Settings descriptions

36101
Change the look and feel of the User Interface.

36102
No info available yet.

36103
Select the skin for the User Interface. This will define the look and feel of XBMC.

36104
Change specific skin settings. The available options are dependent on the skin used.

36105
Change the theme associated with your selected skin.

36106
Change the colours of your selected skin.

36107
Choose the fonts displayed in the User Interface. The font sets are configured by your skin.

36108
Resize the view of the GUI.

36109
Select the media window that XBMC displays on startup.

36110
Select or disable the sound scheme used in the User Interface.

36111
Turn this off to remove the scrolling RSS news ticker.

36112
Edit the RSS feeds.

36113
No info available yet.

36114
Chooses the language of the User Interface.

36115
Select the formats for temperature, time and date. The available options depend on the selected language.

36116
Choose which character set is used for displaying text in the GUI.

36117
Select country location.

36118
Select your current timezone.

36119
Select the default audio track when different language tracks are available.

36120
Select the default subtitles when different languages are available.

36121
No info available yet.

36122
Display the (..) item in lists for visiting the parent folder.

36123
Show file extensions on media files. For example, 'You Enjoy Myself.mp3' would be simply be shown as 'You Enjoy Myself'.

36125
Allow files to be deleted and renamed through the user interface, via the contextual menu (press C on a keyboard, for example, to bring up this menu).

36126
Show the add source button from root sections of the user interface.

36127
Show hidden files and directories.

36128
No info available yet.

36129
Set the amount of idle time required before displaying the screensaver.

36130
Select the screensaver. XBMC will force the 'Dim' screensaver when fullscreen video playback is paused or a dialogue box is active.

36131
Change specific screensaver settings. The available options are dependent on the screensaver used.

36132
Preview the selected screensaver.

36133
If music is being played, XBMC will start the selected visualisation instead of displaying the screensaver.

36134
Dim the display when media is paused. Not valid for the 'Dim' screensaver mode.

36135
No info available yet.

36136
No info available yet.

36137
No info available yet.

36138
No info available yet.

36139
No info available yet.

36140
No info available yet.

36141
Show plot information for unwatched media in the Video Library.

36142
No info available yet.

36143
Get thumbnails for actors when scanning media.

36144
Remove the TV show season node, toggles between 'If only one season' (default), 'Always' and 'Never'.

36145
Group movies into 'Movie sets' when browsing the movie library.

36146
Check for new media files on XBMC startup.

36147
Hide the library scanning progress bar during scans.

36148
Remove items from your library that can't be found (either renamed, deleted, or on removable storage that is currently unplugged).

36149
Export the Video Library database to XML files. This will optionally overwrite your current XML files.

36150
Import a XML file into the Video Library database.

36151
No info available yet.

36152
Enable automatic playback of the next file in the list of the selected item.

36153
Adjust the method used to process and display video.

36154
No info available yet.

36155
Enable hardware decoding of video files.

36156
No info available yet.

36157
No info available yet.

36158
No info available yet.

36159
No info available yet.

36160
No info available yet.

36161
No info available yet.

36162
No info available yet.

36163
No info available yet.

36164
Select when the refresh rate adjustments should take place.

36165
Pause for a small amount of time during a refresh rate change. Activate to automatically set the refresh rate which is best matched with the video that is playing. This potentially allows for perfectly smooth video reproduction, as video material can be recorded in a variety of frame rates which need to be properly matched by the refresh rate of the display in order to be displayed smoothly.

36166
Synchronise the video to the refresh rate of the monitor.

36167
Audio has to stay in sync, this can either be done by resampling, skipping/duplicating packets, or adjusting the clock if it gets out of sync too far.

36168
Maximum video speed adjust to match actual screen refresh rate.

36169
Select the quality of resampling for cases where the audio output needs to be at a different sampling rate from that used by the source. [Low] is fast and will have minimal impact on system resources such as the use of the CPU, [Medium] & [High] will use progressively more system resources.

36170
Allow video player to ignoring aspect ratio by a certain amount to fill a larger amount of the screen with video.

36171
Select the zoom level that 4:3 videos are shown on widescreen displays.

36172
VDPAU studio level conversion provides a way for advanced applications like XBMC to influence the colour space conversion.

36173
No info available yet.

36174
Enable Teletext when watching a live TV stream.

36175
Scale Teletext to 4:3 ratio.

36176
No info available yet.

36177
Toggle between Choose, Play (default), Resume and Show Information. Choose will select an item, e.g. open a directory in files mode. Resume will automatically resume videos from the last position that you were viewing them, even after restarting the system.

36178
No info available yet.

36179
When a file is scanned into the library it will display the metadata title instead of the file name.

36180
Extract thumbnails and information, such as codecs and aspect ratio, to display in Library Mode.

36181
No info available yet.

36182
Enables direct playback of videos that are in folders, without having to open those folders first, as well as displaying multi-part video files as single items in non-library views.

