(2016-03-14, 20:38)baruchin Wrote:

(2016-03-14, 20:27)jbaconbits Wrote:

(2016-03-13, 18:18)baruchin Wrote: Hi jurialmunkey! I just installed skin github version for my recently updated Kodi 16.1 RC on Fire TV 2. Everything is working amazing, but I have noticed a strange behaviour not present in previous skin versions. While a video is playing, bringing OSD controls is kind of slow, I mean, not super slow but still noticeable. Also, while bringing OSD controls there's a micro pause in video that's almost unnoticeable, but it's certainly present. I don't know if this is due to heavier skin animations, or due to Kodi 16 being more cpu resource intensive. In any case, I think Fire TV 2 has enough power to handle both cases, but maybe I'm wrong.
Again, thank you for your wonderful work for this skin.

Installing skins from a git has always done this on Fire TV, but the official repo version will always work fine. Not sure if it's because of everything being compressed for the repo or not, but it should go away once you get it from the official repo.

Really? First time I heard of having a different skin behavior depending of wich method you choose to install it from. But I read you say that this is specifically true with Fire TV? Right? I really hope this is the case, because the video micro pausing I noticed while bringing OSD controls is even more noticeable than I originally thought, and this becomes a big issue for me.

(2016-03-15, 07:16)mwake Wrote: I was installing other skins from the default built in pack and when I came back to zephyr all my zephyr setting had defaulted. Is this normal? If so is there a way I can save my skin settings?

(2016-03-12, 18:27)Edworld Wrote:

(2015-06-19, 01:25)jurialmunkey Wrote: New Viewtypes
Inspired by a couple of the new views in the mods floating around.

Big Wide - Rolodex (Classic mode available from side menu)

And how do I activate the rolodex view?

Thanks

(2015-04-01, 19:24)jdoo Wrote: I finally got around to setting up custom widgets and WOW. Jurial you have really done something special here. I have been dying to have "my list" from netflix be on the home screen in widget form and in Arctic Zephyr its super easy to do! I also got my youtube subscriptions set up in widget form, which is awesome.

I'm surprised other skins don't do this more, being able to get content out of plugins into widgets is hugely useful for me so thanks!

(2016-03-15, 04:44)jbaconbits Wrote:

(2016-03-14, 20:38)baruchin Wrote:

(2016-03-14, 20:27)jbaconbits Wrote: Installing skins from a git has always done this on Fire TV, but the official repo version will always work fine. Not sure if it's because of everything being compressed for the repo or not, but it should go away once you get it from the official repo.

Really? First time I heard of having a different skin behavior depending of wich method you choose to install it from. But I read you say that this is specifically true with Fire TV? Right? I really hope this is the case, because the video micro pausing I noticed while bringing OSD controls is even more noticeable than I originally thought, and this becomes a big issue for me.

Yup, it bugged me a lot on the last version too but installing from the repo works fine.

(2016-03-16, 13:37)dr.joaomarcelo Wrote: It's because of the textures not being compressed in the git version. I had this too and fixed it using http://kodi.wiki/view/TexturePacker

It's quite easy. Just put the exe file and bat file you created in the wiki page in the skin folder and execute it. After that you delete the media files and just leave the texture.xbt . actually i needed to rename it to textures.xbt for it to work. Good luck!

(2016-03-16, 13:37)dr.joaomarcelo Wrote:

(2016-03-15, 04:44)jbaconbits Wrote:

(2016-03-14, 20:38)baruchin Wrote: Really? First time I heard of having a different skin behavior depending of wich method you choose to install it from. But I read you say that this is specifically true with Fire TV? Right? I really hope this is the case, because the video micro pausing I noticed while bringing OSD controls is even more noticeable than I originally thought, and this becomes a big issue for me.

Yup, it bugged me a lot on the last version too but installing from the repo works fine.

It's because of the textures not being compressed in the git version. I had this too and fixed it using http://kodi.wiki/view/TexturePacker

It's quite easy. Just put the exe file and bat file you created in the wiki page in the skin folder and execute it. After that you delete the media files and just leave the texture.xbt . actually i needed to rename it to textures.xbt for it to work. Good luck!

(2016-03-16, 15:33)baruchin Wrote: Thank you so much for this explanation. Now all makes sense. I suspect this procedure isn't feasible on Fire TV being an Android platform, but at least now I know that when I get the repo version Arctic:Zephyr will be as snappy as always.

(2016-03-13, 17:11)braz Wrote: @Talguy and JurialMunkey

The disappearing widgets are due to the use of templates I believe. There is a way to use unique IDs and there is a autoreload method to keep them from disappearing.

http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=178294&pid=2278901#pid2278901

(2016-03-17, 19:08)baruchin Wrote:

(2016-03-13, 17:11)braz Wrote: @Talguy and JurialMunkey

The disappearing widgets are due to the use of templates I believe. There is a way to use unique IDs and there is a autoreload method to keep them from disappearing.

http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=178294&pid=2278901#pid2278901

Is this related?

Since introducing templates, widgets aren't autoupdating. I have my YouTube subs as a widget but it doesn't autoupdate once I watched a video. I have to either reassign the widget on Home Menu skin settings, or quit and open Kodi again.