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RE: [Release] Picture Slideshow Screensaver - maeda - 2017-03-11

Ronie, ty for the addon, it's been joy to use it

I'm hoping someone can explain to me a few things.
The option 'scale images full screen', does it actually do anything when effect is set to pan&zoom?
my logic was that if 'scale images full screen' is on, it will respect the borders while doing pan&zoom, so it never shows black space.

I presume this addon only feeds default slideshow, but i just wanted to check, if i view images in default slideshow using pan&zoom, most of the time it starts with zooming, but
when i preview screensaver using pan&zoom most of the time it starts and use panning, resulting in black areas on the screen.
Is this just randomness of pan&zoom or screensaver has some effect on how pan&zoom is used/initiated?

tnx

RE: [Release] Picture Slideshow Screensaver - maeda - 2017-03-14

Ok, i manged to slow down general pan&zoom with <panamount> & <zoomamount> in advancedsettings.
Ronie, can you tell me if Screensaver looks into advancedsettings.xml for those values? I don't see any changes

RE: [Release] Picture Slideshow Screensaver - ronie - 2017-03-14

(2017-03-14, 18:42)maeda Wrote: Ok, i manged to slow down general pan&zoom with <panamount> & <zoomamount> in advancedsettings.
Ronie, can you tell me if Screensaver looks into advancedsettings.xml for those values? I don't see any changes

nope, those settings don't apply to the screensaver.

RE: [Release] Picture Slideshow Screensaver - maeda - 2017-03-15

(2017-03-14, 18:57)ronie Wrote: nope, those settings don't apply to the screensaver.
I see, thank you for the answer
If maybe other people would find this useful, would you consider it as a request feature at some point?
It could reduce black areas with option to slow down panning.

RE: [Release] Picture Slideshow Screensaver - ronie - 2017-03-15

i'm not opposed to it...
if someone who's interested in this functionality would provide the necessary code i'll add it.

RE: [Release] Picture Slideshow Screensaver - Finchy - 2017-04-13

(2017-03-01, 20:14)GooseK Wrote: In case anyone else hits the same problem, batch resizing images to a maximum of 3840x2160 (4K) seems to be an effective workaround.

Does anyone know what's the quickest and easiest way to bulk resize a load of photos in Windows?

Thanks

RE: [Release] Picture Slideshow Screensaver - CaptainKen - 2017-04-14

(2017-04-13, 15:35)Finchy Wrote:
(2017-03-01, 20:14)GooseK Wrote: In case anyone else hits the same problem, batch resizing images to a maximum of 3840x2160 (4K) seems to be an effective workaround.

Does anyone know what's the quickest and easiest way to bulk resize a load of photos in Windows?

Thanks

Photoshop File->Scripts->Image Process works great and it's easy to use.

RE: [Release] Picture Slideshow Screensaver - User 325245 - 2017-04-14

If you have Photoshop - which is pretty expensive Smile If you want cheper way you can use freeware IrfanView which has bulk resize function.

RE: [Release] Picture Slideshow Screensaver - JockeSve - 2017-04-16

(2017-04-13, 15:35)Finchy Wrote:
(2017-03-01, 20:14)GooseK Wrote: In case anyone else hits the same problem, batch resizing images to a maximum of 3840x2160 (4K) seems to be an effective workaround.

Does anyone know what's the quickest and easiest way to bulk resize a load of photos in Windows?

Thanks

https://www.raymond.cc/blog/most-convenient-way-to-automatically-resize-photos-for-email-im-blogging-and-web-galleries/

https://bulkresizephotos.com

RE: [Release] Picture Slideshow Screensaver - Finchy - 2017-04-18

Thanks guys, I'll have a look at those

RE: [Release] Picture Slideshow Screensaver - GooseK - 2017-04-19

I second the use of Irfanview. It's free, but you do want to be careful with the settings. Under File, go to Batch Conversion/Rename and then click the Use Advanced Options and really look through the settings and make sure you've got things set the way you want before you write over a bunch of your files!

RE: [Release] Picture Slideshow Screensaver - lobomarino - 2017-04-21

Hi there,

I use Kodi / Picture Slideshow Screensaver on Android on a Wetek Core and have the following problem. I searched the forum but couldn't find any solution.

Picture Slideshow Screensaver will not kick in if I pause a movie in full screen mode. Instead, the generic Google Slide show is started. Picture Slideshow Screensaver will only work if I go back to the Kodi movies list or menu.

This is unfortunate, as the screen saver will almost only be needed on a paused movie. If I am not watching a movie, I will generally switch off the TV.

Thanks and best regards,

Rob

RE: [Release] Picture Slideshow Screensaver - AnthonyB - 2017-04-27

My photo collection often contains the same photos in both .JPG and .NEF (i.e.the RAW file) from my Nikon D7000 DSLR.
The .NEF files usually just show in a pixelated fashion.

Is the problem that Kodi (or the addon?) doesn't support the .NEF file format? or is it the size of the file (often around 20MB 4928x3264 resolution)?
I have installed the NEF codec onto my Windows PC running Kodi but it made no difference.

RE: [Release] Picture Slideshow Screensaver - AnthonyB - 2017-04-29

A little more investigation into aforementioned issue.

.NEF files are Nikon's RAW file format (NEF = Nikon Electronic Format) and based on TIFF. Details on RAW files - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raw_image_format

Environment: Kodi 17.1 (Estuary Skin) running on Windows 10 x64 PC (Core i7, 16GB RAM). Picture Slideshow Screensaver Addon 4.2.1 from default repository.

