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ATTENTION ALL SKINNERS
The new version of skin helper is now available on the kodi repo.
If you haven't done it already, now is a good time to push an updated version of your skin to the repo.
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MB1968
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2017-03-04, 12:50
(This post was last modified: 2017-03-04, 13:46 by MB1968.)
I upgraded to Kodi 17.1 RC (the so called shitty build for Android) yesterday and I'm having serious issues with animated fanart. For a lot of movies I prefer the jpg movie fanart instead of the (low resolution) animated gif file. I was always able to do so, by selecting the dummy animated fanart file (None) on the server of R Schiks. This worked fine on Jarvis with a previous version of the skinhelperservice (the version that stored the gif files in the thumbnails folder). However on Krypton, skin helper service 1.1.8 behaves unexpectedly. I'm unable to replace the animated fanart gif file into the standard jpg file. After selecting the dummy file (None), nothing happens. Kodi keeps showing the animated fanart file. I found out that the dummy fanart file is not being downloaded to the script.module.metadatautils\animatedgifs folder. When I open the movie (the one I just editted the animated fanart for), Kodi crashes... There is no relevant information in the log file. Any idea what causes this and how this can be fixed? Regards.
Edit: It seems that the crashes have nothing to do with the skinhelperservice, but are related to dvd (vob) files. I will investigate this further.
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Upgraded to new skin helper service. The random movie/tv/music/etc backgrounds stopped working nd the options for them disappeared from the background settings menu. Rolled back to previous version and the options came back and started working.
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Marcel, I've had some Linux users tell me that the Alphabet Jump causes their cpu's to have 100% loads. They've done tests on several configs and cpu's, and every time deleting the code seems to restore things to normal.
I've implemented the jump bar following the example on your wiki, and for 80% of the skin views it's applied via an include. The rest have the same code in the views code itself. Is there any error in my implementation, or is this a legitimate bug? I don't use Linux, so I can only go by what I've told you here.
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Since updating skin helper service it is not allowing me to add shortcuts to my menu.......... using titan skin