2013-07-31, 13:09
(2013-07-31, 12:38)bigwillch Wrote: For me fanart loads instantly on the pi. The only issue I find on the pi is a long wait when navigating to the full Movie and TV views (movies especially as I have > 1000 of them), but I'm not sure if that's a skin issue.
Nice of you to bring it up since I can post my view on this in hope XBMC team members are reading this.
IMHO, XBMC's insufficient filtering is to blame and bad user habits that developed in time because of that. Again, just my few cents, feel free to disagree.
With 1000 movies it is very inefficient to go directly to "all movies" node. So, what would make more sense?
First thing is support for different Movie categories, so you can split your library:
- Documentaries (200 items)
- Cartoons (150)
- Anime (300)
- Movies (350)
- Vacation Clips (250)
- LIVE TV Recordings (150)
that way you can actually have 1400 Video/Movie items but RPi would need to load significantly less upon entering the node.
Second thing is better filtering support. XBMC pre-built filters are not cutting it for me and majority of users (see http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=51605 ) With filters like
- unwatched - recently released - recently viewed - recently added - in progress
you could further filter out given category and reduce both load time and time needed to find content you're after. You can add custom filters manually to XBMC ( http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Custom_video_nodes ) but you will still be filtering out 1000 Movie items.