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Oh great and wise crowd -

Any suggestions on how to bring up the video/CODEC diagnostic screen on a touchscreen device with no keyboard and no remote control?

I've floundered around a couple of skins but it's not obvious to this bear of little brain. Obviously I'd press 'O' on any normal device, but that's hard when there isn't even an on-screen popup keyboard that I can navigate to.

Any ideas? It's an Android 4.2.x 7" tablet FWIW.

I suppose I could always try to find a USB-microUSB converter and see if I have a suitable spare keyboard in the garage, but it's a sledgehammer...

I use a modified reTouched skin for that, The file you need to modify is addons/skin.re-touched/16x9/IncludesPlayerControls.xml

replace this line https://github.com/xbmc/skin.re-touched/....xml#L1014
with

Code:
<onclick>Dialog.Close(VideoOSD,true)</onclick>

and this line https://github.com/xbmc/skin.re-touched/....xml#L1015
with

Code:
<onclick>CodecInfo</onclick>

restart Kodi and now every time you tap the DownloadSubtitle

at the right in VideoOSD it will toggle CodecInfo.

You can have +1 for that - thanks - I wondered about hacking a skin, but you've saved me the effort of finding where to change it!

Or just map <menu> to CodecInfo in the keymap, if you have a menu softkey. Or vol up/down, or...

Prof Yaffle

onomatopellan

Prof Yaffle

Koying