2014-07-31, 11:39
As a day-one Microsoft MCE with Mediabrowser user I was looking for an alternative as MCE is no longer developed and actively supported. In the years I've tried Mediaportal several times and XBMC, didn't like Mediaportal (personal opinion) and the lack of support for other platforms than Windows. XBMC in the other hand blew me away with it's stability and support of plugins, platforms etc. But the user interface of XBMC was always somewhat "techie" and not "wife-friendly" to me.
What I really did like in the latest Mediaportal releases was the Titan skin, with it's attractive graphics and simple big buttons.
For me that skin simply had the "wow" factor and even my wife and guests liked the user interface ;-)
In my search for the perfect HTTPC I stubled across an unfinished project by user reazorFX who did the first attempt to port the Titan skin from MediaPortal to XBMC. I finished his really great work and made the skin completely functional. After that I started adding lot's of features like extra views and custom library support. I even changed the look and feel of the skin to a more modern approach (Original style still available as theme in the skin).
Skin key features:
- Compatible with XBMC 13 Gotham and Kodi Helix
- multiple homescreen layouts, fully customizable
- Nice looking artwork everywhere in the theme
- Weather with accurate live artwork
- Support to "switch" the XBMC library to third party add-on like MediaBrowser, Plex or Netflix
- Optimized for speed while retaining nice looking graphics
- Very user friendly (high W.A.F.)
- Lot's of views to fit your media and personal needs
- Full touchscreen support (has to be enabled in skin settings)
- support for tv shows next aired
- support for video extras
- support for extendedinfo script
- custom and predefined widgets
- fully customizable appearance settings
screenshots:
This skin is available in the official XBMC repository.
Installation instructions:
1. In XBMC, go to Settings --> Appearance --> Skin
2. Press the "Get more" button
3. Select "Titan MediaBrowser" and hit install
4. Default installation now complete and you can sit back and enjoy :-)
TIP: The skin is highly customizable. Go to XBMC settings --> Skin Settings
Skin theme
The skin's default theme is my own more modern approach of the Titan skin. If you like the classic MediaPortal style better, you can change the theme of the skin to "classic". Open up settings --> Appearance --> Under skin you have the option to select the theme.
Touchscreen support
The skin is fully touchscreen compliant, actually it even has seperate controls and code to make life easier navigating on a touch device.
You have to enable the "touch mode" of the skin in the skin settings.
Beta version repository and more information about MediaBrowser integration
If you want to try out the latest features and/or if you're interested in the MediaBrowser integration install the beta repository which is hosted at MediaBrowser bacause my involvement in the xbmb3c (mediabrowser) addon for kodi.
Bug reports and feature requests
Feel free to post a message on this forumtopic or send me a PM to get support for the skin, I'll be glad to assist. Also I'm also looking for users with feedback or suggestions about the skin. If you have a feature you would like to see included, please ask on the feature requests thread!
If you like this skin and you feel that you would like to help out a little bit then you can buy me a beer :-)
What I really did like in the latest Mediaportal releases was the Titan skin, with it's attractive graphics and simple big buttons.
For me that skin simply had the "wow" factor and even my wife and guests liked the user interface ;-)
In my search for the perfect HTTPC I stubled across an unfinished project by user reazorFX who did the first attempt to port the Titan skin from MediaPortal to XBMC. I finished his really great work and made the skin completely functional. After that I started adding lot's of features like extra views and custom library support. I even changed the look and feel of the skin to a more modern approach (Original style still available as theme in the skin).
Skin key features:
- Compatible with XBMC 13 Gotham and Kodi Helix
- multiple homescreen layouts, fully customizable
- Nice looking artwork everywhere in the theme
- Weather with accurate live artwork
- Support to "switch" the XBMC library to third party add-on like MediaBrowser, Plex or Netflix
- Optimized for speed while retaining nice looking graphics
- Very user friendly (high W.A.F.)
- Lot's of views to fit your media and personal needs
- Full touchscreen support (has to be enabled in skin settings)
- support for tv shows next aired
- support for video extras
- support for extendedinfo script
- custom and predefined widgets
- fully customizable appearance settings
screenshots:
watch gallery
This skin is available in the official XBMC repository.
Installation instructions:
1. In XBMC, go to Settings --> Appearance --> Skin
2. Press the "Get more" button
3. Select "Titan MediaBrowser" and hit install
4. Default installation now complete and you can sit back and enjoy :-)
TIP: The skin is highly customizable. Go to XBMC settings --> Skin Settings
Skin theme
The skin's default theme is my own more modern approach of the Titan skin. If you like the classic MediaPortal style better, you can change the theme of the skin to "classic". Open up settings --> Appearance --> Under skin you have the option to select the theme.
Touchscreen support
The skin is fully touchscreen compliant, actually it even has seperate controls and code to make life easier navigating on a touch device.
You have to enable the "touch mode" of the skin in the skin settings.
Beta version repository and more information about MediaBrowser integration
If you want to try out the latest features and/or if you're interested in the MediaBrowser integration install the beta repository which is hosted at MediaBrowser bacause my involvement in the xbmb3c (mediabrowser) addon for kodi.
Bug reports and feature requests
Feel free to post a message on this forumtopic or send me a PM to get support for the skin, I'll be glad to assist. Also I'm also looking for users with feedback or suggestions about the skin. If you have a feature you would like to see included, please ask on the feature requests thread!
If you like this skin and you feel that you would like to help out a little bit then you can buy me a beer :-)