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I like #1.
Show what it is first, then go into details about it.
It's The Avengers Collection. It has 4 movies inside the collection and that's a detail about the collection.
It's not 4 movies... and the details about those 4 movies is that it's The Avengers Collection.
I think what it is... takes precedence over a detail about... what it is. Although The Avengers Collection is in bold, and a larger font, our brain naturally wants to read 'in order'. When a single movie that is not part of collection comes into view (or vice versa) the natural order of things becomes confused.
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2019-09-30, 02:05
(This post was last modified: 2019-09-30, 02:19 by brazen1.)
I like what you have there in that last screenshot. Here's my take and it's subjective and just my personal taste:
I couldn't possibly enable all the things a view can have. It's just too busy for me. Extrafanart rotating on top of live background for movie sets with information panels on top of that... after a while it's all blur of information overload. I find myself looking for a plain jane vanilla and bumping the look up slightly from there. Happy mediums are likeable too if well organized and your last screenshot is just that.
Personally, I like as much info about a title as possible WITHOUT becoming too busy, hard to decipher at first glance, or unorganized. The information panel is a must for me. So, as it stands, that info panel is by itself, to the left, over a black background when using MyFlix. It isn't overlapping fanart or extrafanart where the letters can blend with the background whether rotating or not (well barely). This is why I prefer MyFlix. This look is not busy yet I get plenty of artwork in one section of the screen while the words in the info panel remain undisturbed and uncluttered. I can use a logo. I like logos. It too is in it's own space. I wish it was smaller so more information panel could be utilized. Everything is clean, informative at first glance, and rich with pertinent details regarding the title or set. Moving from one title to the next remains consistent. The only thing missing for my taste is the name of the title or set in the footer or sublabel provided it doesn't use up too much real-estate. It would have to be small enough to not interfere with the other metadata icons that reside in the footer.
The topic of late is for Showcase in a movie-set even though personally I prefer MyFlix. The only way I would consider showcase is with fanart and extrafanart turned off so the information panel isn't obscured. Unfortunately, if I turn off fanart there, it carries over to the MyFlix view for the Movies library. Can't have that. So, I can get rid of the information panel and opt for the artwork instead, except now I lost the info panel which is a must for me. You just fixed that little problem by suggesting to add (most) of that info from the information panel, condensed into the footer.
What are the differences between the info panel and the info in the footer:
In the footer we lose the director and writer. I can live without those considering. The rating, runtime, and years remain. The number of discs within the collection are shown in the footer as is the genre. The names of those discs are shown in the brochure although if too numerous, there isn't enough real-estate and after a few titles, more simply don't appear unlike the info panel that will auto scroll every last one of them in detail. It appears the largest loss, besides director and writer, is the synopsis for the titles within a collection. Personally, I don't care. I can gain that info by entering the collection but let's remember, this is about how the library appears and how much info can be digested just sitting there focused on a title/collection without detriments setting in due to how you decide to perfect things. You are DEFINATELY in perspective with everything so far imo, including your latest offering for those that prefer the showcase view. Well done with everything so far. I know it's a setting but don't you think all these views look better with the top bar turned off and just enable it on the main menu page only? How wonderful is it... you've given us all these choices. Thank you.
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Here are some bugs, I found during using the latest git:
1. Live-TV sidebar while viewing channellist:
I can't got to the playercontrol buttons at the bottom
2. Opencase Mod:
If you haven't enabled "Cases" in settings-view than it looks weird. Also when cases are enabled and there are movies without cases for some reasons.
So let me suggest a solution:
a) add "Clear Cases" without any Text (480p, 720, WEB-DL, etc.) on it
b) and enable "Opencase" selector only if "Cases" are selected in view-settings
3. I don't know if this is a bug:
When playing youtube videos, then "Endtime" isn't displayed in the seekbar. When I'm doing a step e.g. 10s forward, it is there.
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2019-09-30, 20:44
(This post was last modified: 2019-09-30, 20:57 by Wanderer189.)
Everything I have looked at and checked looks amazing to me so far, proud of ya dude, very nice.... I will keep playing around with it. I have noticed around a 5% increase in memory usage on both pc & shields with all the bells and whistles turned on (going by kodi system info), so I think that is pretty good for all you have added. I might throw a copy of my last backup on a older android tv box and see how it does.
I have a question: Does the skin support animated fanart or posters, if not do you plan on adding it any time?
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All my animated artwork is local as are my titles. I don't think animated anything will work from a NAS but you could try. The most confusing thing when selecting them is to choose them correctly. You don't select animatedposter from 'edit artwork'. You select poster. Then at the bottom of all the remote artwork is the browse button. Select that and navigate to your title where you animatedposter.gif resides. Then it might show. Not sure about from a NAS though? As a 2nd attempt, you could put the .gifs local in a folder someplace and navigate to them being sure to select by using remote poster list and then the browse button. Depending how you obtained the .gifs, they will need unique titles because your not going to congregate a bunch of animatedposter.gif names in the same folder. You'd need to change each to match the title for example - avatar_poster.gif.
