2022-01-29, 17:38
Hi Bart,
Unfortunately I have had to take my nVidia Shield back to basics and reinstall Kodi, and leave it with the default Estuary skin for the time being.
Amber is a brilliant skin, and far superior to Estuary, but Amber has been getting slower and slower with load times as I have previously mentioned.
I have also had problems when trying to do two things at the same time, for example, when playing music and scanning movies at the same time the music became jumpy.
Today I installed Kodi onto Windows and installed the Amber skin, and it was brilliant!
No slow load times at all and wonderful smoothness of use.
The only thing I can think of is that the latest Android update has caused some issues with my nVidia Shield.
I have kept up to date with the hot fixes, and will be continuing to do so, and every now and then I will try Amber out to see if anything has changed with the way the nVidia Shield handles your wonderful skin.
Then no doubt I will be back!!
Just out of interest, does anyone else have an nVidia Shield they are using with the Amber skin?
If so, then how is yours performing?
In the meantime, I will try to better explain about the osd icons, as I can't do screen shots as obviously I no longer have the Amber skin.
In the music osd there are icons for fast forward etc, and then there are icons for playlist, lyrics, etc.
There is an option in the skin settings to choose how you want to highlight these icons as you run the cursor over them in the music osd.
One highlighting option is where the cursor shows as a yellow block over the icons.
When in this option, I have noticed three things:
1. The cursor does not bring up a yellow square over the playlist icon as it does with all the others. Instead it changes the white playlist icon to yellow.
2. The playlist icon is the wrong one (if you change the highlighting setting so that when the cursor changes each icon to yellow as it runs over it, you will see the correct playlist icon (a list with an arrow on it)).
3. The Lyrics icon also needs changing (if you change the highlighting setting so that when the cursor changes each icon to yellow as it runs over it, you will see the correct lyrics icon (a speech bubble)).
Still concerning the music osd, when in the compact osd, only 2 icons (such as playlist, lyrics etc) can show on the right hand side of the osd, and scrolling is needed to see any others. Is there any way you could fit all the icons on in the compact osd? Just out of interest, in the ultra compact all 4 icons show together.
Also, now concerning the ultra compact music osd, I can see that the play, fast forward etc icons on the bottom do not fit fully on.
Is there any way these could be given a little bit more room so no scrolling is needed?
As ever, thank you very much for all your hard work Bart.
Kind regards,
Robert.
Unfortunately I have had to take my nVidia Shield back to basics and reinstall Kodi, and leave it with the default Estuary skin for the time being.
Amber is a brilliant skin, and far superior to Estuary, but Amber has been getting slower and slower with load times as I have previously mentioned.
I have also had problems when trying to do two things at the same time, for example, when playing music and scanning movies at the same time the music became jumpy.
Today I installed Kodi onto Windows and installed the Amber skin, and it was brilliant!
No slow load times at all and wonderful smoothness of use.
The only thing I can think of is that the latest Android update has caused some issues with my nVidia Shield.
I have kept up to date with the hot fixes, and will be continuing to do so, and every now and then I will try Amber out to see if anything has changed with the way the nVidia Shield handles your wonderful skin.
Then no doubt I will be back!!
Just out of interest, does anyone else have an nVidia Shield they are using with the Amber skin?
If so, then how is yours performing?
In the meantime, I will try to better explain about the osd icons, as I can't do screen shots as obviously I no longer have the Amber skin.
In the music osd there are icons for fast forward etc, and then there are icons for playlist, lyrics, etc.
There is an option in the skin settings to choose how you want to highlight these icons as you run the cursor over them in the music osd.
One highlighting option is where the cursor shows as a yellow block over the icons.
When in this option, I have noticed three things:
1. The cursor does not bring up a yellow square over the playlist icon as it does with all the others. Instead it changes the white playlist icon to yellow.
2. The playlist icon is the wrong one (if you change the highlighting setting so that when the cursor changes each icon to yellow as it runs over it, you will see the correct playlist icon (a list with an arrow on it)).
3. The Lyrics icon also needs changing (if you change the highlighting setting so that when the cursor changes each icon to yellow as it runs over it, you will see the correct lyrics icon (a speech bubble)).
Still concerning the music osd, when in the compact osd, only 2 icons (such as playlist, lyrics etc) can show on the right hand side of the osd, and scrolling is needed to see any others. Is there any way you could fit all the icons on in the compact osd? Just out of interest, in the ultra compact all 4 icons show together.
Also, now concerning the ultra compact music osd, I can see that the play, fast forward etc icons on the bottom do not fit fully on.
Is there any way these could be given a little bit more room so no scrolling is needed?
As ever, thank you very much for all your hard work Bart.
Kind regards,
Robert.
