2013-10-02, 05:04
(2013-10-02, 03:45)jurialmunkey Wrote: I'm not saying that there are no good reasons for showing source flags - just that when its a choice between showing either resolution or source, the resolution is far far more valuable. The main reason why I think this is because the source is not encoded within the file -- the only way xbmc "knows" the source is because of the way the file is named, so if the file doesn't have the specific naming convention that the skin looks for then the source flag will be incorrect or empty. Also, you can already see a video's filename by pressing info and focusing the refresh button ('writer' changes to 'path').
I was thinking about perhaps if the filename has a match for source in the filename then it would show the source instead of the codec and fallback to the codec if no source string is in the filename. However, I'm probably going to replace the codec info with the aspect ratio once I have something I like for it.
cheers on the forthcoming clear logo option. i would like to bring up one point to keep in mind regarding switching codec to aspect ratio that i have. my media is remuxed from blurays so they all have a 16:9 aspect ratio reported by xbmc even though they may actually be 2.35:1 or what have you. i think if i had a choice between the two i'd prefer source to be shown over aspect ratio but i also spend little enough time in the movie info pages and have flags hidden elsewhere that it's not really a huge deal. a guisetting.xml option would not be unappreciated just my 2c.
enjoy your new place!