than I have time to work on I am happy about every feedback.
e2zippo Wrote:On another note malte, I'm having some trouble with videos, they don't play all the way through, the stop at the same place every time, same thing with both my videos (DKC1 & DKC2)
The play fine in media player and they used to play fine in RCB before as well, but I've reinstalled XBMC.
It's the same thing in Confluence & MQ4.
I'm using XBMC Eden & RCB 1.05
Never noticed this. I will check if I can reproduce it. What did you change exactly before it stopped working?
pecospete Wrote:It sounds like the best would be to have the collection name and the name sent to the scrapper be different settings. That way, I could have a "supermodel3" collection, but scrap the roms as "mame" roms.
Good idea. I will check if this may be the way to go.
