2023-02-28, 13:05
@altern8tube
Thanks, that helps to figure out what is going on:
To be exact, this seems not to be an issue of the skin falling back to "buttons simplicity mode" during the loading time between episode skips. It's a result of the a bit long (network?) loading period between episodes and what values Kodi returns for some properties during that time.
The UI shows all the buttons with the conditions defined to be required to show them.
When you skip an episode, Kodi tells the skin that "fast forward/backward" and "playing or pausing" is not available and the skin has to rely on this information to know which OSD buttons to hide. Skipping and stopping playback it the only thing Kodi (in a sense very correctly) reports to be available at the transition between episodes.
This might not really to be solvable despite me understanding that it might look a bit weird at first glance. Would Kodi return different values for mentioned checks, the buttons would stay there during loading.
I'll think some more about it, but don't get my hopes up that there is a sane way to do something about it.
More important follow up questions:
1)
What's going on with the buttons on right (can't see them in the video since they are off screen)
Do they stay in the correct positions while this loading-"transition" between episode-skipping with the buttons temporarily changing? Feel free to make a quick video like the last one but with the right buttons also visible
2) Are the episodes local files on the device, on a NAS/local network or is it remotely streamed content? (Would be good to know in regards to the loading duration)
Thanks, that helps to figure out what is going on:
To be exact, this seems not to be an issue of the skin falling back to "buttons simplicity mode" during the loading time between episode skips. It's a result of the a bit long (network?) loading period between episodes and what values Kodi returns for some properties during that time.
The UI shows all the buttons with the conditions defined to be required to show them.
When you skip an episode, Kodi tells the skin that "fast forward/backward" and "playing or pausing" is not available and the skin has to rely on this information to know which OSD buttons to hide. Skipping and stopping playback it the only thing Kodi (in a sense very correctly) reports to be available at the transition between episodes.
This might not really to be solvable despite me understanding that it might look a bit weird at first glance. Would Kodi return different values for mentioned checks, the buttons would stay there during loading.
I'll think some more about it, but don't get my hopes up that there is a sane way to do something about it.
More important follow up questions:
1)
What's going on with the buttons on right (can't see them in the video since they are off screen)
Do they stay in the correct positions while this loading-"transition" between episode-skipping with the buttons temporarily changing? Feel free to make a quick video like the last one but with the right buttons also visible
2) Are the episodes local files on the device, on a NAS/local network or is it remotely streamed content? (Would be good to know in regards to the loading duration)
