(2019-07-10, 17:27)scofield272 Wrote: Hi Cartman
great stuff, one thing i do noticed is that the Fanart in Bingie 1.03 has too much Zoom-In in Bingie view, here is 2 examples how movies's Fanart looks on 1.02 VS 1.03 (for some Movie's Fanarts this is critical) :

In Order of disappearance
https://ibb.co/VMWPLLX 1.03
https://ibb.co/T8F47wM  1.02

US
https://ibb.co/1MxXCc7 1.03
https://ibb.co/hsZWdCD 1.02 

(2019-07-10, 17:36)louisefindlay23 Wrote: Aww, . That's one of my favourite parts on the Next Episodes widgets. I can decide which episode to play depending on how exciting the plot sounds. 

(2019-07-10, 17:44)FlashOne Wrote: @cartman.dos Just installed 1.0.3RC1 and the only things I noticed so far are:
- new Bingie landscape view looks a little restricted" compared to previous 1.0.2
- time bar still missing in non-Bingie PVR OSD

Other than that great work as usual, users looking for a netflix-like experience will find in the upcoming Bingie their definitive answer!

(2019-07-10, 04:15)cartman.dos Wrote: Titan BINGIE v1.03-RC1THIS VERSION IS FOR TESTING PURPOSES, PLEASE BE AWARE!

This update is pretty massive, as it includes massive rewrites of complete sections in the skin or code, added features, bug fixing and so on.
Due to the extensive work that has been done from v1.02,
It'll be great if you guys could try this release candidate and report about bugs that/if you've noticed and I may have missed (with detailed description, please).
You may also give your feedback on the new stuff/cosmetics/performance, I always try to listen to your requests but note that at this point I only intend to address bugs and such to support the release.

Skin Helper Widgets
I've also released an update for skin helper widgets, that adds a new widget that is now used by default in bingie (if you're not installing fresh you have to reset menu to default or set the widget manually via skin helper widgets node). This widget is 'Continue Watching Episodes' and it comes to replace the use of 'Next Episodes'.
The change is delicate but important - it will fetch the last played episodes and will return them for you to continue or the next episode after the last one you watched. Difference is that 'Next Episodes' is returning episodes only for unwatched tvshows (so no re-watch) AND it returns the next UNWATCHED episode, so if you've fallen asleep and tv kept going or your gf want to watch a different episode or you just want to re-watch the series you won't be able with 'Next episodes'. In sum, it's like the continue watching widget for netflix.

CHANGES/NEW FEATURES
I'm not going to list ALL the changes (I honestly don't even remember at this point), but I'll list the main ones that come to mind and will update whenever I think of one that I've forgot about:
- Bingie home complete rewrite including the spotlight
- Most of the default widgets are now library-based/built-in for FASTER widget loading (Built-in 'Categories', 'My List' widgets have been added to widget choice dialog).
- Fixed Vertical movement redesigned and improved
- 2 new viewtypes - Bingie Main Landscape & Bingie Main Poster
- New: Categories Hub, used with the BUILT-IN categories widgets
- New Video buttons layout, OSD panel and functionality, also supports live tv (Bingie Video OSD in settings), new seek indicators
- OSD new functionality features: Rated mpaa pop-up right after playing, auto-close osd (transitioned from sh based to built in), auto pause when osd shows.
- New Hub: PVR Hub, with widgets for last played, channels, recordings and 'categories'. New layouts for information to channels and option to auto-preview channels (under general settings->trailers->allow pvr preview)
- New episodes tag supported in posters as well
- Improved 'Watch X now' logic, will now show 'Watch Season [last added season] Now' for tv show that has new episodes.
- REMOVED: forced views has been removed (it's a buggy mess), also some skin helper functions has either been removed or replaced with built-in skin to improve functionality and performance

This are mostly the new stuff, at least the ones that I can think of now,
beside that there has been major cosmetic changes, bug fixes, improvements, etc...

watch gallery

Titan BINGIE v1.03-RC1Skin Helper Widgets v1.1.2 (it's also on the official repo)

(2019-07-10, 18:19)cartman.dos Wrote:

(2019-07-10, 17:44)FlashOne Wrote: @cartman.dos Just installed 1.0.3RC1 and the only things I noticed so far are:
- new Bingie landscape view looks a little restricted" compared to previous 1.0.2
- time bar still missing in non-Bingie PVR OSD

Other than that great work as usual, users looking for a netflix-like experience will find in the upcoming Bingie their definitive answer!

