[brviewer]

@brviewer, thank you for your kind words.

Both of your requests are doable.  Please let me evaluate how to best incorporate a rating overlay.  As for the second request, I can add an option to not show the cast, but it would have to be a global option, not something you can decide on a movie by movie basis.  Would that be OK with you? Please let me know.  Thanks.

Regards,

Bart

The global option sounds perfect. I could always pull  up crew through a global context menu for those rare occasions. Thanks so much, Bart!

@brviewer , the code to be able to hide the cast in video info is already on GitHub.  you can choose to hide the cast by going here:



If you disable the cast, the video info dialog displays immediately.  Please be aware that you can get the same effect by choosing "Show Only local info" in the Video Info section of the skin settings. This has the effect of only showing info from your local library, and it also uses Kodi's default cast information, which usually is instantaneous in displaying.

Also, please be aware that the "Similar" custom info list also uses an addon, even to show local info, so this could potentially slow down the video info dialog, depending on how large your video library is.

Now a question for you: If you hide the cast, and have no other custom lists enabled, what info, if any, would you like to see below the row of buttons in the video info dialog? Please let me know.  Thanks.

In terms of the rating overlay, I have envisioned how it would look.  The changes will take a while, since they would affect almost every single viewtype.

Regards,

Bart

Wow, you've blown me away. You are so nice and Efficient! I set it with no custom lists displayed and confirmed embuary info script still has full functionality. Perfect for me! 

I can't think of anything to add below the play button and think it looks nice with the open space. I'll think on that and let you know if I can come up with anything. 

Thanks so much

-br