Xtv Skin Beta Released Options

[cbagy]

In my opinion the best skin for SD TV's. Only been using it for a few days, very impressed with its simplicity with good sized icons. Font could be slightly larger especially for Standard Definition TV's. Tried the opening intro movie script supplied by CHI3f. Worked first time on established setup and on clean install. The novelty wears off after a couple of reboots. Reverted back to no intro setup. Interestingly tried xtv2 skin and though it was too in-depth / cluttered with its options. Just my pennies worth. Excellent skin, good quality work.

[DJ_Yuz]

In my opinion the best skin for SD TV's.

Perhaps the best for HDTVs as well--it's one of the very few skins I've found that can still operate snappily at 1080i. By the way CHI3f, I love xTV, it's the only skin I use nowadays. It's simply perfect.

[cbagy]

Yup, after modding the rss streams, menus, font sizes and other bits. Its now my only skin on 3 SD bedroom boxes and on 1 HD @ 720p (my prefered res) downstairs. I think ill be hard pushed to find a better skin that suits my tastes. I updated a couple or 4 boxes just recently for a few friends of mine and they all go shipped now with xtv as the standard dash. Love it. Thanks.

[remedee]

Hey CHI3f, stellar skin, I've been using it for quite a while now, but I just updated to the latest XBMC (T3CH XBMC 2009-04-04 SVN rev19213-9.04-ALPHA1) as well as what I believe to be the latest version of xTV (grabbed from the googlecode page & also tried via Xbox Skin Manager), and I'm having problems with a few screens.

After updating my movie database, I noticed that if I try to manually search for a movie, the window that comes up that would have the titles is blank. Also, if the movie info has already been scraped and I switch from "Plot" to "Cast", the "Cast" area is just blank. I tried several other skins and all of the info is there, but the windows/screens are showing blank in xTV.

Also, going to System -> Download Themes produces a blank screen as well. It shows 19 Objects at the bottom of the window, but I can't select anything. I decided to try to take a screenshot for you, but clicking the thumbstick brings up the Screenshots Folder window where I can see Ok, Cancel and New Folder, but can't select anything here either.

Any chance this is a bug in the new build, or an issue with the new build of Media Center, or maybe I'm just not using the latest SVN of xTV? Normally I'd think it was something I messed with, but this is a completely fresh install on a newly modded box, so there are no remnants of old versions or anything to cause conflicts. Hope I've provided enough info. Keep up the good work!

TIA

P.S. I found an xTV build I had from sometime in January and it has the same issues. On that note, I'm leaning toward the possibly of a change in XBMC that doesn't play nice with something in xTV, but I could be mistaken.

[phace]

i'm experiencing the same issues which remedee described..
scripts become unusable because you cant see the content.
i noticed that the problem occurred after switching to a newest tech (built from 1st may 09), curiously i did not have any issues while using the 3.3 09 built
it would be great if you could look into it...i dont wanna stop using this skin mate!

[CHI3f]

After updating my movie database, I noticed that if I try to manually search for a movie, the window that comes up that would have the titles is blank. Also, if the movie info has already been scraped and I switch from "Plot" to "Cast", the "Cast" area is just blank. I tried several other skins and all of the info is there, but the windows/screens are showing blank in xTV.

Also, going to System -> Download Themes produces a blank screen as well. It shows 19 Objects at the bottom of the window, but I can't select anything. I decided to try to take a screenshot for you, but clicking the thumbstick brings up the Screenshots Folder window where I can see Ok, Cancel and New Folder, but can't select anything here either.

These problems should be all fixed up now. The problem was my slack ass had some old style listcontrols in those windows.

This post has been edited by CHI3f: May 9 2009, 04:17 PM

[gfrobe]

Just downloaded latest version of Xtv skin along with latest version of XBMC and now having a problem with adding sources. The screen to add a source comes up but there is no way to navigate or add anything to the fields (the buttons do nothing). If I go back to PM skin I have no problem with adding a source so suspect its a xtv skin issue..

[cbagy]

Ditto, always had that problem with this skin so i do exacly the same as you. Use PM for admin.
xTV for daily use.

[CHI3f]

I see what the problem is. I will have it fixed tomorrow.

[CHI3f]

It is fixed. you can download the skin via svn or the link in my sig.

[phace]

i am still experiencing issues while trying to access the options of the xbmc lyrics plugin as well as the options of the visualizations (in my case milkdrop). it continues to behave as the other script menus did before your update chief - it shows that there are in fact options selectable but those are unreadable, as if the window was empty. i did not experience any problems while trying it out with pm3 and the basics-vision skin.

[gfrobe]

It is fixed. you can download the skin via svn or the link in my sig.

Much appreciated!

[FourTwentySmiles]

Gfrobe..........Is that, as in, Gert B. Frobe?

[dfmos]

Little Visualization mod

I use this skin on Pc running at 1080P, sweet!
Just the visualization wasn't to my liking so I changed it a little, took some of the overlay from my old x-cite skin.

Just download the file, put the .png files into the XTV media folder.
And then add the 2 .xml files into the PAL folder thats it.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=GIT0ZRCV

Chief dude still love ur skin, peace out bro.

Screenshots

[homesnake]

Chief first just wanted to say thanks for all the work you've put into xTV and xTV take 2.

I have been switching back and forth between PLEX and XBMC OSX, xTV seems to work fine on PLEX (0.8.2) except for one nagging problem, and that is that if I navigate to the settings page I end up with a totally black screen. I can START in the settings page and see it fine, but if I navigate away from it I can't get back to it. I would really like it to work in PLEX because XBMC seems to have some video playback issues I can't seem to sort out.

I understand there is some sort of schism between the XBMC OSX group and PLEX? Maybe PLEX's different coding are why the skin doesn't work in that particular screen? I am going to look into key commands to see if there is a different way to get into the settings mode for now (yea I'm a newb).

The only other skin I like is xTV 2, (xbmcTV) which doesn't suffer from the disappearing settings menu like PLEX, though the one little nagging problem is a thin white line (about a millimeter or two) on the extreme left of the screen, which detracts a bit from menu navigation. Thankfully it doesn't appear during video viewing.

If you are still actively working on either skin please add these issues to your list of things that I really really need to happen