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Show photo filename during slideshow - Knilch - 2012-03-30
Hey there,
I tried to search with Google and in these forums but I didn't find a solution to my problem which should be pretty easy to fix.
My XBMC (now version "Eden") runs on a MacBook Air (that shouldn't change it, though) under the default skin "confluence". Now the only thing I am missing from this gorgeous thing called XBMC is an option to show the image filename above, beneath or somewhere around a picture when it is displayed during a slideshow.
I present photographs on events and with XBMC that is tremendously easy but I need the filename. Can anyone help me please?
RE: Show photo filename during slideshow - jmarshall - 2012-03-31
Try pressing I while the slideshow is playing. Not sure if confluence supports it or not - give it a go.
RE: Show photo filename during slideshow - Knilch - 2012-04-01
Thanks for the answer but sadly that doesn't work. Is that supported by other skins?
RE: Show photo filename during slideshow - sphere - 2012-04-02
Afaik there is no official skin which provides an OSD in the slideshow window.
I hope this will change in the future because there was a very nice pull request accepted which exposes more picture metadata. Maybe someone can ping the skin devs to implement the new PictureInfoTags.
regards,
sphere
RE: Show photo filename during slideshow - Knilch - 2012-04-10
That's not what I wanted to hear but thank you nevertheless.
What I don't understand: there is an option to show EXIF Metadata for the images but when does that happen? Never found anything like that.
RE: Show photo filename during slideshow - realjobe - 2012-04-10
Press I when watching the photo: Exif specs are shown..
AFAIK there are only 3 Exif fields exposed to skin; date, reso and name.
I would like to see Exif:User_Comments under/over my photos aswell..
RE: Show photo filename during slideshow - sphere - 2012-04-10
(2012-04-10, 10:42)Knilch Wrote: What I don't understand: there is an option to show EXIF Metadata for the images but when does that happen? Never found anything like that.
(2012-04-10, 13:07)realjobe Wrote: Press I when watching the photo: Exif specs are shown..
AFAIK there are only 3 Exif fields exposed to skin; date, reso and name.
I would like to see Exif:User_Comments under/over my photos aswell..
To avoid confusing: The Picture- and slideshow-view are different views! (Single-) Picture view may have an info overlay but slideshow has not.
regarding the exif fields: Like I said above, there are more fields coming (already present in git master - but still not used in skins).
RE: Show photo filename during slideshow - Knilch - 2012-04-10
Yes, I understood that already but single view doesn't show anything, either. Didn't try the "I" here, though, that would be a preliminary solution.
Is there a possibility to say when or if these info fields will be integrated into the skins and the slideshow?
RE: Show photo filename during slideshow - ellisol - 2012-12-12
To show the file name of the photo in the Slideshow screensaver do the following:
1. Create a file SlideShow.xml with the following contents:
<window id="2007">
<defaultcontrol>2</defaultcontrol>
<controls>
<control type="label">
<posx>50</posx>
<posy>50</posy>
<width>1000</width>
<height>120</height>
<label>$INFO[slideshow.filename]</label>
<align>left</align>
<aligny>center</aligny>
<font>font25</font>
<textcolor>yellow</textcolor>
<shadowcolor>black</shadowcolor>
</control>
</controls>
</window>
Then put the file in the XBMC/addons/skin.pm3-hd/720p directory. (substitute you skin directory)
RE: Show photo filename during slideshow - zoomer148 - 2014-02-10
I managed to put the filename on the screen during slideshow mode by adding the label in the xml file as show here above.
Is there a way to tweak this a little bit more? I want to hide the extension from the filename. Is it possible?
RE: Show photo filename during slideshow - Knilch - 2015-03-06
Coming back to this topic, there is a skin for Kodi that does what I want (Maximinialism). All other skins I tried don't do it. But thanks for the piece of code, that went under my radar, I may try it if I am able to resolve my other problem.