NOTE- All these screenshots are the copyright of ‘BLACK ROW by Sharpe with help from DJDafreund’ which can be found on the xmbc.org website.
The possibilites of such views and screenshots are quite endless and COULD offer an inspiring insight to the world of the potential of the HUB?!?!
I hope i haven’t broken any copyright laws by posting these images but I just thought it would get all themer’s creative juices flowing! BTW if you don’t see these images after they have been vetted then sorry i may have been wrong to post!
Thanks to Joey Smyth for showing the possibilities with his very honest, no-credit taking quote- ‘Aeon-ISH’ theme!!, which i very much believe was not meant to take any credit anyway from someone else’s creative and original idea.
I’m sure most all of this can be done. Themeing is very easy with editing xml’s for proper placement. Creating the graphics to look great can take some time. I would suggest dipping your feet into giving a go and you’ll eventually be working towards the look and style that you want. After Helll3ond releases the new Hubcorn, I would suggest you start with that theme and work with it a bit, thats probably the best place for you to start. I’m working on a theme right now as well, but it’s going slowly due to…well…time.
as long as you have the “.tgmd” file for each individual movie then redoing sheets for 350 movies shouldnt take long.
eg. ive got 70 movies and also the .tgmd file for each one, takes about 10mins to regenerate new sheets on a slow Celeron 3GHZ single core processor with 512mb of ram. (sad, i know
I did 94 films yesterday and it only took me around 5 hours from scratch…much of which was trial and error, the actual generation took little time really once I knew which templates and got the setting configured right in Thumb.
Im curious in case I do need to redo them what the tgmd file is for and how do I use that?
Also I have another curiosity regarding datasheets on the dummy file method, some of my films have two files, not many but a couple, those ones dotn seem to work on the data sheet method with the files in the same folder as each other. Do you know anything about that which might help?
From experience, an HTPC is a waste of time, space and money. Honestly for the price and the effort, its just a pain in the backside. I used to have one and I ditched it bceause it was just so much messing around.
Sure you have to pay the cable bill but a TV card doesnt exempt you from that anyway unless you want half the channels.
Ill admit this media box has issues with current firmware but im sure someone will make custom firmware for it at somepoint, it has a lot of potential and its a pretty clean solution all things considered. Thats just my opinion.
B-Rad’s mod firmware is for the WDTV Live & Live +, not the HUB. It will not work for the HUB, and B-Rad has said that he will not be doing a mod firmware for it.
As for XBMC, for a short answer, it is like Windows Media Center, or Boxee. It is for HTPC’s (or any PC really), if you want to know what it is just Google it.
