[Eisi2005]

@Mike_Doc

thanks for your answer. On normal menu i have cases with the live Background, only with sets there are no cases

[meowmoo]

Sorry meowmoo but nothing on the git

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B9bSf6...1ltY214MVk

Hello meowmoo, it for TriPanel and not for lowlist.
The Screenshot is the lowlist view.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B9bSf6...FVNQWFyZVk

[Lockos]

Sorry if this has already been asked but I'd like to use animated gifs for extrathumbs.
Can someone tell me please what is the nfo format in order to achieve that ?
It's very hard to find some info on it because Nox is (I think) the only skin that deals with extrathumbs.

Is it runned by the skin or by artwork downloader ?

I already tried something like this in my nfo but it's not working :

<art>
<extrathumb1>path1</extrathumb1>
<extrathumb2>path2</extrathumb2>
<extrathumb3>path3</extrathumb3>
<extrathumb4>path4</extrathumb4>
</art>

I need to point it locally because gifs only work if they are on the same machine that runs Kodi and my media files are on a Nas samba share so nfo is the only solution I've got so far.

so far as i know you just can "change" them manualy inside kodi... they cant be scraped (yet?!)
but maybe i am wrong... doesnt check this topic a while now

Thanks for your answer ! Anyway if anyone is interested in this, I made it work by adding extrathumb1,2,3 and 4 to artwork downloader, and then selecting them with "get illustration"..
The Gifs have to be on the same machine that runs Kodi and not on a smb share.


Anyway, I noticed another bug related to animated posters (gifs). They work in every view but they don't work for poster widgets on main menu. I didn't try dev branch but I'll assume it's the same. Anyone knows about it ?

[BobCratchett]

@BobCratchett

thanks for your answer. Bad english on my side.

Here is a screenshot

I want to enable cases for the background poster.

Greets

How do you enable/configure the option for live backgrounds there? (Or if the option is no longer available in the dev branch, how did you previously enable/configure it?)

[Eisi2005]

@BobCratchett

there is no option to enable in old Madnox or i did not recover the option.

I could only disable DVD Live Cases in Background Customizer to enable or disable the complete function with poster and cases on the background.

[BobCratchett]

I could only disable DVD Live Cases in Background Customizer to enable or disable the complete function with poster and cases on the background.

That was the info I needed I've managed to find and enable the option on the current MadNox, so I'll begin tracking through the code and work out where we broke it. Fair warning, though, unless its something simple (and the fact is it probably isn't - the live backgrounds have been largely re-written) it probably won't be fixed before we PR the dev branch.

[louy1]

If you see skin.confluence then you're in the wrong addons folder - that Kodi's system addon folder and shouldn't be modified. Take a look at userdata (wiki) - the correct addon folder is found one folder 'up' from the location given at the start of that page.

Thank you for the help guys think I got it.
louy1

[BobCratchett]

@MadMikeDoc - the option for live backgrounds in the movie sets view is dependant on the skin having 'Backend Mode' enabled. From what I can gather, at some point in the past this ran script.moreinfo in backend mode. It looks like script.moreinfo has been removed now, so is enabling/disabling backend mode now redundant? Has it been replaced with script.skin.info.service, and if so can the various conditions based on backend mode be switched to checking if that script is installed? Or should I just leave well enough alone and not break anything at this point!

[Mike_Doc]

@Bob, I think you are correct, that backend mode is now dead, but I never got round to removing any checks against it in the skin when I (tried) to remove moreinfo and replace with skin.info or EIS alternatives when available.

I activate backend in the settings so everything still works, even thought it doesn't do much.

It does need to be removed but no idea the work involved and what might break. Seem to have broken enough things today so one more why not :-)

[BobCratchett]

I don't want to start breaking things when we're this close to PR'ing the dev branch, so how about removing the toggle and having backend mode always enabled - at least until there's time to rip it out properly

[HomerJau]

I tried the latest dev branch from yesterday and the only issue I've run across is when playing music videos there was no video showing just some sort of incomplete visualisation screen with almost a totally black screen (no video)

I will check it out again today and confirm my settings.

[CyberMonk]

Solved my earlier issues by switching skins then switching back. Weird, but I'm not complaining!

[Mike_Doc]

Sounds good Bob.

[knives of ice]

i'm trying out the dev version after using Madnox from the time it was in private beta.

things are going well and i've got it all setup. have all the correct add ons. one thing i can't seem to get though that i liked in the beta mad nox is i have a playlist that i want to display bluray/dvd cases for. this playlist should display the latest movies i have added to my library. now, the cases do show up but they are of random movies and nothing close to the latest. before there was a section for smart playlist where you told it how you wanted things to be displayed.

can anyone tell me how i can do this in the dev version? what i'm doing now:

setup the aeon nox main menu
select background - live background video playlist
case - dvd/br

but for some reason the cases that are displayed aren't from my playlist. as i said i know how i could fix this in the past with the smart playlist section how can it be done in dev?

thanks

Yes, the way playlists have worked has changed. Rather than create a playlist, then use the playlist manager to adjust how it displays, now playlists are displayed as defined in the playlist themselves. So if you want to display recent movies in a playlist, you'd edit the playlist to 'Order By' 'Date added'. Give it a limit as well, because the images in the cases are assigned randomly from the items in the playlist (so if there's no limit, the playlist will contain all movies in your library, and the backgrounds will be a random selection of these) - so if you just want the 10 most recent movies, set the limit to 10. And you should have what you're after.

(And reading back what I've just written about the limits/random choice - maybe it wouldn't be a bad idea to add a toggle for whether they're random or not!)

yes, it would be awesome to have that toggle. another minor suggestion is a toggle for the colored icons instead of having to put the path into where they are in the extras folder EDIT - wow looks like this is implemented awesome.

ok gonna try to fix this playlist now - yep, changing it to 10 fixes it immediately. thanks so much.


one other weird thing for some reason the movie studio logos don't show for me in shelf 3d view until you click on a movie to get more info, then they show the actual logo instead of just text. in kodiflex is shows the movie studio logo in both views.

[shaktoo]

Sorry if this has already been asked but I'd like to use animated gifs for extrathumbs.
Can someone tell me please what is the nfo format in order to achieve that ?
It's very hard to find some info on it because Nox is (I think) the only skin that deals with extrathumbs.

Is it runned by the skin or by artwork downloader ?

I already tried something like this in my nfo but it's not working :

<art>
<extrathumb1>path1</extrathumb1>
<extrathumb2>path2</extrathumb2>
<extrathumb3>path3</extrathumb3>
<extrathumb4>path4</extrathumb4>
</art>

I need to point it locally because gifs only work if they are on the same machine that runs Kodi and my media files are on a Nas samba share so nfo is the only solution I've got so far.

so far as i know you just can "change" them manualy inside kodi... they cant be scraped (yet?!)
but maybe i am wrong... doesnt check this topic a while now

Thanks for your answer ! Anyway if anyone is interested in this, I made it work by adding extrathumb1,2,3 and 4 to artwork downloader, and then selecting them with "get illustration"..
The Gifs have to be on the same machine that runs Kodi and not on a smb share.


Anyway, I noticed another bug related to animated posters (gifs). They work in every view but they don't work for poster widgets on main menu. I didn't try dev branch but I'll assume it's the same. Anyone knows about it ?

Animated Poster working without any issue as Widget on main menu. Shortcuts-dev branch.. but as I recall was working with Mike's Git Madnox too !