[MOD] Movie Language Flag

@Hitcher: Oh yeah you are right. I didn't notice it because I only tried it with a "standard length" title like "2 Fast 2 Furious". But if I try it with "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford" and it looks aweful.

zeus[x];452559 Wrote:about "Has Subtitle" is it possible to add?

Yeah this should be possible exactly the same way as the Language flag. You just need to use the
instead of the

Hitcher Wrote:That's definitely it, no more flags.

I'm using one label to shows all the Now Playing elements, with line breaks to split them up, and <wrapmultiline> to break up long names. As soon as it's been added I'll align everything up with the bottom of the thumb until then it's centralised.

This looks even better. Nice idea inverting the colors of the text and the background. Now that the language flag has been officially added to a skin I use it's time to re-encode all the movies that don't have the language information included.

damn, these are nice additions, guys!
I have a lot of my dvds stored as dual-language avis or mkvs... how would these show up? (cannot test on the real machine till saturday)

I don't really know about AVIs. Until a few days ago I was quite sure that the AVI container doesn't allow to store meta data into it but a friend of mine directed me to a tool which does exactly that.
As I only have MKVs I know that it works for them. Of course only if there is proper meta data applied to the audio sources. You can use mkvmerge to see if your MKVs have the data in it.

A flag for subtitles would be great, I have to check this all the time

But, can it both detect a .srt, .sub etc. in the same folder as the movie file and inbuilt subtitles in a .mkv for example?

what about movies with two audio streams? which one is recognized? the primary, i guess?! couldnt you allow to add two flags to appear? like ENG and DEU!?? That would be really nice, cause at the moment i have the language flags disabled, cause there are too many movies with two languages and if it shows only one i am confused^^


but, i understand if these would make too many flags. and too many flags seem ugly to me as well

ichAlex Wrote:what about movies with two audio streams? which one is recognized? the primary, i guess?! couldnt you allow to add two flags to appear? like ENG and DEU!?? That would be really nice, cause at the moment i have the language flags disabled, cause there are too many movies with two languages and if it shows only one i am confused^^


but, i understand if these would make too many flags. and too many flags seem ugly to me as well

Well there are 2 reasons why this is not implemented (although I'd like it as well):

1. As you already noticed there would be too many flags showing. What if a movie had 3 languages or even 4 (yes I have a movie with 4 audio sources)?
2. As far as I know there is currently no way of determining whether a movie has more than one audio source in the skin engine. There only is this ony item which returns the primary audio source language and nothing else.

Hitcher Wrote:

What colour scheme are you using? Please tell me that's not "Night", because mine just does NOT look as hot as that. You saving all the best stuff for yourself?



Seriously, you do fantastic work, sir. I'm in awe, and back and forth between Alaska and Aeon (the current Aeon65 release).

I seriously can not decide which one to use. Daily! Like, every single day, I swap themes, and look, and enjoy, and watch. I think Alaska superior in its menus and layout options, while Aeon has a bit nicer (sorry) main menu choice. I just can't get past the blue squares on Alaska, and I dislike the PNGs (maybe I haven't found a set I want) and I can't use vertical text...

BUT, when I get inside the skin, I see the layouts like above that simply DECIMATE the Aeon views (I liked Multiplex, but had to switch to Showcase for easier readability) and then you see almost a FULL SCREEN representation of the box art in Alaska - it takes your breath away. Everything is so much smoother, and faster, and nicer... It shows how much of your own personal level of quality that you have put into it, and we all appreciate you for it.

Dammit. Why must you make me choose?

ichAlex Wrote:what about movies with two audio streams? which one is recognized? the primary, i guess?! couldnt you allow to add two flags to appear? like ENG and DEU!?? That would be really nice, cause at the moment i have the language flags disabled, cause there are too many movies with two languages and if it shows only one i am confused^^


but, i understand if these would make too many flags. and too many flags seem ugly to me as well

Subtitle language support has been added for the next release.

I've just asked but currently we can only use the first subtitle language but as soon as multiple languages can be used I'll simply use a fadelabel to show each one consecutively in the same panel.

is language flag / subtitle flag in the current git, i tried downloading it, but i didnt see any change, dunno what u mean by next release, is that a big thing or?