[script.black.bars.never] 1.0.11

script.black.bars.never/LICENSE

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+MIT License
+
+Copyright (c) <year> <copyright holders>
+
+Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
+
+The above copyright notice and this permission notice (including the next paragraph) shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
+
+THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

script.black.bars.never/README.md

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+# BlackBarsNever Kodi Addon - Remove black bars
+
+# How it works
+
+This is an addon that eliminates black bars on KODI, whether hardcoded or the video is just wide format
+
+With addon installed and enabled, it will automatically analyze media on playback and determine
+if there are any black bars. The addon will then zoom the media exactly enough to cover the display.
+
+The picture will not be distorted in any way as the zoom is linear,
+however, on most media, small parts on the left and right will be cut off. Luckily, everything that's
+important tends to fall in the middle of the scene 99% of the time. The advantages of experiencing an
+immersive picture that fills the periphery should be enough to overweigh the disdvantage of missing sides.
+
+# Supported platforms
+
+- [x] Linux
+- [x] Windows
+- [x] macOS and iOS
+- [x] Android & Embedded Systems - with workaround method
+
+# Android & Embedded Systems like \*ELEC
+
+Currently, Kodi can't capture sreenshots in Android and Embedded Systems if hardware accelertion is enabled due to some technical limitations. This may change in future and when that happens the addon will work properly like in other platforms. For now there's two options:
+
+1. Disable hardware acceleration (turn off MediaCodec Surface in Android). The problem with this is that Kodi will now use CPU for decoding and playback may be affected to the point of being unwatchable, especially for high bitrate media. Also in the devices I tested, HDR won't work on Android if hardware acceleration is turned on, I am not sure if this affects all of Android.
+
+2. Enable the Android & Embedded Systems Workaround from the addon settings. This feature requires an internet connection to fetch media metadata, and works best if your library adopts a decent naming pattern i.e `Title Year`. Also works properly only if media aspect ratio is unchanged from original (i.e has not been cropped from the original)
+
+# Installation
+
+Download the zip file from [releases](https://github.com/osumoclement/script.black.bars.never/releases)
+
+Launch Kodi >> Add-ons >> Get More >> Install from zip file
+
+You might want to turn off Overscan if your display is a TV by going to settings-> Aspect Ratio -> Just Scan
+
+Feel free to ask any questions, submit feature/bug reports
+
+# Multiple Aspect Ratios in Media
+
+For media with multiple aspect ratios, the addon will notify you of this, and will do nothing. In such cases, I recommend you watch the media as is, since if you change the aspect ratio manually, you may not know where in the media the ratio changes in order to adjust again.
+This feature requires internet to work
+
+# Customization
+
+There are a few ways to customize the addon
+By default, the addon automatically removes black bars. If you want to change this behavior, you can turn this off in the addon settings. You would then need to manually trigger the addon by manually calling it from elsewhere in Kodi (ie from a Skin) like this `RunScript(script.black.bars.never,toggle)`. You could even map this to a key for convenience
+
+To check the addon status elsewhere from Kodi, use this `xbmcgui.Window(10000).getProperty('blackbarsnever_status')`. The result is either `on` or `off`
+
+# License
+
+BlackBarsNever is [GPLv3 licensed](https://github.com/osumoclement/script.black.bars.never/blob/main/LICENSE). You may use, distribute and copy it under the license terms.

script.black.bars.never/addon.py

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+from resources.lib.blackbarsnever import Main
+
+if (__name__ == "__main__"):
+    Main()

script.black.bars.never/addon.xml

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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
+<addon id="script.black.bars.never" name="BlackBarsNever" version="1.0.11" provider-name="Clement Osumo">
+	<requires>
+		<import addon="xbmc.python" version="3.0.0"/>
+		<import addon="script.module.requests" version="2.20.0"/>
+		<import addon="script.module.beautifulsoup4" version="4.9.3"/>
+		<import addon="script.module.soupsieve" version="2.1.0"/>
+	</requires>
+	<extension point="xbmc.service" library="addon.py"/>
+	<extension point="xbmc.python.script" library="addon.py">
+		<provides>executable</provides>
+	</extension>
+	<extension point="xbmc.addon.metadata">
+		<platform>all</platform>
+		<summary lang="en_US">BlackBarsNever</summary>
+		<description lang="en_US">This addon eliminates the problem of black bars. If the black bars are hardcoded, the addon will automatically
+		detect this and remove them. If the video is a wide screen format, the addon will also detect this and remove the black bars too.
+		</description>
+		<license>MIT</license>
+		<language></language>
+		<forum></forum>
+		<source>https://github.com/osumoclement/script.black.bars.never</source>
+		<website>cheensa.com</website>
+		<email></email>
+		<assets>
+			<icon>icon.png</icon>
+			<fanart>fanart.jpeg</fanart>
+			<screenshot>resources/screenshot-01.jpg</screenshot>
+		    <screenshot>resources/screenshot-02.jpg</screenshot>
+		</assets>
+		<news>Updated the addon to use new addon.xml metadata</news>
+	</extension>
+</addon>

