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RE: Arctic Fuse 2 - jurialmunkey - 2025-01-25

(2025-01-24, 13:27)Dan_of_Earth Wrote: i seem to be having an issue on the player, where when i click the button to skip to the next episode of what I'm watching, it asks me to select the player, youtube or another, and then it just defaults back to the show's episode list.  Anyone have any insight?

If you don't have anything next in your playlist then the skin will use TMDbHelper to attempt to play the next item.


RE: Arctic Fuse 2 - krilok - 2025-01-25

Small request, if I may.

I had made a small modification to the Includes_OSD.xml so that the track number on the music player was removed ('01. Song title' was replaced by just 'Song title'). However, on the latest Arctic Fuse 2 release, the Includes_OSD.xml is very different to the previous ones, and I can't seem to find the line I edited on previous versions. Could you kindly point me out to where it could be located now?

The code I edited used to be on ''<include content="OSD_TitleDetails">''

Also, is there any way the currently playing album info could also be displayed as well? 

Thank you in advance...


RE: Arctic Fuse 2 - pablo_mir - 2025-01-26

How can I give you this log ? Thank you for your help !


RE: Arctic Fuse 2 - Dan_of_Earth - 2025-01-26

I know the skin is in early development, so this is NOT meant as a complaint, but does anyone have any tips on increasing the performance on cheaper devices like Firestick, onn, etc?  It's very laggy as it is and I was just wondering if there were any settings I could change for optimization's sake.  I've already changed the background blur effect, which hasn't made a difference.  Thanks


RE: Arctic Fuse 2 - jurialmunkey - 2025-01-26

(2025-01-26, 05:36)Dan_of_Earth Wrote: I know the skin is in early development, so this is NOT meant as a complaint, but does anyone have any tips on increasing the performance on cheaper devices like Firestick, onn, etc?  It's very laggy as it is and I was just wondering if there were any settings I could change for optimization's sake.  I've already changed the background blur effect, which hasn't made a difference.  Thanks

Depends on what you mean by "laggy".

If you mean images take time to load, that's nothing to do with the skin. Kodi controls image loading (exception is that blur/crop passes through TMDbHelper first but you've already disabled that).

If you mean navigation animations feel janky, again not much that can be done skin side. The main performance killer will be the number of widgets you use.

You might get a a very small bit of navigation animation improvement by turning off some of the more "complicated" indicators in Skin Settings > Details > Customise indicators (turn off things like ratings on posters and progress). Same goes for the info line tags (turn them all off). Note though this will only give a tiny/modest improvement - main killer is always number of widgets.

The other place you'll get some improvement on navigation animation is compressing the media folder into a Textures.xbt but that's a bit more of a complicated topic.

If you mean widget loading times, absolutely nothing to do with the skin here. Use fewer widgets as Kodi tries to load ALL of the widgets in the window at once regardless of what you can see or what category is visible (all widgets in all categories load together). More widgets (even if hidden behind another category) means worse loading time because they load roughly in order they are listed (if you have a slow widget at the top it will block everything below it until it loads).

And absolutely disable auto trailers as you'll be constantly smashing widgets to reload every time the trailer plays and stops. (the option comes with the big warning for a reason). Even if you don't think you see widgets loading, they are -- the skin just hides it by keeping the content from the last load still visible on screen. Widgets loading constantly will kill your performance.

Note you can also disable widgets in the info dialog - this is less of a performance killer since it only matters once you open info and press down to access them, but if you remove some that you never use it may help since they won't take up memory when they do load (because they won't be loaded).


RE: Arctic Fuse 2 - jurialmunkey - 2025-01-26

(2025-01-26, 01:15)pablo_mir Wrote: How can I give you this log ? Thank you for your help !

Upload to https://paste.kodi.tv/ and give me the link


RE: Arctic Fuse 2 - logo00 - 2025-01-26

That's a pity. I found that it was much quicker and clearer to navigate, especially with larger libraries. Could you give me the code responsible for this?


RE: Arctic Fuse 2 - jurialmunkey - 2025-01-27

(2025-01-26, 23:32)logo00 Wrote: That's a pity. I found that it was much quicker and clearer to navigate, especially with larger libraries. Could you give me the code responsible for this?

This is not an easy change.


RE: Arctic Fuse 2 - logo00 - 2025-01-27

(2025-01-27, 02:53)jurialmunkey Wrote:
(2025-01-26, 23:32)logo00 Wrote: That's a pity. I found that it was much quicker and clearer to navigate, especially with larger libraries. Could you give me the code responsible for this?

