[el_Paraguayo]

I have a service addon that downloads some images from the web but, rather than displaying them directly, the addon does some manipulation of the downloaded image and then saves the result as a new image which it then displays.

In that scenario, will Kodi still cache the original images that I download (i.e. by remembering the addresses) or I need to implement a cache myself? I'm very happy to do the latter but I'd rather not write code unnecessarily!

[ronie]

depending on the method you use to display the image, caching can be disabled.
http://mirrors.xbmc.org/docs/python-docs...e-setImage

not sure if this applies to your addon though

[el_Paraguayo]

Thanks Ronie.

I think that suggests that if I passed a URL directly as then Kodi would cache it. However, as I'm downloading within the addon and doing some additional processing, I don't think my original request would get cached.

That's fine, I'll add a simple caching function into my addon to limit the web requests I need to make.


PS Just noticed I didn't post this in the "development" sub-forum, can a mod please move it if they see this.

[DarrenHill]

Moved as requested

[gedisony]

hi el_Paraguayo,

are you using PIL to do the image manipulation?

[el_Paraguayo]

Yes.