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Playlist size and speed ? - jbinkley60 - 2023-07-23
I am curious if folks have a general feel or target for how large (how many items) and how fast you want your movie library to display ? This is especially more interesting in shared environments with a number of clients. I ask because my movie library is approaching 4,000 movies. I've organized the hierarchy by major genre type (i.e. Action, Comedy, Drama etc..) and then have a number of smart and active playlists for things like New Movies, New TV Shows, Last 100 played, By title and many more. With my addon I have performance timers on each client to see how they are performing.
With this approach some of the genre folders are up to 350 or so items. The smart and active playlists I can set limits for and typically 250 is the high water mark. Performance on my higher end clients is till good with the large playlists / folders because they can fetch and 100-150 items/ per second (including artwork) which equates to 2-3 seconds to display. Lower end devices like Raspberry Pis are in the 50-60 items/sec which equates to 6-8 seconds, which is getting long. Also with that many items just navigating the list with page up/down (even with Kodi's ability to wrap around the bottom of the list), still requires a number of clicks.
I am feeling like splitting the genre folders into genre A-l and genre M-Z (i.e. Action A-L, Action M-Z etc..) would get me back to a more preferred sizing. Subgenres is an option but that feels complicated and too many folders. I am interested what others, with large libraries, are doing (aside from stop being a hoarder and reduce the size of my library) and what thoughts you have on sizing for usability and performance ?
Thanks,
Jeff
RE: Playlist size and speed ? - izprtxqkft - 2023-07-24
850+ movies loaded into my kodi library right now, not sure that counts as large (certainly not 4000 large)
using Estuary, i leave the viewtype as Wall and it is more than fast on most everything ive tested it on - my kodi data folder travels between devices
i noted the worst condition when setting artwork too high in advancedsettings.xml - 1080p+ was too much so i leave it at 720p which gives good quality at 4+ feet away with the skin forced to 2160p in addon.xml
i get 12 posters per row, 5 rows per "screen" (on screen)
so if you are having slow downs i might suspect the artwork size and ram usage
here's my settings
xml:<imageres>720</imageres>
<fanartres>9999</fanartres>
<imagescalingalgorithm>bilinear</imagescalingalgorithm>
<imagequalityjpeg>0</imagequalityjpeg>
RE: Playlist size and speed ? - jbinkley60 - 2023-07-24
(2023-07-24, 21:30)jepsizofye Wrote: 850+ movies loaded into my kodi library right now, not sure that counts as large (certainly not 4000 large)
using Estuary, i leave the viewtype as Wall and it is more than fast on most everything ive tested it on - my kodi data folder travels between devices
i noted the worst condition when setting artwork too high in advancedsettings.xml - 1080p+ was too much so i leave it at 720p which gives good quality at 4+ feet away with the skin forced to 2160p in addon.xml
i get 12 posters per row, 5 rows per "screen" (on screen)
so if you are having slow downs i might suspect the artwork size and ram usage
here's my settings
This is really less of a performance question and more about usability. In your case you are viewing 60 items per page so 400 or so would be 6-7 pages to scroll through. I prefer the info 2 view mode which only presents 20 or so per page but more info. For me that can be 20 page (10 if I wrap around). I am just wondering what folks feel is a reasonable number of items to scroll through to find what they are looking for.
Jeff
RE: Playlist size and speed ? - izprtxqkft - 2023-07-24
with pagination - maybe 3 pages by then im tired of clicking next page
i dont feel im a standard user though - this is how i browse trakt https://trakt.tv/movies/trending?limit=500
(kodi really needs that lazy load functionality)