This is not an easy change.
I believe you immediately Smile. That's something I would try anyway if the wife is traveling with her girls for a week. Possible failure is already planned for Wink


RE: Arctic Fuse 2 - Dan_of_Earth - 2025-01-27

(2025-01-26, 10:15)jurialmunkey Wrote:
(2025-01-26, 05:36)Dan_of_Earth Wrote: I know the skin is in early development, so this is NOT meant as a complaint, but does anyone have any tips on increasing the performance on cheaper devices like Firestick, onn, etc?  It's very laggy as it is and I was just wondering if there were any settings I could change for optimization's sake.  I've already changed the background blur effect, which hasn't made a difference.  Thanks

Depends on what you mean by "laggy".

If you mean images take time to load, that's nothing to do with the skin. Kodi controls image loading (exception is that blur/crop passes through TMDbHelper first but you've already disabled that).

If you mean navigation animations feel janky, again not much that can be done skin side. The main performance killer will be the number of widgets you use.

You might get a a very small bit of navigation animation improvement by turning off some of the more "complicated" indicators in Skin Settings > Details > Customise indicators (turn off things like ratings on posters and progress). Same goes for the info line tags (turn them all off). Note though this will only give a tiny/modest improvement - main killer is always number of widgets.

The other place you'll get some improvement on navigation animation is compressing the media folder into a Textures.xbt but that's a bit more of a complicated topic.

If you mean widget loading times, absolutely nothing to do with the skin here. Use fewer widgets as Kodi tries to load ALL of the widgets in the window at once regardless of what you can see or what category is visible (all widgets in all categories load together). More widgets (even if hidden behind another category) means worse loading time because they load roughly in order they are listed (if you have a slow widget at the top it will block everything below it until it loads).

And absolutely disable auto trailers as you'll be constantly smashing widgets to reload every time the trailer plays and stops. (the option comes with the big warning for a reason). Even if you don't think you see widgets loading, they are -- the skin just hides it by keeping the content from the last load still visible on screen. Widgets loading constantly will kill your performance.

Note you can also disable widgets in the info dialog - this is less of a performance killer since it only matters once you open info and press down to access them, but if you remove some that you never use it may help since they won't take up memory when they do load (because they won't be loaded).
ah yeah, I should have been more specific, it's mostly navigation.  Thanks for all the info, I figured it was just due to loading widgets, which is surprising as I have a super simple setup.


RE: Arctic Fuse 2 - Zavie - 2025-01-27

Hello, 

Thanks for this wonderful job! 

I have just one issue. I cannot play local trailers via autotrailers. I don't wish YouTube launch autotrailers. Is there a setting I am missing?

Thank you,


RE: Arctic Fuse 2 - RKEP71 - 2025-01-27

Hi jurialmunkey

I have a couple of questions regarding Artwork and cache

1.

My movie didn't have a Title Art Logo, so I made one myself. I put it in the movie folder as clearlogo.png and it worked! Great! But I didn't clean the image up to my satisfaction and edited it. I have tried refreshing the movie but it will not refresh the clearlogo. I tried removing source and cleaning library and re-added source, changing content etc but it is still my original unsatisfactory Art. The only way I have been able to change it is to uninstall kodi and reinstall everything! this is a pain and I would rather not have to do this! Is there a way to clear the cache as for some reason it is not refreshing the original imageHuh!!!

2.

I also have noticed that sometimes the studio is wrong or not the one I would use if theres more than one, and the Art is not always there. The information to download is obviously not 100% correct / or there at all. I have changed th studio infromation in the NFO file and refreshed. Strangely this gives the correct Art but dosent change the text? This seems to be a cache issue as Q.1. As far as the art goes I can create my own as I did with Title Art in Q.1. but I cannot see any way of being able to read local information for Studio Art as you can with Fanart, Title Logo etcHuh!!!

Your help would be very much appreciated with these issues or if currently not possible maybe an update will allow it, thx

Richard


RE: Arctic Fuse 2 - Zavie - 2025-01-27

(2025-01-27, 14:35)Zavie Wrote: Hello, 

Thanks for this wonderful job! 

I have just one issue. I cannot play local trailers via autotrailers. I don't wish YouTube launch autotrailers. Is there a setting I am missing?

Thank you,
I forgot to write that I've enabled 'Get additional details from the local Kodi library database' setting in TMDbHelper and also enabled 'Use local cast details' option under Settings > Skin > Detail.

Thank you

Is there another setting i am missing?


RE: Arctic Fuse 2 - stereoa - 2025-01-27

Hey there! I don't ever post here but I wanted to say that this skin is amazing! Recently I started having an issue with the OSD keyboard randomly popping up. Usually this happens at start up.

Kodi 21.1.0
Arctic Fuse 2.6.15

Just saw there's an update for AF2. Trying that now.

Thanks again for an awesome skin. Seriously!


RE: Arctic Fuse 2 - pablo_mir - 2025-01-27

Thank for your help, but i don't know how to get the log haha Smile