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Titan BINGIE v1 (UPDATED 08/2019) - cartman.dos - 2018-08-22 Titan BINGIE (Kodi Leia) v1.0.3 (10.08.19) The new Titan for Kodi Leia is here. Screenshots watch gallery
Skin Review (thanks @cscott!) Feature Demonstration Videos Search-engine - Vertical & horizontal fixed scrolling - auto-play trailers - spotlight - video info & osd Main New Features: BINGIE Layout - All new, all mighty. - features a Spotlight, Custom set widgets & spotlights both in Home & Hubs, My List, Rating Like/Dislike, Auto-Playing Trailers for Movies & TV Shows - Both vertical & horizontal fixed position movement! - New Built-In-Skin Search Engine with Suggestions - New Video Info Dialog - featuring My List and Rate This Title functioning with ability to go-to episodes from episode/tvshow's info and play/resume current/next episode for tvshows or Play from beginning - New Main-Menu - New OSD Panel & OSD Info - Up-Next integration - New Viewtypes (523-Bingie Main for the Netflix Library look and 525-Bingie Episodes with the ability to toggle seasons and episodes on one screen!) - UWP Support - XBOX and Kodi version from Windows Store is finally supported! And Many MANY More... Required Repositories : - BINGIE Repository: BINGIE Repository is the home of this skin and all its necessary add-ons. THIS REPOSITORY IS THE ONLY REPOSITORY YOU NEED IN ORDER TO INSTALL THIS SKIN. Note that my Repo includes my updated versions for the addons and most are not available on other repositories. Additional Add-ons: (not required) - Artwork Beef : This addon is supported both by the skin and updated version of skin helper (Get from Rector Stuff Repository, also available on bingie repo) - Up Next - is integrated and is used to watch next episode in netflix-like fashion. Is available in Kodi official repo. - BINGIE Movie Genre Icons - this is not a requirement but is available in bingie repository, install and set as resource in general settings to have the green bricks shown in images on genres and category widget. Translations (How Can I help?) SOME of the new labels are not localized, there's nothing I can do about it as I'm not omni-lingual. If someone's interested in translating, strings are available inside the skin dir, you could compare string from main (en_gb) to your language and send them to me so I could share with everyone else. You may contact me for help in this matter. THANKS! Special Thanks to @marcelveldt for all of his work on the original code for Titan skin & his addons, his work is what set the foundations to make all that possible. Thanks to @mardukL for helping out all along the way, from the very get-go he was the one who started the resurrection of Titan, helped me to start my kodi-skinner path and a lot of great ideas since then! Thanks to @samfisher for his AMAZING work on the splash animation and new logo design! Thanks to @sualfred and @jurialmunkey for setting the example of how to be awesome in coding practices and creative ideas! and everyone else that helped or contributed in any way! Installation: 1. In Kodi -> Addons -> click "install from zip", choose either the downloaded repo file here OR add the following address to kodi in 'file manager': https://cartmandos.github.io/repository.bingie/repository.bingie/ and get the zip file from there. 2. Choose in add-ons, Install from repository -> bingie repository -> Look and Feel -> Skin -> Install 'Titan BINGIE'. If you're experiencing any issues - please add some background information about the system you're running it on - OS, Kodi build is the bare minimum, in addition to the problem description. And sometimes there's no escape from a proper debug log. and do me a favor, be specific and descriptive as you can to help me help you. BINGE. RE: Titan BINGIE MODE - Kodi 18 - cartman.dos - 2018-08-22 CHANGELOG (v1 changelog, beta changelog) Code:
RE: Titan BINGIE MODE - Kodi 18 - cartman.dos - 2018-08-22 Good To Know Widget & Spotlight Content The widgets and spotlight for Home entry are set from Skin Settings->Configure Shortucts tab->Edit Shortcuts->Widgets for each entry The spotlight is set from Skin Settings -> Homelayout tab-> Under Spotlight header For HUBS, both spotlight & widgets are set from the hub's page, for this it should be unlocked first. this is done from Skin Settings->Configure Shortucts tab-> tick off 'Lock Widgets in Hubs', and then go to the hub you want to customize. You can also have your own Hub or List, from Edit Shortcuts -> Add Shortcut -> in 'Common' directory from pop-up window you will have amongst other the option for 'MyHub' and 'My Custom List' and set them as explained above. Auto-Play trailers Auto-play of trailers is available both in BINGIE Views (Home & Hubs) and Library views that are supported. They can be enabled for BINGIE Views in Homelayout tab. And in context-menu in view type that are supported (e.g, Bingie Main). After enabling you'll have the option to set the desired interval time from the moment item is focused to when it should start getting the trailer played. More settings are available in General Settings, to toggle youtube trailers, toggle for tvshows and for non-library content (e.g, plugins). Built-In Search In addition to what's available by default, you can also add search results for music videos / music (artists/albums/songs) and results from youtube. If the keyboard does not fit your needs, you can enable 'complete keyboard' option that will add a keyboard icon in search window that will take you to the full keyboard layout. For Nvidia shield users - after opening up the 'complete keyboard' a long-press on any keyboard key will open the google assistant so you could record your search query. Artwork Handling In bingie views, the image shown in spotlight is set by the FANART of an item (or extrafanart if enabled). and the image in the widget itself is: 1) if there's a LANDSCAPE img available then it would set that ('landscape.