2017-02-09, 14:23
@mouflo: Nice!!!
(2017-02-07, 12:09)blueeyiz702 Wrote: I have all the Animated posters here for download if anybody needs them. http://blueeyiz702.wixsite.com/posters
(2017-02-09, 18:35)brazen1 Wrote:(2017-02-07, 12:09)blueeyiz702 Wrote: I have all the Animated posters here for download if anybody needs them. http://blueeyiz702.wixsite.com/posters
Selecting the google docs arrow for download just takes me to a blank page?
(2017-02-07, 08:26)_Andy_ Wrote: Yes, there is a way, I use it in my setup, but it involves a change in the setup.
First you need to move the thumbs to a network share. Assumption we use a NAS called 'NAS' and a network SMB share called 'thumbnails'
Add this to your advancedsettings.xml
After you restart Kodi all thumbnails will be stored in this network share. If you use the skin.helper.service from the skin all animated gifs will be stored to this share too. Now you have stored the animated gifs in a network share.Code:<pathsubstitution>
<substitute>
<from>special://masterprofile/Thumbnails/</from>
<to>smb://NAS/thumbnails/</to>
</substitute>
</pathsubstitution>
If you add your gifs manually to Kodi you need to manipulate the database. E.g Maybe you add a gif called starwars.gif to one of your movies. First store the gif in the network share \\NAS\thmubnails\gifs or whatever.
Then you can add this gif in the menu of the skin and point to the network share and to the gif at your movie. Now you have a static gif because you have stored the gif in the network share.
Now the magic part. If you look into the database and look into the entry for this gif, you see something like this: The entry points to: \\NAS\thumbnails\gifs\starwars.gif.
You need to change this entry to: special://masterprofile/Thumbnails/gifs/starwars.gif
Restart Kodi and the magic is done, you have an animated gif. I don't know why it's working, because the network share is the same but if works with this special protocol instead of SMB.
(2017-02-16, 15:47)MB1968 Wrote: Every time when I run a maintenance tool, the thumbnail folders including the animatedgifs files are being deleted. Unfortunately the maintenance tool does not provide the option to exclude the animated gifs folder. It takes a while to see the animated gifs appearing when going to my movies library, since Kodi has to download the gif files again. Does it make sense to move the animated poster and fanart files to my external harddrive (where my movies are stored) and instruct Kodi to use these gif files instead of the ones that are stored in the (default) thumbnailsfolder? If it does, do I have to rename the files into animatedposter and animatedfanart? Any advise is welcome. Regards
(2017-02-17, 00:23)rschiks Wrote:(2017-02-16, 15:47)MB1968 Wrote: Every time when I run a maintenance tool, the thumbnail folders including the animatedgifs files are being deleted. Unfortunately the maintenance tool does not provide the option to exclude the animated gifs folder. It takes a while to see the animated gifs appearing when going to my movies library, since Kodi has to download the gif files again. Does it make sense to move the animated poster and fanart files to my external harddrive (where my movies are stored) and instruct Kodi to use these gif files instead of the ones that are stored in the (default) thumbnailsfolder? If it does, do I have to rename the files into animatedposter and animatedfanart? Any advise is welcome. Regards
Maybe post #1135 could help you. http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=...pid2518563
(2017-02-16, 15:47)MB1968 Wrote: Every time when I run a maintenance tool, the thumbnail folders including the animatedgifs files are being deleted. Unfortunately the maintenance tool does not provide the option to exclude the animated gifs folder. It takes a while to see the animated gifs appearing when going to my movies library, since Kodi has to download the gif files again. Does it make sense to move the animated poster and fanart files to my external harddrive (where my movies are stored) and instruct Kodi to use these gif files instead of the ones that are stored in the (default) thumbnailsfolder? If it does, do I have to rename the files into animatedposter and animatedfanart? Any advise is welcome. Regards