Matt

Merry Christmas 2025 from PreShow Experience This is a 4k Merry Christmas bumper with 5.1 audio. File Information Submitter Matt Submitted 12/11/2025 Category Holiday Bumpers View File

Thanks for uploading that. I have a copy of it somewhere that I showed during one of my horror movie nights a few years ago, and it did a good job of setting the mood.

I haven't seen Pumkinhead in a really long time. How did it hold up?

Anyone watch any good horror movies this year?

Here are all the current holiday bumpers: https://preshowexperience.com/files/category/17-holiday-bumpers/

The image needs to be in a subfolder.

PreShow doesn't have an option to pause between videos. The workaround would be to create a black image and use the slideshow module between them to set the pause time, or to create a short blank video to play between the elements that is set to whatever time you want the pause duration to be. Out of curiosity, why do you want the pause?

Awesome. Glad you got it working.

So, here we go once again - development (and developers) never actually sleep, so we're pleased to present the first public preview of our next significant release: Kodi v22, "Piers". This is a major release, so, as you'd expect, it comes with many new features. However, it is also an Alpha release, so there's a very good chance that something won't work the way it's intended to. As such, please be aware that installing this will most likely break things, which is kind of the point of releasing it: please raise Github issues with full debug logs to help us resolve any regressions you wonderful testers come across. So, all that aside... what's actually changed? Video/audio Upgraded to FFmpeg 7 Audio book chapter support Movie Versions/Extras full redesign Movie Sets support setting info and artwork Better stream selection Automatic cleaning of cached images/artwork Blu-ray multi-episode support New Blu-ray episode selection menu Blu-ray episodes now have their own progress, media info and artwork Library import/export now handles Blu-ray episodes Episode ranges are now supported and shown in the library Movie Versions/Extras are now supported for Blu-ray discs PVR New Recently Added Channels (plus new widget) New Providers window (requires skin support) New Custom Timers Improved channel groups Improved saved searches Improved recording functionality Improved EPG search 1-minute EPG resolution (requires skin support) Games Shader support (from Google Summer of Code 2017/2019) Improved mouse and keyboard support GUI Reduced memory usage for single- and dual-channel textures Improved performance and memory usage on OpenGL and OpenGLES Improved large texture image quality with better performance on slow devices Implemented front-to-back rendering for better performance (OpenGL(ES) only) Network Improved SMB GUI settings Support for SMBv2.0 devices lacking SMBv2.1 features such as "large MTU" Fixed connecting to Windows SMB servers with no password Drastically improved performance at listing large SMB directories Platforms Windows/Xbox Initial Windows ARM64 desktop support Python 3.13 on Windows/Xbox Enabled XAudio2 sink for Windows desktop (was previously only on Xbox) Enhanced Video Super Resolution feature with 10-bit SDR support (Intel and Nvidia) and HDR10 (Nvidia) Android Enabled file sharing to other apps and players Improved channels on the home page Upgraded to Android 15 Minimum Android version is now 7.0 Android support for 16KB page size LG webOS New unified media pipeline Linux HDR passthrough on OpenGL (was previously only on OpenGLES) Support for the Wayland Color Management protocol, therefor supporting HDR on Wayland with compatible compositors Make Kodi work on systems using a Turkish locale Peripherals Improved OSMC Remote support Improved Pulse-Eight CEC Adapter support Improved Flirc support Known issues Scanning for new content will fail if local NFO files are present (fixed for Alpha 2) Filesystems that use milliseconds can trigger a rescan If you love life on the bleeding edge of new, you can get Alpha 1 from here. Select your platform of choice, and look in the "Prerelease" section. Again, though, please: expect some breakage, don't use this as your daily installation unless you know how to get things working again, and please share your experiences back with us so we can really get going on those bugs. And take a backup first! As usual, in the full spirit of open source, you can see what's changed since v21.2 here. View the full article

@MidnightWatcher is correct. External players don't pass the chapter changes through kodi’s code like the internal player.

There are 3 ways to handle what you are asking for. I don't think I would recommend an action file for what you are asking for, unless you are playing the audio file on another device. If that is the case, I would recommend option 3 with just the image. Here are the options in order of difficulty. Option 1 - I think you can select an audio file as a file in the video module. The visuals associated with it may vary from system to system, so you may get flickering or a generic background. Option 2 - Change the audio file to a video and add it as a video module. Option 3 - Add a slideshow module and add an image, which can just be black, to a folder within your slideshow content, set your audio file as the music and set the time for the module to be just longer than your audio file.

Awesome. Glad you got it working.

The updated file is also in the alpha of the latest version in the repo.

I think the https option has been there for a long time and that they are now just removing the http option. I think there's a good chance you are correct and the update is tied to a new app version, which sends the instructions to the bridge.