(2020-02-03, 01:45)shedrock Wrote: Hi Bart,

Here are 2 images that explain everything, well almost. I never see fanart with the Amber skin while in the music area. I have no issues with Aeon SiLVO skin though, and I believe Mike has it setup in the same way as Amber.



Regards,

Shedrock

(2020-02-04, 20:47)newbii Wrote: Hello.

I'm fairly new to Kodi and I haven't tested all skins available. But this one is great! It's clutter free and has so many options.
I hope you don't mind if I ask a question or two:

#1#
I use the the movie menu's (small) icons view. Since many DVDs have more than 1 audio stream (like FRE/ESP/ENG/ITA) I would really like to see the audio languages in the icons view footer section (next to or instead of the MPAA rating which I don't need at all).
So I have looked at the files in your repo and I've tried something with the Includes_Variables.xml

in ~ line 489, right after the <variable name="panelsubheading"> I inserted this value (and deleted the MPAA entry):

Code:

<value condition="[String.IsEqual(ListItem.DBType,movie) + !Skin.HasSetting(Hide.Label2.Lists) + ![[String.IsEqual(ListItem.Property(AudioLanguage.1),eng) | String.IsEqual(ListItem.Property(AudioLanguage.1),und)] +                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       [String.IsEmpty(ListItem.Property(AudioLanguage.2)) | String.IsEqual(ListItem.Property(AudioLanguage.2),eng) | String.IsEqual(ListItem.Property(AudioLanguage.2),und)]]]">$INFO[ListItem.Duration,,$LOCALIZE[31297]]$INFO[ListItem.RatingAndVotes, • ][COLOR=Blue]$INFO[ListItem.Property(AudioLanguage.1),[COLOR=Silver] • [/COLOR]]$INFO[ListItem.Property(AudioLanguage.2), / ]$INFO[ListItem.Property(AudioLanguage.3), / ]$INFO[ListItem.Property(AudioLanguage.4), / ]$INFO[ListItem.Property(AudioLanguage.5), / ][/COLOR]</value>

That shows the first 4 audio streams of a movie unless it's only stream is English or the first stream is "undefined" (e.g. my old TV recordings) or first and second stream are English (one of them usually for people who can't see very well) and so on (as stated in the condition part). I chose a neutral blue color for the text so it wouldn't be overlooked and not be too annoying (like red).

Do you think you could add something like this to your skin? And could the display of the MPAA rating maybe be optional?


#2#

I like fanart background displaying in the home menu. I have two custom movie home menu items based on smart playlists (each with recently added smart playlist for its shelf). I can either choose random movie fanart or playlistbackground. Randon movie fanart displays fanart of all movies not just the ones in the smart playlist. Playlistbackground does that but not randomly it seems.
I would love an option that pulls fanart from a smart playlist, displays it totally at randomandskip those entries that have no fanart background. I have some exotic and old DVDs for which there seems to be no fanart background and it just displays a black background.

Whatever you can do is greatly appreciated. Thank you so much for your work.

P.S. I'm using the Amber version from the Kodi repo (Leia). 

(2020-02-04, 23:23)Peekstra Wrote: Hi,

just discovered the skin, very nice!

Only, when running the latest artist slideshow script (3.10) it displays a message that the skin needs to be updated to use the 3.0 version. For now I've downgraded to 2.15 and disabled auto updates but I hope that you're planning to implement the changes to get it working .

thanks and keep up the good work!

(2020-02-04, 23:52)Peekstra Wrote: I get an error when I try to update from the Amber repo to the 27 version: The dependency on plugin.video.themoviedb.helper version 2.2.15 could not be satisfied. I guess that I'll need to update that from github (or another source)?

EDIT: fixed by manually copying the contens of the zip from github to the addons folder (without the -master extension obviously). Seems to work fine now.

(2020-02-04, 18:10)bsoriano Wrote: @shedrock, my apologies for a late reply. 
Bart 

(2020-02-04, 22:24)bsoriano Wrote: I will look into including both of them in Amber.  I cannot commit to a specifictime, though.

(2020-02-05, 15:48)newbii Wrote:

(2020-02-04, 22:24)bsoriano Wrote: I will look into including both of them in Amber.  I cannot commit to a specifictime, though.

Thank you for adding them to your to-do list. Does "Provide option to show/hide the different ratings in Video Info" include the option to show the first 4 or so audio stream languages in the movie menu footer?
I will try to install your Amber repo and to manually download and install the required plugin that is not yet available in the Kodi repo.

Nothing important but I thought I'd ask: on my TV many icons in the footer section have something like pixel noise or pixel artefacts. At first I thought it was some "dirt" on my TV but after wiping it clean it's still there. I've seen it with most of the video codec icons, video resolution icons, audio codec icons and audio channel icons and star rating icons (incl. "not rated"), not aspectio ratio icons though.

Thank you for your help and for considering my requests.