2020-01-11, 17:21
@pkscout Thanks again for your work - things improved dramatically for me! I tested your latest beta2, and the new "picture pause" functionality is great! I didn't see any change in the initial black screen timing - it is still the same 94 seconds (over SMB), but when I switched to a local copy, this became a non-issue (down to only 3-5 seconds of black screen, and only at the start of the slideshow). As I suspected, SMB is very bad for things like getting a list of 16,000 files, even over gigabit ethernet - the problem is with the large latency when dealing with files metadata. But now it's not an issue - I'll just have to maintain the local copy of my 4K photos, using rsync over ssh from my main desktop.
As to the caching issue - I'll bring it up in the core Kodi thread, asking to make no-caching available at least for addons, and only for specific situations (like artwork in slideshows). For now, I'll just run a system command inside your Python script to delete thumbnails and the database every time the slideshow stops. Not ideal, but I think it'll do.
As to the caching issue - I'll bring it up in the core Kodi thread, asking to make no-caching available at least for addons, and only for specific situations (like artwork in slideshows). For now, I'll just run a system command inside your Python script to delete thumbnails and the database every time the slideshow stops. Not ideal, but I think it'll do.
