2023-03-19, 22:03
(2023-03-19, 19:52)nordicguy Wrote: 1- do you see the button in the menu? can you toggle it? sometimes I implement these buttons for features and I forget to turn it on when testing
so make sure the button is on
I already toggled it off/on yesterday.
(2023-03-19, 19:52)nordicguy Wrote: 2- my animated posters are named like so "<moviename>-animatedposter.gif" but also I think kodi would accept "animatedposter.gif".
you just have to make the same style as the rest of the artwork and not mix two styles
I noticed yours is named poster.gif so maybe try rename it animatedposter.gif instead
All of mine are named moviename.year.gif. Avatar.2009.gif. None of them are named poster.gif.
All of my poster.jpg's are named poster.jpg though as is other artwork like clearlogo.png.
I wish .gif would be the only important part. I did rename Avatar.2009.gif to Avatar.2009-animatedposter.gif and simply animatedposter.gif but still didn't supersede poster.jpg. (poster.jpg was removed from the title folder but when the title got re-scraped, it added it again.
(2023-03-19, 19:52)nordicguy Wrote: 4- could be a layering thing, so try to put the "animatedposter" value code before the "poster" value code in each view
I moved it on top of instead of under all instances of "$INFO[ListItem.Art(poster)]" as your example shows. No difference.
(2023-03-19, 19:52)nordicguy Wrote: I think those with " #~ " in front of them, messages that aren't in use. but you can check if text appears at the bottom when you hover over the button. mine are without the "#~".
With or without them, no text appears although text does appear at the bottom for all other items giving a description for each setting. I assume by "the button" you mean the Animated posters on/off setting in SilVo Extras.
Hey, thank you for trying to help me. It's progress knowing it works for you. There must be something on my end incompatible like perhaps my scraping automation and subsequent Artwork Dump download. Perhaps a cache entry remaining because I'm removing a title, making some changes, and adding it back right away. That was just for a little test.
I'm going to leave everything and next time I add a new title, I'll put a dummy.gif in it and see what happens. My main interest is the next time I rebuild Kodi from scratch, when all of my collection gets added, will all the .gif's supersede all the poster.jpg's and automatically be applied saving me countless hours manually applying them. I'll be sure to add your code before I do...
Thank you for your contributions and detailed explanations.