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I have a quick question about these animated movie posters. I built a new machine and am using the MQ7 skin now (I was using 5 I think). I also switched to Emby to handle media management. After doing that, I noticed that a good bit of my posters are now animated. I have no idea how they got that way, but I'd like to try and animate ones that aren't, provided there are posters available.
Does anyone know how I can use these through Emby? Maybe it's a better question to ask on the Emby forums.
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The animated gifs are downloaded from the skin.helper.service. The skin need to support the new entry in the database. In the database you have a type 'poster' or 'animatedposter' or 'fanart' / 'animatedfanart'
If emby should support the animated gifs, emby needs to make these new types as additional entries in the database.
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Definitely we can use it! Great work!
Welcome to the club :-)
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2017-01-24, 11:07
(This post was last modified: 2017-01-24, 11:08 by Kor123.)
thx, I updated the gif. there was a not so nice black frame around it, which shouldn't have been there.
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btw. from where does kodi and aeon mq 7 (i think it is 7) download the other gifs?
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so what do i have to do, that the Skin helper finds my creations? I mean do i have to put the gif to a specific website or something?
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mouflo
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Good work ! But it's much better if there is no other text than the title of the film.
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I don't use any extern Media Manager but as i understand. Emby collects all information about a movie,tvshow in it's own database. If you export this for Kodi, Emby creates a .nfo for every movie,tvshow.
Kodi picks this nfo and shows this information. I guess Kodi use this as 'local information'
But if a skin uses skin.helper.service and the switch 'use animated fanart' is set, The skin itself looks if a type 'animatedposter', 'animatedfanart' exist and shows this information instead of the collected from emby.
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2017-01-24, 21:27
(This post was last modified: 2017-01-24, 22:35 by Usafle.)
I just stumbled upon this thread. Can't wait to get home and give this a shot. The "Titan Skin" I know uses the "skin helper service" plug in that you all keep referencing, so hopefully I should not run into any issues.
Ok, I'm trying to follow along here but I may be a bit daft. I've highlighted a movie I want to add an animated movie poster on. My first step was to hit the "I" key and search for a new movie poster in there. A bunch of movie posters come up but I don't specifically see anything for animated.
I then highlighted the same movie again and hit the "C" key, there is a selection for "Select Animated Artwork" but it's asking me to manually find one on my device, which I have none of.
I went back to the OP hoping there was some sort of "step by step" instructional post but I can't seem to find that either.
What is the exact process?