Thanks!! I always appreciate how well-ordered are your feedbacks
1) resized a bit smaller, unified design and in my opinion looks less overwhelming on big screen tv.
2) please try replacing includesosd.xml with this: 
https://github.com/cartmandos/skin.titan.bingie/commit/a4fc71c6877d639be1a91784df803359684e7b7b

Have you tried PVR Hub? as you remember my pvr testing is very limited...(there's an auto-preview if enabled in general settings->trailers)      

(2019-07-10, 19:37)Seattle2Nashville Wrote:

(2019-07-10, 04:15)cartman.dos Wrote: Titan BINGIE v1.03-RC1THIS VERSION IS FOR TESTING PURPOSES, PLEASE BE AWARE!

This update is pretty massive, as it includes massive rewrites of complete sections in the skin or code, added features, bug fixing and so on.
Due to the extensive work that has been done from v1.02,
It'll be great if you guys could try this release candidate and report about bugs that/if you've noticed and I may have missed (with detailed description, please).
You may also give your feedback on the new stuff/cosmetics/performance, I always try to listen to your requests but note that at this point I only intend to address bugs and such to support the release.

Skin Helper Widgets
I've also released an update for skin helper widgets, that adds a new widget that is now used by default in bingie (if you're not installing fresh you have to reset menu to default or set the widget manually via skin helper widgets node). This widget is 'Continue Watching Episodes' and it comes to replace the use of 'Next Episodes'.
The change is delicate but important - it will fetch the last played episodes and will return them for you to continue or the next episode after the last one you watched. Difference is that 'Next Episodes' is returning episodes only for unwatched tvshows (so no re-watch) AND it returns the next UNWATCHED episode, so if you've fallen asleep and tv kept going or your gf want to watch a different episode or you just want to re-watch the series you won't be able with 'Next episodes'. In sum, it's like the continue watching widget for netflix.

CHANGES/NEW FEATURES
I'm not going to list ALL the changes (I honestly don't even remember at this point), but I'll list the main ones that come to mind and will update whenever I think of one that I've forgot about:
- Bingie home complete rewrite including the spotlight
- Most of the default widgets are now library-based/built-in for FASTER widget loading (Built-in 'Categories', 'My List' widgets have been added to widget choice dialog).
- Fixed Vertical movement redesigned and improved
- 2 new viewtypes - Bingie Main Landscape & Bingie Main Poster
- New: Categories Hub, used with the BUILT-IN categories widgets
- New Video buttons layout, OSD panel and functionality, also supports live tv (Bingie Video OSD in settings), new seek indicators
- OSD new functionality features: Rated mpaa pop-up right after playing, auto-close osd (transitioned from sh based to built in), auto pause when osd shows.
- New Hub: PVR Hub, with widgets for last played, channels, recordings and 'categories'. New layouts for information to channels and option to auto-preview channels (under general settings->trailers->allow pvr preview)
- New episodes tag supported in posters as well
- Improved 'Watch X now' logic, will now show 'Watch Season [last added season] Now' for tv show that has new episodes.
- REMOVED: forced views has been removed (it's a buggy mess), also some skin helper functions has either been removed or replaced with built-in skin to improve functionality and performance

This are mostly the new stuff, at least the ones that I can think of now,
beside that there has been major cosmetic changes, bug fixes, improvements, etc...

watch gallery

Titan BINGIE v1.03-RC1Skin Helper Widgets v1.1.2 (it's also on the official repo)

Love a lot of the changes, too many to mention so I'll just start with the buggy things lol

Keep in mind, I did a fresh install of bingie and all of the skin helper dependencies

PVR: 

1. The PVR Hub 'ActivateWindow(1113,return)' has no widgets in it for me. I've reset the menu and added it again and am only seeing the message about adding videos to my library, although I already have videos added to my library and they're showing in widgets on the home hub. 

