2016-05-27, 21:45
(2016-05-27, 19:53)epicfail Wrote:(2016-05-27, 19:50)horstepipe Wrote: as long as I use the skin I have that problem:
When I browse through my movie list with activated extra fanarts, the fanart flickers once before it shows up normally. When I stay focused on the movie, the other fanarts switch fine. But always by focussing the next movie this strange behavior happens once.
Any idea what could be the problem here?
I´ve got the exact same bug since many versions....
As far as I know this has always been the behaviour when extra fanart is enabled. I had a discussion with Marcel a long ways back about it and I think we came to the conclusion that it is just the way Kodi works. The 'problem' (as I understand it) is that the skinning engine just wants to use the standard Kodi background from the library scrape. When you enable extra fanart, it's the skin helper the provides the fanart specification to the skinning engine as an 'update' (by way of a variable managed through the skin helper and used by the skin). However, the skin helper is running in a thread separate from the skin engine. This means that there is a potential gap between when a new library item is selected and the skin engine displays the standard background and when the skin helper serves up the background from the extra fanart lists. On a powerful platform (e.g. windows htpc) this results in an occasional flicker of the background art when an item is first selected. This is where I noticed this effect -- a small annoyance for me. On a platform with more limited processing power, I can imagine much larger and much more noticeable gap -- possibly on the order of a second -- which would be very annoying. I'm not sure this can be helped, but Marcel can comment further.
I just wanted to note that this 'problem' is definitely not new -- I have seen it since the very early beta's of the skin for Jarvis (which was also in beta at the time).