OSD Video: Chapter display problem

Bindou · 1 March 2025 18:54

Hello everyone,
I have a problem with the video OSD that seems inherent to CoreElec. Indeed, when we use the Fuse 2 Skin on the PC or Android version of Kodi, the name of the chapters is displayed perfectly when we skip forward with the “Next Chapter or Big Step Forward” shortcut, as you can see here :

which is not the case with Kodi CE where only the fast forward time information “+06:17” is displayed.

According to Jurial, the creator of the Skin: “Not a skin issue. Player.SeekOffset value should be empty when skipping chapters as this is a skip function, not a seek function. There is nothing the skin can do about this if it is incorrectly set.” Problem displaying chapters on Kodi CE. · Issue #608 · jurialmunkey/skin.arctic.fuse.2 · GitHub

But I don’t understand everything. ^^
I wouldn’t mind a little helping hand.

https://paste.coreelec.org/EarringsThing

vpeter · 22 March 2025 09:48

When can I get some sample?

I made a sample with this instructions

and both CE-21 nightly and CE-22 nightly shows the chapter names.

Bindou · 22 March 2025 11:18

Hi vpeter, first of all thank you for your valuable help.

Next, have you tried it with the Skin Fuse 2? Because as Jjd-uk explains it well “Ok so he using that area for multiple things whereas Estuary has an exclusive area for the Chapter info. So he’s probably half right in that he relies on Player.SeekOffset being empty, but personally I would always want that info displayed but currently Artic Fuse 2 limits it to only when certain conditions are met, however that will be a conscious design on his part. Code is at https://github.com/jurialmunkey/skin.arc…#L937-L960”

https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=381114&pid=3229262#pid3229262

Portisch · 22 March 2025 11:38

Wrong variable used in your skin?
This is working:

github.com/CoreELEC/xbmc

addons/skin.estuary/xml/Variables.xml

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          	</variable>
          	<variable name="VideoPlayerForwardRewindVar">
          		<value condition="Player.Forwarding2x | Player.Rewinding2x">2x</value>
          		<value condition="Player.Forwarding4x | Player.Rewinding4x">4x</value>
          		<value condition="Player.Forwarding8x | Player.Rewinding8x">8x</value>
          		<value condition="Player.Forwarding16x | Player.Rewinding16x">16x</value>
          		<value condition="Player.Forwarding32x | Player.Rewinding32x">32x</value>
          	</variable>
          	<variable name="SeekLabel">
          		<value condition="!String.IsEmpty(Player.SeekStepSize)">[COLOR button_focus]$LOCALIZE[773][/COLOR] $INFO[Player.SeekStepSize]</value>
          		<value condition="!String.IsEmpty(Player.SeekOffset) + Player.HasPerformedSeek(3)">[COLOR button_focus]$LOCALIZE[773][/COLOR] $INFO[Player.SeekOffset]</value>
          		<value condition="Player.Paused">$LOCALIZE[112]</value>
          		<value condition="Player.Forwarding">$LOCALIZE[31039] $VAR[VideoPlayerForwardRewindVar]</value>
          		<value condition="Player.Rewinding">$LOCALIZE[31038] $VAR[VideoPlayerForwardRewindVar]</value>
          		<value condition="Player.IsTempo">$LOCALIZE[31142]: $INFO[Player.PlaySpeed]</value>
          	</variable>
          	<variable name="SeekTimeLabelVar">
          		<value condition="!String.IsEmpty(Player.SeekNumeric)">[B]$INFO[Player.SeekNumeric(hh:mm:ss)][/B]</value>
          		<value condition="Player.Seeking + VideoPlayer.HasEPG">$INFO[PVR.EpgEventSeekTime]$INFO[PVR.EpgEventDuration, / ]</value>
          		<value condition="Player.Seeking">$INFO[Player.SeekTime]$INFO[Player.Duration, / ]</value>
          		<value condition="VideoPlayer.HasEpg">$INFO[PVR.EpgEventElapsedTime]$INFO[PVR.EpgEventDuration, / ]</value>

Bindou · 23 March 2025 00:06

What I don’t understand is that it works on all platforms, but not on CoreElec.

vpeter · 23 March 2025 07:56

This is one strange skin at least for me. Presssing key i and then up button and nothing happen. How to even check it if even basic things doesn’t work as on regular skin.

Bindou · 25 March 2025 18:05

When I press “i”, it displays the information correctly for me:

vpeter · 25 March 2025 18:18

If you want any real help describe EXACTLY what to do.

Bindou · 25 March 2025 18:34

On PC, when you move forward with the “Next Chapter or Big Leap Forward” shortcut (in the OSD Video), the chapter names are displayed perfectly, as you can see here:

This is not the case on CoreElec. The skin developer, Jurial, says that Player.SeekOffset is empty.

vpeter · 25 March 2025 18:41

Like I said: if you can’t wrote how to reproduce, don’t expect any useful help.

Is this really too hard to understand…

Bindou · 25 March 2025 18:46

(The shortcut to move from one chapter to another is by default the up arrow on PC. And when you press the up arrow, the chapter number and name should appear.)

PC

CE

“The problem is that on CoreELEC, the seekoffset is set when searching by chapter, while on Windows and Android it is not set, resulting in inconsistency between platforms.”

Bindou · 26 March 2025 12:22

Sorry if I can’t understand exactly what you’re asking. What information are you missing? Do you need a sample?

Portisch · 26 March 2025 14:23

Yes, sample always help…

Bindou · 26 March 2025 16:02

Sample with integrated chapters :

PC →

vpeter · 26 March 2025 16:35

And how the f*** get to show this screen? Using keyboard.

And this is my last post if not any useful answer.

Bindou · 26 March 2025 17:35

Simply move forward one chapter with the “Next Chapter” shortcut natively assigned to the “up arrow” keyboard key.

Vpeter, what happens when you advance through chapters?

vpeter · 26 March 2025 17:42

Not working with up button.

I’m out.

Bindou · 26 March 2025 18:01

Otherwise, another solution, click here:

vpeter · 27 March 2025 15:39

In SSH session type this two commands and you will get chapters working.

cp /storage/.kodi/addons/skin.arctic.fuse.2/1080i/Includes_Labels.xml /storage/.kodi/addons/skin.arctic.fuse.2/1080i/Includes_Labels.xml-orig
sed -i "s| + !String.IsEmpty(Player.SeekOffset)| + String.IsEmpty(Player.SeekOffset)|g" /storage/.kodi/addons/skin.arctic.fuse.2/1080i/Includes_Labels.xml
kodi-send -a ReloadSkin

If ReloadSkin doesn’t work just reboot device.

This is needed to done by every skin update. Or add se command to autostart.sh.

Bindou · 27 March 2025 18:07

Thank you very much for this solution, Vpeter. I’ll give it a try!

Do you know the reason for this specific feature of CoreElec that leads to this different behavior from other platforms? Is it related to a function essential to CE’s behavior? In other words, do you know if it would one day be possible to integrate a native solution into CoreELEC to permanently adjust this behavior, without requiring manual modifications with each skin update. So that the behavior is common to other platforms and the same for all users.

However, I fully understand the technical challenges this represents, as well as the resources it must require.