<ext>' in the movie/tvshow's dir) 2) if there's no LANDSCAPE img it will put the same fanart as in spotlight AND a clearlogo (if available) on top of it So the best way to set up artwork is having landscape (an image with title) and fanart (an image without title). that would look best. have a title on the widget and different images for widget/spotlight image. It can be edited in the skin with artwork beef (context-menu->manage-> AB options) or if you use a manager like Tiny Media Manager you can pre-select the fanart/landscape and when scraping to library it will be set up that way, and you won't have to do it each installation/within the skin itself. Bro tip - in Artwork Beef settings you can configure it to download the selected images to your local storage, need enabling in each media's tab and general settings. then whatever you select will be downloaded so even if you reset/delete your library and then rescan it the artwork you've selected will stay put. Bro tip #2 - For movies, give priority to fanart.tv artwork as it is categorized better and better chance for having 'clean' artwork, after that you can complete missing using tmdb. for tv shows tvdb is great. Optimization / Perfomance Titan is a fairly heavy skin, a lot of improvements within the code has been done to this version (v1 and onward) but to further improve performance: How to make it a little faster? Disabling un-used views - this skin has A LOT of viewtypes, you probably don't use half of them, if so it'd be better to disable them (you can enable them anytime later). from skin settings -> force views tab -> click on 'Enable/Disable Views' and tick off the views which you're not using. Faster, please? For artwork beef users: artwork is very taxing. depends on the layout you're using, you can disable in artwork beef addon settings the artwork that you will not need, you can always get them later...For ex, in BINGIE Layout, most of the artwork used is landscape/fanart/thumbs and clearlogo. Consider that when pulling artwork... Also, if you already pulled a lot of artwork or changed a lot via Artwork Beef, consider deleting the content of 'Thumbnails' folder inside userdata dir. The folder saves a lot of images and can grow very fast, if you're satisfied with your current artwork set-up, delete that. it will take kodi a while to re-construct the images but the folder size can shrink in size dramatically. Can widget loading be faster? Regarding loading of widgets: Widgets from library node/smartplaylist will be much much faster than widgets from plugin source, including skin helper widgets that does a pre-processing. Most of the widgets are possible to make with only smartplaylists, with the exception of Mixed media and widgets based on trakt/tmdb or other plugin source. the skin supplies many playlists that you can choose from videolibrary->playlists when setting a widget. If you limit non-smartplaylist widget to a bare minimum and use smartplaylist for most you can have even 40 widgets that load in less than 5sec (which is shorter than the splash animation so you won't even notice). if you're using plugin sources, try and use library integration to integrate them into you library database, this will result in them acting like local items = FAST. Local Trailers BINGIE has the ability to get local trailer both for movies and tv shows and if not found, then look them up in youtube. Local trailers will always work better and faster and are recommended for user who use auto-trailer function, especially with shorter interval times. Movie trailers are handled by kodi, they need to have naming pattern of 'movie-trailer'.ext or <movie-filename>.ext (ext for extension, eg mp4, etc) and it's should be noted that when scanning library fetching of trailer within scraper should be toggled off so it will not overwrite local trailers. TV Show trailers are handled by Script Bingie Helper and need to have the following naming pattern: 1) 'tvshow-trailer'.ext or 2) <tvshow-directory-name>.ext and need to be placed in main directory of the tv show. it is better to use 'tvshow-trailer'.ext since for some widgets (from skin helper widget) this is the only pattern that can be properly fetched. Ratings Meta (and API keys in general) For ratings from IMDB, TMDB, TVDB, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic 1) Make sure they are enabled in 'Media Library Views' tab under 'Media Flags, Ratings ......' (they should be ON by default) 2) To enable them in BINGIE views, go to homelayout tab and enable them under 'Footer' header (tick OFF the setting 'Disable ratings flags in bingie views...') To enable them in libraries, in 'Media Library Views' tab, tick off the setting 'Do not show footer in views' 3) [THIS IS DONE PRIOR TO LIBRARY SCAN] Use scrapers and set in there settings to get ratings from IMDB & TMDB for movies (e.g Universal scraper). and TVDB & IMDB for tv shows (e.g TVDB Scraper). 