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2009-06-09, 04:48
hello everyone. ihad never experimented with screens before. so when i accidently stumbled on the alternative skin in the default xbmc install, it aroused my curiousity. So I went berserk and download a bunch of skins over the web. The problem, I can't get them to work.
Is there anything I need to do besides simply unzip as a folder under "skin" folder of my xbmc install?
Regards.
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No. Tons are probably outdated and unmaintained though. Make sure you don't have something like skins/skinname/skinname instead of skins/skinname. Also, keep in mind that some skins were in no way meant to ever run on Xbox and thus use way too much memory, YMMV.
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No, there is none that I know of, but that is a good idea. In each skin formun you will probably find a "lite" version of each of the skins you can try on the xbox.
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Waffa
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Yep, MiniMeedia is a superskin and works perfect on xbox.
Best skin overall if you ask me.
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tomh
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The following all work great on my Xbox, though none of them can handle x264 encoded stuff (which Project Mayhem III can):
MiniMeedia
MediaStream (latest builds not the official 1.0 one, check their forum)
Aeon Lite for Xbox (Paul's one)
Focus Alpha 6c
And obviously, Project Mayhem III (the default one).
One way to get things to work is to resize all your fanart to 960x540. Makes a big difference for me.
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There's not really any point in listing skins that work. They could all well be broken by the time you hit submit...
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I tried some Media Center Skin. And now I have a blue background with "Start" in the middle of my 4:3 TV. Why doesn't XBMC have a preview feature instead of immediately changing to the selected skin?
Anyways, I need to know which configuration file the skin selection has been stored so I can revert back to original skin. Right now I cannot access and "Settings" from the skin I'm on.
Please help.