[roidy]

On low/medium powered devices ie. Arm and low end Celeron processors. The context menu opening animation fails to run for Movies inside the library.

TV Shows and Movie Sets work perfectly fine, the context menu opening animation runs perfectly fine, but for Movies the opening animation never happens or misses the first few 100ms of frames.
See the following video samples for a clear example of the problem:

TV Shows:- https://streamable.com/4nhzy9
Movie Sets:- https://streamable.com/oqkdsw
Movies:- https://streamable.com/4d394l

Notice in the Movies video the context opening animation never happens. It seems like Kodi access the movie in the database and blocks the animation/UI rendering thread from running.

On high end devices like a desktop PC it's not an issue.

I've opened a GitHub issue for this but was just wondering if anyone else had noticed or could confirm this, you can test it with any skin that has a context menu with an opening animation, I used my own skin but have noticed it in others like Embuary.

https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/issues/21486

[realcopacetic]

I think I've seen this issue as well, assumed I had a bug in my code. Will try to verify.

[roidy]

Thanks for the reply, it's defiantly not a bug in the skin code as it can be seen in multiple different skins.

What I have noticed is if I create a list on my skins home screen and fill it with content videodb://movies/titles (so exactly the same content as if you where in the movie library) then the context menu opens perfectly. It only happens for movies in the MyVideoNav.xml library windows.

[Fuchs2468]

Thanks for the reply, it's defiantly not a bug in the skin code as it can be seen in multiple different skins.

What I have noticed is if I create a list on my skins home screen and fill it with content videodb://movies/titles (so exactly the same content as if you where in the movie library) then the context menu opens perfectly. It only happens for movies in the MyVideoNav.xml library windows.

I have just tested with Titan Mod, I can confirm this behaviour.
No context menu animation for "ActivateWindow(Videos,videodb://movies/titles,return)".
It seems to be a bug in kodi.

[roidy]

@Fuchs2468 Thanks for the confirmation, If you've got a Github account I'd really appreciate it if you could add a comment to the issue I created, see if we can get a dev to look at it.

https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/issues/21486

[Chillbo]

Have added a comment to your github issue... It's a bug we've seen with OSMC devices (optimized ARM platform) for at least two Kodi versions now that we were never really able to pin down.

Would be great to get this solved

[roidy]

Have added a comment to your github issue... 

Thanks 👍🏻