2010-12-09, 23:27
Kalliban Wrote:I did a little testing regarding my previous problem with a small lag when going past the ".." in tv-shows. The lag did not go away even though you fixed the images so I decided to try to fix it myself. As I said before I use ddsfanart, so I converted the backdrop images to dds and edited the xml files for MyVideo and MyVideoNav (I wasn't sure which one it was) so that it looked for curtains.dds instead of .jpg. This removed the lag completely and the backdrop image now loads as fast as any fanart. (I did the same thing for the movies background for ".." since the lag existed there to.)
I do not think that this is a skin related bug but rather a aspect of the dds-functionality of xbmc that is not finished (the caching of skin-textures are not converted to dds and used as such). I did however feel like sharing my experience with you since you know a whole lot more about how xbmc and the skins work than I do.
I also converted the background images for the home screen to dds and the skin really flies now! I hope you find this interesting and maybe you can do something with it
This skin is almost perfect, I'm eagerly waiting for the fanart-based view for movies you talked about earlier! Then it will truly be perfect!
I'll have to play with this this weekend along with hopefully putting together a new view or two as promised. :-)
Thanks for taking the time to work that out.
Edit: @Kaliban - was the issue only when passing over the .. parent folder icons, or all fanart in general? Anyone else seeing an issue here?
Edit 2: @Kaliban - what hardware are you running on?