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RE: Titan BINGIE v1 (UPDATED 08/2019) - cscott1 - 2020-01-09

(2020-01-09, 11:14)Butta97 Wrote:
(2020-01-09, 03:49)cscott1 Wrote:
(2020-01-08, 12:13)Butta97 Wrote: Is there any solution to get the cancel button working on this skin for Android TV box anyone?

It works fine on my Nvidia shield. 

Well I don't know it doesn't work for me I just hope it's in the next update 

Are you clicking on it with a mouse? I dont use a mouse with my tv just toggle to the exit button or you can alternatively hold in the enter button an bring up the power menu and power down from there. I wouldn't expect an update any time soon if ever. Cartmandos the skinner stated that the last update would likely be the last for the Titan modded Bingie however he did say he may work on a lighter faster Netflix like skin as a replacement. We can only hope that hes working on it in his spare time but who know hes been MIA for months.


RE: Titan BINGIE v1 (UPDATED 08/2019) - Totx - 2020-01-09

Hello thanks for this great release !

How can I add a folder Like Movie or tv Series in the left panel and give a source, I have a disney folder on my external hard drive and I want to make a folder (not a shortcut)  call disney and give it the path

Many Thanks !

Cheer from France


RE: Titan BINGIE v1 (UPDATED 08/2019) - Bigfoot12 - 2020-01-09

(2019-12-31, 04:07)The Warrior Wrote: Anyone's Up Next suddenly stop working? Mine is giving an error and to check logs for more information. I only seemed to notice it now but may have been a problem from the last update to Bingie. I just hadn't watched any programming since. It does work when switching themes, just not with Bingie.

Yeah stopped working for me as well. I tried the default and another skin and seemed to be working fine, just not with bingie. Were you able to fix yours?


RE: Titan BINGIE v1 (UPDATED 08/2019) - CK77 - 2020-01-10

(2020-01-09, 21:38)Totx Wrote: Hello thanks for this great release !

How can I add a folder Like Movie or tv Series in the left panel and give a source, I have a disney folder on my external hard drive and I want to make a folder (not a shortcut)  call disney and give it the path

Many Thanks !

Cheer from France
You could make a smart playlist with as a rule that it has to take movies starting with a certain path
Then in the skin settings you can add a menu item and just point that to the playlist.

Hope this helps


RE: Titan BINGIE v1 (UPDATED 08/2019) - Totx - 2020-01-11

(2020-01-10, 21:10)CK77 Wrote:
(2020-01-09, 21:38)Totx Wrote: Hello thanks for this great release !

How can I add a folder Like Movie or tv Series in the left panel and give a source, I have a disney folder on my external hard drive and I want to make a folder (not a shortcut)  call disney and give it the path

Many Thanks !

Cheer from France
You could make a smart playlist with as a rule that it has to take movies starting with a certain path
Then in the skin settings you can add a menu item and just point that to the playlist.

Hope this helps 
hello, thanks for your help but that's was I already do, and this is not what I want, cause in this way is just a "shortcut", not a real folder like movie or series.
I really want to create new real folder like "Movie" Series" "Music".

Cheer from France


RE: Titan BINGIE v1 (UPDATED 08/2019) - CK77 - 2020-01-11

(2020-01-11, 12:21)Totx Wrote:
(2020-01-10, 21:10)CK77 Wrote:
(2020-01-09, 21:38)Totx Wrote: Hello thanks for this great release !

How can I add a folder Like Movie or tv Series in the left panel and give a source, I have a disney folder on my external hard drive and I want to make a folder (not a shortcut)  call disney and give it the path

Many Thanks !

Cheer from France
You could make a smart playlist with as a rule that it has to take movies starting with a certain path
Then in the skin settings you can add a menu item and just point that to the playlist.

Hope this helps  
hello, thanks for your help but that's was I already do, and this is not what I want, cause in this way is just a "shortcut", not a real folder like movie or series.
I really want to create new real folder like "Movie" Series" "Music".

Cheer from France 

ok for that you have to add a hub to your menu, they have 2 you can customize "New" and another one o forgot the name off.
Once you added the hub, you can go to the hub and there add that same playlist again as a widget.

What you could also do is just add that playlist to the widgets of your movie hub, then it's together with all the other ones.


RE: Titan BINGIE v1 (UPDATED 08/2019) - Butta97 - 2020-01-12

(2020-01-09, 13:59)cscott1 Wrote:
(2020-01-09, 11:14)Butta97 Wrote:
(2020-01-09, 03:49)cscott1 Wrote: It works fine on my Nvidia shield. 

