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I have a modal dialog which opens (extendedinfo_mod) and I would like to have it reopen after playback ends.
However I have tried various methods of storing the dialog variable and whatever way I store it leads to jerky playback:

The following will produce jerky video playback:

python:


    def play_from_button(self, url, listitem, window=False, type='', dbid=0):

        from resources.lib.WindowManager import wm

        super(VideoPlayer, self).play(item=url, listitem=listitem, windowed=False, startpos=-1)

        window2 = window

        window.close()

        window = None

        del window

        gc.collect()

        del gc.garbage[:]

        for i in range(600):

            if xbmc.getCondVisibility('VideoPlayer.IsFullscreen'):

                self.wait_for_video_end()

                params = {'sender': addon_ID_short(),

                                  'message': 'SetFocus',

                                  'data': {'command': 'SetFocus',

                                               'command_params': {'container': container, 'position': position}

                                               },

                                  }



                command = json.dumps({'jsonrpc': '2.0',

                                              'method': 'JSONRPC.NotifyAll',

                                              'params': params,

                                              'id': 1,

                                              })

                result = xbmc.executeJSONRPC(command)

                wm.pop_stack2(window2)

                window2 = None

                del window2

                gc.collect()

                del gc.garbage[:]

                return

            xbmc.sleep(50)

        return

While this does not:

python:


    def play_from_button1(self, url, listitem, window=False, type='', dbid=0):

        from resources.lib.WindowManager import wm

            super(VideoPlayer, self).play(item=url, listitem=listitem, windowed=False, startpos=-1)

            window.close()

            gc.collect()

            del window

            return

I've tried threading within and without the current procedure, ive tried pickling/dill (which doesnt work for cpython objects apparently) and any other method I can think of to store the variable and nothing appears to work.

I think its a graphical memory issue, this is on a Vero4k kodi box which will have a rasonable amount of ram but no dedicated graphics hardware.  Therefore I think the dialog is stored in what little memory has been allocated to the graphics, and once it loads a bunch of stuff to the modal dialog this causes performance issues.

It doesnt appear to be an issue on windows.

Changing between "super(VideoPlayer, self).play(item=url, listitem=listitem, windowed=False, startpos=-1)" and "xbmc.executebuiltin('RunPlugin(%s)' % url)" does seem to have some performance benefit but the window is still jerky.

Does anyone know how I can completely close a window dialog AND store it for reopening without a significant performance impact?
Is there any reasonable way to store this in a file?

Any thoughts appreciated.

So no one has any thoughts about how to store a window dialog in memory and restore it without impacting performance?