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  • Wow i love this setup so much i just had to comment

  • are these films and tv shows downloaded, or ripped from your own dvd collection? i have a bunch of shows and movies on disk but would like to give this ago if possible. thanks to anyone who replys :)

  • How does it know what picture to use for the apps and movies? I imagine that the naming convention plays a role, or am I wrong?

  • What OS is your HTPC and do you use Event Ghost to control the Firefly. If you do use Event Ghost could you upload your XML Event Ghost file to the Event Ghost website? I'm trying to replicate your setup and I figure why reinvent the wheel. Awsome setup.

  • i love your wiring dude, where did you get those wall panels

  • great set up, im using a plugin for win 7 media center my movies collecction but i will chage for this xbmc right now, just a few question, what kind of mb, video card and sound do you have?? great job..

  • this is so fkn cool tell me what i need to buy to have this setup!!!!! PLZ!! I downloaded xbmc on my mac but i have no idea how on earth to get this hooked upto my tv ... i have an xbox 360 ... now what? :(

  • Thank you for this video.. been looking for some good media server software.. and this seems to just be the best! :D

    good inspiration. you lack a projector though ^^

  • Iif you're running XMBC on the computer, does that mean you can't run windows 7 on it (i know sounds ignorant but i'm new and learning) or is it like a program you run once the computer is loaded.....

  • By the way you should look into setting up hyperspin to launch from xbmc if you want an awesome presentation.

  • How do you get the games to launch without the emulator opening first?

  • So how exactly could I get a signal from my monitor to a bigscreen?

  • Great job dude!

  • very.. very impressive set up! I'm still having alot of trouble getting my emulators and games set up like you have in yours.. I wanted to use the xbox controller which isn't working all that well. Prob get the controller your using

  • You have the set up i aspire to have

  • what skin are you using there ?

  • What is the skin called for you xbmc, i'm using Night and its working and looking good. But the one your using looks better. Thanks

  • Dude, nice setup. All you're missing is an even larger tv :P but I'm sure that's coming once 100"+ panels are more affordable. I really liked the RF remote idea. You run sick beard +Nabszd at all or do you rip your own stuff from Bluray?

  • what program did you use to do the video screen capture on your PC?

  • how do you get movies on xbmc ??

  • @ieGod I would like to get an htpc. How did you transfer your movies into 1080p on your pc, and how did you manage to fit so much movies on your pc in HD quality? Also, how much hard drive space is required with such a setup? I would like to put my entire blue ray and dvd collection on my htpc to be accessed through the XBMC interface.

  • Very nice setup, kudos.

  • Nice setup!

    Can you please elaborate on how to program eventghost to start xbmc upon system startup? You tend to ignore a lot of questions from people who've taken the time to view your video and comment positively; I hope you will answer this question...

  • Very nice setup !

  • check out my Silverstone HTPC video

  • Great video and great stuffs! :-)

  • This looks far better than Windows Media Centre!! Why don't more people use this and why isn't it heard about compared to WMC?

  • how do you add de plots and the description for the movies

  • @santapaella The XBMC movie scraper is capable of downloading all of this information automatically.

  • @ieGod also if you have downloaded movies with names that contain stuff like .xvid TS dvdrip and such stuff...?

  • How do you get all the movies? Do you download them?

  • how you get your movies on that

  • would .avi and .mkv files work with that program

  • @lsvtec Yes, but be sure to install a Codec pack like Shark007 (to allow for better playback)

  • @lsvtec pretty much any file format would work. even iso images will run. ffmpeg encoder is installed by default.

  • is the camera or is the movies lagging on your htpc?

  • Do you download your movies?

  • @BloodxRipz yeah, how do you get your movies on the XBMC?

  • its absolutely beautiful.

  • Did you use a scraper for the cover art for the ROMs or manually upload them all and reference the image path in the thumb field of the config files?

  • @citysnumber10 Manual - this was the part that was a bit of work. But I wrote my own php script to generate the XML files based on my custom hierarchy and naming convention. This is not for the weak at heart.

  • do you know if you can also set up a DVR program, and watch the shows through XBMC?

  • @spiderobert Absolutely, but you can't control it through XBMC.

  • This is gadget porn!

  • Awesome setup and love the roms.XBMC looks and act so much better than WMC. I've been thinking about building an HTPC for a long time now and this just give me encouragement. Just one question, are those all DVD or BluRay isos or are they rips? If I have a tv show or movie in lets mkv or mp4 for will it still give a DVD cover as well as info?

  • Bravo!! I mean I love your whole setup! But could you help me with a problem I'm having with the games? I found the snes emulator but how do i get the games and the emulator into xbmc? Thanks in advance.

