2011-06-02, 04:39
OK Guy's,
I have been busy getting things ready for release and I think last nights push to Passion is probably the last beta for v1.1.0. I now only have a couple of minor bugs to fix and a little work on the views to do before I think the skin is ready for a formal release.
This release saw quite a bit of work on optimizing the background image and icon display. On my development box the skin now fly's, but still is what I recon is too slow on my AppleTV. I am using the last 'Official' build of XBMC for the AppleTV, so things maybe different on the later builds. Could anyone using the Passion release of the skin and running on an AppleTV give me some feedback on if there has been any improvement?
Other fixes/improvements include support for the Cinema Experience script, fixes for running playlists from the startup screen and fixes to the videoinfo screen. I have also made a fairly major change to the Video Wall view in 16x9 (SD will follow in next Passion release). The view now only shows 24 icons (not 33 as before) which hopefully will make the view a lot quicker. The upside to the change is that I now show plot details and media info for the selected icon, so there is some good from the change.
One last thing. I have noticed that Passion is only showing changes in the change log from previous versions of the skin and not the current release. So there are further changes to the skin that are not shown in the change log.
Wyrm (xTV-SAF)
I have been busy getting things ready for release and I think last nights push to Passion is probably the last beta for v1.1.0. I now only have a couple of minor bugs to fix and a little work on the views to do before I think the skin is ready for a formal release.
This release saw quite a bit of work on optimizing the background image and icon display. On my development box the skin now fly's, but still is what I recon is too slow on my AppleTV. I am using the last 'Official' build of XBMC for the AppleTV, so things maybe different on the later builds. Could anyone using the Passion release of the skin and running on an AppleTV give me some feedback on if there has been any improvement?
Other fixes/improvements include support for the Cinema Experience script, fixes for running playlists from the startup screen and fixes to the videoinfo screen. I have also made a fairly major change to the Video Wall view in 16x9 (SD will follow in next Passion release). The view now only shows 24 icons (not 33 as before) which hopefully will make the view a lot quicker. The upside to the change is that I now show plot details and media info for the selected icon, so there is some good from the change.
One last thing. I have noticed that Passion is only showing changes in the change log from previous versions of the skin and not the current release. So there are further changes to the skin that are not shown in the change log.
Wyrm (xTV-SAF)