36183
Removes the title, genre etc nodes from the library view. Selecting a category takes you straight to the title view.

36184
No info available yet.

36185
No info available yet.

36186
No info available yet.

36187
No info available yet.

36188
No info available yet.

36189
No info available yet.

36190
No info available yet.

36191
Set a custom directory for your subtitles. This can be a file share.

36192
Location of subtitles on the screen.

36193
No info available yet.

36194
Autorun DVD video when inserted in drive.

36195
Force a region for DVD playback.

36196
Attempt to skip 'unskippable' introductions before DVD menu.

36197
No info available yet.

36198
Select the default movie information source. See the Add-ons Manager for options.

36199
Select the default TV show information source. See the Add-ons Manager for options.

36200
Default scraper used for adding music videos to your library.

36201
No info available yet.

36202
No info available yet.

36203
Enable the Personal Video Recorder (PVR) features in XBMC. This requires that at least one PVR Add-on is installed.

36204
Import channel groups from the PVR backend (if supported). Will delete user created groups if they're not found on the backend.

36205
Sort the channels by channel number on the server, but uses XBMC's own numbering for channels.

36206
Use numbering from the backend, instead of configuring them manually over XBMC.

36207
Open the channel manager, which allows modifying the channel order, channel name, icon, etc.

36208
Instruct the backend to search for channels (if supported).

36209
Delete channel/EPG database and reimport the data from the backend afterwards.

36210
No info available yet.

36211
No info available yet.

36212
No info available yet.

36213
No info available yet.

36214
No info available yet.

36215
No info available yet.

36216
No info available yet.

36217
No info available yet.

36218
No info available yet.

36219
Default EPG window to show. Defaults to Timeline.

36220
Number of days of EPG data to import from backends. Defaults to 2 days.

36221
Time between EPG data imports from backends. Defaults to 120 minutes.

36222
Do not import EPG data while playing TV to minimise CPU usage.

36223
By default, EPG data is stored in a local database to speed up importing when XBMC is restarted.

36224
Hide \"no information available\" labels when no EPG data can be retrieved for a channel.

36225
Delete the EPG database in xbmc and reimport the data afterwards from the backend.

36226
No info available yet.

36227
Display stream of selected channel in a small box instead of fullscreen.

36228
Show the last viewed channel if switching to live tv.

36229
Display signal quality information in the codec information window (if supported by the Add-on and backend).

36230
No info available yet.

36231
Pressing a number button in full screen mode will automatically switch to the channel number that was entered after 1 second.

36232
No info available yet.

36233
No info available yet.

36234
Duration of the recording when pressing the record button, or when creating a new manual timer. Defaults to 180 minutes.

36235
Priority of the recording. Higher number means higher priority. Defaults to 50. Not supported by all Add-ons and backends.

36236
Delete recording after this time. Defaults to 99 days. Not supported by all Add-ons and backends.

36237
Start recordings before the actual time. Defaults to 2 minutes. Not supported by all Add-ons and backends.

36238
End recordings after the actual time. Defaults to 10 minutes. Not supported by all Add-ons and backends.

36239
Display a notification when timers are added, finished or removed by the backend.

36240
No info available yet.

36241
Execute the \"wakeup command\" below when XBMC exits or is going into hibernation mode. The timestamp of the next scheduled recording is passed as parameter.

36242
The command will not be executed when a recording will be started within this timeout. Defaults to 15 minutes.

36243
The command to execute. Defaults to '/usr/bin/setwakeup.sh'.

36244
Time to substract from the start time of the next scheduled recording. Defaults to 15 minutes.

36245
Execute the wakeup command every day at the given time.

36246
When to execute the daily wakeup command.

36247
No info available yet.

36248
Asks for a pin code to access parental locked channels. Channels can be marked as locked in the channels editor on the general tab. Parental locked channels can not be played or recorded without entering a pin code, and the EPG information is hidden for those channels.

36249
Enter a new pin code to unlock parental locked channels.

36250
Ask for the pin code again when trying to access a parental locked channel and the code hasn't been asked for this duration. Defaults to 300 seconds.

36251
No info available yet.

36252
No info available yet.

36253
No info available yet.

36254
No info available yet.

36255
Determine if artists that appear only on compilations are shown in the library artist view.

36256
Automatically fetch album and artist information via scrapers during scan.

36257
Select the default album information source

36258
Select the default artist information source. See the Add-ons Manager for options.

36259
Check for new and removed media files on XBMC startup.

36260
No info available yet.

36261
Path where taken screenshots will be stored.

36262
Export the Music Library database to XML files. This will optionally overwrite your current XML files.

36263
Import a XML file into the Music Library database.

36264
No info available yet.

36265
XBMC automatically plays the next item in the current folder. For example, in Files View: After a track has been played, XBMC would automatically play the next track in the same folder.

