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Little information in movie listing

Open tatankat opened this issue 2 years ago • 2 comments

Describe the bug Since a few releases back, in (at least) the movie listing, only the title and an image is shown for the entries. Once you start playback, additional information is loaded.

To Reproduce Open a movie listing. See information, start playback of one, see updated listing.

Expected behavior I am not sure if this is a feature, a bug or a missing feature. It may have been decided it was best this way. I would expect it shows as much information for non-played items as for the played items, which means additionally (at least) the description and the total time (and possibly the fanart).

Additional information I don't think any additional information is relevant.

tatankat avatar Jun 04 '22 22:06 tatankat

When make a request to the VTM Go API for a listing of movies or series, we only get back a name and a picture. When you click it, it makes another request that provides more detailed information.

In the past, I had a background service that queried ALL movies and services in VTM Go and kept a local cache, so we could show more information in the overviews, but had other drawbacks, and I ended up removing it when I had to do a rework of the authentication. I might add this back in the future, but no guarantees.

Some part of this code is still in the add-on, it still creates a cache, and uses it in the overview, but it doesn't do a full scan anymore. When there is an issue with the parsing of a movie/series, the cache can get corrupted, and you will see an empty item. This will be fixed by this PR: https://github.com/add-ons/plugin.video.vtm.go/pull/327

michaelarnauts avatar Jun 06 '22 14:06 michaelarnauts