[TheLastOfUs]

Bumping this.

I actually decided to disable animated backgrounds on the homescreen completely. The thing is, animations in Kodi are a totally isolated..thing. Animations can't be scripted and they aren't aware of eachother. So there's the actually moving/zooming of the animation and there's the transition animation between the images. Both have their own animation timing, speed, delay, etc. So unless these two animations can be "aware' of eachother, these animations will always go out of sync really easily and look bad (images animating more than once, etc.)

have you changed the way fanart is called on the homescreen since Refocus? FYI I'm using Kodi Krypton 17.4 I believe.
I ask because on Refocus my fanart is changing consistently after 30 seconds - yet I still get repeats of fanart as shown in the video specifically with Grid....

Nope, not really. Slideshow is handled by fanart grabber, just as in reFocus. In both skins there's just a multiimage control which is fed a path by a variable containing the different options (all fanart, only movie fanart, etc).

If you're talking about images appearing twice in an animation, then it's actually not the image showing twice, you're just seeing the image twice in the timespan of one animation. I know that seems like the same thing, but it isn't But, in any case it's a problem. A problem that can't really be solved properly so that's why I am taking it out.

Hope that makes sense ..

Yeah, makes complete sense brother. I personally don't mind the repetition/images animating more than once as long as I know it's sort of a common issue at the time (and not just me). This may explain the image gaps too maybe that I experience here or there now with just the Grid background showing. xD but I shall upgrade to the latest grid for all the other fixes regardless.