2016-11-18, 00:05
You need to at least enable debug logging..
"special://thumbnails" should map to your ~/.kodi/userdata/Thumbnails folder - have you checked if the files are actually there?
Sometimes Kodi will return an error when "downloading" (ie. caching) artwork which results in the script believing the artwork couldn't be cached, but Kodi does in fact successfully cache the artwork, so it's possibly a false negative - search your cache to see if the artwork has actually been cached, ie.:
If the above search lists the cached item (the second column will be something like e/e79ceed5.gif) in addition to your original artwork in the "animatedgifs" folder then it's just a false negative and nothing to worry about.
Alternatively:
will list any artwork for the movie "Patton" that remains uncached, so if this lists your gifs then it's definitely not being cached.
It's also possible that Kodi simply cannot cache gif artwork - it's not really a format I'm familiar with. If you can view the GIF artwork in the Kodi GUI, but the artwork remains uncached (as far as this script is concerned) then Kodi isn't caching GIF artwork, or it's caching GIF artwork differently to how it caches non-GIF artwork.
"special://thumbnails" should map to your ~/.kodi/userdata/Thumbnails folder - have you checked if the files are actually there?
Sometimes Kodi will return an error when "downloading" (ie. caching) artwork which results in the script believing the artwork couldn't be cached, but Kodi does in fact successfully cache the artwork, so it's possibly a false negative - search your cache to see if the artwork has actually been cached, ie.:
Code:
texturecache.py s tt0066206_fanart.gif
Alternatively:
Code:
texturecache.py nc movies Patton
will list any artwork for the movie "Patton" that remains uncached, so if this lists your gifs then it's definitely not being cached.
It's also possible that Kodi simply cannot cache gif artwork - it's not really a format I'm familiar with. If you can view the GIF artwork in the Kodi GUI, but the artwork remains uncached (as far as this script is concerned) then Kodi isn't caching GIF artwork, or it's caching GIF artwork differently to how it caches non-GIF artwork.