  • Will it play isos of ripped dvds?

  • Such a nice setup, bravo sir.

  • Love the setup. My question is are the movies ripped from blu-rays and dvds? Doesn't that take forever to do if you own a lot of them? Or is this all downloaded content?

  • Did you just download all those movies, and games?

  • Excellent video.

  • I bought the Snapstream Firefly remote after watching your video. Can I get your xml config file for the setup? It would make it much easier then trial and error for me :)

    josephdcooper keeps his e-mail at gmail

  • I bought the Snapstream Firefly remote after watching your video. Can I get your xml config file for the setup? It would make it much easier then trial and error for me :)

    josephdcooper keeps his e-mail at gmail

  • Muito bom!!! Very Good!!!

  • I love this setup!

    I am working on the design for my own setup right now, but am not sure about having my work computer being used as the HTPC as well. For instance when the active user screen locks, etc. Did you find a way to have a second logged in user maintain video output? I've been wondering if that sort of thing is a possible solution, but have not found anything other than just leaving the computer unlocked and having XBMC running on secondary output on the active login.

  • Great setup. Similar to what I'm striving for. Would you mind letting me know where you got that skin at. I can find references to it but not the skin itself. Thanks and again great video

  • @Nomar1245 The Aeon65 branch is the closest to what I had running in this video. Be warned though, this skin is kind of unstable. Just search for aeon project on wikipedia. I'd post a link but youtube doesn't like that.

  • Great video. Nice Setup, skins/theme, all of it!

  • Very slick interface,a bit similar to Boxee but I like this interface better. I use xbox xbmc, hopefully it has similar skin, I plan to use XBMC Installer Deluxe v1.30. Thnx for your great insight, very kewl!

  • wear did you buy your wall plates and wiring from and parts what is the website

  • So.... when can i come up? hahahaha nice man cave dude

  • You have a Really nice setup, the thing with your cables is so cool :D

  • sweet setup man, but how large is your file system to store all that? Are you using a NAS or file server or are you storing it all locally. I'm trying to get an htpc setup going but I'm not sure what to do for data storage. The largest NAS i could find is around 3TB but I think with HD content that would fill up quick and you seem to have alot ore than 3TB's worth of files.

  • @utoobeguy My file system resides on a different computer built entirely for that purpose. It's a custom built machine running UnRaid [ lime-technology com/support/unraid-server-inst­allation]. I have modular SATA drive bays so that I can pop in up to 15 drives of any size, but am presently running 5 with a grand total of 5TB of space, and growing as required. I actually have just over 3.5 TB worth of content.

  • I have a setup just like yours. Can you please direct where to get the Emulators (without the roms) for XBMC?

  • @mrwii20091 You can grab them from just about anywhere. I'm currently using the following:

    GENS for Saga Genesis gens(dot)me

    Nestopia for NES nestopia(dot)sourceforge(dot)n­et

    Project 64 for N64 pj64-emu(dot)com

    ZSNES for Super Nintendo zsnes(dot)com

  • Nice setup man - especially the in-wall wiring. Makes everything nice and clean.

  • How far away is your other room where the pc is actually sitting? Does RF really communicate that well over long distances?

  • @mcaj007 It's in the room behind the man cave, so not absurdly far. Perhaps 10-15ft or so.

  • Great vid! How did you get all the artwork to go along with the movies/music? You briefly went into it when you were in the emulators, but I didn't quite understand.

  • @Olsteradamus Within the settings you can customize how Aeon behaves, and one of the areas lets you set background directories to pull images from for the different sections.

  • Oh yeah... I was going to ask how long your HDMI and Taslink cables are. I'm about to do a similar setup and probably going to do 50 footers on both.

  • @jinjabred The cable that runs from the PC to the receiver is about 30ft, the toslink perhaps 25. If Monoprice sells them, it's more than likely you'll have no problem with longer ones.

  • Nice video. Could you post some specs on your HTPC?

    Thanks,

    Jordon

  • Great video... Question.. How do you rip and store all those HD movies?

    I have about 20 to 25 blurays ripped useing tsmuxer,which some work some don't seems like it's allways a pain in the ass... And I have close to 1.5 tarabites of 480p movies .. I'd love to have them in 720p or 1080p but like I said it's a pain, not allways reliable and the storage would be crazy...any help will be appreciated...

  • i love your setup just curious are you using a remote to control the XBMC? also are you running a windows or linux OS? my plan is to run XBMC on a linux OS with a wireless remote to control the movies is that possible you reckon

  • @drwombat Before you get too far into setting up xbmc and launcher and what not, Id recommend getting your tv/hdmi out working. Its a bit trickier in linux then you might think. I ended up scrapping my 75% working xbmx/linux install because I could not get it to work.