script.black.bars.never/changelog.txt

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+1.0.0 Initial Release

script.black.bars.never/imdb.py

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+import requests
+from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
+
+import xbmc
+import xbmcgui
+
+def notify(msg):
+    xbmcgui.Dialog().notification("BlackBarsNever", msg, None, 1000)
+
+def getOriginalAspectRatio(title, imdb_number=None):
+    BASE_URL = "https://www.imdb.com/"
+    HEADERS = {
+        'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; CPU OS 12_2 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Mobile/15E148'}
+
+    if imdb_number and str(imdb_number).startswith("tt"):
+        URL = "{}/title/{}/".format(BASE_URL, imdb_number)
+    else:
+        URL = BASE_URL + "find/?q={}".format(title)
+        search_page = requests.get(URL, headers=HEADERS)
+
+        # lxml parser would have been better but not currently supported in Kodi
+        soup = BeautifulSoup(search_page.text, 'html.parser')
+
+        title_url_tag = soup.select_one(
+            '.ipc-metadata-list-summary-item__t')
+        if title_url_tag:
+            # we have matches, pick the first one
+            title_url = title_url_tag['href']
+            imdb_number = title_url.rsplit(
+                '/title/', 1)[-1].split("/")[0]
+            # this below could have worked instead but for some reason SoupSieve not working inside Kodi
+            """title_url = soup.css.select(
+                '.ipc-metadata-list-summary-item__t')[0].get('href')
+                """
+
+            URL = BASE_URL + title_url
+
+    title_page = requests.get(URL, headers=HEADERS)
+    soup = BeautifulSoup(title_page.text, 'html.parser')
+
+    # this below could have worked instead but for some reason SoupSieve not working inside Kodi
+    aspect_ratio_tags = soup.find(
+        attrs={"data-testid": "title-techspec_aspectratio"})
+
+    if aspect_ratio_tags:
+        aspect_ratio_full = aspect_ratio_tags.select_one(
+            ".ipc-metadata-list-item__list-content-item").decode_contents()
+
+        """aspect_ratio_full = soup.find(
+            attrs={"data-testid": "title-techspec_aspectratio"}).css.select(".ipc-metadata-list-item__list-content-item")[0].decode_contents()
+            """
+
+        if aspect_ratio_full:
+            aspect_ratio = aspect_ratio_full.split(':')[0].replace('.', '')
+    else:
+        # check if video has multiple aspect ratios
+        URL = "{}/title/{}/technical/".format(BASE_URL, imdb_number)
+        tech_specs_page = requests.get(URL, headers=HEADERS)
+        soup = BeautifulSoup(tech_specs_page.text, 'html.parser')
+        aspect_ratio_li = soup.select_one("#aspectratio").find_all("li")
+        if len(aspect_ratio_li) > 1:
+            aspect_ratios = []
+
+            for li in aspect_ratio_li:
+                aspect_ratio_full = li.select_one(
+                    ".ipc-metadata-list-item__list-content-item").decode_contents()
+
+                aspect_ratio = aspect_ratio_full.split(':')[0].replace('.', '')
+                sub_text = li.select_one(".ipc-metadata-list-item__list-content-item--subText").decode_contents()
+
+                if sub_text == "(theatrical ratio)":
+                    xbmc.log("using theatrical ratio " + str(aspect_ratio), level=xbmc.LOGINFO)
+                    return aspect_ratio
+
+
+                aspect_ratios.append(aspect_ratio)
+
+            return aspect_ratios
+
+    return aspect_ratio

script.black.bars.never/resources/language/resource.language.en_gb/strings.po

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+# Black Bars Never language file
+# Addon Name: Black Bars Never
+# Addon id: script.black.bars.never
+# Addon Provider: Clement Osumo
+
+msgid ""
+msgstr ""
+"Project-Id-Version: Black Bars Never\n"
+"Report-Msgid-Bugs-To: Clement Osumo\n"
+"POT-Creation-Date: YEAR-MO-DA HO:MI+ZONE\n"
+"PO-Revision-Date: 2023-06-18 10:08+0000\n"
+"Last-Translator: Clement Osumo\n"
+"Language-Team: English (United States)\n"
+"Language: en_us\n"
+"MIME-Version: 1.0\n"
+"Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8\n"
+"Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n"
+"Plural-Forms: nplurals=2; plural=n != 1;\n"
+"X-Generator: Weblate 4.8\n"
+
+msgctxt "#32001"
+msgid "General"
+msgstr "General"
+
+msgctxt "#32002"
+msgid "Automatically remove black bars"
+msgstr "Automatically remove black bars"
+
+msgctxt "#32003"
+msgid "Toggle status"
+msgstr "Toggle status"
+
+msgctxt "#32004"
+msgid "Workaround for Android & Embedded (requires internet)"
+msgstr "Workaround for Android & Embedded (requires internet)"