2016-04-20, 10:55
I maintain an video add-on for Kodi (Retrospect, http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=25522, http://www.rieter.net/content/). It basically allows browsing through a large number of online TV sources (legal ones that have been made available by broadcasting companies).
Currently I store some information (meta data, and so such as: is the item GEO protected, is it a non-free items and thus not viewable, etc.) via a Python Pickle that is Base64 encoded in the add-on url that is being called. Now this introduces the issue that the same item might result in different URL's on different Kodi setups (this could have number of different reasons such as changing thumbnail urls). And if a user has a shared database, he/she will not be able to use resume points and other features.
I would really like to fix this. But that would require me to store this extra meta data on a central place. Does the Kodi Video Database provide such a field? Or are there other solutions for this?
Currently I store some information (meta data, and so such as: is the item GEO protected, is it a non-free items and thus not viewable, etc.) via a Python Pickle that is Base64 encoded in the add-on url that is being called. Now this introduces the issue that the same item might result in different URL's on different Kodi setups (this could have number of different reasons such as changing thumbnail urls). And if a user has a shared database, he/she will not be able to use resume points and other features.
I would really like to fix this. But that would require me to store this extra meta data on a central place. Does the Kodi Video Database provide such a field? Or are there other solutions for this?
