2015-02-03, 19:07
Hi folks,
I like to watch sports with KODI. But some TV channels have annoying tickers on the bottom - and I hate these flickering tickers
I hacked a Perl script showing a black bar overlay graphics to hide this, using a low level keyboard event watcher to catch the IR remote signals and so on. Works Ok with KODI in standalone mode, but is quite hacky and doesn't work when running full screen in a normal X session.
I thought there must be a better way of doing this in KODI and played around at skin level with defining a custom window, but that catches all input and I can't seek in the video using my IR remote without closing the window again.
So it's probably better to code an Add-on for this purpose? (which then could have some more options e.g. to resize/move the black bar...).
From crawling the docs I couldn't get a clue how to show an overlay, which doesn't affect navigation / event grabbing etc.
Does someone has a helpful pointer for me?
Thanks!
I like to watch sports with KODI. But some TV channels have annoying tickers on the bottom - and I hate these flickering tickers
I hacked a Perl script showing a black bar overlay graphics to hide this, using a low level keyboard event watcher to catch the IR remote signals and so on. Works Ok with KODI in standalone mode, but is quite hacky and doesn't work when running full screen in a normal X session.
I thought there must be a better way of doing this in KODI and played around at skin level with defining a custom window, but that catches all input and I can't seek in the video using my IR remote without closing the window again.
So it's probably better to code an Add-on for this purpose? (which then could have some more options e.g. to resize/move the black bar...).
From crawling the docs I couldn't get a clue how to show an overlay, which doesn't affect navigation / event grabbing etc.
Does someone has a helpful pointer for me?
Thanks!