36266
When songs are added to a playlist they are queued instead of playback starting immediately.

36267
XBMC will read the ReplayGain information encoded in your audio files by a program such as MP3Gain and normalise the sound levels accordingly.

36268
Default is 89dB per standard. Change with caution.

36269
Default is 89dB per standard. Change with caution.

36270
Reduce the volume of the file if clipping is likely to occur.

36271
Smoothly fade from one audio track to the next. You can set the amount of overlap from 1-15 seconds.

36272
Allow crassfading to occur when both tracks are from the same album.

36273
Select the visualisation that will be displayed while listening to music.

36274
Read the tag information from song files. For large directories this can slow down read time, especially over a network.

36275
Control the way that the names of songs are displayed in the User Interface. In order to function properly, ID3 tags need to be enabled.

36276
Used for the information on the right-hand side of the UI. It is commonly used to display the length of tracks.

36277
No info available yet.

36278
No info available yet.

36279
No info available yet.

36280
No info available yet.

36281
XBMC will search for thumbs on remote shares and optical media. This can often slow down the listing of network folders.

36282
No info available yet.

36283
Autorun CDs when inserted in drive.

36284
Read the information belonging to an audio CD from an internet database.

36285
Select the location on your hard drive where ripped tracks will be saved to.

36286
Tags: [B]%N[/B]: TrackNumber, [B]%S[/B]: DiscNumber, [B]%A[/B]: Artist, [B]%T[/B]: Title, [B]%B[/B]: Album, [B]%G[/B]: Genre, [B]%Y[/B]: Year, [B]%F[/B]: FileName, [B]%D[/B]: Duration, [B]%J[/B]: Date, [B]%R[/B]: Rating, [B]%I[/B]: FileSize.

36287
Select which audio encoder to use when ripping.

36288
Select which quality you want to rip your files.

36289
Select which bitrate to use for the specified audio encoder for audio compression.

36290
For FLAC define compression level, default 5

36291
Auto eject disc after rip is complete.

36292
No info available yet.

36293
When playing any music file, XBMC will look for a matching .cdg file and display its graphics.

36294
No info available yet.

36295
Select the font used during karoake.

36296
Select the size of the font used during karoake.

36297
Select the font colour used during karoake.

36298
Select the character set used during karoake.

36299
No info available yet.

36300
No info available yet.

36301
No info available yet.

36302
No info available yet.

36303
No info available yet.

36304
No info available yet.

36305
No info available yet.

36306
If EXIF information exists (date, time, camera used, etc.), it will be displayed.

36307
Automatically generate picture thumbnails when entering picture folder.

36308
Pictures will automatically rotate according to information in the EXIF tag, if found.

36309
Show video media in picture file lists, since most digital cameras nowadays have video recording capabilities.

36310
No info available yet.

36311
No info available yet.

36312
Select the amount of time that each image is displayed in a slideshow.

36313
Images in a slideshow will pan and zoom while displayed.

36314
View slideshow images in a random order.

36315
No info available yet.

36316
No info available yet.

36317
Select up to three locations for which the weather can be displayed.

36318
Specify the default weather information source. See the Add-ons Manager for options.

36319
No info available yet.

36320
No info available yet.

36321
Display name of the XBMC installation when using various network services.

36322
No info available yet.

36323
Enable the UPnP server. This will allow you to stream media to any UPnP client.

36324
When a manual or automatical library update occurs, notify UPnP clients.

36325
No info available yet.

36326
Enable the UPnP client. This will allow you to stream media from any UPnP server with a control point and control playback from that server.

36327
No info available yet.

36328
Enable remote users to control XBMC through the built-in webserver.

36329
Define the webserver port.

36330
Define the webserver username.

36331
Define webserver password.

36332
Select between web interfaces installed via the Add-on Manager.

36333
No info available yet.

36334
Allow programs on this computer to control XBMC via the Web Interface or the JSON-RPC interface protocol.

36335
No info available yet.

36336
No info available yet.

36337
No info available yet.

36338
Allow programs on the network to control XBMC.

36339
No info available yet.

36340
No info available yet.

36341
No info available yet.

36342
No info available yet.

36343
No info available yet.

36344
No info available yet.

36345
No info available yet.

36346
No info available yet.

36347
No info available yet.

36348
No info available yet.

36349
No info available yet.

36350
Automatically send 'Wake-On-Lan' to server(s) right before trying to access shared files or services.

36351
No info available yet.

36352
No info available yet.

36353
No info available yet.

36354
The main benefit is for multi-screen configurations, so XBMC can be used without automatically minimising other applications. Uses a bit more resources and playback may be slightly less smooth.

