socialmedian: Turbo Charge Your New XBMC Installation [Winter Upgrades]

User-submitted headlines for this story

Clips

Turbo Charge Your New XBMC Installation [Winter Upgrades]

Source: Lifehacker

Oct 30, 2009

Summary

We give a lot of attention to XBMC here, and with just cause. It's an open-source, cross-platform, highly-customizable media center solution that outperforms just about every commercial option out there. Here's how you can make it even better.

If you've played around with any commercial media centers or extenders, you've probably quickly realized how clunky and inelegant the user interface and experience is. Sure once the movie is playing and you're no longer staring down the interface all is well, but prior to getting to the actual showtime the menus are ugly and the navigation is kludgy.

Yesterday Adam detailed how to set up a silent, standalone XBMC media center on the cheap—and that's a good starting point. The "out of box" experience with XBMC is fantastic, but even better than that, it's extremely customizable. You can alter menus, vary the display method, and completely swap out the skin for a fresh new look. We've reviewed some great XBMC skinsand shown you how to install them. For this article we've selected the excellent AEON skin to showcase some o

...Read the full article

Comments (0)

Add Your Comment