[kaybird]

I had to completely remove my Kodi v18 and start from scratch. I installed your repo and then downloaded MOD v2. But I was surprised it only gave me version 2.9.3 instead of 2.9.4. I went to Kodi add-ons and told it to manually update it, but it came back still as 2.9.3. Do you know why its not downloading the latest? Or maybe I am confused and I have to download v2.4.9 manually and install it as a zip (but I thought that was the purpose of having the repo, so I could download from there)?

Also I don't think the scope feature is included just yet in your public versions. Is it OK to overwrite the files in my 2.9.3 (and hopefully soon 2.9.4 when I can figure out how to get that) with the select ones you sent me on Jan 25th? Or are those only for the 2.9.1 (or 2.9.2, can't remember) version of the skin from at the time? Basically I'm looking to be able to use the scope feature again while we wait for it to be part of a public release (which may be very soon or not I am not sure). Thank you for all your help.

Repo version is 2.9.3, git version is 2.9.4 but you can install zip file manually that I have send you in PM.

I will upload scope mode on git soon but I needed to know some info, mask black bars are they needed or not ? 

This may be a silly question, but why is there one version on the repo and the other on git? Is it a case where the git is more for experimental and once it is at a good "shipping" point you then release it to the repo?

Also I went to the git and could view the individual file but I could not see how to download the skin as a zip (not needed right now necessarily, but for future version).

If I install the zip manually from 1/25 I assume I will lose whatever nice changes are in 2.9.3 and 2.9.4? This is why I was hesitant to do it. Also I was not sure if that meant I would have a hard time upgrading to the release version with scope feature if I manually installed the zip.

As for your question "mask black bars are they needed or not"? Can you please restate the question? I am not sure what you mean. When watching 2.35+ movies there are no black bars left (they are zoomed off the screen), so I don't think you mean that.  If you are asking whether you should have a black background underneath the OSD to make it more readable against the backdrop of the video, I would say Yes, fairly dark but with some opacity. I can't recall what you did in my PM version but whatever that was, it was good. Of course you could always provide a sub-option in the menu for it.