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So i have this question about how Kodi works in relation to the filter button for movies or TVShows. Does Kodi re-index every data from the database before actually getting the filtering interface in order to filter movies by actor, year, genre etc?
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Yes. The entire dataset is fetched into memory, then sorted and then filtered. Plus, all the items you can filter on also need to be fetched. Same for search.
BTW, no, there is no workaround for this other than re-writing how core currently works. For the music library most if not all of that has been done and sorting etc is done by the db backend. I don't think anyone has looked at doing a similar thing for the video library though.
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