[Helly1206]

PLEASE HELP SAVE MY PLASMA TV !!

Hi Helly - I desperately need your help and guidance .  I just discovered I've been killing my plasma TV by watching youtube videos through Kodi at > 1x speed (which constantly displays the PB Speed icon in lower the right corner). There is now a ghost image of the icon burned into this corner, noticeable when solid, light colours are in this area of the picture. Yikes !!

To protect against further harm, I must find a way In Xonfluence to quickly fade out this indicator, after it initially appears.  This is true for both the variable-speed PB indicator -and- the Pause indicator.  If there was a skin option to auto-fade these two elements (with user-specified delay time), it would be soooo helpful to the Health and Safety of plasma TV's everywhere (yea... me and the other guy watching Kodi on old-skool plasma   ).

This behaviour would then mirror what happens when you go from Pause to Play: the icon changes to the PB triangle, and fades from the screen shortly thereafter (within 2 seconds it seems).

For me personally, I would like to change the colour of these three indicators (Pause/ Play/ vari-speed Play) to a much darker grey, lessening the chance of further high intensity (ie: white) pixel burn.

If you feel this is too specialized a request, perhaps you would show me where/ what changes to make to the XML files, and I will have to modify my Xonfluence installation every time you issue an update to the skin.  This is the only way I can use Kodi/Xonfluence to watch these documentaries & interviews on my big screen .

Thanks in advance Helly, for helping solve what is a local Red Light Emergency in our little world.

 Hi,

I'm sorry I'm replying again on a post of gjwAudio, but this post describes exactly what I tried to explain a few days ago. Please don't get me wrong gjwAudio, I do really appreciate your work, especially on reviewing and finding bugs that no one else noticed.

You send me a 'desperate' post in capital letters that your plasma tv is destroyed (insinuating that the Xonfluence skin is the culprit). I know about older plasma tvs and pictures burning in, but does that happen on playing back in fast forward for (I assume) a relatively short time? You should have logo's burned in at every corner also. And now your tv is destroyed already, it doesn't matter anymore does it? You ask me to modify the skin for probably only 1 person that is watching youtube in feed-forward on a plasma tv. Sorry, this may sound a little negative but this is how I think about it in general.

But in fact you ask me on adding a custom option and honestly, I don't know how to deal with it. Maybe some of you guys and girls can help me on how to deal with it in the future. Here are my thoughts on it:

• First I don't want to add new features to the skin at the moment. I really would like to finalize the skin for the Leia release. Adding features may introduce bugs or complaints from people who don't like them. There may be a few updates but they are only on bug-fixing and language updates related.
  
• I don't like adding lots of options that only a very limited amount of people use. There are already a lot of options in this skin and I get quite some posts from people having problems finding or interpreting the options. Just to inform you on the amount of work adding an option is: if I implement this option I have to find out where and how to implement a conditional fade, let the seekbar fade out after an amount of time, I need to implement it for all purposes (video, audio, TVshows, movies ...), it needs to be implemented for all seekbars (original and Xonfluence), add the option to the skin settings menu, update all the language files and test it for all possibilities. You can imagine that I will spend a part of my weekend to make it working.
  
• If I decide not to implement it as an option, but always let the seekbar fade out after an amount of time, I will probably get posts from people who don't like it, don't agree with the fading time or delay, would like an option for adjusting the time etc.
  
• About the question on helping you adjusting the code, I don't do that anymore as I already wrote in some posts a while ago. The reason of that is that this really costs me a huge amount of time. I get quite some questions from people on helping me with quite some coding questions. I first need to do the research and explain them what they need to do. Nine out of ten times it doesn't work and people ask me to review or test their code. I need to make a test system to not mess up my master code, do a lot of testing work and explain what I did/ changed. Goodbye weekend. Furthermore people don't understand their changes are gone after (automatically) updating to a new version or that they are hard to merge because of updates of the files they made their changes in. So everyone is free to modify Xonfluence for their needs (as long as you comply with the GPL license), but don't expect any help from me.
  

I hope you understand what I'm trying to say and if anyone has ideas on how to cope with this in the future, please tell me.

Thanks for understanding.
Helly.