XBMC Pt 2 The Noobs Guide To Creating The Ultimate HTPC

Link to my website: http://xbmcnewz.com/

This is Pt 2 of my XBMC Noobs guide where we look at customizing the menu backgrounds of our skin.
We then run through the different settings you should pick.
Then last of all we tell XBMC where our movies are and it scrapes the metadata from the internet for us and adds it to all our movies.

In Pt 3 i will explain all the different views in movies menu.
so check it out.

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• XBMC
• XBOX
• media
• center
• HTPC
• AEON
• Showmix
• Noob
• How
• to

[meranenklubb]

i dont have the same menu alternatives as you got? Any ideas why?

[iMeAgainstTheWorldi]

@meranenklubb just a different build of showmix you probably have a old version if you want the latest build of showmix its called Showmix Evolution and can be found but you need the latest dharma build of xbmc to run this see xbmc.org for dharma beta3 all this can be found at xbmc.org forums

[wheresmym3]

Hmm...I selected the folders for the backdrops (downloaded off your site thanks btw) and now the menu item names have changed as well to reflect the folder location for the backdrops. For example, instead of saying "pictures" it says: "C:\xmbc\backdrops\pictures" Have any idea what is going on?

[iMeAgainstTheWorldi]

@wheresmym3 wow thats strange i have know idea

[mkohman]

Quick question 1 - Where can I download all the backdrops you got from ? 2 - Before I scrape my movie info do I need to place each movie in a folder which has the same name as movie? Will the program also rename my .mkv file to for example (Fast & Furious 2009) or do I need to do that ?

Thanks

[iMeAgainstTheWorldi]

@mkohman check out my website thegeekstreet backdrops there

[stuemail567]

just wundering where u got your wallpapers or did u just get them of google great video made me media centre much better

[leafblowinSK8]

@iMeAgainstTheWorldi where did you find all thsoe Hi-res background /backdrops :D

[leafblowinSK8]

@iMeAgainstTheWorldi where do you find alll your backgrouds?? (backdrops)

In addition i have all my movies saved in downloads-movie-(lots of movieolders in different format

And i would just add the movies in the "movie" folder, but they are in sepeareate folders.. but im unable to browse and find them cause when i go add source - browse - users - public. and it doesnt say like guest neither my name, WTF please help me with the add problem to the libary effcantly, as well as finding teh directory

[markusstazz]

@iMeAgainstTheWorldi

Hey, could you upload the Aeon file? The github seems to be broken.

[patm95]

@moderndaymarval

I am having the same problem. Were u ever able to figure it out?

[Nemesis2459]

@wheresmym3

mate i'm having the same problem, it's really bugging me especially that i've spent ages going through this tutorial and cant go any furthur cos of this stupid error. =( did u fix it??

[Nemesis2459]

thanks a lot for your hel, i've been listening to you for almost an hour now, but i got to a point where somthings going wrong. When selecting a backdrop pic for the (pictures) on the main menu, the word changes from (pictures) to my file location so (C://Users/DAV1D...) and so on, what am i doing wrong, please let me know i've got so far now but this is really annoying me =( cheers.