[B][COLOR red]December 27, 2019[/COLOR][/B]

[COLOR yellow]--[/COLOR][I] Thought I'd report things on my to-do list

    that are currently part done and being worked on.

    I hope some might comment so I can put things

    into priority. So it goes like this[/I]

[COLOR yellow]--[/COLOR][I] - 1.) Uncached torrent removal.[/I]

[COLOR yellow]--[/COLOR][I] - 2.) Global context menu options.[/I]

[COLOR yellow]--[/COLOR][I] - 2.) Add season pack ability.[/I]

[COLOR yellow]--[/COLOR][I] - 2.) add service, and option to enable, to

    notify user of new updates for those that turn

    off auto updates.[/I]





[B][COLOR red]October 9, 2019[/COLOR][/B]

[COLOR yellow]--[/COLOR][I] Wow, I did not realize it's been months

    since I added comments here.  I wanted to inform

    people at this current time there are issues with

    TMDb user lists.  It seems that some users have

    reported to TMDb that titles are being dropped

    from their lists.  I noticed in the Movies-Collections

    many lists seem to now have missing titles so I'm

    hit with this new issue myself.  I reported this to

    TMDb and it's been confirmed and they are

    looking into it.[/I]



[B][COLOR red]July 25, 2019[/COLOR][/B]

[COLOR yellow]--[/COLOR][I] Working on a new Trakt list where it will

    follow our "Page Item Limit" setting and this should

    give a huge boost to large Trakt list for users

    complaining they are slow.[/I]



[COLOR yellow]--[/COLOR][I] Eventually the plan is to get all Trakt lists

    to and indepndent py file to avoid the chaos exo

    forks make mashing the code all together and

    using a final function called super_info() to

    resolve all missing data for far to many variants.

    I'm sorry to say to any devs working on an exo

    fork that this just fails terribly. They never

    developened a "next" page ability for things like

    large Trakt list over a 100 items and we are trying

    to gather that data and load it.  Not a real prob for

    8yr old code lacking modern bells and whistles.

    A pretty decent slow down can be seen in these large

    Trakt list trying trying to add any kind of modren

    features sets so	what is needs is "Page Item Limits"

    for these large lists.  A bit of work but that's my next plan[/I]



[B][COLOR red]July 18, 2019[/COLOR][/B]

[COLOR yellow]--[/COLOR][I] More additions to try and speed up menu load

    times so please experiment with the new options for

    "Season Count" and "Unwatched Count".  Personally

    I like seeing this added info but it does add an api call

    and impacts load times.  Also if you flip these on or off

    please remember you need to clear cache, meta and

    cache option at a min.[/I]



[COLOR yellow]--[/COLOR][I] Had a little issue with someone messing with

    "view types' and did not know how to cure the setting

    they chose.  What I decided to do was enhance the

    "Reset View Types" option to now include flushing

    of the Kodi cache for "viewMode6.db".  Keep in mind

    this will now reset every single view type to skin default

    and wipe the data from Kodi as well.  It's actually the

    preferable method for a proper reset.[/I]



[COLOR yellow]--[/COLOR][I] I actually fixed the HEVC filtering last update

     and forgot to include that in the changelog.  What I

     discovered today was the filtering was done after the

     source links were counted so you saw all kind of gaps

     in the link count list.  I now moved the code to where it

     should be to not effect the count and labels.[/I]



[COLOR yellow]--[/COLOR][I] I've turned back on caching of Trakt Progress

    list for speed.  First users complained the list did not

    update for episodes they just finished watching so I

    removed the caching duration so it would update

    instantly but this came at a cost...slow down and it

    comes with the territory folks and you can not have it

    both ways.  I've come to realize the complaints of speed

    out weigh the folks wanting it updated instantly so some

    of you lose.  No more discussions on it either!![/I]



[B][COLOR red]July 06, 2019[/COLOR][/B]

[COLOR yellow]--[/COLOR][I] Trying to speed up menu load times so please

    experiment with the new options for "Page Item Limit" and

    "Disable Extended artwork(fanart.tv).  I'm currently using

    a Page Limit of 10, yes you heard that right.[/I]



[COLOR yellow]--[/COLOR][I] Disabling Extended artwork seems to have the

    biggest impact on TMDb lists at this time.  I watched a 20

    listitem page go from 8 seconds to 4 seconds by turning

    this new feature off.  Ironically IMDb lists had .75 seconds

    load time improvement.  IMDb parses web page due to

    IMDb not having an api.  TMDb's api is in use so I'm not

    sure if two consecutive api requests cause this large delay

    or not but it sure looks to be the case.  I plan to investigate

    this further info.[/I]



[COLOR yellow]--[/COLOR][I] The most notable loss to using "Disable Extended

    artwork" will be no clearart or discart retrieved.  This is

    seen during playback seek or pause.  The clearart generally

    appears on the right side of the player.  Discart is used by

    some skins to show a DVD pop out of the poster artwork.

    If this artwork is of no importance to you I suggest turning

    this new option off.[/I]



[B][COLOR red]June 19, 2019[/COLOR][/B]

[COLOR yellow]--[/COLOR][I] UpNext integration info.

[COLOR yellow]--[/COLOR][I] Please note this release requires the latest release

    of UpNext, version 1.0.1, that can be found in the Kodi

    repo and was released on un 18, 2019.  Version 1.0.0

    has a few communication issues that were esolved in

    1.0.1.  You will notice occasional missing UpNext

    notifications with v1.0.0 so please be sure to check

    this.  Thank you Ian for resolving this issue!![/I]



[COLOR yellow]--[/COLOR][I] For now the best way to use UpNext is with the Kodi

    context menu option "Play from Here" or from within

    the "Playlist Manager" - "View Playlist"[/I]

[COLOR yellow]--[/COLOR][I] Previously all exo forks refused to close the episode

    list items if you used "Play from Here" so this play

    method for me became annoying.  I've fixed this

    and episode list items, and playlist, now close. [/I]



[COLOR yellow]--[/COLOR][I] Due to the above I was forced to hard code Auto Play

    for Episodes.  This was needed for the "Play from

    Here" context menu option to work in continual

    episode play of an entire season.  If you select

    a single episode only that episode will play, but

    with Auto Play still in effect.  If you disable UpNext

    this removes the hard code. If you wish to bypass

    Auto Play for a single episode I suggest using the

    context menu option "Select Source" for the item

    you wish to single play without Auto Play enabled[/I]



[COLOR yellow]--[/COLOR][I] The Auto playlist creation is on by default and this is

    done behind closed doors with no effect on

    performance at all.  You can try with and without

    this feature on and you will not notice even the

    slightest difference so I suggest leaving it on.

    At this time the only thing this does is when you

    enter a Season the playlist will create a full episode

    list for the given Season you entered only.  Entering

    the "Playlist Manager" you could view, edit,  and

    play this list. Future plans for this playlist as well.[/I]



[COLOR yellow]--[/COLOR][I] The goal for next update is to get the playlist to play

    from a single episode selection, so you won't

    have to use "Play from Here" but at this time I'm

    dealing with a bit of a bug calling this playlist for

    direct play.  I also want to add a pre-scrape ability

    so next episode play is instant without a visible

    scrape process, but timing it the scrape takes

    about 3-5secs for the next episode to play as

    it is now so I didn't holdback this release[/I]

