Many small video files seamless playback without any gap between files

P_Cherry · February 7, 2019 at 11:32 AM

Hi,

I have many short video files from my camera & gopro, I would like to play them one by one in the folder. But there are 2 annoying problems:

- there is OSD menu with start of each file for some second (I haven't find any option to disable this menu on latest version LE 9 / Kodi 18)?

- is it possible to set any pre-buffering not to see blue loading circle everytime new file is opened?

Thanks for any hints

Peter

**Klojum** · February 7, 2019 at 11:35 AM Official Post

Quote from P_Cherry

s it possible to set any pre-buffering not to see blue loading circle everytime new file is opened?

Why not concenate everything into 1 big video file?

P_Cherry · February 7, 2019 at 12:18 PM

Because of different codecs/formats. Sure I can concatenate same files or reconvert (I am also doing this) but that's different topic.

So again my question is still the same, how to replay many smaller files in a row without OSD at start and too much buffering.

**blueribb** · February 7, 2019 at 1:20 PM

Wired or wireless network ?

Isn't there a gapless / seamless playback setting in Kodi ?

Why would there be buffering on local media ?

Try placing a few videos on a USB flash drive and connect drive to the kodi computer to see if this problem still exists

Try disabling or removing addons

You never mentioned your hardware

P_Cherry · February 7, 2019 at 4:51 PM

Files are on local hdd with ASrock J3160TM-ITX motherboard, brand new fresh install LE 9. So nothing related to network or addons.

So just the same basic questions again:

1) Is it possible to disable OSD menu when video file is open?

2) I think you all see blue circle for some miliseconds when starting any video. Is there any settings to limit this time? Prebuffer?

I mean to get seamless playback of two files in a row?

**blueribb** · February 7, 2019 at 5:35 PM

I tried it with both an Intel i5 Windows 10 desktop and an old Intel i5 NUC running LE9. There is about a 1 to 2 second gap between videos and in the upper right hand corner, there is a seeking bar graph for 2 seconds when the next video starts playing. There is NO spinning circle. My Intel NUC is on a gigabit wired network. The Windows 10 desktop is the server. (SMB)

P_Cherry · February 8, 2019 at 2:35 PM

Is it possble to disable initial OSD menu when the video starts? I haven't found in any settings of Kodi or standard Skin. Maybe advancedsettings.xml?

P_Cherry · February 18, 2019 at 2:12 PM

Or do I need different skin from Estuary to be able to set no OSD overlay (if there is any)?

jchaven · March 23, 2019 at 11:12 PM

Peter,

Did you ever find a resolution to this?

I too have many small files (music videos) that I would like to have just play without the OSD across the screen.

Thanks,

Joey

P_Cherry · March 25, 2019 at 2:33 PM

Hi,

unfortunatelly no solution found:( Does anybody have any solution how to play video files without any gap and with no OSD during first second of video?

Is it general or skin related?
Thanks

Peter

**chewitt** · March 25, 2019 at 2:54 PM Official Post

OSD is a core Kodi function, but it is skinnable. So the dirty hack is to create a custom skin that removes the OSD, but then you remove all of the OSD and not just the start bit. To change things so there is no OSD at the start (but overall retaining the OSD) would require core code changes.

Many small video files seamless playback without any gap between files

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