2016-04-28, 13:27
(2016-04-28, 09:58)schimi2k Wrote: problem is still the 256 colors of the gif
if you choose now the default fanart.tv size of a poster or a 1000x1500 of tmdb ( or even larger ) you will get a bigger poster, MAYBE a lill bit better quality, but the filesize will explode too !
so its a sensible line you need to find to get a "good" quality, with a "good" filesize... or you will get maybe some nice looking animated poster, but because of a big filesize you will get a slower navigation through your movies...
i will continue working on animated stuff maybe when there are some strickt rules for them ( sizes, TEXTLESS ! except logo and maybe 1 tagline - no release dates or all those small texts at the bottom etc... )
time will tell
but all the respect to all the guys who provides their work here !!!
I have tested with around 30 animated gifs simultanously (average size 1,5 MB each) in a iPad simulator and did not ran into any performance issues. A simulator is not as fast (the graphics part) as a real device, e.g. iPad Air or iPad Air 2.
I don't expect Kodi to have that problem either. I think it's more the hardware you are using. Most devices can play 1080p mkvs and decoding DD audio streams at the same time, so a few simple animated gifs should not be a problem, right?
But this is the experience I have...:-)
And about the animated stuff....there are still not a lot of animated gifs (movies that is) available. And there were even less if koufos didn't supply us with a lot of them.
It's now a bit of a chicken egg situation with the whole animated gifs. People don't create animated gifs because there not used a lot, and because they are not used enough, people are not interested in creating them....
A few months a ago there was not a database at all.....now there is...and voila....progress is being made.
Maybe it's better not to have strict rules (yet)....