Couple of tips:
if your using xbmc live make sure you use the image i posted a dew posts up, its got alot of tweaks etc already done so will save you the hassle of doing them yourself.
Make sure you convert all your backdrops to .BMP format, especially for Aeon as its quite resource hungry, also use Aeon Showmix 2.5, the other Aeon variants are quite outdated now.
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