[sarlan19]

I noticed the freeze occurs during the window zoom animation. I mean you click at a item and the complete window starts zooming out or in and the freeze happens.

+1 been checking all afternoon and every time it's within the zoom animation

[schimi2k]

Confirm this... Will test something tomorrow maybe

[_Andy_]

I disabled the animation in includes_animations.xml and i have no freezes anymore. I have some graphic glitches and some minor display issues but i don't know it's from disabling the animations or a general bug.
Maybe you can confirm that if works and maybe the reason why the animation causes the freeze. A bug in rendering maybe?

Code:

<include name="Animation_OpenCloseZoom">
        <animation type="WindowOpen" reversible="false" condition="Window.Previous(Startup)">
            <!-- <effect type="zoom" start="100,0" end="100,0" center="auto" delay="600" time="100" tween="cubic" /> -->
        </animation>
        <animation type="WindowOpen" reversible="false" condition="!Window.Previous(Startup)">
           <!-- <effect type="zoom" start="150" end="100" center="960,540" time="100" tween="cubic" />
            <effect type="fade" start="50" end="100" time="100" /> -->
        </animation>
        <animation type="WindowClose" reversible="false">
            <!-- <effect type="fade" start="100" end="0" time="100" />
            <effect type="zoom" start="100" end="130" center="960,540" time="1" tween="cubic" easing="in" /> -->
        </animation>
    </include>

[ProRipp]

Glad to see this issue is being addressed, good job guys on diagnosing what the cause might be. This problem got so bad for me that I was forced to switch skins and have been using MQ6 for quite a while, but whenever I switch back to madnox I get all nostalgic and realise how much I miss it LOL So please let this be the 'fix' !!!


Peace
Pro

[Eisi2005]

@schimi2k

I´m unsing openelec (fritsch build with latest jarvis) and local db. I have no freezes.

Ate you on the latest fritch built?
Do you mind posting ur hardware

i have this build running OpenELEC-Generic.x86_64-6.0-devel-20151118073930-r21577-g3a1af3a

My hardware is a INTEL NUC BOXNUC5PPYH

[schimi2k]

I disabled the animation in includes_animations.xml and i have no freezes anymore. I have some graphic glitches and some minor display issues but i don't know it's from disabling the animations or a general bug.
Maybe you can confirm that if works and maybe the reason why the animation causes the freeze. A bug in rendering maybe?

Code:

<include name="Animation_OpenCloseZoom">
        <animation type="WindowOpen" reversible="false" condition="Window.Previous(Startup)">
            <!-- <effect type="zoom" start="100,0" end="100,0" center="auto" delay="600" time="100" tween="cubic" /> -->
        </animation>
        <animation type="WindowOpen" reversible="false" condition="!Window.Previous(Startup)">
           <!-- <effect type="zoom" start="150" end="100" center="960,540" time="100" tween="cubic" />
            <effect type="fade" start="50" end="100" time="100" /> -->
        </animation>
        <animation type="WindowClose" reversible="false">
            <!-- <effect type="fade" start="100" end="0" time="100" />
            <effect type="zoom" start="100" end="130" center="960,540" time="1" tween="cubic" easing="in" /> -->
        </animation>
    </include>

ive been testing the whole day with this ...§)!/$)/!&$!$)!?$)(
ive disable the animations, i try to change them, check the other location that use this animations, check kodi wiki etc ...
result - still have freezes - nothing works ... and i am on the end of my lill knowledge - maybe Mike can find out the problem...

if he cant find it... well i dont know, but i wont spent again sooo much time in it

so if you want to use jarvis and madnox --- be aware that you can get some problems !!!
if someone have another idea - i am open for any help

schimi2k

[_Andy_]

Do you have the same freezes but now without the zoom animation or do you have freezes at a different place?

[schimi2k]

Freeze on same place without animation...

[ProRipp]

Hmm....removing the zoom seems to be a fix for me anyways ? Still on test tho for today. LOL



Update although this issue seems fixed I have unearthed other problems with my install of Madnox. When opening kodi madnox opens at 'TV Channels' screen . ? When backing out from movie genres area it goes to.....TV Channels screen. It seems that madnox is allergic to Jarvis....shame....for me anyways. Back to MQ6 till, I hope, madnox can be made stable again for me.

