JohnnyJazz Posted September 25, 2014 Share Posted September 25, 2014 XBMC is a quite powerful program but can be confusing for non-geeks (with 2 "e"). Confluence is said to be the most complete "fully featured" as per wiki-XBMC but other skins as Transparency seem to be easier to handle for casual users. I'm designing something for my family including a couple of 80 y.o. and a few kids under 10, what do you think is the best skin for them ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJBangkok Posted September 25, 2014 Share Posted September 25, 2014 (edited) Right now I'm usung hybrid which Is a jazzed up confluence skin. I had an issue with confluence where for some reason I would get the fan art for the movie and TV show but I woukd not get the episode synopsis.but using hybrid fixed that . Edited September 25, 2014 by AJBangkok Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joncl Posted September 25, 2014 Share Posted September 25, 2014 (edited) CCM found on xbmc.org is one of the best as you can make any menu you like, i.e an under 10yrs old menu system, another for you and the wife, and make an over 80 year old menu (as I did for my folks both in their late 80's) It is up to you as you wish to configure it / customise it. Some examples Edited September 25, 2014 by joncl 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnnyJazz Posted September 25, 2014 Author Share Posted September 25, 2014 CCM found on xbmc.org is one of the best as you can make any menu you like, i.e an under 10yrs old menu system, another for you and the wife, and make an over 80 year old menu (as I did for my folks both in their late 80's) It is up to you as you wish to configure it / customise it. Some examples It looks good. I'll try that. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnnyJazz Posted September 25, 2014 Author Share Posted September 25, 2014 Right now I'm usung hybrid which Is a jazzed up confluence skin. I had an issue with confluence where for some reason I would get the fan art for the movie and TV show but I woukd not get the episode synopsis.but using hybrid fixed that . I don't have this particular problem with confluence but I've installed XBMC on different machines and every time it behaves differently. Just now on an new computer I created a new directory "TV show" then I updated the library. It took more time than usual but I can see it finds every show. But then when I try to open the directory there is nothing inside. The files are on a NAS, there are still there. It's not a problem of the format of the files' name. I really don't know what happened. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joncl Posted September 26, 2014 Share Posted September 26, 2014 Use the DIR call TV and in the metadata settings select TV Shows and when it is loaded (the metadata) it will create a new menu for you (in some cases you have to turn the menu on) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joncl Posted September 27, 2014 Share Posted September 27, 2014 as in from my NAS with the driectory called TV which serves 8 M8 boxes it looks like this on each box (one screen dump shows the NAS path to its TV directory) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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