Debug log excerpt of a successful image load:
Code:
13:18:57.874 T:16232   DEBUG: ffmpeg[3F68]: [mjpeg] marker=d8 avail_size_in_buf=6176867
13:18:57.874 T:16232   DEBUG: ffmpeg[3F68]: [mjpeg] marker parser used 0 bytes (0 bits)
13:18:57.874 T:16232   DEBUG: ffmpeg[3F68]: [mjpeg] marker=e1 avail_size_in_buf=6176865
13:18:57.878 T:16232   DEBUG: ffmpeg[3F68]: [mjpeg] marker parser used 65533 bytes (524264 bits)
13:18:57.878 T:16232   DEBUG: ffmpeg[3F68]: [mjpeg] marker=db avail_size_in_buf=6111329
13:18:57.878 T:16232   DEBUG: ffmpeg[3F68]: [mjpeg] index=0
13:18:57.878 T:16232   DEBUG: ffmpeg[3F68]: [mjpeg] qscale[0]: 0
13:18:57.878 T:16232   DEBUG: ffmpeg[3F68]: [mjpeg] index=1
13:18:57.878 T:16232   DEBUG: ffmpeg[3F68]: [mjpeg] qscale[1]: 0
13:18:57.878 T:16232   DEBUG: ffmpeg[3F68]: [mjpeg] marker parser used 132 bytes (1056 bits)
13:18:57.878 T:16232   DEBUG: ffmpeg[3F68]: [mjpeg] marker=c0 avail_size_in_buf=6111195
13:18:57.878 T:16232   DEBUG: ffmpeg[3F68]: [mjpeg] Changing bps from 0 to 8
13:18:57.878 T:16232   DEBUG: ffmpeg[3F68]: [mjpeg] sof0: picture: 4928x3264
13:18:57.878 T:16232   DEBUG: ffmpeg[3F68]: [mjpeg] component 0 2:1 id: 0 quant:0
13:18:57.878 T:16232   DEBUG: ffmpeg[3F68]: [mjpeg] component 1 1:1 id: 1 quant:1
13:18:57.878 T:16232   DEBUG: ffmpeg[3F68]: [mjpeg] component 2 1:1 id: 2 quant:1
13:18:57.878 T:16232   DEBUG: ffmpeg[3F68]: [mjpeg] pix fmt id 21111100
13:18:57.887 T:16232   DEBUG: ffmpeg[3F68]: [mjpeg] marker parser used 17 bytes (136 bits)
13:18:57.887 T:16232   DEBUG: ffmpeg[3F68]: [mjpeg] marker=c4 avail_size_in_buf=6111176
13:18:57.887 T:16232   DEBUG: ffmpeg[3F68]: [mjpeg] class=0 index=0 nb_codes=12
13:18:57.887 T:16232   DEBUG: ffmpeg[3F68]: [mjpeg] class=1 index=0 nb_codes=251
13:18:57.887 T:16232   DEBUG: ffmpeg[3F68]: [mjpeg] class=0 index=1 nb_codes=12
13:18:57.887 T:16232   DEBUG: ffmpeg[3F68]: [mjpeg] class=1 index=1 nb_codes=251
13:18:57.887 T:16232   DEBUG: ffmpeg[3F68]: [mjpeg] marker parser used 418 bytes (3344 bits)
13:18:57.891 T:16232   DEBUG: ffmpeg[3F68]: [mjpeg] escaping removed 22969 bytes
13:18:57.892 T:16232   DEBUG: ffmpeg[3F68]: [mjpeg] marker=da avail_size_in_buf=6110756
13:18:57.892 T:16232   DEBUG: ffmpeg[3F68]: [mjpeg] component: 0
13:18:57.892 T:16232   DEBUG: ffmpeg[3F68]: [mjpeg] component: 1
13:18:57.892 T:16232   DEBUG: ffmpeg[3F68]: [mjpeg] component: 2
13:18:58.017 T:16232   DEBUG: ffmpeg[3F68]: [mjpeg] marker parser used 6087786 bytes (48702288 bits)
13:18:58.017 T:16232   DEBUG: ffmpeg[3F68]: [mjpeg] marker=d9 avail_size_in_buf=0
13:18:58.017 T:16232   DEBUG: ffmpeg[3F68]: [mjpeg] decode frame unused 0 bytes
13:18:58.060 T:16232   DEBUG: CImageLoader::DoWork - took 273 ms to load smb://ANTMICROSERVER/Photos/Charlie/140126 - Family lunch at Pymble\DSC_3211.JPG

Debug log excerpt of an image load that is pixelated:
Code:
13:18:17.980 T:16232   DEBUG: ffmpeg[3F68]: Probing tiff_pipe score:51 size:2048
13:18:17.980 T:16232   DEBUG: ffmpeg[3F68]: [tiff_pipe] Format tiff_pipe probed with size=2048 and score=51
13:18:17.988 T:16232   DEBUG: ffmpeg[3F68]: [tiff_pipe] parser not found for codec tiff, packets or times may be invalid.
13:18:17.991 T:16232   DEBUG: ffmpeg[3F68]: [swscaler] Forcing full internal H chroma due to input having non subsampled chroma
13:18:17.993 T:16232   DEBUG: CImageLoader::DoWork - took 324 ms to load smb://ANTMICROSERVER/Photos/Charlie/141223 - Coco in garden\DSC_3512.NEF

So my assumption here is quite simply that FFmpeg used in Kodi (FFmpeg 3.1?) does not support .NEF file format. Does this look correct?

Full Debug log here - https://pastebin.ca/3804356

RE: [Release] Picture Slideshow Screensaver - Raytestrak - 2017-05-05

I've just moved to a Synology and it has the nasty habit of creating thumbs in my folder that I use a my screensaver, resulting in a really ugly slideshow. Is it possible to exclude folders (I know this has been asked before) or limit the slideshow to pictures of a minimum resolution?