That being said, the Live TV 'ActivateWindow(1116,return)', which used to take me directly to live TV or the guide, is now a hub with Recently Watched, Channels, Recording and a Live & Radio widget. The hub looks okay but it's mostly black space at the top. I'll post a picture on this to make sure it's how you intended. Might be a bug on my end



2. The PVR hubs automatic preview starts a video for about half a second and stops and sometimes it plays a little longer but for the most part, for me, it's unusable. I'm using a TVMosaic/DVB Link backend if that helps?

Maybe give an option for a still image preview?

Other changes:

1. Continue Watching Episodes is working great for me, I really like the change and it seems like it's loading faster

2. The transparent notification panel when there is an image beneath it is awesome, looks really clean. May have always been that way? I could've accidently changed the color of mine in the past lol

3. The new episode tag on posters is great

4. Not sure how I feel about the smaller posters, it was nice having them larger and an option for people who were struggling to see the landscape layout but I feel like in a week I'll forget about it

5. The new vertical movement looks great

6. The larger thumbail in the top spotlight portion looks really good, probably is why the posters are smaller?

7. Categories and My-List being built in are really fast, noticed this in the dev repo and 1.03 WIP, so I'm glad they made it

8. Following up #5. Are 'my list' and 'categories' the only new "built-in" widgets or are there more?

9. I have no option for a "categories hub" but I do have a categories widget, am I missing something?

10. On getting rid of fixed views, I agree it was a mess and removing it works fine for local content but browing through addons forces you to change the view for basically every page as you browse

11. Is it possible to set Movies Hub to Bingie Main Posters and TV Hubs to Bingie Main Landscape independtly of each other?

12. Oh, I really like the change in the loading icon in the top right, it reflects the progress instead of just spinning

13. The new OSD is great with the buttons in the top left just like netflix on an xbox or android box, the new seek indicator is awesome as well

14. Also not sure why this is happening but I can't seem to fix it. The info panel is missing all of the buttons, play * episode, more episodes, more info, cast, etc.





Anyway, all in all a great update imho just a couple bugs. Thx for all your work man!

(2019-07-11, 00:32)daking1512 Wrote: Awesome Skin, and Thanks for the updates,

Just two questions, 

first of all I have made a fresh installation of your theme and did the initial setup that the skin asks for, no previous themes were installed

1- is there a way to lock a layout for a certain view across all video addons?, lets say anywhere there is a "TV Shows" section in some X and Y addons and i want the bingie main view to be locked every time I view a list of TV shows regardless of the addon, same thing if i enter a TV show I want the Binge Episode view regardless of the addon. because right now when I set a view it only sets it for one particular TV Show/Addon and i have to do it over and over again every time i view a show/movie (like a better forced views from the 1.0.2 version, i know the last time we had it it was buggy)

2- Im having problems with the Binigie episode view, I cant get it to look like Picture 11 in the imgur gallery you posted with the update (seasons and episodes in one picture), this is what I get
https://imgur.com/a/MLGyt4e

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any help is appreciated

(2019-07-10, 22:34)cscott1 Wrote: https://youtu.be/fX_16uyucTw

(2019-07-10, 17:42)cartman.dos Wrote:

(2019-07-10, 17:27)scofield272 Wrote: Hi Cartman
great stuff, one thing i do noticed is that the Fanart in Bingie 1.03 has too much Zoom-In in Bingie view, here is 2 examples how movies's Fanart looks on 1.02 VS 1.03 (for some Movie's Fanarts this is critical) :

In Order of disappearance
https://ibb.co/VMWPLLX 1.03
https://ibb.co/T8F47wM  1.02

US
https://ibb.co/1MxXCc7 1.03
https://ibb.co/hsZWdCD 1.02 

 Hey man, I'm aware of that 'scaling issue'. I do like it better now than it was, the scaling can be solved with a better diffuse img, need to check if I can find one, graphics is not my expertise.

(2019-07-10, 17:36)louisefindlay23 Wrote: Aww, . That's one of my favourite parts on the Next Episodes widgets. I can decide which episode to play depending on how exciting the plot sounds. 

That's the design I chose here. If you're mid-watching a tv show you should know what's it about, aren't you? for 'choosing' what to watch, just put a tvshow widget, not an episode (makes more sense...)