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API for setting view mode? - arantius - 2018-08-21
I set my default for 4:3 content to wide zoom. I like that setting, the balance of not-too-stretched but also no pillar bars is pleasant to my eye.
But I've got one TV series that's lots of 4:3 content, with (hard) subtitles, which are cut off if I (wide) zoom them. So right now, every time I start one of these episodes, it's: Select, up, right, select (now I'm in video settings), down, down down, select (now I'm in view mode), down, down, down, down, down, select (now I'm in 4:3 mode). And quite a few more presses to do just a bit of zoom and pixel ratio stretch.
I finally took the time to write a service addon to automate this for me. I got detection working, so I can see that this series is playing but then ... How do I set the view mode to 4:3? I looked through all the docs I could find of the addon system plus the jsonrpc API. The closest I could find was the jsonrpc "method":"Input.ExecuteAction","params":{"action":"aspectratio"} -- but this just toggles through the view modes, I can't (guarantee) that I end up at the right one. (If I stop and later resume the same episode, Kodi remembers the view mode settings from last time!)