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Hi
I am working on an add-on that lets you cast videos to Chromecast device.
When i stream the video to the Chromecast the video keeps playing in Kodi(i use the OSD controls to control the 'casted' media).
My current solution is to dynamically create a dummy video with the length of the real video and play it when Chromecast starts playing. This is a bit CPU consuming(and not the prettiest solution)

today i found out that i can show the OSD from json-rpc command and started thinking maybe there is a better solution by changing skin settings(if there is any way to show a mini player or a picture + the videoosd).
I am very bad at skinning so i really need some ideas

You could try to use "playercontrols.xml"


Not shure how this Window looks on different Skins in "Lucid" it looks like this (screeen below) and allow basic player Controls depending on the played Media.

Screen:



http://imgur.com/a/gNHVj