(2022-06-23, 21:40)Karellen Wrote:

(2022-06-23, 21:13)nordicguy Wrote:  

That is great. Maybe you could submit a PR to include the setting in the skin. Prefer animated poster, but fall back to plain poster if it does not exist.
The author of the skin is not as active as he used to be.... https://github.com/mikesilvo164/Aeon-Nox-SiLVO

(2023-03-17, 13:53)nordicguy Wrote:

(2022-06-23, 21:40)Karellen Wrote:

(2022-06-23, 21:13)nordicguy Wrote:  

That is great. Maybe you could submit a PR to include the setting in the skin. Prefer animated poster, but fall back to plain poster if it does not exist.
The author of the skin is not as active as he used to be.... https://github.com/mikesilvo164/Aeon-Nox-SiLVO

so I updated the skin and I had to do this animated poster implementation again so would be nice to have it integrated in the skin so how and where can I submit the PR? and what is actually a PR?

(2023-03-17, 16:27)brazen1 Wrote: In the meantime, it would be VERY much appreciated if you would share in detail exactly what you modified here since others could benefit, especially in the event the PR takes a long time to implement or not at all.  (given you do not submit a PR)

(2023-03-18, 22:37)brazen1 Wrote: Hmmmm?  I see it works for you but doesn't for me.  I did the animated poster edits only.  I see the Animated posters setting and it is enabled.  I added a title with a .gif.  It only shows the scraped static poster.jpg.  As usual, I can manually enable the .gif but it didn't add automatically and supersede the poster.jpg for some reason.  Your instructions are very well laid out and I don't see how I could have done anything wrong but thank you very much.

(2023-03-19, 00:04)nordicguy Wrote: share your code if you like.

(2023-03-19, 19:52)nordicguy Wrote: 1- do you see the button in the menu? can you toggle it? sometimes I implement these buttons for features and I forget to turn it on when testing 
so make sure the button is on

(2023-03-19, 19:52)nordicguy Wrote: 2- my animated posters are named like so "<moviename>-animatedposter.gif" but also I think kodi would accept "animatedposter.gif".
you just have to make the same style as the rest of the artwork and not mix two styles
I noticed yours is named poster.gif so maybe try rename it animatedposter.gif instead

(2023-03-19, 19:52)nordicguy Wrote: 4- could be a layering thing, so try to put the "animatedposter" value code before the "poster" value code in each view

(2023-03-19, 19:52)nordicguy Wrote: I think those with " #~ " in front of them, messages that aren't in use. but you can check if text appears at the bottom when you hover over the button. mine are without the "#~".

(2023-02-21, 22:18)djhifi Wrote: What I mean is when I select the background for example for "System" menu entry, go to "single image" selection, then a popup opens in order for me to point the folder where the backgrounds are saved (and select the image). When I go to the said folder where the jpg's are, nothing is showing so I can't select anything.

I've saved the images in the internal flash memory of my Nvidia Shield.

PS: This behavior is only happening since upgrading the skin to the newest version in the repository. It has even resetted my menu configurations.

(2023-03-19, 22:03)brazen1 Wrote: I already toggled it off/on yesterday.

All of mine are named moviename.year.gif.  Avatar.2009.gif.  None of them are named poster.gif. 
All of my poster.jpg's are named poster.jpg though as is other artwork like clearlogo.png.

I wish .gif would be the only important part.  I did rename Avatar.2009.gif to Avatar.2009-animatedposter.gif and simply animatedposter.gif but still didn't supersede poster.jpg.  (poster.jpg was removed from the title folder but when the title got re-scraped, it added it again.

I moved it on top of instead of under all instances of "$INFO[ListItem.Art(poster)]" as your example shows.  No difference.

With or without them, no text appears although text does appear at the bottom for all other items giving a description for each setting.  I assume by "the button" you mean the Animated posters on/off setting in SilVo Extras.

Hey, thank you for trying to help me.  It's progress knowing it works for you.  There must be something on my end incompatible like perhaps my scraping automation and subsequent Artwork Dump download.  Perhaps a cache entry remaining because I'm removing a title, making some changes, and adding it back right away.  That was just for a little test. 

I'm going to leave everything and next time I add a new title, I'll put a dummy.gif in it and see what happens.  My main interest is the next time I rebuild Kodi from scratch, when all of my collection gets added, will all the .gif's supersede all the poster.jpg's and automatically be applied saving me countless hours manually applying them.  I'll be sure to add your code before I do...

Thank you for your contributions and detailed explanations.

xml:
$INFO[ListItem.Art(animatedposter)]

xml:


	<variable name="PosterThumbVar">

		<value condition="Container.Content(genres) + !Skin.HasSetting(coloredflags)">$INFO[ListItem.Label,special://skin/extras/moviegenres/default/,.jpg]</value>

		<value condition="Container.Content(genres) + Skin.HasSetting(coloredflags)">$INFO[ListItem.Label,special://skin/extras/moviegenres/colored/,.jpg]</value>

		<value condition="!String.IsEmpty(ListItem.Art(season.poster))">$INFO[ListItem.Art(season.poster)]</value>

		<value condition="!String.IsEmpty(Container.ListItem.Art(season.poster))">$INFO[Container.ListItem.Art(season.poster)]</value>

		<value condition="!String.IsEmpty(Container.ListItem.Art(poster))">$INFO[Container.ListItem.Art(poster)]</value>

		<value condition="!String.IsEmpty(ListItem.Art(tvshow.poster))">$INFO[ListItem.Art(tvshow.poster)]</value>

		<value condition="!String.IsEmpty(ListItem.Art(poster))">$INFO[ListItem.Art(poster)]</value>

		<value condition="!String.IsEmpty(Container.ListItem.Art(tvshow.poster))">$INFO[Container.ListItem.Art(tvshow.poster)]</value>

		<value condition="!String.IsEmpty(ListItem.Art(thumb))">$INFO[ListItem.Art(thumb)]</value>

		<value>$INFO[ListItem.Icon]</value>

	</variable>