2011-08-05, 01:27
svinyard Wrote:OK, So i've been trying to hunt down super fast skins for Dharma that have a decent fan art view and down slow down my Fusion/Zacate system like AeonMQ2 does. I tried Rapier v4, it was too slow when scrolling quickly.
I tried this one amongst others and so far its very fast. The thumbnails aren't AS fast as conflence when blowing through my library but its almost fast enough.
On a side note there are two things:
1- The trailers play (when in the big fanart view) when I hit the down key. There is no confirmation or anything notifiying you that this is happening. I personally have done this accidentally a time or two and don't care for it. My other users (family ) will have tough time remembering this etc but do still want to be able to play trailers.
2- The Kiosk mode is good but when in the Fanart view, I'm not able to hit the "up" key to bring up the info. This is a great feature that I would like to see in Kiosk mode (it works without Kiosk mode on).
When browsing through the movies the thumbs show up as blank and then come in. Works faster in confluence. Anything you could do there would be amazing but of course I'm sure its easier said than done. Thanks again, you have one heck of a snappy skin here and I wont soon be switching I think.
Hi Svin,
Good to see you took my advice and gave CEv2 a try
If your having any issues with speed on your box (I'm on an ion/atom based pc) have you tried enabling support for .dds images to help load fanart etc faster? Also I disable a few options in CEv2 to help me retain my CPU cycles for the navigation of my HTPC. I disable animated weather icons, disable scrolling in now playing, hide images etc that are not needed such as studio logos for movies, I set all my backgrounds to the same image, only enable views I need and numerous other changes to help keep the skin lite and fast without Losing features.
It's the perfect skin for small HTPCs such as the revo as the functionality is amazing and looks so clean and official (especially with nowalls new artwork)
Glad to see you like it though and the trailers issue may be a thing of the past as el_p is currently working on a mew Menu for activating trailers etc so your prayers may be answered for the first issue
@nowall
I do need more pay it would always be a welcome suprise to get a pay rise, but a letter to intel wouldkore more use as it's that technology thats holding me back more than anything.. is not good enough for what I want lol
My revo is perfect for the living room, silent, tiny and plays 1080p content etc... If there was any other box of the same dimensions or smaller with more power I'd have one in a flash my iPad is more powerful than my revo so it's hard to understand why pc manufactures can't give us more power in a similar sized package
@butcha
You better not be leaving... You've created a master piece here and it's getting bigger and better every day. I'm personally not a huge fan of aeon, it's a nice skin, but it's not suited to me needs. It's the kind of thing I'd expect to see on a water cooled gaming pc in the bedroom as It's "cool" and popwerful, but it's not what I want to show off my home cinema in the front room. CEv2 is elegant and classy and looks very professional and is a pleasure to use (thanks to you) and makes my front room home cinema look and feel very expensive