[braz]

Wow, such an impressive skin.
I never liked a skin this much since refocus Big. I love how easy it is to read.
Thanks a lot!

Thanks!

For some reason I am only getting list view as the only view available for video addons.
However, in programs I can select other views.

Probably depends on what content type the addon is using. I just tested several (YouTube, Sports Illustrated, NBC Live Sports), and they all have either List/Icon or all of the video views available.

I have also noticed that when adding items to the custom5 submenu they are not showing on the main screen.

I've never used the custom menu items, but just tested them and the submenus for custom5 and custom6 don't seem to work. I checked the script-skinshortcuts-includes.xml file and it appears the group for custom5 is mispelled "x50-5." Not sure what's going on with that, it will probably take someone smarter than me to figure it out. I'll look into it further when I have time. Thanks for the bug report.

Just checked Aeon Nox 5, it's got the same issue with the submenu not showing for custom5.

[braz]

Hi,

First of all: thanks to bryanbrazil for creating a great skin. I'm currently testing it out for potential use on my main HTPC, and it's possibly edging out my old favourite Metropolis.

I do have a question about movie ratings (the mpaa-type, not voting-type). I'm in Australia, and all my .nfo files are setup with <mpaa>Australia:xxx</mpaa> in them. From what I noticed, you do have support for showing Australian rating symbols on a info page for a movie, but for me, they're not showing up. I just get the "NR" on every movie I have added to my library.

What I'd like to know is this: What exactly do I have to add/change in my .nfo files to get the Australian ratings to work?

Thanks in advance for your time,
~Jondar

I tried searching this thread, I thought someone had posted the prefix they use. Couldn't find it though. Have you tried using "Australia_PG", "Australia_R", etc? That how the images are named. If you are using the Universal Scraper, you can set the prefix in the addon settings.

[braz]

Hey Bryan. Skin is great. I like the blend of Aeon and Refocus.

I just came across a small bug. Adding a source to the homescreen, then choosing to select it, just brings you to the videos view; not to the actual source. Looking at the Default select action, the code comes up with

Code:

ActivateWindow(10025,"D:\F1\",return)

The Window code seems to be the problem. Changing the window code to '10006' brought me to the exact source

I can confirm that I experience the same issue when adding a video source to the home menu. The skin is using script.skinshortcuts to create the paths, not sure there's anything I can do to fix this.

[Jondar]

I tried searching this thread, I thought someone had posted the prefix they use. Couldn't find it though. Have you tried using "Australia_PG", "Australia_R", etc? That how the images are named. If you are using the Universal Scraper, you can set the prefix in the addon settings.

I didn't try that. What I did do was edit the variables.xml. It seems that for other countries' ratings, you specified each one separately, but for Australia you had a generic one.

Code:

        <value condition="substring(ListItem.mpaa,Australia:)">$INFO[ListItem.MPAA,flags/mpaa/australia_,.png]</value>

I'm not knowledgeable enough to work out why your line didn't work, though I think it should. I assume it was supposed to just grab the portion of the tag after the "Australia:" bit, and add it to the filename and put a .png extension on the end?

What I did was replace that line above with the following:

Code:

        <!--value condition="substring(ListItem.mpaa,Australia:)">$INFO[ListItem.MPAA,flags/mpaa/australia_,.png]</value-->
        <value condition="substring(ListItem.mpaa,Australia:G)">flags/mpaa/australia_G.png</value>
        <value condition="substring(ListItem.mpaa,Australia:PG)">flags/mpaa/australia_PG.png</value>
        <value condition="substring(ListItem.mpaa,Australia:MA)">flags/mpaa/australia_MA.png</value>
        <value condition="substring(ListItem.mpaa,Australia:M)">flags/mpaa/australia_M.png</value>
        <value condition="substring(ListItem.mpaa,Australia:R)">flags/mpaa/australia_R.png</value>

and the Australian ratings show up correctly.

I kept the original line commented out for my reference

Doing this also gave me some confidence to do some more modding of the skin for personal use. First time I'd ever tried that

~Jondar

[braz]

Found another little bug.
When you enter a movie collection and go back to the main list. Mimic bring you back to the top of the list instead of where you was, and movie are no longer grouped by collection.
Some screenshot :

- Here all my chucky movie are grouped in the same collection.

- Once enter in the chucky collection I go back to the main list but mimic bring me to the top of the list instead of the position i was previously > chucky collection.

