[Guilouz]

Depend where you want to show duration. Properties not working in container.

I'm not sure what a container is, so I don't know if I'm in one or not.

With the EstuaryPlus skin (as in the default Estuary skin) when I go to a folder in my favorites and list the videos in that folder, KODI shows the video file name in the left hand column and the file size in the right hand column.

I didn't find the file size very useful so I wanted to change the right hand column to show video duration.
With some experimentation, I discovered that the right hand column could be controlled by this code inside "Variables.xml":

Code:

<variable name="ListLabel2Var">
        <value condition="String.IsEmpty(Container.PluginName) + Container.Content(tvshows) + String.IsEqual(Container.SortMethod,$LOCALIZE[556])">$INFO[ListItem.Property(WatchedEpisodes)]$INFO[ListItem.Property(TotalEpisodes), / ,]</value>
        <value condition="String.IsEqual(Container.SortMethod,$LOCALIZE[556])">$INFO[ListItem.Year]</value>
        <value condition="!String.isempty(ListItem.Appearances)">$LOCALIZE[38026]: $INFO[ListItem.Appearances]</value>
        <value>$INFO[ListItem.Label2]</value>
    </variable>

Evidently the ListItem.Label2 (in the last $INFO line) is set to contain the file size although I don't know where that happens.
But I changed the ListItem.Label2 to ListItem.Duration and now at least it lists the video duration in the right hand column as I wanted.

The problem happened when I decided that "2:07" (for example) would be much better than 127 minutes, so that's why I installed the skin helper service so I could convert the minutes into the hours: minutes format.

Is this inside a container, and if so does that explain why it doesn't list the duration as I wanted from the skin helper service?
(Right now it lists the file name in the left column as usual, but nothing at all in the right column.)

And if so, is there any way to use the skin helper service to do this format conversion for me?

Part of the reason I've been trying so hard to get this to work is that I also want to display the number of subtitle tracks available (SkinHelper.ListItem.Subtitles.Count) and in fact this is even more important to me than the duration formatting.

Any suggests are most welcome.
Thanks
~Paul

Yes, you are in list, so in container, so you can't use Skin Helper property here.