[rschiks]

Hi,
Thanks for the response.

I'm using Kodi on a Nvidia Shield TV and have Kyra installed on an ipad Air 2 - where is the bottleneck likely to be? Reading the data from the Shields internal eMMC or the ipad?

Do you have eta of when you might enable caching for the series?

Thanks

From what I have seen there's a significant delay in Kodi when serialization data is being done (when Kodi retrieves it from the database). After this is done I will receive it in the app and I need to process the data again.

Since I made significant progress with the extendinfo for the series I was thinking to do the following (also because this is haunting me for quite some time):

I will create two new menu options, a series 2 and a movies 2 (just a working title now).
- Those options have just one view, based on the current music view and the touch 2 remote view, so with the info bar and a grid view. This info bar can be retracted so more space for the grid view. The series will have a season selection option.
- The minimal amount of data from Kodi will be read and will kept in memory all the time.
- Images will be scaled down (to a normal size instead of HD) and kept in memory all the time (the grid view doesn't have to load images from Kodi/internet again, once they have been read).
- When a movie/series is clicked, detailed information will be retrieved.
- Data will be stored on local storage (so cached)
- Because all data is cached there will be a refresh option to get the latest data from Kodi.
- I will make it an option that the current movies / series menu options can be replaced with the new one.
- The new movies and series will be built up from scratch.
- Sorting will be done by Kodi.

In the new movies and series I don't to take other things into consideration (like trakt.tv). Only the basic sort options and a few filters (like watched, hide, etc).
I think the new menu options will give you the best experience ever. Designed with large libraries in mind.

Is that an idea?
I think I can work on this after the current extended info for series is done, so after version 1.8 then.