2015-05-11, 20:50
(2015-05-11, 10:28)JohnWPB Wrote: For something that has 104 pages, and been around so long, I expected a bit more polished add on. I have been using XBMC since my first install in an actual Xbox way badk. I have upgraded with each and every new release. I have just over 3,000 movies ripped to a server hard drive array. I access those through Windows SMB networking to 3 different computers, and 2 tablets in the house. I am a computer tech, MS certified, and the head of my companies IT department. I can program in VB .net and have done tons of AutoIt scripts and VB scripts for Home Automation, and for the CarPC software that I wrote. All in all I am just saying I am not new to computers.
Firstly, I read the entire Wiki pertaining to all settings, and how things work. I started before that with a pretty nice run through of the features on a Tutorial Video on Youtube.
I have worked on this for many hours tonight, and for the first test, it ran a few of the trivia questions, but out of order. I have 100% ensured that they are named in the correct convention, and actually renamed my files to match the example slides.xml (EA: stills20_q.jpg stills20_a.jpg) 3 hours of struggling, and It still 100% randomly shows slides in no particular order. That is at least in the one in 4 times that it does not completely crash Kodi. There is no way to stop the script that I have found once it starts. It should look for a key press to abort the script. I have reset all settings to default many, many, many times, and even uninstalled and reinstalled the add on a couple times. No luck.
So, quite a few hours wasted, I moved on, and turned off the trivia completely, and gave trailers a shot. I figured that would at least bee neat to have a couple trailers play before the movie starts. I set them to stream, and a count of 2 trailers. When I run Cinema Experience through Transparency skin, it stays on the list of movies for about 10 seconds, and then just starts the selected movie. I then set it to download the trailers, and set a folder for the files. Still nothing......
All in all not a pleasurable experience trying to use this....
LOL
I came to XBMC BECAUSE of Cinema Experience and have NEVER had issues with it running trailers and intro videos. For someone who's been around longer to have only now found this add-on, come in and bitch about your inability to use it is actually quite funny. Never mind the again supposed research you've done to use slides but how you've failed to realize the author of this script has been MIA for quite some time and no one else has taken up the mantle to fork the add-on and continue to develop it.
In other words, your long sob story gets no sympathy from me.