36355
In a multi-screen configuration, the screens where XBMC is not displayed are blacked out.

36356
Eliminate vertical tearing.

36357
Calibrate the User Interface by adjusting the overscan. Use this tool if the image being displayed is too large or small for your display.

36358
Test patterns for display hardware calibration.

36359
No info available yet.

36360
No info available yet.

36361
Select how the properties of the audio output are set: [Fixed] - output properties are set to the specified sampling rate & speaker configuration at all times; [Best Match] - output properties are set to always be as close a match to the source properties as possible; [Optimized] - output properties are set at the start of playback and will not change if the properties of the source changes.

36362
Select the maximum number of audio channels/speakers available for audio decoded.

36363
Boost AC3 streams that have been downmixed to 2 channels.

36364
Select to enable upmixing of 2 channel stereo sources to the number of audio channels specified by the speaker configuration.

36365
Select this option if your receiver is capable of decoding AC3 streams.

36366
Select this option if your receiver is capable of decoding DTS streams.

36368
Select to enable the passthrough audio options for playback of encoded audio such as Dolby Digital.

36369
Select this option if your receiver is capable of decoding TrueHD streams.

36370
Select this option if your receiver is capable of decoding DTS-HD streams.

36371
Select the device to be used for playback of audio that has been decoded such as mp3

36372
Select the device to be used for playback of encoded formats, these are any of the formats below in the 'capable receiver' options.

36373
Configure how interface sounds are handled, such as menu navigation and important notifications.

36374
No info available yet.

36375
No info available yet.

36376
When activated, your keyboard arrows will move the selection on the virtual keyboard. When deactivated, they will move the cursor from your text.

36377
Use a mouse or touch screen device to control XBMC. Note: disabling will cause you to lose control over XBMC when no keyboard or remote is present.

36378
Use a joystick to control XBMC.

36379
No info available yet.

36380
If your internet connection uses a proxy, configure it here.

36381
Configure which proxy type is used.

36382
Configure the proxy server address.

36383
Configure the proxy server port.

36384
Configure the proxy server username.

36385
Configure the proxy server password.

36386
If you have limited bandwidth available, XBMC will try to keep within these limits.

36387
Turn off display when idle. Useful for TVs that turn off when there is no display signal detected, but you don't want to suspend/shutdown the whole computer.

36388
No info available yet.

36389
Define how long XBMC should idle before shutting down.

36390
Define what action XBMC should do when it has been idle for a long period of time.

36391
Turn debug logging on or off. Useful for troubleshooting.

36392
No info available yet.

36393
Folder used to save screenshots taken within XBMC.

36394
Specify additional libraries to be included in the debug log.

36395
Open the Master Lock dialogue, where you can configure your Master Lock options.

36396
Define the PIN code used for the master lock.

36397
If enabled, the master lock code is required to unlock XBMC on startup

36398
Define the maximum number of retries before XBMC is closed down.

36399
No info available yet.

36400
No info available yet.

36401
No info available yet.

36402
No info available yet.

36403
No info available yet.

36404
No info available yet.

36405
No info available yet.

36406
No info available yet.

36407
No info available yet.

36408
No info available yet.

36409
No info available yet.

36410
No info available yet.

36411
No info available yet.

36412
No info available yet.

36413
No info available yet.

36414
No info available yet.

36415
No info available yet.

36416
Define the Apple remote standard used.

36417
No info available yet.

36418
No info available yet.

36419
Define locations used for retrieving weather information.

36420
No info available yet.

36421
Bypassing VDPAU mixer saves resources on low power systems but slightly reduces picture quality

36422
Enable hardware video decode using AMLogic decoder

36423
Use ffmpeg frame multiple thread decoding when hardware decoding not working or disabled. (less reliable than default single thread mode)

36523
Maximum sampling rate for spdif or sampling rate for fixed output configuration

36533
Select how audio is downmixed, for example from 5.1 to 2.0: [Enabled] maintains the dynamic range of the original audio source when downmixed however volume will be lower [Disabled] maintains volume level of the original audio source however the dynamic range is compressed. Note - Dynamic range is the difference between the quietest and loudest sounds in a audio source.

36537
No info available yet.

36538
No info available yet.

36539
No info available yet.

36540
No info available yet.

36541
Allows volume control from AirPlay clients.

36544
Enable hardware decoding of video files.

36545
Subtitle stereoscopic depth

36546
Sets the visual depth of subtitles for stereoscopic videos. The higher the value, the closer the subtitles will appear to the viewer.

37016
Select this option if your receiver is capable of decoding E-AC3 streams.

37019
Enables system keys like printscreen, alt-tab and volume keys when in fullscreen

36367
Select the maximum number of audio channels/speakers available for audio decoded. If optical/coax digital outputs are used this must be set to 2.0