[Guilouz]

I'm new around here and have been doing lots of reading. Some quick questions please:

1. The instructions say that once I have v18 nightly I should download your zip and install it. However earlier in that post (1st on this thread) it says there are a bunch of required repositories, required add-ons and additional add-ons. Will these be installed automatically when I install your skin or do I need to get them individually?

2. The first post here mentions a lot of info about API keys from various movie dbs. I mainly only care about IMDB.  Is it mandatory that I get a developer API key or it will work without one (and what's the downside if I don't get one)?

3. Most importantly: I have a 21:9 CIH screen with a 16:9 projector that I "zoom out" so that it fills the entire screen with just the video portion of the image. That works great, but then all the OSD controls during playback (like in the Pause menu or the area that shows the titles, time remaining etc) is then off the screen. Is there an option for the skin to layout for a 21:9. So as far as Kodi is concerned, I still want it to display the video in a 16:9 frame, which is then zoomed so the black bars are off the screen.  But what I'm looking for is a way to MOVE the bottom OSD row from the playback pause screen up so that its within the bottom area of the video, and likewise I want to move the top area of the OSD down so its within the top area of the video. Does your skin support this?

4. If the skin does not support what I want to do in #3, can you please point me (newbie) to information on how I could go about modifying this or the default Estuary so that I reposition these OSD elements (playback controls, tags etc) higher and lower?

Thank you.

1. Others repository need to be installed manually too. Necessary addons will be installed automatically, but for others just go in skin settings -> necessary addons and you will be able to install them.

2. With Artworks Beef it is now no longer necessary to have API keys for artworks but for some info used by Skin Helper Service they are necessary. If you don't have API keys it's not very important.

3. No, Estuary is designed to use it in 16:9 or in 21:9 but not for 16:9 zoomed in 21:9. this is all resolution you can use without issue :

width="1920" height="1440" aspect="4:3"
width="1920" height="1280" aspect="3:2"
width="1920" height="1200" aspect="16:10"
width="2040" height="1080" aspect="17:9"
width="1920" height="1080" aspect="16:9"
width="2338" height="1080" aspect="19.5:9"
width="2160" height="1080" aspect="18:9"
width="2560" height="1080" aspect="21:9"

4. OSD are in VideoOSD.xml, MusicOSD.xml, Includes.xml. There is a lot of changes in my mod with OSD and I use many variables, animations etc... If you are newbie it may be complicated...