- And now my movies are no longer grouped by colection, all collection are affected not only the one i was entered previously, as you can see on the previous screen alvin & the chipmunk are also no longer grouped in a collection.

I tested the default kodi theme it didn't have this problem.

I didn't think skins could affect how Kodi remembers windows, but I just checked Aeon Nox (on which this skin is built) and it doesn't have this problem either. And it's not just a problem with List view, it seems to affect every view mode. I don't group movies by set so hadn't noticed this before, I'm stumped though as to what might be causing the problem. Anyone have any ideas?

[ghostelement]

I noticed that recently, the screensaver funtion doesn't work. On both of my media centers, I'm running Kodi 14.1 with the Mimic skin. I have it set to dim after 3mins, but nothing happens on either of them. This used to work. Not sure if a skin change is responsible for this breaking.

[braz]

I noticed that recently, the screensaver funtion doesn't work. On both of my media centers, I'm running Kodi 14.1 with the Mimic skin. I have it set to dim after 3mins, but nothing happens on either of them. This used to work. Not sure if a skin change is responsible for this breaking.

Have you tested it with other skins? Likely not a skin issue, the 3 minute dim screensaver is working here with Kodi 14.1.

[braz]

Bryan, thanks so much for removing the color diffuse on the channel logos. The white theme looks amazing with my color logo PNGs! However, it appears as though there's still a color diffuse on the logos when I press in the info key when the channel is full screen and also on the pop up channel menu.

Thanks for your help!

Just pushed an update to git that should fix that.

Looks like the color diffuse is still on the TV channel logos on the now playing section on the home screen and also on the top section of the info page while the channel is full screen.

Also on the list view for TV Show seasons, the currently selected show thumb turns black. This appears to only be on the white theme.

Thanks so much for fixing all this! I'll drop you a donation soon.

Should be fixed now, let me know if you find any others...thanks.

[thrak76]

I've not noticed this before (because of content choices), but titles and text with apostrophes, ampersands, etc. are displaying incorrectly. Is this skin or Kodi related?



If it's not a skin issue i'll post up elsewhere.

Thanks!

[braz]

I've not noticed this before (because of content choices), but titles and text with apostrophes, ampersands, etc. are displaying incorrectly. Is this skin or Kodi related?

If it's not a skin issue i'll post up elsewhere.

Thanks!

Just checked several movies with apostrophes here, and they all display correctly. Do you have this problem with all movies with apostrophes? Looks like it might be an issue with how the movie information is being scraped.

[thrak76]

It isn't all the titles. Around half of them were showing incorrectly.

I took a look at the Universal Scraper settings, changed title scrape from IMDB to tmdb, and refreshed the titles. After the refresh they displayed correctly.

Thanks for leading me to an easy fix!

[braz]

I have also noticed that when adding items to the custom5 submenu they are not showing on the main screen.

I've never used the custom menu items, but just tested them and the submenus for custom5 and custom6 don't seem to work. I checked the script-skinshortcuts-includes.xml file and it appears the group for custom5 is mispelled "x50-5." Not sure what's going on with that, it will probably take someone smarter than me to figure it out. I'll look into it further when I have time. Thanks for the bug report.

Just checked Aeon Nox 5, it's got the same issue with the submenu not showing for custom5.

Should be fixed on git now, much thanks to Big Noid.

[Myrddraal]

For some reason I am only getting list view as the only view available for video addons.
However, in programs I can select other views.

Probably depends on what content type the addon is using. I just tested several (YouTube, Sports Illustrated, NBC Live Sports), and they all have either List/Icon or all of the video views available.

Thanks for checking! I was actually meaning the list of video addons. When selecting Videos - > Video Addons, I can only get the list of video addons displayed on a list view. However, when selecting Programs, I can choose between List and Icon.

[lowfi]

Does anyone have a good artwork pack for mimic?

[braz]

For some reason I am only getting list view as the only view available for video addons.
However, in programs I can select other views.

Probably depends on what content type the addon is using. I just tested several (YouTube, Sports Illustrated, NBC Live Sports), and they all have either List/Icon or all of the video views available.

Thanks for checking! I was actually meaning the list of video addons. When selecting Videos - > Video Addons, I can only get the list of video addons displayed on a list view. However, when selecting Programs, I can choose between List and Icon.

Ah, I see what you mean. I tried a few things, but they didn't work. I'm going to have to think about this one for a while.