[Mount81]

just a little bug i found by accident earlier while messing around. when using an external player not full screen and kodi is in movies (media Info 3). when you launch a movie the background fanart changes to the home screen background.

 What do you mean by external player not full screen? I can imagine the fanart falls back after starting a video as Xonfluence expects the movie is started in full screen. The skin doesn't know about any external players that may start a movie in a separate window. I think I cannot solve this.

Helly.  

Not exactly regarding this same issue, but I guess you remember my "thumbnail preview not extracted" problem. So in this case, when I start a video with external player, than exiting the playback and going back to the KODI GUI the thumbnail gets "magically" extracted from the video, like it should normally. But just after I've used the external player with the particular video file. (I guess using KODI's internal player would do the same, but haven't tried yet).

I've also tried to manually switch OFF and ON again the "Extract Video Thumbnail" option in the KODI Settings menu and after this the extraction juts worked for all newly added videos automatically, but just till the next startup of KODI. After exiting and starting KODI again it still doing no extraction at all. Like it would somehow forget about that this setting is enabled in the menu, maybe the switch or parameter of the setting isn't properly saved or recognized or just reverted somehow in the system settings file, from which it should read it after a new start-up. I would gladly provide this system setting file that should contain this setting for further analysis if it could matter in this case.