2019-12-06, 17:35
Hello,
I have noticed that artwork seems to load somewhat slow on my system.
Some even takes more than a second to load which (to me at least) seems way longer than it should.
So when I enter a movie collection it takes a bit to load the artwork for the movies, then when I return to the movie list I have the same issue even though the artwork was already loaded for them before I entered the movie collection. Same goes for entering/exiting TV shows and seasons.
The issue even presents itself when scrolling through content (I'm guessing Kodi "unloads" artwork for content not currently on screen).
As far as I have been able to gather, Kodi should cache artwork locally so even though the video and artwork files are on a network drive, the artwork should be loaded from Kodi cache right?
Here is a snippit from the log of me scrolling through my TV Shows after having scrolled through once to make sure everything loads and has a chance to be cached:
The size of the images:
So now to my questions:
1. Is this normal load times for artwork? Am I just being unreasonable here?
2. Is there anything I can do to cause artwork to load faster?
3. Could this just be a limitation of the hardware?
4. Does Kodi only extract thumbs once you browse to the media or should it extract thumbs when media is added to the library?
4.1 I have noticed that some episodes doesn't have thumbs on the home screen and they don't get extracted until I browse to the episode (TV Shows > Show Name > Season)
Is this normal or could it just be an issue with the theme?
4.2 If it's only when you browse to the media, is there a way to trigger thumb extraction on the entire library?
Extra info that could be relevant:
I have noticed that artwork seems to load somewhat slow on my system.
Some even takes more than a second to load which (to me at least) seems way longer than it should.
So when I enter a movie collection it takes a bit to load the artwork for the movies, then when I return to the movie list I have the same issue even though the artwork was already loaded for them before I entered the movie collection. Same goes for entering/exiting TV shows and seasons.
The issue even presents itself when scrolling through content (I'm guessing Kodi "unloads" artwork for content not currently on screen).
As far as I have been able to gather, Kodi should cache artwork locally so even though the video and artwork files are on a network drive, the artwork should be loaded from Kodi cache right?
Here is a snippit from the log of me scrolling through my TV Shows after having scrolled through once to make sure everything loads and has a chance to be cached:
Code:
2019-12-06 15:49:34.141 T:2145325936 DEBUG: DoWork - took 1015 ms to load special://masterprofile/Thumbnails/7/715f9390.jpg
2019-12-06 15:49:38.212 T:2076386160 DEBUG: DoWork - took 962 ms to load special://masterprofile/Thumbnails/b/b1bbcad6.jpg
2019-12-06 15:49:38.215 T:2210394992 DEBUG: DoWork - took 965 ms to load special://masterprofile/Thumbnails/e/e601563f.jpg
2019-12-06 15:49:38.220 T:2161095536 DEBUG: DoWork - took 970 ms to load special://masterprofile/Thumbnails/d/dcd10d89.jpg
2019-12-06 15:49:38.224 T:2145325936 DEBUG: DoWork - took 974 ms to load special://masterprofile/Thumbnails/d/dcd10d89.jpg
2019-12-06 15:49:39.274 T:2145325936 DEBUG: DoWork - took 866 ms to load special://masterprofile/Thumbnails/7/7391c019.jpg
2019-12-06 15:49:40.294 T:2210394992 DEBUG: DoWork - took 620 ms to load special://masterprofile/Thumbnails/4/4e94f60f.jpg
2019-12-06 15:49:40.296 T:2076386160 DEBUG: DoWork - took 854 ms to load special://masterprofile/Thumbnails/6/68c23e68.jpg
2019-12-06 15:49:48.239 T:2210394992 DEBUG: DoWork - took 1006 ms to load special://masterprofile/Thumbnails/8/86f301ba.jpg
2019-12-06 15:49:48.240 T:2161095536 DEBUG: DoWork - took 1010 ms to load special://masterprofile/Thumbnails/9/930b73e1.jpg
2019-12-06 15:49:48.247 T:2145325936 DEBUG: DoWork - took 1008 ms to load special://masterprofile/Thumbnails/b/b1bbcad6.jpg
2019-12-06 15:49:48.247 T:2076386160 DEBUG: DoWork - took 1008 ms to load special://masterprofile/Thumbnails/d/dcd10d89.jpg
2019-12-06 15:49:50.331 T:2076386160 DEBUG: DoWork - took 623 ms to load special://masterprofile/Thumbnails/1/10ff68da.jpg
The size of the images:
Code:
9/930b73e1.jpg - 71.51 KB - 367x540
4/4e94f60f.jpg - 166.80 KB - 1280x720
1/10ff68da.jpg - 213.64 KB - 1280x720
e/e601563f.jpg - 56.03 KB - 367x540
7/715f9390.jpg - 126.73 KB - 1280x720
7/7391c019.jpg - 204.32 KB - 1280x720
8/86f301ba.jpg - 50.95 KB - 367x540
b/b1bbcad6.jpg - 87.34 KB - 367x540
6/68c23e68.jpg - 364.93 KB - 1280x720
d/dcd10d89.jpg - 72.03 KB - 367x540
So now to my questions:
1. Is this normal load times for artwork? Am I just being unreasonable here?
2. Is there anything I can do to cause artwork to load faster?
3. Could this just be a limitation of the hardware?
4. Does Kodi only extract thumbs once you browse to the media or should it extract thumbs when media is added to the library?
4.1 I have noticed that some episodes doesn't have thumbs on the home screen and they don't get extracted until I browse to the episode (TV Shows > Show Name > Season)
Is this normal or could it just be an issue with the theme?
4.2 If it's only when you browse to the media, is there a way to trigger thumb extraction on the entire library?
Extra info that could be relevant:
- All my media and artwork is on a NAS (A Raspberry Pi 3B+ running OpenMediaVault)
- Except Movie Collection Artwork which are stored locally
- Except Movie Collection Artwork which are stored locally
- I'm using the theme Estuary (I have also tried using Estuary Mod v2 for a while)
- I have used Artwork Beef to download artwork (No animated artwork yet)
- I have enabled Artwork Beef to download the artwork, I had previously just had it add URLs to Kodi
- I have enabled Artwork Beef to download the artwork, I had previously just had it add URLs to Kodi
- Kodi log: http://ix.io/23GS
- Running Kodi 18.5 (LibreELEC 9.2.0) on a Raspberry Pi 4