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70s R Rating Bumper with Cats View File 70s R rating bumper with cats Submitter Matt Submitted 07/18/2023 Category PreShow Videos  

I am going to create a guide on this with details instructions, but want to explain the issue and the process for my workaround. The issue is that using the zidoo player inside of Kodi breaks the sequence after a video bumper or feature is played. As I stated previously, I have explored multiple solutions to resolve the problem. Unfortunately, none of them have worked. The challenge is that the Zidoo player doesn't have an API, so I'm more or less working in the dark to try to fix the issue. Compound that by them Zidoo not releasing the source for the current version ZDMC publicly. I went through the source for a previous version and compared every single change to the same version of kodi to see what I could learn. By my logs, it doesn't even appear that what they have in it matches how it actually works (CPlayerCoreFactory::GetPlayer(ZidooPlayer): no such player: ZidooPlayer). So, short of redoing how PreShow works, it doesn't appear that there is an optimal solution. But there is a workaround. It isn't a perfect solution, but it works for me. In the past, people created a playercorefactory.xml to try to get it to work. The file designate what player to played certain types of content. In my opinion, the problem with that is that you don't necessarily have 100% control of the types of files that you are using unless you are creating everything yourself. Using the playercorefactory.xml points out where the issue is, which is the compatibility with the with the Zidoo external player. I double checked this in my system, which is a Zidoo 1000 Pro, and confirmed that if I turned off "use external player" in the ZDMC settings that the PreShows would play without issue. So my workaround is to create action files that turn off the Zidoo external player for everything prior to the feature film. The added benefit of this is that if you use a skin that is set up for PreShow Experience, it won't show the loading icon before videos. There will still be the 1 instance of "Video Loading ..." prior to the feature film, since this is in the Zidoo side and I don't have any information on how to turn that off. One additional thing that has to be changed in order to get to work is if you want to have a rating before the feature, then it has to be an image since we can only show 1 video. Also, this will only work for showing 1 movie and not a sequence of movies. The action files can be downloaded here: Here is the guide:

View File ZDMC Zidoo Video Player Action Files Instructions for how to use these action files will be added to the following page in order to use PreShow Experience with ZDMC on your Zidoo Media Player : Submitter Matt Submitted 07/18/2023 Category Actions  

It's a skin issue and unfortunately not something that can be controlled from within any addon. It's just how kodi is set up.

I have spent some time on this and have to say this is a weird problem. I've tried a bunch of different potential solutions inside of PreShow to get it to work, but none of them have been successful. However, I do think I have a workaround to get the PreShows to play properly in ZDMC. I need to do some more testing and if all goes well, I'll provide instructions on how to get it to work. It doesn't require editing anything inside of zidoo.

I'll reevaluate this at a later date, but I don't think there is a realistic way to do this with the trailer sources that we are using today.

SpongeBob Squarepants Movie Etiquette PSA View File SpongeBob Squarepants movie etiquette PSA. The video is higher quality than the YouTube video below. Submitter Matt Submitted 07/15/2023 Category Courtesy Bumpers  

I have assisted people with Jellyfin, but I don't use it. The last I heard was that it worked, but significantly slowed down things to the point where it wasn't a good fit. I think that @DexDeadlywas looking into it. Hopefully he can add some perspective when he gets back from vacation.

Please install Kodi Logfile Uploader from the Programs section of the Kodi repository and send me a link to the log file of when you experienced the issue.

Please install Kodi Logfile Uploader. It's in the Programs section of the Kodi repository. Close Kodi and restart it and then run your sequence and send me direct message through the site with a link to your log file.

