[oattes]

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).

[jinux]

Ik heb weer wat hoor... I was playing with some settings and i changed the infoline of my movies to library. This was okay. After this i wanted to cvhange it back to "no infoline - RSS". But there is no RSS anymore on the movie in the homescreen. I tried going to other skin and go back to titan, shut down, restart, renew the skin, no luck. I am using the beta jarvin 3.6.67. Is it a bug or do i miss something.

Thanks in advance...

[User 224999]

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).

Almost correct... The extrafanart is indeed set by the skinhelper service but this is done in just a few milliseconds. The problem is that Kodi uses a so called multiimage control to display a path of images and Kodi takes a little while to load the images from that path into memory. On fast systems you will not very likely see this but on slower systems this is noticable.

I'm not sure if I can even solve this but I'll give it a try later this week.

EDIT: I might have found a fix. Please try the next beta to see if it's resolved.

[User 224999]

Ik heb weer wat hoor... I was playing with some settings and i changed the infoline of my movies to library. This was okay. After this i wanted to cvhange it back to "no infoline - RSS". But there is no RSS anymore on the movie in the homescreen. I tried going to other skin and go back to titan, shut down, restart, renew the skin, no luck. I am using the beta jarvin 3.6.67. Is it a bug or do i miss something.

Issue reproduced. Will be fixed in next update. Bedankt ;-)

[jinux]

Ik heb weer wat hoor... I was playing with some settings and i changed the infoline of my movies to library. This was okay. After this i wanted to cvhange it back to "no infoline - RSS". But there is no RSS anymore on the movie in the homescreen. I tried going to other skin and go back to titan, shut down, restart, renew the skin, no luck. I am using the beta jarvin 3.6.67. Is it a bug or do i miss something.

Issue reproduced. Will be fixed in next update. Bedankt ;-)

Super ! Can i do something in a xml to change it back? or is the update coming tomorrow?

[jinux]

I have a question, or maybe more like a feature... Would it be possible to choose no background at all. And that it would be all transparent, so transparent that the windows wallpaper or what ever OS you use, is seen as the background in the skin?

I use Dream-Scene as the wallpaper in windows, then it would be possible to play a video loop as the background skin. :-)

? idea possibility?

[sylvio2000]

I think I have found 2 bugs:

1. In the video OSD there is a non translated string. "Finished at" ist not translated into german.
2. If I use the up and down skip steps (+10min or chapter) the OSD hides way to fast. I cannot see at which position the movie is.

[jinux]

Ik heb weer wat hoor... I was playing with some settings and i changed the infoline of my movies to library. This was okay. After this i wanted to cvhange it back to "no infoline - RSS". But there is no RSS anymore on the movie in the homescreen. I tried going to other skin and go back to titan, shut down, restart, renew the skin, no luck. I am using the beta jarvin 3.6.67. Is it a bug or do i miss something.

Issue reproduced. Will be fixed in next update. Bedankt ;-)

I fixed it. Play music, go full screen, go back to home menu, then the rss is back haha...

Oops, it is the automatic update isee haha, version 68 now ! thank you Marcel !

[epicfail]

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).

Almost correct... The extrafanart is indeed set by the skinhelper service but this is done in just a few milliseconds. The problem is that Kodi uses a so called multiimage control to display a path of images and Kodi takes a little while to load the images from that path into memory. On fast systems you will not very likely see this but on slower systems this is noticable.

I'm not sure if I can even solve this but I'll give it a try later this week.

EDIT: I might have found a fix. Please try the next beta to see if it's resolved.

Thx marcelveldt....it seems fixed. Looks very smooth now.

[oattes]

I'm not sure if I can even solve this but I'll give it a try later this week.

EDIT: I might have found a fix. Please try the next beta to see if it's resolved.

I think you have done it -- almost

I had to fully restart Kodi to make it begin to work, and I saw some strange behaviour so I forced a rebuild of the texture cache and thumbnails. And just for the heck of it, I made sure that the extra fanart was refreshed and present in all (movie) folders. (Update: I also tried purging the skin artwork cache -- no change).

After that, although the background no longer does the quick flicker when the library item is changed, I am seeing the following:

1) Many times, but not 100%, when I select a movie (moving steadily through the library) the background gets set smoothly, but never changes. I know there is extra fanart on the disk. If I move off the movie and then return, the extra fanart progression works! (Update: sometimes the fanart progressions starts on return but not always).

2) Sometimes, the initial fanart is replaced with the same artwork (with a brief transition fade out fade in). This often happens when the fanart cycle gets stuck!

3) Even when the fanart cycle progresses as expected, the first interval appears to be somewhat random and not the expected cycle time (10 seconds in my case).

4) after quick advance through several films, often the simulated cd-art is empty -- like a background could not be found to use. If you move off the item and return, the cd-art is correctly synthesised.

So, great progress, however there seem to be some regressive consequences that may have to be run down and exterminated.

Update: I turned on debugging for the skin helper... I did not seen any errors related to background processing....

[oattes]

In 3.6.68, I noted a couple of glitches:

The disc-art is scaled a bit too big in the following views: big list, big list 2, slim list (possibly more?)



In the big list, big list 2, and slim list there is some inconsistency with the disc art options:

The option does not seem to have any effect in big list, everything works as expected in big list 2, and the option is missing in slim list.

[Mr Cellophane]

Hi,
Is there a setting or something somewhere that will allow me to reset the Movies in Progress percentage please? I have a few movies that I have started and then stopped almost straight away (to check they work correctly) but these now show up as In Progress, and at 0%.

I would like to be able to reset the In Progress, so they do not appear in the list, and ideally have a setting somewhere that would allow me to choose the minimum % that needs to be watched before the Movie/TV show etc is marked as In Progress please.

[komplex]

Hi,
Is there a setting or something somewhere that will allow me to reset the Movies in Progress percentage please? I have a few movies that I have started and then stopped almost straight away (to check they work correctly) but these now show up as In Progress, and at 0%.

I would like to be able to reset the In Progress, so they do not appear in the list, and ideally have a setting somewhere that would allow me to choose the minimum % that needs to be watched before the Movie/TV show etc is marked as In Progress please.

Isnt that info set by kodi http://kodi.wiki/view/HOW-TO:Modify_auto...ume_points

[JF100]

Hi,
I'm sorry if I missed an information, but this thread is far to long to read it completly.
I'm tring to use the simple confluence version of Titan skin on two different Windows 10 machines. On the first machine I was able to do save/restore of the settings in the beginning. By now it tells me there has an error occured creating he backup. ascii codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position two. Ordinal not in range (128). What do I have to change to be able to save/restore data.

On the second PC I' not able to do any restore. I can't use any drive. Doesn't matter if local drive or network drive from my NAS although Kodi by itself can read and write to my NAS. Trying to use the restore function it only lets me choose beetwen the repository. No directory is shown in this dialog. Trying to save the setting there is no network drive avaible. On the second machine this is already my second try. My first try ended up in a situation whre I could'nt leave the sub menus.

Is there a chance to import the settings from my first machine? Any ideas?

[mattyspurs76]

I really like clear art and character art and im trying to make them show as often as possible. Menus looks great. Wondered, I've seen on aeon madnox or aeon nox pages for different widget views such as disc art and character art, would this be possible in titan at some point? Also, when playing a film or tv show I've seen videos of people pausing or bringing a menu up and clearart /character show up on the pause screen but I can never get it to on mine. Is it possible at all with titan. Sorry, few silly little things but this skin is perfect