480p/720p

[byron]

So I run my skin in 480p to get as much RAM out of my xbox as I can, and I play video in 720p cuz it looks better I was messing with VideoOSDSettings.xml and realized that even though my skin is in 480, xbmc upscaled my media controls (and every other control in the fullscreen view) to 720... needless to say it caused some issues. Actually it just flat out reset my GUI settings because I don't think the thing knew which resolution to use. Anyway, I don't think I understand what's happening and I KNOW I don't like it. Is there an easy way to separate the controls from the video playback as far as resolution goes?

[xbs]

What issues did it cause?

[byron]

The first time it happened, I wasn't exactly sure what was going on. It went to PMIII on reload, and my resolution was all messed up (keep in mind that I was a little concerned at that point because I had no idea what happened), so I figured I had really messed something up for it to load the default skin. Also all of my skin setting were reset. The second time it happened, I realized that it just reset or deleted my GUI settings (I'm pretty sure this is the only issue by the way), because my resolution was set to auto in the settings menu, and my skin was reset to default again. I checked my log, but that particular instance was gone because I had reset my box a few times. I'm going to be working on that .xml again tonight (and I'm sure it'll happen again ), so I"ll be sure to check my log for any related info. Anyway, I just thought it was weird that it's not possible to run the GUI in 480, while content comes in at 720

[xbs]

I'm sure we used to be able to have one res on the GUI and playback on another. I never used it because it drove me crazy all the res switching.
But makes sense that the OSD gets the playback res otherwise there would be two res at the same time on screen and that surely isn't possible.