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RE: Animated Movie Posters - rschiks - 2017-02-09
@mouflo: Nice!!!
RE: Animated Movie Posters - movie78 - 2017-02-09
Looking at those animated poster is like watching the movie.
Great Job!!!
RE: Animated Movie Posters - brazen1 - 2017-02-09
(2017-02-07, 12:09)blueeyiz702 Wrote: I have all the Animated posters here for download if anybody needs them. http://blueeyiz702.wixsite.com/posters
Selecting the google docs arrow for download just takes me to a blank page?
RE: Animated Movie Posters - blueeyiz702 - 2017-02-11
(2017-02-09, 18:35)brazen1 Wrote:(2017-02-07, 12:09)blueeyiz702 Wrote: I have all the Animated posters here for download if anybody needs them. http://blueeyiz702.wixsite.com/posters
Selecting the google docs arrow for download just takes me to a blank page?
Don't open it with Google Doc's,open with one of the photo apps you can choose on drive.
RE: Animated Movie Posters - b1tman - 2017-02-13
(2017-02-07, 08:26)_Andy_ Wrote: Yes, there is a way, I use it in my setup, but it involves a change in the setup.
First you need to move the thumbs to a network share. Assumption we use a NAS called 'NAS' and a network SMB share called 'thumbnails'
Add this to your advancedsettings.xml
After you restart Kodi all thumbnails will be stored in this network share. If you use the skin.helper.service from the skin all animated gifs will be stored to this share too. Now you have stored the animated gifs in a network share.Code:<pathsubstitution>
<substitute>
<from>special://masterprofile/Thumbnails/</from>
<to>smb://NAS/thumbnails/</to>
</substitute>
</pathsubstitution>
If you add your gifs manually to Kodi you need to manipulate the database. E.g Maybe you add a gif called starwars.gif to one of your movies. First store the gif in the network share \\NAS\thmubnails\gifs or whatever.
Then you can add this gif in the menu of the skin and point to the network share and to the gif at your movie. Now you have a static gif because you have stored the gif in the network share.
Now the magic part. If you look into the database and look into the entry for this gif, you see something like this: The entry points to: \\NAS\thumbnails\gifs\starwars.gif.
You need to change this entry to: special://masterprofile/Thumbnails/gifs/starwars.gif
Restart Kodi and the magic is done, you have an animated gif. I don't know why it's working, because the network share is the same but if works with this special protocol instead of SMB.
andy,
i have a cheap chinese android box, which runs kodi, download all the posters and i share it via the PNP of kodi.
how do i change the code so on my sony it would show the animated posters?
RE: Animated Movie Posters - rschiks - 2017-02-13
Guys, a question, I am thinking of building a database for animated albums, just like the one for animated movie posters. Of course it can also be used by skins. Is this an idea?
Check out: http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=306980
RE: Animated Movie Posters - MB1968 - 2017-02-16
Every time when I run a maintenance tool, the thumbnail folders including the animatedgifs files are being deleted. Unfortunately the maintenance tool does not provide the option to exclude the animated gifs folder. It takes a while to see the animated gifs appearing when going to my movies library, since Kodi has to download the gif files again. Does it make sense to move the animated poster and fanart files to my external harddrive (where my movies are stored) and instruct Kodi to use these gif files instead of the ones that are stored in the (default) thumbnailsfolder? If it does, do I have to rename the files into animatedposter and animatedfanart? Any advise is welcome. Regards
RE: Animated Movie Posters - rschiks - 2017-02-17
(2017-02-16, 15:47)MB1968 Wrote: Every time when I run a maintenance tool, the thumbnail folders including the animatedgifs files are being deleted. Unfortunately the maintenance tool does not provide the option to exclude the animated gifs folder. It takes a while to see the animated gifs appearing when going to my movies library, since Kodi has to download the gif files again. Does it make sense to move the animated poster and fanart files to my external harddrive (where my movies are stored) and instruct Kodi to use these gif files instead of the ones that are stored in the (default) thumbnailsfolder? If it does, do I have to rename the files into animatedposter and animatedfanart? Any advise is welcome. Regards
Maybe post #1135 could help you. http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=215727&pid=2518563#pid2518563
RE: Animated Movie Posters - CaptainKen - 2017-02-17
(2017-02-17, 00:23)rschiks Wrote:(2017-02-16, 15:47)MB1968 Wrote: Every time when I run a maintenance tool, the thumbnail folders including the animatedgifs files are being deleted. Unfortunately the maintenance tool does not provide the option to exclude the animated gifs folder. It takes a while to see the animated gifs appearing when going to my movies library, since Kodi has to download the gif files again. Does it make sense to move the animated poster and fanart files to my external harddrive (where my movies are stored) and instruct Kodi to use these gif files instead of the ones that are stored in the (default) thumbnailsfolder? If it does, do I have to rename the files into animatedposter and animatedfanart? Any advise is welcome. Regards
Maybe post #1135 could help you. http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=215727&pid=2518563#pid2518563
Another solution here:
http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=158373&pid=2414122#pid2414122
Good discussion here:
http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=158373&pid=2493261#pid2493261
RE: Animated Movie Posters - MB1968 - 2017-02-17
Thank for the help guys. I"ll take a closer look at it later today.
RE: Animated Movie Posters - mouflo - 2017-02-18
Robinson Crusoe / The Wild Life
RE: Animated Movie Posters - rschiks - 2017-02-18
Wow!
RE: Animated Movie Posters - AnnaPetrik - 2017-02-20
Hi there!
Actually, i inspiried to make some animated movie posters for my own, but i have not found some availble software for such work.
My friend adviced me one of them, here it is:[removed]
RE: Animated Movie Posters - User 224999 - 2017-02-20
(2017-02-16, 15:47)MB1968 Wrote: Every time when I run a maintenance tool, the thumbnail folders including the animatedgifs files are being deleted. Unfortunately the maintenance tool does not provide the option to exclude the animated gifs folder. It takes a while to see the animated gifs appearing when going to my movies library, since Kodi has to download the gif files again. Does it make sense to move the animated poster and fanart files to my external harddrive (where my movies are stored) and instruct Kodi to use these gif files instead of the ones that are stored in the (default) thumbnailsfolder? If it does, do I have to rename the files into animatedposter and animatedfanart? Any advise is welcome. Regards
The new version of skin helper tools that will be on the repo asap will tore the images in another location so no need to change anything.
Note that the images MUST be local and not stored on a remote path because otherwise they will not be animated anymore.
Next version of skin helper (the current beta) stores the images inside the addon_data.
RE: Animated Movie Posters - MB1968 - 2017-02-20
Thanks Marcel for the explanation. I'll wait for the final version. The new location for the gif files is definitely an improvement, but unfortunately I'm running into new issues on Jarvis since using the beta from your repo. (no jpg fanart and missing animated fanart for a couple of movies)