2010-01-04, 02:37
Hi guys,
I just found and dived in to this whole xbmc experience the last few days. I have used other "front ends" in the past, and some of the scripting and bugs I have read about might normally have turned me away. But I have to tell you Nuka1195, your whole home theater experience makes it all worthwhile. 3 days ago, I spent about 2 hours setting up xbmc, then reading the forums. I intended to spend a few days playing around with different areas getting different things working... uh uh... spend all of the last few days engrossed in reading this thread and trying new ideas and the branched out threads setting this whole thing up. Wow, I am so so impressed!. Thank you to Nuka1195, Mccorkled, and everyone else for the script and the tips and helpful links etc!
This is only my first post, but I would like to give my thoughts and requests and everything. If nothing new is added, it is still the closest to a home theater experience I could have ever dreamed of getting set up...
My thoughts on functions that might improve it, at least in my eyes, and maybe for others as well...
Requests...
1. I have no idea if it is possible, but would there be a way to make the trivia slides start back up on the pause of the movie? Or maybe play a custom "intermission" folder or file while paused? There may be another script somewhere that could make xbmc "do" something on pause, but I've spent 95% of my time in this thread Seemed like this function would be great going along with this script if possible.
2. As mentioned a few times before on the thread, it would be great if we didn't have to see the streaming little windows for the 2 seconds between Apple trailers.
3. The abilty to play random mp3s from a folder when going through the trivia slides would be cool. I got together 100 of greatest musical orchestra themes from movies, and noticed it only does a playlist which would mean the same jingles in the background every time.
4. The running of a script idea is great too. I have Smartbytes arfx ambient lights on the back of my TV and although they stopped working for some software or driver reason I have yet to figure out, this would definitely motivate me to fix them if possible to have them light up at the start of the feature presentation. (If interested, they work great on my personal arcade machine, got them at http://www.arfx.nl)
Also, thanks for all the links to great intros etc. all around!
One thing I haven't heard mentioned, outros... having trouble finding anything out there that would fit the bill for on exit of feature and on exit of theater experience. What I was thinking would be great would be a "That's all folks" or something similar at the end of the feature, and curtains closing in HD on the end of theater part (might be cool if the slides started back at the end of everything till actively ended... not going to put that one in my requests yet, but just throwing the idea out there to see what people think). I have a good high quality curtain opening sequence I want to save for when the trivia slides intro is working, if there were a way to create an avi of a sequence and record it playing backwards that might could give me a closing sequence, anyone know of software that could do that? And for "that's all folks" or something similar, any custom blender files out there for that? What do you guys use for the outros?
PS... already bought the AVS $7 disks, should be here in a few days.
I just found and dived in to this whole xbmc experience the last few days. I have used other "front ends" in the past, and some of the scripting and bugs I have read about might normally have turned me away. But I have to tell you Nuka1195, your whole home theater experience makes it all worthwhile. 3 days ago, I spent about 2 hours setting up xbmc, then reading the forums. I intended to spend a few days playing around with different areas getting different things working... uh uh... spend all of the last few days engrossed in reading this thread and trying new ideas and the branched out threads setting this whole thing up. Wow, I am so so impressed!. Thank you to Nuka1195, Mccorkled, and everyone else for the script and the tips and helpful links etc!
This is only my first post, but I would like to give my thoughts and requests and everything. If nothing new is added, it is still the closest to a home theater experience I could have ever dreamed of getting set up...
My thoughts on functions that might improve it, at least in my eyes, and maybe for others as well...
Requests...
1. I have no idea if it is possible, but would there be a way to make the trivia slides start back up on the pause of the movie? Or maybe play a custom "intermission" folder or file while paused? There may be another script somewhere that could make xbmc "do" something on pause, but I've spent 95% of my time in this thread Seemed like this function would be great going along with this script if possible.
2. As mentioned a few times before on the thread, it would be great if we didn't have to see the streaming little windows for the 2 seconds between Apple trailers.
3. The abilty to play random mp3s from a folder when going through the trivia slides would be cool. I got together 100 of greatest musical orchestra themes from movies, and noticed it only does a playlist which would mean the same jingles in the background every time.
4. The running of a script idea is great too. I have Smartbytes arfx ambient lights on the back of my TV and although they stopped working for some software or driver reason I have yet to figure out, this would definitely motivate me to fix them if possible to have them light up at the start of the feature presentation. (If interested, they work great on my personal arcade machine, got them at http://www.arfx.nl)
Also, thanks for all the links to great intros etc. all around!
One thing I haven't heard mentioned, outros... having trouble finding anything out there that would fit the bill for on exit of feature and on exit of theater experience. What I was thinking would be great would be a "That's all folks" or something similar at the end of the feature, and curtains closing in HD on the end of theater part (might be cool if the slides started back at the end of everything till actively ended... not going to put that one in my requests yet, but just throwing the idea out there to see what people think). I have a good high quality curtain opening sequence I want to save for when the trivia slides intro is working, if there were a way to create an avi of a sequence and record it playing backwards that might could give me a closing sequence, anyone know of software that could do that? And for "that's all folks" or something similar, any custom blender files out there for that? What do you guys use for the outros?
PS... already bought the AVS $7 disks, should be here in a few days.