[_Andy_]

@schimi2k that's very weird. Yesterday i have tested some hours to force the error. I had one freeze but at a different place. I have played music and i used the music visualization. I click back to get back to the songs the zoom starts and freeze. The zoom animation is used at different places and in many .xml files. I have disabled the animation from one sub only.
Maybe i should try to mark every zoom animation and test again.

I will test more but if the freezes are still at your machine i guess it's not the complete error and fix but maybe related. As it seems the freeze is OS related. I use the same hardware like Eisi2005. He uses linux and he has no freezes i use win7 32bit and have freezes. So maybe a bug how the skin is rendered.

[zorg2000k]

Hi All,

Interested to know if Madnox supports all the additional artwork for Music view as per below :

I'd like to have specific fanart for albums within an Artist folder and also this <albumname>.png (9)

Thanks

******** Hierarchical Music Structure (Recommended)

-- Artist\
---- folder.jpg (2)
---- fanart.jpg (3)
---- Album 1\
------- 01 - Some Track.mp3 (2)
------- folder.jpg (2)
------- fanart.jpg (3)
------- cdart.png (9) *custom hack
---- Album 2\
------- CD1\
------------ 01 - Some Other Track.mp3
------- CD2\
------------ 01 - Yet Another Track.mp3
------- folder.jpg (2)
------- fanart.jpg (3)
------- cdart.png (9) *custom hack



******** Other Custom Music Art Hacks (some nice extra art, but only supported by some skins)

SkinFolder\
---- Media\
-------Backdrops\
----------Artist_Fanart\
-------------<Artist>\
---------------- <albumname>.png (9)
---------------- <anynameyoulike>.jpg/png etc (10)
---------------- <anynameyoulike2>.jpg/png etc (10)

[meowmoo]

I use the same OE build as eisi, on a chromebox, and I get the freeze issue.

It happen in a few places, going back from the music viz, like Andy, freeze 4 out of 5 times
Starting a radio stream from my home shortcut, the ui freeze everytime, but the stream starts playing...so kodi is still running but the GUI/skin freeze. Ssh still works, but yatse don't.
And it happens a few times when a episode ends and it gos back to the skin.

Since my gf is at home all day, and she needs a stable kodi, I'm back to 15.2 at the moment. But I'm on bug hunt at night for a few hours at least...

[Eisi2005]

I have to revise my statement . After all have written that they have freeze , I sat down and tried for several hours . It happens sometimes when I want to open a movie playlist freezes everything . I seem to have the same bug

[schimi2k]

well... the animation code seems to be okay... it must be something elsewhere... but the problem is, that the log dont show me what ! i have sometimes my last log entry 2 minutes before the freeze ... and never have a entry when it freeze
i have some error of "script.module.requests", some other small unimportant errors and "XFILE::CDirectory::GetDirectory - Error getting include" errors ... sometimes some bad animation errors ( but in the middle of the log, not near the end ! and just after i disable the animations

when i disable the animation, like andy did, it works BETTER ! but when i stress test the menu is mostly going like this:
start - navigate back and forth through the menus - 90% no problems and no freezes - when i wait a cpl of minutes and try to go into a menu > freeze - the backround dissapear and the menubar stays and freeze ( well because the zoom and fade is disabled ) ... but still freeze

maybe its a cache problem ( like the menubackround problem we have sometimes out of nowhere ) maybe something else ... maybe we get to the point, what phil65 is talking the whole time
nox 4 code is too oldschool ... but my last hopes are on Mike - if he cant find the bug neither... well...

like i say before - i spend already so many hours on try and test ... and dont have any small clue atm ... i thought first its because of the sql - but local DB freeze too ( much less ), when i found the bad letters in home.xml i was hoping too - doesnt work neither, and when i read andys post i was realy hoping ( could temp live without this animation )... but also not realy a solution ( maybe for some other ppl )

without any clue from the log file, i realy dont know where to look... but i realy want to keep nox4 - ive checked a lot of jarvis skins lately - and i have the biggest respekt for all those skilled skinner !!! but no skin feels so familiar like nox4 to me

so again - any help would be nice and i will keep testing ... but my hope is getting smaller and smaller

schimi2k

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anyone tried bumping the xbmc.gui to version 5.10.0 in the addon.xml

Code:

<import addon="xbmc.gui" version="5.10.0"/>

I just did, and navigate/start/stop like mad(nox) on beta2 on a win 8.1 mashine, no freeze at all, cant try it on openelec GF got the remote