Well without formatting the near 1TB partition that that was all but 7GB full, I filled up the remaining blank space with dummy files (since this blank space may be fragmented) deleted 6GB of large movies that were put on the hdd when I 1st filled it up. I'm pretty sure that new free space would be ...

After some more testing I have come to the conclusion that this is solely related to HDD fragmentation and possibly the64k clusters size of 2TB drives. My other theory of using a different file manager is bunk. I believe that if the thumbnails hit any kind of fragmentation it greatly reduces XBMC's ...

Yes, I use XBMC as my main dashboard. To be a bit more clear, this is a softmodded Xbox v1.4 using SID 5.12, dual boot with a recovery dashboard, no shadow C, using a Seagate Barracuda 2TB HDD. Also has a HD cable and digital 5.1 speakers. I never touch the C partition. I have 450 Xbox games (895GB)...

After dozens and dozens of experiments, I think I may know the cause. There were several times when I copied over the XBMC4Xbox directory complete with UserData and thousands of thumbnails from one partition to another using UnleashX because it copies faster than XBMC. The view changing after this w...

I have the same issue. It only occurs when the Xbox is not hooked up through a network. musicdb.jpg I figured out that this occurs when you select a default selection, in my case albums. This does not pop up if you clear the default. I like having albums as my default though. It's really all I ever ...

Google heimdalls HeXEn xbox engineering disc, download, burn and pop it in your Xbox. That will give you a way to ftp to it again as well as provide a lot of useful tools.

The problem is when switching between different views in any section, there is a 1 second lag or longer before the switch when normally it will switch almost instantaneously. Also going into a subfolders in the programs menu can cause the waiting dialog to pop up when normally it would be instantane...

My desired results:

Thanks byron! That did it! :D I was actually wanting "cover flow" view but it was easy to figure out thanks to your instructions. I just inserted that second line into Views3dCoverView.xml instead of ViewsVideoLibrary.xml and then compared the difference between MyVideo.xml and MyPics.xml ...

I recently figured out how to add Big Icons 2 view to Pictures and Programs in Project Mayhem III by changing the MyPrograms.xml and MyPics.xml but I am finding it more difficult to add view settings in PM3.HD. I wand to add Cover flow view to both Programs and Pictures. This view setting would look...

I finally corrected the settings.xml to give the correct dimensions of the thumbnails. Here it is Just unzip and place in the PAL folder of Project Mayhem III.

@BuZz Well I'm learning a lot today. Here is my first debug log. The thumbs stop loading in Confluence Lite. http://www.xbmclogs.com/show.php?id=80366 @Dan Dar3 So using WinMerge, I figured out the file to alter is indeed PAL\Settings.xml I could get the Thumbs square but a couple labels were trunca...

@BuZz The main reason I don't use the Confluence Lite skin is a memory issue. I don't know if it's whether I changed the thumbsize to 320 in advance settings or if its because I have over 2,000 albums but when I start scrolling through them in Confluence Lite, the album covers go blank after a few d...

Thank you Dan Dar3! Reloading the skin through the computer was incredibly helpful and saved a lot of time. Through trial and error I was able to change the genre label to year label in album view by editing CommonViewTypes.xml For anyone who wants to do the same replace: <label>$INFO[ListItem.Genre...

Thanks for the info BuZz and thank you for constantly improving XBMC. Thanks Dan Dar 3 for the pointer. Most of these settings are just too complex for my brain but I'm going to do some trial and error and see if I can learn. I did swap out out the PAL and PAL16x9 folders from the Project Mayhem III...

@ byron, thanks for the suggestion and yes I played with every imaginable setting with no change. The stretched icons are only on the settings screen, no where else. As you can see by comparing these two screens, the other dimensions match. It's the icons only that are stretched.

Apparently not the favorite skin anymore but I still love it. I just noticed one thing that bugs me and I was wondering how to fix it. The icons in the settings menu are stretched out. screenshot000.jpg screenshot001.jpg One other thing and it's just a preference, Is there a way to change the date o...

I found how to tweek it here:
http://www.xbmc4xbox.org.uk/wiki/Advanc ... umbsize.3E

My Advancedsettings.xml looks like this:

<advancedsettings>

<thumbsize>320</thumbsize>

</advancedsettings>


320 gave me just the quality I wanted with little system lag.

Sorry folks. I screwed up in my test. I actually had 480P turned off in the dashboard (720P and 1080i turned on though). All the games in my first section do indeed work just fine with the exception of Pirates of the Carribean. That game comes up garbled whatever dashboard launches it. As for the se...

One other thing I remembered just just now that was unique was with The Sims 2. It would give a dirty disc error when launched from XBMC4XBOX on any version of Xbox but plays fine when launched from evox.