  • hey thanks for the response, so let me then ask you this if your suggesting windows is most compatible for HDMI is there a way to setup a HTPC to boot straight to XBMC? i would like to create a "dedicated" box that simply boots to media center with an external hdd plugged in.

    also another side question your album art, and movie data is that "fetched" for you off the internet or do "id3" tags have to be made?

  • I know the movie/tv art is fetched off the internet dependent on the file name or the folder it is ins name or you can manually type in what it is and select the right movie for common movie titles. This can end up being guessing between 3 movies of the same name. I'm not quite sure how you can go about fetching album art, if your music already has some it will display in xbmc though.

  • It is possible but do find out if you can get your output going first. A friend of mine purchased an Acer Revo for ~$200 and put a customized version of Linux on it that runs XBMC Live. So basically, it just boots directly into the XBMC interface. It's working great for him and plays back 1080p no problem.

  • what software do you use to convert your dvds and blurays? your picture quality looks amazing. what format do you suggest for the higest quality? thanks!

  • I was wondering if you might post your launchers.xml file for us to get an example on how to setup some of the various emulators.

  • also the other requirement is does XBMC support the newest audio formats such as DD TrueHD and DTS HD MA? That would seal the deal for me...

  • you're set up is rediculous man, good job. It could be improved with with a projector though. What specs do you have for your HTPC? I'm thinking about either building or purchasing one and I cant decide weather to go all out or buy something like an Asus O!Play... after seeing this vid I really want something to put XBMC on

  • Great vid. I really appreciate the effort put into the editing of the video as well. The wall outlets for the cables was awesome. I wish I had a dedicated room for this stuff. Love most version of the Aeon skins, but REALLY loved the piece on emulators. Would love to do something similar, but I don't have the knowhow within Ubuntu (running XBMC LiveCD 9.11 v12 for Linux because of the VDPAU feature..), to configure emulators, gamepads etc... Great video anyway. Thanks for sharing!

  • Just curious what kind of HDTV do you use?

    720p, 1080i or 1080p?

    (If I get one it's either gonna be 1080i or HD ready "1366x768" slightly higher res then 720p)

  • 1080p. It's a Panasonic TCP50S1.

  • nice. =P

  • I have the same logitech rumbledpad and it's always flashing it's stupid light even when theres tons of charge still left in the battery. I ended up putting some blu-tak over the led because it was getting annoying! lol

    Nice vid btw, similar type of thing I hope to acheive with MediaPortal (which is a branch of xbmc)

  • Where did you get the game-backdrops and the console-icons?

  • Perfect setup on the Aeon Phil65 where is the download for that?

  • Does XBMC offer TV recording ? I'm Running Win7 64 with a pair of analog dual tuner cards. (no HD yet...) . I've got a largish library of Vids (movies, TV etc) for the most part Media Center is Just a front end for that but I also use it as a DVR / DVD player. I'd love to switch to XBMC if it is able use tuner cards. Media center has a few GREAT plugins but only a few. Microsoft hardly seems to care. I tried to find a plugin for roms but failed. Your vid almost made me cry...

    thanks again.

  • very nice video.

  • nice setup dude i have just ordered a zotac ionitx f series mobo you left out that you can play trailers while browsing your movie collection. also you should check out hyperspin its amazing there is some info online about scripts to run it from home menu seamlessly nice video 5 stars

  • press s on keyboard and turn on home visualizes to play video in background while browsing home menu like in confluence skin

  • May I know that your XBMC is running on linux (ubuntu) platform -or- Window ?

    Also how to make your XBMC auto start?

    If your XBMC on linux platform, do u experience "video jutter" on h.264 720p/1080p playback?

    THX

  • It's running on Windows 7, with no jutter/stutter/frame drops. It's all silky smooth 1080p playback in h.264, x.264, VC1, mp4 AVC.

    XBMC doesn't autostart with my computer, I use the remote in the video coupled with EventGhost to launch it as required.

  • Can you really beat heatman first? That's a bold first pick. I don't believe you could have finished it!

  • im using a thinkpad t4o and for some reason im getting a white movie screen when i push play. i get sound and the files are organized correctly. is my graphics card probably too old and it cant handle xbmc? oh yeah i upgraded to 9.11 version

  • Well, nice work dude

  • What kind of specs are on the PC powering all this?

  • Click on "more info" in the video description.

  • @ieGod - duh, my bad. Thanks!

  • amazing set up

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