horstepipe 422 Posted September 13, 2018 Posted September 13, 2018 Hey @@Angelblue05 If you find the time, I'd be grateful if you can answer my questions: 1. Does the setting paging - max items requested affect anything else than the initial sync? 2. What exactly does enable artwork caching I was used to have it disabled in Emby for Kodi v3.0.x because the sync was way faster and I didn't have any artwork problems, either. So it was cached fine in thumbnails folder. So how does this setting work compared to the normal artwork caching, and why does the webserver have to be enabled? 3. The option compress artwork Does Emby server provide compressed artwork or do the clients have to do the work and compress them? 4. The setting include people (slow) almost the same question as for the artwork cache. How will one benefit when having this setting enabled? Best regards
Angelblue05 4132 Posted September 13, 2018 Posted September 13, 2018 (edited) 1. It's only for those big changes - Initial sync, repair, update library. 2. As stated, if you choose to disable artwork caching, Kodi will still cache your artwork, but at a slower pace. This makes a difference, when you navigate around initially, you have blank artwork until your select cursor is over content. Artwork caching displays your artwork instantly. The webserver needs to be enabled, because that's how the addon tells Kodi the artwork to be cached. 3. It just lowers the quality of the artwork cached to Kodi. Takes less space. 4. This is for plugin listing only (for content that is not synced), if it should also get the cast from emby to display. Edited September 13, 2018 by Angelblue05 1
horstepipe 422 Posted September 13, 2018 Author Posted September 13, 2018 Thanks for the information 3. understood, but somewhere the images have to be processed (be made smaller). Where does this happen and how (CPU) demanding is it?
Angelblue05 4132 Posted September 13, 2018 Posted September 13, 2018 Everything comes from your server. When Kodi caches the lower quality artwork, Emby provides the lower quality artwork. Since it's cached, it happens only once. Dunno about the cpu usage, but I'm sure it's not as demanding as cover art. 1
horstepipe 422 Posted September 13, 2018 Author Posted September 13, 2018 Thanks last one for now :-) : will you implement a smooth transition from 3.0.34 to 3.1.x when it hits stable? At the moment you have to reenter server address and credentials. 1
Angelblue05 4132 Posted September 13, 2018 Posted September 13, 2018 (edited) Ok I will look to do that but that would only apply to credentials (server address, user, token). Settings have to be reset. Edited September 13, 2018 by Angelblue05
horstepipe 422 Posted September 13, 2018 Author Posted September 13, 2018 (edited) Ok I will look to do that but that would only apply to credentials (server address, user, token). Settings have to be reset.That would be nice!The updating process feels a little confusing at the moment. But I guess this didn’t have priority yet for you. I was asked to enter server credentials twice, and some other unexpected things came up which will confuse less experienced users I think. I can give you a more detailed report about it if you’re not aware of it anyway. I was just quickly testing it. Edited September 13, 2018 by horstepipe
Angelblue05 4132 Posted September 13, 2018 Posted September 13, 2018 Yep will need more information. The first time you update, yes, it should ask for server creds. But after that, it shouldn't. There was an issue with profiles where it would ask you to reauth, but that should be resolved with .13a moving forward.
horstepipe 422 Posted September 13, 2018 Author Posted September 13, 2018 Some observations: When I mark something as watched, it feels to need longer time to be processed than in 3.0.34. The process bar shows up quite late (need to wait around 10 seconds) Is it possible to hide this process bar which shows up for less than a half second when you mark something as watched? It looks quite dirty especially in Embuary.
horstepipe 422 Posted September 13, 2018 Author Posted September 13, 2018 I think it‘s ‚compressing database‘
Angelblue05 4132 Posted September 13, 2018 Posted September 13, 2018 In Kodi settings > Media > Hide library progress
horstepipe 422 Posted September 13, 2018 Author Posted September 13, 2018 Yes and ‚preparing“ Had to make a slowmo video :-)
horstepipe 422 Posted September 13, 2018 Author Posted September 13, 2018 In Kodi settings > Media > Hide library progress Thank you! Never came to my mind that those come from Kodi and not the addon. @@sualfred maybe you should let your skin enable this setting in your wizard? 1
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