(2015-07-30, 03:30)canadave Wrote: To be honest, while I can completely understand and sympathize with Mort's predicament, I wouldn't be in favour of removing the pause screen elements after 10 seconds...for a couple of reasons. First of all, pausing a video for a while, going off and doing something for a few minutes, and then coming back to it to see a paused screen with no elements at all would just look....weird and creepy 
To me, anyway.
My second objection is less based in silliness...from a UI perspective, I don't think it's a good idea, because it would be impossible to tell whether the screen is paused, or whether the device is frozen and needs to be rebooted. Yes, of course, there's the "can't you remember that you paused it??" argument; but sometimes, believe it or not, people can go off for a while (minutes, hours, days) and not remember where they left things on their TV.
That being said, I would be in favour of some kind of programmatic solution. Give us the option, Mike! (sure, easy for ME to say....lol)
That is the exact reason I posted my UPDATED THOUGHTS in my last reply. I believe 10 seconds of absolutely no information being displayed would do the trick, then it would revert to what you all seem to want. It's a win - win for all concerned.
(2015-07-30, 03:38)canadave Wrote: Silly followup questions on my part, for Mort:
Is it not possible to do a fairly serviceable screenshot while the video is playing? I realize you would not be able to necessarily pinpoint a precise frame that way, but surely that kind of precision is unnecessary, and you should be able to get close enough for your purposes?
Not really, no. I've already tried this approach before asking my question. No matter how many screenshots I take, or how fast I take them, usually the majority of them catch someone with their eyes half closed, or a really weird expression on their face, or a blurry transition between scenes... things such as that. If I had the ability to pause, then adjust frame by frame to a good image, then the resulting screenshot would be excellent every time.
Quote:Alternatively, could you not simply play your desired video on a computer, pause the video at the desired point, and get a screenshot more easily that way? I think there are plenty of video players that would not have any pause overlay elements to get in the way.
I suppose that is an option, but by the same token, could you not watch your videos, movies, and tv episodes on your base system without having to use Kodi? The answer seems obvious... Yes, we could both do that, however for our own reasons, each of us prefers to use Kodi, and within Kodi, this excellent skin. See where I'm coming from? I did not ask my original question in order to bring about a total and complete re-write of this great skin.... just wanted to know if a small feature would be possible. And really, truth be known, I was sort of hoping that I could just do it within a simple mod of a .xml file, so that I was the only one that the mod would affect.
(2015-07-30, 03:42)meesham Wrote: I agree with all of this, my personal preference is for it to be something you have to opt-in to, I think there needs to be some sort of visual indication that the video is paused. Just my 2 cents
Again, those were my thoughts also. 10 seconds of no information on the paused screen would allow plenty of time for screenshots, or whatever, and then after that, the display goes back to what everyone is used to. Would it be simpler just to have an option that, as you say, we could opt-in or opt-out of for this to happen? Yes, however Mike already said that for reasons of his own, he does not care to include another setup option such as that. So.... here we are. Also, please remember that Mike said he wasn't even sure that something like his idea would even be possible to achieve. Just throwing around an idea..
