[Montellese]

I may have found the culprit for the remaining time it takes to write to the database. For ~1k movies it currently takes ~250s to retrieve them and ~90s to write them to the database. If I remove the SQL code which writes the actors of the movies to the database this goes down to ~5s. I tried to break it down further but it seems like the impact comes primarily from the INSERT INTO actor queries which have to be executed a lot because every movie also has around 20 to 40 actors which results in ~30k INSERT INTO actor statements.

Concerning retrieval I have to be honest that I haven't done any profiling there yet. There are several things which could be slow:

• Retrieving the data via REST API from Emby (JSON) / Plex (XML) servers
  
• Converting the data into ListItems
  
• Passing the ListItems from the add-on to Kodi core.
  

So I'll try to find a way to profile these different steps to see which parts are taking long.