As is always inevitable in software, we are back with a new release of Kodi "Nexus". An assortment of bug fixes, some backports, no real new features. Full changelog since 20.1 on Github, as usual. Release notes Audio An assortment of E-AC3 related fixes were backported. Estuary A fix to the Music Viz screen has been made by @enen92 in an endeavour to chase that elusive target of perfection Fixes to the seekbar timer when seeking. Game/Retroplayer A fix to a crash by memory exhaustion when some emulators are used. General A whole assortment of fixes were made to fix building Kodi with GCC13. Platform Specific Android A fix for a crash that occurred when >100 jobs where scheduled for the Android TV recommendation channels. For some old Android devices that had both MediaTek and Google decoders for some media, a preference to using the Google decoder was put in as the MediaTek decoders fail to play back audio in encrypted streams. Linux A PR was reverted that fixes some Linux setups to use the more generic library (GL) rather than the specific GLX library. macOS/iOS Fix speech recognition not working (https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/23341). Windows Fixes to HDR playback when windows was already in HDR mode. A backported fix for a potential deadlock for Xbox users when using pixel shaders and SW decoding. PVR Fix crash on saved search (https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/23195). Fix last opened group not always restored on Kodi startup (https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/23165). Python @garbear has backported a fix for setting Picture and Game info via infotags. GameInfo has been added to the Player class to allow get/set GameInfoTag data. A fix was backported that mainly affected Linux platforms: the path used when searching for modules was appending Kodi script paths at the end of the list, and therefore could potentially find system Python scripts/modules instead of Kodi-specific scripts/modules Video Fix watched/unwatched status not taken into account for items not added to video library when creating playlists (https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/23398). Fix missing watched/unwatched status in Playlist window (https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/23013). Thanks, as always, to everyone who has helped us track down and fix any issues. We endeavour to minimise the issues everyone experiences, but with such a large project, and the fact everyone contributing to Kodi is a volunteer, issues and bugs are a part of life. if you happen to experience any bugs/issues, don't hesitate to reach out on the forums, or raise an issue on Github. As this is a point release, there are no major changes since the previous version, and you should be fine to install this straight over the top of any existing Kodi 20.x installation - indeed, this will happen automatically on many platforms. However, as for all software installations, back up your userdata beforehand if you've any doubts or have anything you can't afford to lose (and definitely do this if you're going for a major version upgrade). A list of all changes for this version can be found at GitHub. If you want to read back on the full history of v20 itself, or of previous versions, you can find the corresponding articles in the relevant blog posts. Application deployment on different platforms (notably the Microsoft Store) can vary considerably due to circumstances outside of our control, so just be patient, and the update will inevitably find its way through. Android Deployment We always do what's known as a "staged" deployment roll out for Android. So if you don't receive the update immediately, be patient, as it will come through over the next week. View the full article

US Patriotic Holiday Bumper Set View File 4K US patriotic holiday bumper set with surround sound Videos include: 3D Intro 3D Outro Countdown Courtesy Feature Intro Feature Outro Intermission Theater Intro Theater Outro Trailers Intro Trailers Outro Trivia Intro Trivia Outro Sponsors PreShow Experience (4th of July, Memorial Day & Veterans Day) Submitter Matt Submitted 06/30/2023 Category PreShow Videos  

How are you launching your action file? Do you have it in your settings or in a sequence? I'm trying to get home assistant set up here so that I can help out.

Confirming this bug. Thanks for letting me know. It has now been reprogrammed to keep track of what is already disabled and to return the sequence to the state that it was prior to the preview.

It's great that they released ZDMC 20.1. It didn't seem like they would do it for a while. I installed it on my system over the weekend and continue working to see if I can get PreShow to work with it. So far 20.1 has been very unreliable for me. My system never crashes and almost every add-on that I've installed has crashed on me.

I am still working to get it to a point where I am comfortable submitting it to the official repo. Right now I spend a ton of time working with people individually to help troubleshoot issues they are having. I need to modify it to make it easier for new people to use before I will submit it. If it was added to the repo today I would have to spend all of my time helping people and wouldn't have time to do anything else with it outside of that. It's going to be a while before it gets submitted to the repo.