Well I don't know it doesn't work for me I just hope it's in the next update 

Are you clicking on it with a mouse? I dont use a mouse with my tv just toggle to the exit button or you can alternatively hold in the enter button an bring up the power menu and power down from there. I wouldn't expect an update any time soon if ever. Cartmandos the skinner stated that the last update would likely be the last for the Titan modded Bingie however he did say he may work on a lighter faster Netflix like skin as a replacement. We can only hope that hes working on it in his spare time but who know hes been MIA for months.

Lmaoo nevermind I'm stupid I've been tryna figure this out for months and all I have to do is press the back button


RE: Titan BINGIE MODE - Kodi 18 - ilip33 - 2020-01-13

(2018-08-22, 02:33)cartman.dos Wrote: Good To KnowWidget & 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 v1 (UPDATED 08/2019) - ilip33 - 2020-01-13

Hello! Amazing Skin! I have a problem.. I can't seem to figure out how to use local trailers.
What i did: Downloaded a trailer from Youtube.Then i moved it to the folder of the tv show.
I named the file: tvshow-trailer.ext also tvshow-trailer.mkv and some other variations as well
because the first did not work.Then i scanned for new content. And checked if the trailer worked.

The youtube auto trailers works most of the time,but it seems like some videos are wrong.(like the office trailer)

What i'm i doing wrong? Thank you for any answer! Smile


RE: Titan BINGIE v1 (UPDATED 08/2019) - daking1512 - 2020-01-13

Is anyone here good with kodi skinning?

So I managed to modify the default search page "Custom_1109_BingieSearch.xml" to show search results from OpenMeta (and YouTube as well, cuz why not lol)

https://pastebin.com/raw/QkcHdTkM

and it requires a few additions to the "strings.po" file in Kodi\addons\skin.titan.bingie\language\resource.language.en_gb

just added those at the end

xml:

msgctxt "#99999"
msgid "YouTube results for"
msgstr "YouTube results for"

msgctxt "#99998"
msgid "TMDB results for"
msgstr "TMDB results for"

msgctxt "#99997"
msgid "TVDB results for"
msgstr "TVDB results for"

msgctxt "#99996"
msgid "Movie results for"
msgstr "Movie results for"

msgctxt "#99995"
msgid "TV show results for"
msgstr "TV show results for"

msgctxt "#99994"
msgid "Trakt movie results for"
msgstr "Trakt movie results for"

msgctxt "#99993"
msgid "Trakt show results for"
msgstr "Trakt show results for"

msgctxt "#99992"
msgid "Netflix results for"
msgstr "Netflix results for"

msgctxt "#99991"
msgid "Amazon results for"
msgstr "Amazon results for"

msgctxt "#99990"
msgid "People results for"
msgstr "People results for"

and this is how it looks

https://imgur.com/a/54gwvbO

does anyone know how to change it a bit so that the search results are all shown instead of having scrollable rows?

Thanks


RE: Titan BINGIE v1 (UPDATED 08/2019) - Avishay - 2020-01-20

Somehow by mistake I've enabled snow effect in the skin, now I cannot get rid of it.
Searched the skin settings but couldn't find how to disable it.
Could someone point me to the right setting?


RE: Titan BINGIE v1 (UPDATED 08/2019) - misterkoat - 2020-01-20

I have a problem on my Android device where when I first start the app, the OSD shows up well. However, any other time, it just flashes. Like for a split second. It might even be easy to miss it. Enabling subtitles has become a bitch.


RE: Titan BINGIE v1 (UPDATED 08/2019) - ilip33 - 2020-01-20

(2020-01-09, 23:03)Bigfoot12 Wrote:
(2019-12-31, 04:07)The Warrior Wrote: Anyone's Up Next suddenly stop working? Mine is giving an error and to check logs for more information. I only seemed to notice it now but may have been a problem from the last update to Bingie. I just hadn't watched any programming since. It does work when switching themes, just not with Bingie.

Yeah stopped working for me as well. I tried the default and another skin and seemed to be working fine, just not with bingie. Were you able to fix yours? 
Hi.Go to  configure skin and go to supported addons and click  on it.Then choose simple instead of fancy.that worked for me.


RE: Titan BINGIE v1 (UPDATED 08/2019) - Butta97 - 2020-01-23

Skin helper artwork lookup for addons not working Is anyone else having this issue? No clearlogo for me in osd


RE: Titan BINGIE v1 (UPDATED 08/2019) - louisefindlay23 - 2020-01-23

(2020-01-23, 05:11)Butta97 Wrote: Skin helper artwork lookup for addons not working Is anyone else having this issue? No clearlogo for me in osd

If you integrate addon content into the library, then the addon, Artwork Beef addon will work.