Cache artwork

[steve1977]

I am using both the TVOS and IOS version of MrMC accessing my mySQL Kodi database.

I have a large video and music library. Would love to have a feature that allows to cache all artwork. This would make things a lot snappier.

Thanks for considering!

[amet]

We do cache all thumbnails already, debuglog will show it taking a jpeg from your nas to a local thumbnail folder.

[steve1977]

thanks for your message. when does this caching happen? in my experience, the first time i show a movie, it takes quite some time for poster and fanart to show. thereafter, it goes quick. i’m looking for a feature that caches all artwork for the full library (not just upon pulling up the movie). is this already in place and my perception wrong?


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[amet]

it happens when the list of movies/shows/episodes is displayed, if you look in debuglog you should see where its cached

[steve1977]

Thanks. That's what I expected and is the same way how Kodi is doing it. In my view, this is not ideal (at least not for my use case). The caching only happens once I hover / display a movie. So when new movies are added on mysql, it will take a few seconds when displaying a new movie to show the artwork.

What would be a significant improvement would be a feature to cache all artwork automatically without the need to display the movie and an external python script (texturecache.py) exists with the purpose to do so. I'd prefer a native solution within MrMC.

Something you'd be open to consider for a future release?

[davilla]

Thanks. That's what I expected and is the same way how Kodi is doing it. In my view, this is not ideal (at least not for my use case). The caching only happens once I hover / display a movie. So when new movies are added on mysql, it will take a few seconds when displaying a new movie to show the artwork.

What would be a significant improvement would be a feature to cache all artwork automatically without the need to display the movie and an external python script (texturecache.py) exists with the purpose to do so. I'd prefer a native solution within MrMC.

Something you'd be open to consider for a future release?

It 'should' be caching artwork/metadata at the same time it fetches/generates a thumbnail. But for some unknown reason, it does not do this for some users. We are still trying to figure out why this happens.

[steve1977]

I am not sure whether I am facing the same issue.

I am using mysql with a Kodi movie library. The Kodi is being updated by a Kodi device, so MrMC (running on ATV) has nothing to do with this.

When I start MrMC, all movies in the mysql database show up. Artwork is being displayed after some time, but I need to hover over the movie and wait. Once I have done this once, the artwork is cached and next time it shows up immediately. This is the same behavior as it is with Kodi.

What I am asking as feature request is that I don't need to display the movie for it to download / fetch / cache the artwork, but instead that it just caches the whole library at once.

Are we talking about the same thing?

[steve1977]

I have been using the texturecache.py script to cache artwork remotely. The script itself is executed remotely and then triggers caching in Kodi. It accesses the device over the webserver and I'd expected it to work with MrMC as well.

Unfortunately, this is not working with MrMC. The Kodi developers helped with quite some trouble-shooting and concluded that this is an issue of MrMC and some code related to caching was altered. Any chance you can help looking into it? Without local caching, MrMC is extremely slow and it takes ages if I want to scroll through all movies to trigger caching event.

Please see below trouble-shooting done by the Kodi developers. Post #84 is the relevant one to look at. https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=324329&page=6

Thanks for your help!

[amet]

hi,

looked at it on my side and it seems to be ok.. image is re-cached just fine

https://pastebin.com/bxk5E8AG

https://pastebin.com/eN6z7CGC

I am not sure what error are you seeing... seems to all work fine here

[steve1977]

thanks. may i PM you my log files? did you cache by hovering over the movie or using texturecache script?


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