Time for the next milestone release for Kodi 21 "Omega". This is our second Alpha release for this cycle. This is a major release, so, as you'd expect, it comes with many new features. However, with a core change to FFmpeg 6.0, there is a very good chance that some regressions may occur. As such, please be aware that installing this will most likely break things, and we'd really like your help at that point to identify the problems and get them fixed. Please raise Github issues with full debug logs to help us resolve any issues you wonderful testers come across. Over the last couple of months we've merged 120 pull requests - fixing issues, adding features, and improving Kodi. So... what's actually changed? Build/Dependencies Apple platforms are now all built using newer version of Xcode (14.2) and the relevant SDKs. Thanks to a combination of a new M1 Mac mini hardware donation from long time supporter of the project, MacMiniVault.com, and also the Kodi foundation purchasing a second M1 Mac mini, we have been able to decommission our ageing Intel Mac mini's that have been in use for a long time. Building on Windows now uses the system curl executable instead of our formerly bundled (ancient) wget executable. Improvements to dependency building have been made by @lrusak to make the downloading/hash checking more robust. Estuary Improvements to the seek window timeouts have been made to more correctly disappear after appropriate timeouts. Fix visibility of 'next recording' label in PVRTimers was made by @ksooo. FFmpeg One of our newer team members, @neo1973 , has made some cleanups and fixed some crashes in our ffmpeg side data usage, as well as other improvements with our ffmpeg API usage. General Improvements made to handling of movement keys (e.g. PageUp, Down, Home, End) in certain lists such as Settings. @rmrector has been endeavouring to improve image cache handling for GUI items. We look forward to the further work he has in the pipeline to improve the cache handling. Extraart configurations in advancedsettings.xml for Kodi 18 will no longer be migrated to the new GUI settings when upgrading. If you had meaningful configuration there, check that the artwork settings in the GUI match your preferences. @CrystalP extended the navigation history to track the line number of the selected item so that it can be restored when the item disappears from the list, instead of resetting the selection to the top of the list (usually the ..) after the end of playback or changing the watched status of an item. The generation of thumbnails was fixed for pictures in portrait orientation. The existing thumbnails in KODI_HOME/userdata/Thumbnails/* must be deleted in order to have new correct ones recreated. JSON-RPC VideoLibrary.GetEpisodeDetails now returns "studio" and "genre" added by @scott967 in https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/23112. Platform Specifics Android: @joseluismarti has continued with more cleanups and improvements to the Android codebase. Each improvement makes things easier to manage, and is greatly appreciated. @fritsch has been able to make further improvements to AudioTrack to handle hardware that has sinks that get "stuck". Its always a fine line making changes in the Android world, as the multitude of hardware vendors have widely varying implementation qualities of the standard Android APIs. Linux: @lrusak has added the ability for users to select the audio backend with a command line switch when starting Kodi. This also allows seeing with which enabled audio backends Kodi was built. For more information check out the following PR. macOS: The minimum OS required for Kodi on macOS is now Mojave (10.14). This was done to allow the project to continue using more modern C++ 17 features. macOS Mojave was released on 24th September 2018 and hardware supported can be seen at Apple.com. @enen92 has continued to further improve what is known as "Native windowing" for our macOS codebase that will eventually lead to a formal Apple Silicon version. Improvements to window resizing, menu's, window blanking, improved multiple monitor handling and more. For developers, Kodi can also now more easily be run from Xcode without having to alter schemes. @ksooo has now correctly added Speechrecognition entitlements for Apple platforms (including iOS/tvOS) which fixes a crash when microphone usage was triggered. Support for HiDPI resolutions, such as those marketed as Retina displays, has been introduced in the native windowing version. This enhancement allows Kodi's graphical user interface (GUI) to showcase higher pixel densities, resulting in a sleek and polished appearance on modern Macs. webOS @sundermann and @craigcarnell have made further improvements to the new webOS platform. Screensaver support has been added, along with audio sink improvements and updates to codec hardware support. Windows: Minimum Windows supported version has been raised to Windows 8.1. @CrystalP and @thexai have made a number of improvements to windows HDR/SDR/HLG display including tonemapping and hardware DXVA support for a number of combinations of those media types. @thexai implemented support for "Video Super Resolution" for Nvidia (RTX ) and Intel (ARC) compatible hardware. Please note, we obviously cant test all combinations of hardware, so don't expect this to work for every combination under the sun. Give it a try and report any issues WITH debug logs. Bump to libdav1d to version 1.20 should improve AV1 playback support for windows platforms. Python A fix for a regression was made by @lrusak that puts addon paths at the front of the system paths. This fixes addons using system modules instead of potentially customised Kodi modules of the same name. This mostly affects Linux based systems. If you love to live on the bleeding edge of new, you can get Alpha 2 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. As usual - well, it is open source - you can see what's changed between v21 and v20 here. For a more targeted look at the changes made since v21 Alpha 1, you can see those changes here. View the full article

Unfortunately PreShow isn't compatible with streaming services.

The loading icon is controlled by your skin. Here is a thread about it: Here are some skins set up for PreShow: https://preshowexperience.com/files/category/7-skins/

Glad you got it working. Let us know if you have any other issues that you need help with.

@TRJCan you redownload and reinstall PreShow and see if it changed anything. Sequences need to have the .pseseq extension and I'm not sure why yours don't. You can manually rename the file for now to see if that works.