2023-04-06, 21:59
(2023-04-06, 11:10)robertlaing Wrote: What is cinema experience? Would be interested to know.
cinema experience (dead) and cinema vision (not supported, dying if not dead) and now preshow experience (actively in development) are pre-roll addons that play video sequences before the main feature to give a real theater like experience for movie nights. PreShow Experience is a fork of cinema vision and has many enhancements already completed. (i am a user - i get no monetary benefits from preshow experience).
you can play trivia slides, trailers, custom intros, ratings bumpers, bumpers for audio formats (Atmos, DTS:X, etc.) and customize intros based on movie attributes (genre, year, producer, or custom tags) - example i have preshow sequences for 80s movies that play trailers from the 80s. i was sad when CV died and ecstatic when the PreShow devs spun off. that's why i help them where i can, because i don't want it to die again LOL.
my first skinning was on this skin because a user asked for it to be more compatible with preshow (turning off the dialog busy) and the main devs were swamped so i figured it was a good time to learn skinning. while i was doing that, i found i really like this skin, but i wanted it a little different on one of the views, so i figured out how to do that.
i'm new here, so i'm not sure if it's ok to post the link, but it's easily found. they are about to submit to be in the official kodi repo