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Hi, i was just wondering if there was any way kodi could play a preview of a video when hovering over them with a mouse. Not trailers from movies, more so for home videos.
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I've taken the liberty of moving your post to the 'Feature Request' area, if there's any conversation requesting what you would like to see in the program, posting here is a good spot. What you're asking sounds interesting (similiar to what Youtube offers in Android TV?) Kodi has a slideshow feature that rotates extra fanart in the brackground after you have hovered, I suppose it wouldn't be impossible to make that routine into a play sample, but might be resource heavy.
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Yeah i agree about the resource heavy part, perhaps a toggle to enable/disable the feature depending on the user. The closest example i can think of is how videos are previewed on Po**hub.com (sorry for the NSFW website), but that's the best implementation of this feature that i have seen.
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If a video is too resource heavy, could images be generated from the video at varying time points eg. 10 preview photos that would be dispersed equally through the video, basically runtime/10 to get the timestamps and then display those images. The generated images could be saved in the kodi directory so as to prevent them being generated every time. Could this work?
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+1. I like this suggestion.