Embuary Skin no longer compatible with Kodi Omega past beta 2!

[Mahinepua 81]

Does anyone have a workaround for Embuary incompatibility with the new skin requirements of Omega?

Foolishly installed the latest nightly here and time to roll back!

[FrostByte 5392]

Yes, all you need to do is edit the addons.xml file a bit in the Embuary skin folder.  Toward the top change 5.15 to 5.17 to look like the line below.

<import addon="xbmc.gui" version="5.17.0"/>

This will fool Kodi into thinking the skin was compiled for the new gui version.

Do this before upgrading to a nightly.  Otherwise, the upgrade will automatically remove the skin as being incompatible.

Or, update the zip file before installing the skin if still on the nightly.

Edited February 2, 2024 by FrostByte

[Mahinepua 81]

Worked great, thanks for the heads up.

[djon 16]

Where can I get the skin zip file? I'm already on Omega RC1 as a fresh install. 

[Mahinepua 81]

Repos on first page.

Edited March 16, 2024 by Mahinepua

[djon 16]

I can't find it under the repo / skins within Kodi. Is it because it's not supported in Omega/Kodi 21?

[Mahinepua 81]

It is there and supported. It works OK but doesn’t come close to the Theater app and not all my Emby libraries were available. Unless you have specific Kodi apps you want to run I’d stick to Theater.

[djon 16]

There's no skins folder under the repo in Omega RC1. Probably because of the addons.xml. Can't I download the skin zip file directly somewhere so I can edit the addons.xml file myself and install the skin? 

[Mahinepua 81]

Have you tried downloading from the repo and editing the XML file?

https://github.com/sualfred/my-kodi-repo/tree/master/repositories/repository.fredsrepo

 

[djon 16]

Yeah found it earlier, and that worked. 

[exodus123456 0]

On 3/17/2024 at 4:20 PM, djon said:

Yeah found it earlier, and that worked. 

Were you able to get the .zip of the skin? I was browsing the repo link the user @Mahinepua provided earlier, but I haven't been able to get just the zip of the skin in order to edit the xml

[quickmic 1703]

https://github.com/sualfred/skin.embuary

Click on "Code" -> "download zip"

[snowypete 3]

On 2/2/2024 at 10:46 PM, FrostByte said:

Yes, all you need to do is edit the addons.xml file a bit in the Embuary skin folder.  Toward the top change 5.15 to 5.17 to look like the line below.

<import addon="xbmc.gui" version="5.17.0"/>

This will fool Kodi into thinking the skin was compiled for the new gui version.

Considering Kodi's just released the Omega V21.0, would I have to update the addons.xml line to 5.21.0? Or anything above 5.17.0 will do?

I left my TV on and Google thought it was an opportune time to update all my apps (I forgot to switch off auto-update when I factory reset the TV a few months back from the last time Kodi sh!t the bed)

[FrostByte 5392]

49 minutes ago, snowypete said:

Considering Kodi's just released the Omega V21.0, would I have to update the addons.xml line to 5.21.0? Or anything above 5.17.0 will do?

I left my TV on and Google thought it was an opportune time to update all my apps (I forgot to switch off auto-update when I factory reset the TV a few months back from the last time Kodi sh!t the bed)

Omega uses gui version 5.17.  I would just leave it at that.

[snowypete 3]

11 minutes ago, FrostByte said:

Omega uses gui version 5.17.  I would just leave it at that.

Thanks.

I was just looking on the Kodi.Wiki page and there's Embuary (Matrix) in the Omega V21 repo (which Kodi obviously doesn't like). I suppose someone could update the addon.xml and upload it to the repo? Any idea on how to do this? I think this would solve everyone's problems

[jmccl069 7]

  On 3/7/2024 at 4:44 AM, quickmic said:

Just a small hint. Remove this line completely.

<import addon="xbmc.gui" version="5.17.0"/>

Dependency definitions are optional and should be used if it's absolutely necessary.

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quickmic has it solved… here is a version of Embuary that will work with Omega… tested on several different platforms without issue…

 

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/d4qcu3fxqpiw00jn4qoli/skin.embuary-master.zip?rlkey=fig7owt783xl9axlu6ztmzjiu&dl=0

 

Note: Sualfred’s original skin. The only thing I have changed is removing the version checking as per quickmic’s advice. Save the file and then go to Addons / Install from zip file… Then enjoy the best skin for Emby ever!!!

[Teddyknuddel 136]

Skin resolution for 2K corrected
Genre resolution corrected
Adjustment for Kodi Omega

skin.embuary2k.teddyknuddel.zip

skin.embuary4k.teddyknuddel.zip

[Kingjin1999 1]

On 3/17/2024 at 6:14 AM, Mahinepua said:

It is there and supported. It works OK but doesn’t come close to the Theater app and not all my Emby libraries were available. Unless you have specific Kodi apps you want to run I’d stick to Theater.

Hey Mahinepua, I just wonder have you found any color degradation (seems tone mapping to SDR format) when the emby theater for windows play HDR10 or even dolby vision content? I cannot convince myself that the ET could correctly display HDR color because there are huge distinction between it and Potplayer, MPC-HC or any players with HDR activated.

For more details, maybe you could check my new forum:

 

[Mahinepua 81]

I have used potplayer and kodi, for me emby theater (mpv player) does the best hdr to sdr tonemapping.

Disclaimer I’m red/green colourblind.

I don’t think ET supports Dolby vision to sdr conversion.

Edited July 24, 2024 by Mahinepua

[Kingjin1999 1]

3 hours ago, Mahinepua said:

I have used potplayer and kodi, for me emby theater (mpv player) does the best hdr to sdr tonemapping.

Disclaimer I’m red/green colourblind.

I don’t think ET supports Dolby vision to sdr conversion.

HAHA I know. But what I want to make clear is can the ET play HDR content correctly without tonemapping. Still appreciate for your answer.