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bfgane
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Thank you for the reply. Hmmm. Both good questions.
1) I just tried Estuary. It exhibits exactly the same behaviour. The order in which the posters paint is identical to what I am seeing in Quartz. So this is not a Quartz-specific issue then.
2) I just tried this on my Matrix implementation. It exhibits the same behaviour, and I timed the 'time to completion' for the rendering of the posters and it was identical to my Leia implementations. So Matrix made no difference.
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It seems that the order in which the poster icons are rendered in "Panel" (or in Estuary's "Wall") follows the order in which each movie exists in the "movie" table in the MyVideos database. In fact, I made a list of the movie posters that I saw, in the order in which the poster icons appeared on screen in "Panel". It matched exactly against their order in "movie".
So if I choose to display ordered by "Title", which follows the order of entries most closely to the "movie" table, then most of the posters come up rendered immediately.
But if I choose to display ordered by "DateAdded" (descending), then you have to wait for the 'rendering process' (I don't know what else to call it) to make its way through your list of movies, with the most recent often being at the end of your "movie" table. So the posters that appear on your first screen will not be rendered (appear as greyed-out squares) until the process makes its way all the way to the end of the database table. And in my case, as I have 3500 movies, this takes about 30 seconds. Unfortunately, I choose "DateAdded" and "Descending" because I am most interested in my most current movies first. But I have to sit there for about 30 seconds until I see all of my art displayed.
I suppose this is easiest for the code to not have to worry about what is actually being displayed, but it makes Kodi appear to be really slow.
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Hello to all!
I would like to report a strange behaviour regarding Quartz and Digital Clock Screensaver.
I am running latest raspbian on a raspberry pi 3, Kodi 18.7 and Quartz skin.
Every time I return to Kodi menu from the screen saver, Kodi restarts (!!).
Only Kodi that is; not the whole pi.
Is this a known issue?
Any input would be helpful.
Cheers!
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nonJon
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You're welcome. Hope you get the problem sorted out.
I did notice one minor issue with quartz and screensavers that needs addressing; time and temperature display, if enabled, remain visible while a screensaver is active. Will fix this for matrix and may push the change to leia if I find sufficient incentive to patch v18 again.
Good luck!