4) Go to Skin Settings -> Supported addons -> select 'Metadata and Artwork Module', switch to 'API Keys' tab, and fill with your API keys. For Rottern Tomatoes & MetaCritic you'll need to have an OMDB key - you can get it from here https://www.omdbapi.com/apikey.aspx for TMDB Key - www.themoviedb.org Fanart key is not important for ratings but is for fanart images in the skin, get from https://fanart.tv/ Skin Helper Widget Among the other updated addons this has the most interest to the user as I added many more new widgets in Skin Helper Widget Addon. For 'My List' widget, enable in addon setting and it will show in movies/tvshows/mixed. New widgets - Popular/Trending/Most Played/Most Watched (based on Trakt/TMDB) has been added and needs to be enabled in addon's setting and also have Extended Info addon installed. these widgets are discussed here. Many more widgets: new releases, top picks, ability to sort playlists by desired order, popular, recent shows & movies and many more are discussed here. Side-notes: - Atmos & DTS-X are now supported in media flags (with the exception of atmos in colored flags, if someone can supply a fitting png it will be added) - you just need to have 'atmos' and 'dtsx/dts-x' somewhere in your filename. - Ratings in video info is available when clicking ''plot & critics". - The classic Titan info dialog was added and is available if bingie video info is toggled off. - Bingie main view is able to switch between Poster/Landscape view ('swap poster' option in context-menu) and switch between horizontal/vertical navigation. - When fixed position for vertical scrolling is enabled, you will only be able to switch widget layout for ALL of the widgets. They can only be changed on individual-base when this setting is off. - The skin shows information dialog for video items by default, this is done within the skin and so it can be toggled off/on in skin settings. note that this behavior applies just for widgets (home, search & hubs) and not for libraries. This is done because if using Kodi setting to change default select action, it will show information for all items, including libraries (which is good for video library, not so much for other types) and also will show info for each episode (also quite annoying I believe). RE: Titan BINGIE MODE - Kodi 18 - mardukL - 2018-08-22 Congrats. Dont expexted it so fast... RE: Titan BINGIE MODE - Kodi 18 - UbuntuUser - 2018-08-22 Does this support Live TV? RE: Titan BINGIE MODE - Kodi 18 - szabi - 2018-08-22 Wow! Great work! RE: Titan BINGIE MODE - Kodi 18 - Grayskulll - 2018-08-22 Fantastic Mod! Been playing around with it on my RPi3 and found no issues. Loving the new Information screen. Thanks. RE: Titan BINGIE MODE - Kodi 18 - cartman.dos - 2018-08-23 Thanks. (2018-08-22, 08:18)UbuntuUser Wrote: Does this support Live TV?It should function at least as good as it was with default Titan, since I haven't changed any of the core action of PVR in this skin, however it may look different. I wasn't able to test it myself thus far unfortunately, but you're welcome to leave ur feedback. RE: Titan BINGIE MODE - Kodi 18 - irafihggnaba - 2018-08-23 installation failed RE: Titan BINGIE MODE - Kodi 18 - UbuntuUser - 2018-08-23 (2018-08-23, 08:51)irafihggnaba Wrote: installation failedIf you got the cherry.py (or something to that effect) error it is because you have to have both repo's enabled, the BINGIE Repository and Marcelveldt's BETA Repository. RE: Titan BINGIE MODE - Kodi 18 - UbuntuUser - 2018-08-23 (2018-08-23, 03:29)cartman.dos Wrote: Thanks.Well I did test it and I have to say this skin is beautiful, hands down the best skin available for Kodi 18. LiveTV looks awesome. My only question would be how do you get to the menu where you can edit artwork or refresh if it scans in wrong? In regular Titan it is just info but in BINGIE info does not show you that stuff. Thanks, UbuntuUser RE: Titan BINGIE MODE - Kodi 18 - irafihggnaba - 2018-08-23 (2018-08-23, 09:02)UbuntuUser Wrote:yes i know. but still(2018-08-23, 08:51)irafihggnaba Wrote: installation failedIf you got the cherry.py (or something to that effect) error it is because you have to have both repo's enabled, the BINGIE Repository and Marcelveldt's BETA Repository. RE: Titan BINGIE MODE - Kodi 18 - irafihggnaba - 2018-08-23 all the dependencies installed succesfuly except "script.module.pil (not available)". maybe its the reason why the skin instalation failed? RE: Titan BINGIE MODE - Kodi 18 - cartman.dos - 2018-08-23 (2018-08-23, 09:08)UbuntuUser Wrote:Thanks! Are we talking about dialog info buttons? if So, there's still the option to refresh & change artwork (with artwork beef).(2018-08-23, 03:29)cartman.dos Wrote: Thanks.Well I did test it and I have to say this skin is beautiful, hands down the best skin available for Kodi 18. LiveTV looks awesome. My only question would be how do you get to the menu where you can edit artwork or refresh if it scans in wrong? In regular Titan it is just info but in BINGIE info does not show you that stuff. If not, a screenshot/more info about what you're looking or a pic from default titan will help to get what you mean exactly. Quote:@irafihggnabaFirst thing you should look at the kodi log. Second, about script.module.pil not being available, if I remember currently this script is lacking from the UWP version (xbox for ex.). which version are u running on which os? Titan BINGIE MODE - Kodi 18 - wsx1 - 2018-08-23 Installed and it was fantastic. I have a little problem with Next Up notification. It seem not working. Any suggestions? |