[sarbes]

Nice list. I'm sure the quality of a lot of add-ons would improve if the API could provide this features. I have some ideas I want to add:


2.1 always included skin graphics
The functions you listed (search, next page, ...) are needed in almost every video add-on. They are purely managed by the add-on, while XBMC could do this in a uniform way. The position and name of those menu items varies between various add-ons for example. The search function could be provided in an extra field.

5.1a Async listitems infolabels
Almost all of my video add-ons could get proper plots if this would be possible.

5.1b Or a general async (similar to lazyloading) workflow maybe?
I think the user experience would gain a lot from this. This could replace the "next page" item completely. Just load more entries if the bottom of the list is reached. Some websites display less than ten videos per page. Browsing back to the root of the add-on is a pain in the neck if you called the next page button more than once.


I have an additional request. I'd like to have a way to get the informations from the file header of the playing video. Some CDNs send informations in the video file header which have to be processed by the addon to keep the stream running. There is an workaround involving a local proxy, but it's not working 100% in my implementaion. Low performance platforms like the ATV2 or the Raspberry Pi struggle to play such streams.