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Quote:My goal is to make the addon faster and more snappy. In my opinion, the film strip at the beginning was an unnecessary delay. I also removed several of the GUI animations for the same reason. However, if you like the opening film strip then I'm sure others do as well - maybe I'll put an option in the settings to enable/disable it.
Ah these young people. Always in a hurry and can not wait.
Remember the roaring lion at the beginning of every movie by studio MGM? He is a good friend of mine and do not call him an unnecessary delay. He might get angry and bite you.
So if you could bring back my good friend
film strip by making it configurable would be awesome.
Im not exactly shure which
GUI animations you have removed and I might be wrong but I feel that you kind of
speeded up the building of the "posterwall" ( the background of the main menue). If so (and again I am not sure) I would like to see this reverted back (or also to be configurable) for this reason: when years ago I started the app for the first time it was "wow this is not some static jpeg. Its the programm that builds it up by the posters in my library. Wow thats cool this is great developer and its amazing what can be done with kodi". And this feeling is still here every time I start the app. But to get this feeling the building of the posterwall needs the animation. The film-strip and the building of the posterwall for me are a kind of
intro that increases my anticipation for the game and not an unnecessary delay.
And in general on animation. Without wanting to start a discussion: In discussions about skins on the forum I found out that there are two kind of people. The ones that say "minimalism is the way" and the others that say "gimme all the bling". I am both. In production software like word processing or for example node editor in kodi I do not want bling. In media: movies, games, concerts and so on I want bling so why not have bling in moviequiz. And by the way. One reason why I love this addon so much is the animation in "The what movie is this" question when screen comes down playing the movie. So it is entertainement not work and I am not in a hurry especially when I am sitting on the couch with friend or cat having pizza and something to drink playing arround with my kodi. So please bring all animation, bling back. Just my 2 cents.
Quote:The "about" and "changelog" menu items will be removed in the next release.
Please leave at least "about". I think moviequiz is different from other "media" addons (like youtube, netflix or amazon prime) as in a way brings its own media with it or is its own media(
quiz). And as movies (as one type of media) come with a certain structure intro (my good old friend roaring lion), the movie itself and than the
credits. Though most people leave cinema without watching them I am shure no one in the movie-industry is thinking about dropping credits where all people are praised for the work they have done. So please leave "about" because it is the credits of moviequiz and as it is a button it is up to the users if they wants to leave the quiz now or watch the credits. And moviequiz definitely should have credits where people can see who is working on this beautifull software. And the credits of moviequiz by Tommy Winther is a warm hearting story and i can not await to read yours.
Quote:I found that the changelog is actually deprecated according to the wiki.
Shame on me. I did not see this.
Quote:TV Shows Quiz is now working again.
Hey good news. Will try the week after next as I am off home the next days.
By the way do you know
Cinemavision ? In short it enables a cinema like preshow for movies and has home automation integrated (for example can dim light). It is actulaly not available for matrix but they have a
beta I am trying out. In the past there was "integration" of moviequiz into cinema experience the predecessor of cinemavision. I tried to fiddle around and could start moviequiz within cinemavision but it did not realy work as both addons in a way play in paralell as cinemavision does not know that is has to pause. I asked the devs of cinemavision if they have any idea what I can do and they reacted in a way annoyed (which i totally understand it is a beta and moviequiz never worked in cinemavision). After telling them about your github and a
youtube-video I made they became more enthusiastic saying:
Quote:I actually looked at moviequiz the other day and noticed that it was updated. I'll review it further to see if there is something that we can do with it when I get time.
So it is good to have this new thread it shows them that moviequiz is active. Though I don't use cinemavision very often (have no home cinema, just a tv, a nas and a nuc computer. I use it only for "great" movies and to impress friends) I think moviequiz would be a great addition to cinemavision and will help to promote both addons.
Please don't feel pressured when I say that although you said that you don't have much time because of school you should perhaps contact cinemavision because a programmer with your skills surely can advance the development of a solution (if a solution is possible at all) much better than a bungler like me.
Ah and for my
youtube video: it does not show the actual version of moviequiz but the version after you finished migration to python 3 before you posted here and opened the new thread. I used it to promote your git in the german kodi forum (got 3 likes hope they downloaded). As I am off home for some days I can not make a new video. So if you want me to tear down the video tell me.
Thank you for reading this very, very long post and again thank you for bringing back moviequiz.
