[VikkiXavier]

Something strange is happening here.

I was playing around with the (only the) videowindow control recently, and after altering the width and height of the control and adding <top> <left> to make sure the video plays at the center while the background is visible (I had removed the image control above the videowindow control), when I opened Kodi, I found that the dimensions and position of the videowindow did change, but to my surprise, I also found that when the trailer is playing if I press space button, it pauses but the OSD, seek bar nothing shows up and if I press any of the arrow keys the video closes instead of forwarding. In case of Extras, the video closes even if I press space button to pause the video.

Not knowing the solution, being perplexed, I redownloaded the skin from your git and reinstalled it, but to no avail. The same is happening, but why could it be happening.

[jurialmunkey]

@braz - It's not really a scraper or a core issue. The scrapers do it to avoid breaking skins because many skins treat ListItem.Icon as if it were a poster, and skins do this because add-ons don't correctly fill the artwork types (so it's all a bit of a feedback loop). This is because, prior to Frodo, ListItem.Thumb was used for banners, posters, and thumbs depending on content type. ListItem.Icon is basically a variable that checks ListItem.Art(thumb) and if its not there it uses ListItem.ActualIcon. It is just one of those things that requires a hard-line stance to fix but the benefit is minimal compared to the cost. Generated thumbs are usually low quality, so no one is really that interested in using them over fanart for movies.

@Blurayx - Yeah, since I added support for it, I have switched to using it.
Are you looking for "Recently Added Episodes"? That is under the "Episodes" section, not the "TvShows" section.
I did just add a recent tvshows widget too though - this will display tvshows that have with recent episodes -- this is probably actually more useful because if you add a whole season you will only see one poster for the whole show rather than every episode, which prevents spoilers.

[jurialmunkey]

Something strange is happening here.

I was playing around with the (only the) videowindow control recently, and after altering the width and height of the control and adding <top> <left> to make sure the video plays at the center while the background is visible (I had removed the image control above the videowindow control), when I opened Kodi, I found that the dimensions and position of the videowindow did change, but to my surprise, I also found that when the trailer is playing if I press space button, it pauses but the OSD, seek bar nothing shows up and if I press any of the arrow keys the video closes instead of forwarding. In case of Extras, the video closes even if I press space button to pause the video.

Not knowing the solution, being perplexed, I redownloaded the skin from your git and reinstalled it, but to no avail. The same is happening, but why could it be happening.

videowindow controls don't have a seekbar. Only fullscreenvideo has a seekbar.

The behaviour you are seeing is intentional.

To stop the video opening the fullscreenvideo window (which would close the info dialog), I tell trailers/extras to start minimised. This means that dialogvideoinfo still has focus behind the videowindow control. As a result, any click or movement will actually be moving around in dialogvideoinfo. This can cause all sorts of problems (like accidentally changing artwork etc.). To prevent this, I send focus to a hidden button (id="9002"). Any direction or click on the button will stop the video and return focus to the previous list.

[Blurayx]

@Blurayx - Yeah, since I added support for it, I have switched to using it.
Are you looking for "Recently Added Episodes"? That is under the "Episodes" section, not the "TvShows" section.
I did just add a recent tvshows widget too though - this will display tvshows that have with recent episodes -- this is probably actually more useful because if you add a whole season you will only see one poster for the whole show rather than every episode, which prevents spoilers.

 I prefer Recently Added Tv shows because it displays tv show fanart not thumbnails/blank

Default widget 


skin helper widget service

[jurialmunkey]

@Blurayx - Default Widgets is reserved for widgets directly from the library. If you want to use skin helper widgets, you can add them from
Add-ons > Video Add-ons > Skin Helper Widgets >

Also, I've added a toggle to use fanart instead of thumbs for landscape widgets:
Skin Settings > Home > Prefer fanart for landscape widgets

[Silki]

Hi,

"Does it happen in other skins? The volume bar is a separate dialog, so I'm guessing it is probably introducing a little bit of an extra resource strain when loading (where as osd/seekbar would already be preloaded)."

Fuse or Default skin doesn't seem to do it no, can you make that Volume Bar Preloaded ?

Also notice you see the obvious DIM IN/OUT when flicking through the home menu .... wonder if my PI is creaking a little.

Request ..... You have added extrafanart to info screen any plans to add extrathumbs ?

[Blurayx]

@jurialmunkey 

Thanks 

[VikkiXavier]

Sir, perhaps you overlooked that comment of mine. Can you tell me from where studio logos are grabbed to display in the dialog info so I could add logos which are missing to that directory or make some changes. Thanks.

[Edworld]

Studios come from the addon and is probably a xbt file. You would ned to decompress, add your logos. And compress again

[VikkiXavier]

Studios come from the addon and is probably a xbt file. You would ned to decompress, add your logos. And compress again

 Thanks a ton. I got it.

[VikkiXavier]

You might want to fix the length of the title as it is colliding with the studio logo.

[jurialmunkey]

@VikkiXavier - Sorry I thought I replied to you. I must have accidentally deleted the response to you when I was typing.
RE: justified text. I'm not a big fan of justified text as it makes things harder to read, particular when you have wide horizontal spaces and end up with a few words stretched across a line with massive spaces between.
RE: title text. Should be fixed on latest git.
RE: studios. As Edworld pointed out, they come from a image resource add-on, so they are compressed in a Textures.xbt and can't be easily modified.

@Silki - Not really. I was just speculating really. Interesting that (fuse)neue doesn't do it. I guess it is probably related to the size of the gradient dim in the corner. Can you test latest git and see if it makes a difference? I've changed the style a little bit and the texture used behind is much smaller. Also, these types of things will be reduced a bit when the skin is on the repo and has a compressed Textures.xbt file.
RE: The dim on home. Are you talking about when you scroll down the widgets, or when you scroll across the menu horizontally? I tried to make the widget dim as subtle as possible, but it is quite difficult to get the sweet spot without it taking forever (scrolling down is not so much a problem, but scrolling back up is).

[VikkiXavier]

@VikkiXavier - Yeah the play icon looks good. I will let you know when I add it.

Just in case you forgot, Sir.

 

[VikkiXavier]

Would it be nicer if (also if possible) Episode Thumb was displayed instead of Fanart on 'Up next'? Also, does the blur not work on the Up next window appears after the episode ends?

[jurialmunkey]

@VikkiXavier
- Play icon added to extras (whilst the gradient looks good, I'm not going to add it to maintain consistency through the skin).
- Afaik, its not possible to get the thumb for the next program from next up (only possible in post play screen).
- Blur works fine for me in the postplay nextup screen: