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 : https://i.ibb.co/21MQXCMK/screenshot00018.png
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

Bindou · 21 March 2025 21:30

Hello everyone. Forgive me for talking about this here, but I can’t seem to get help anywhere else. 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: https://i.ibb.co/21MQXCMK/screenshot00018.png
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

Just in case, I also asked the question here 15 days ago. OSD Video: Chapter display problem

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.