Bingie Support

[signde]

I've made some progress on adding support for Bingie.

Settings menu is done:

Codec logos and PPI:

VS10 Settings:

Still have some small UI kinks to work out. Bingie is a bit strange in that it shows controls at both the top and the bottom for the OSD so showing the logos when the OSD is up is a bit wonky. In my screenshot you can see it is there but it is behind the OSD. Not sure I want to plop it on top of the OSD either.

Edit: Still in the testing phase on my end so I haven’t pushed this to the repo yet.

[ManniGH]

That’s fantastic, thank you! I’ll give it a try tomorrow.

[signde]

I haven’t published these changes to my repo yet but I’ll post a comment in here when it’s available. I have several things to address before I want to put this out there, the VS10 part still needs work.

[signde]

@ManniGH this should be available now

[signde]

This is now available.

Enhanced PPI is working as are media codec logos on start/OSD/PPI. VS10 settings should be accessible from the OSD as well. It was noted on avsforum that this skin is missing some of the media info icons for some formats in the library views. I may look into that next.

FWIW the first time run experience of this skin it wants do some Netflix looking logo animation and then has some guided wizard with a couple questions. On all my devices getting to that point seems like it gets hung on a black screen for a long time. I just started hitting back and eventually the Netflix looking logo came up and the letters disappear one by one as I hit back. It's certainly odd but It's a one time thing and the unmodified version did this to me as well.

[ManniGH]

That's great, thanks! Re installation, I simply skipped the recommended steps, as I want to keep using the mouse (especially on my other skins), and I had no issues (same as when installing the original skin).

The player info is great (I couldn't see if it was reporting if video processor mode was enabled or not, if I didn't miss it please could you add it? It's very useful info.

The media info at start is fine and accurate (i.e. Atmos / DTS:X detected and reported).

The main issues remain the incomplete media info icons when browsing content, but you already know that and have my screenshot with Arctic Fuse 2 as a reference.

Unfortunately, the dealbreaker for me for this skin is that most of the views I want to use don't work with my physical remote (the universal remote that came with my Denon X8500HA, set to Kodi/MCE preset). It works fine with the simple views, but as soon as I switch to a wall type one, especially one with details as well, it stops working. My Rii multimedia remote keeps working fine with these views, so I'm not sure what's going on. It has nothing to do with your excellent work, the issue is the same with the original skin.

It's a great skin that many will love. I'm going back to AFV2 for now, but will revisit when/if the issues above are resolved. If the player is powerful enough to run it and if you don't need a big wall, AF2 remains my favorite overall, as it's very polished and does all I want.

Thanks again for your work to add Bingie support!

[signde]

The weird long black screen / delayed logo animation I saw was before getting to the recommended steps. It's happened during first start for me on multiple devices. I skipped all the recommendations too.

VP Mode should be there, it's the second part of the first field under processing:

I'm not sure what to make of your remote issue, that's certainly very odd. There is a thread on the Kodi forum from the skin author which is probably the best place to report that.

I agree that AF2 is probably the most polished and best experience right now.

[signde]

I know you have the remote issue with Bingie so you've gone back to AF2 but I was able to fix the missing Atmos and DTS-X media codec icons in Bingie.

#11

The hooks were there they just weren't wired up.