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thanks a lot, i really was in need for good working skins for the latest builds, this i a perfect one among them. i hope more of the media portal skins will follow!
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has it occured to you that maybe you are the one at fault?
i strongly suggest you make sure you have uploaded everything to your xbox correctly, cause if it doesn't work for you, yet works for others, i'd suggest the fault is at your end.
also, the xbmc team do not (and have never) released any builds. we have no control whatsoever of the people who do so. we also have no control about who puts skins out.
all we can hope to do is to catch the possible errors that people can make. with a user base like we have, that is nigh on impossible - we do the best we can. you are more than welcome to help fix the issue - this is an open source project, afterall.
also, note that holding down start and back on startup causes xbmc to revert to default settings which, assuming you have uploaded everything correctly, and the build is sound, will result in xbmc running perfectly.
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the reason the skins don't work any more is that lots + lots of stuff is added regularly which effect the skins. the skins must be updated to reflect this, otherwise they simply won't work. sometimes they'll work for some things and not others, sometimes they simply won't work at all - it depends on what has been updated. it just so happens that quite a few of the recent updates have caused quite a few really old skins (ie 2-3 months old) to break for good. nothing much we can do about it.
we as a team do not have time to update more than 1 skin, so we only update the pm skin. all others are left to other folk to update.
we try to make sure any updates will not cause complete breakages of old skins, but it is practically impossible to keep track of everything when things change as frequently as xbmc.
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jmarshall - thanks for your replies...
i'm sure i'm wandering off topic at this point - but anyway....
i've tried fresh installs/loads of the 9/3/04 cvs and you're right - the pm skin is all that's left and xbmc defaults to it now. unfortunately, once xbmc does load, as i mentioned earlier, all i see is the:
- pm background,
- pm title graphic
- and two buttons (look like the power and dashboard buttons?) in the lower right corner.
the gamepad and dvd remote don't work at all and my xbmc log file has no errors reported in it. my xbox dash is setup for 16x9 and i'm an ntsc user as well (i noted that the pm skin.xml has pal16x9 as default)...
in any case - i very much appreciate all the hard work you guys pour into the project so i'm not complaining at this point - just unofficially reporting a 9/3/04 cvs build skin problem i guess....(or else i've got a bad cvs build)...
- phr0
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hey - eagle55 and t029248 -
let me know:
- what cvs build you're using
- what kind of tv you're using (ntsc/pal)
- widescreen or not?
- most importantly - is mce working for you on a 9/3/04 cvs build?
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if you see buttons, but no text, perhaps you are missing the strings.xml for your language (and the english strings.xml)
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2004-09-05, 18:25
thanks for the suggestions/etc so far, guys...
i do have the english strings.xml and have cleared my tdata settings folder a bunch of times while using fresh installs of the 9/3/04 xbmc cvs.... not sure what i've screwed up but since everyone else is partying down w/the latest build except me, i'll assume the problem is me...
if i figure it out i'll post a reply but i have to take a break - about to jump out my window over this.... =/ (i really don't want to go back to an evox boot dash... *ick*)...
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yuvalt
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the reason xbmc is crashing is because we added new screens to the skin. since you have an old skin it fails opening the xml file and hangs. this is a temporary situation which will end once we finish the hard work of moving as many settings as possible to the gui.
since you are complaining about interim builds i would strongly suggest that you go back to xbmc 1.0 and wait until an official 1.1 is out.
-yuval