Mezzmo Kodi Addon Update

[jbinkley60]

An updated version of the Mezzmo Kodi addon has been posted on GitHub. This version adds the following enhancements:

• Actor / actress thumbnail display on video information panel
• Display all movies associated with an actor / actress with direct selection play
• Ability to disable Kodi image caching allowing quicker Mezzmo updates

The update has been posted to the GitHub Mezzmo addon area. Click on the download source as a zip option
and then to add it to Kodi by using the install from zip file option..


Please read the release notes. This update does interact with the Kodi database to add some of the functionality.

Upon installation the version number should read v1.0.6.4 .

I welcome feedback and questions. Please post to this thread.

[freebird614]

I installed version 1.0.6.4 on two of my Vero4K+ Kodi boxes and have enjoyed having the actor info readily at hand in the movie data. Installation went smoothly with no issues. I used the feature to clear out the Kodi data base and it worked flawlessly. I great update to the addin!

[jbinkley60]

An updated version of the Mezzmo Kodi addon has been posted on GitHub. This version, 1.0.6.5, contains a bug fix:

• Fixed issue with quotes and double quotes in actors / actresses names not inserting into Kodi DB. A clear Kodi DB
function is needed to learn the missing actors / actresses.

[jbinkley60]

An updated version of the Mezzmo Kodi addon has been posted on GitHub. This version, 1.0.6.6, contains a couple of user enhancements:

• Changed clear Kodi DB setting so that once it executes it changes the setting automatically to disabled. It will only run once
now if you forget to manually disable the setting.
• User setting for caching of Mezzmo images now clears cached Mezzmo images when you browse or search a playlist vs. when
Mezzmo addon starts.

[jbinkley60]

An updated version of the Mezzmo Kodi addon has been posted on GitHub. This version, 1.0.6.7, contains a couple of minor fixes:

• Resolved issue where actor insertion into Kodi DB would fail if existing movie name was changed in Mezzmo.
• Fixed minor Kodi debugging log message failures with non-ASCII characters

[jbinkley60]

An updated version of the Mezzmo Kodi addon has been posted on GitHub. This version, 1.0.6.8, contains a feature enhancement:

• Supports Mezzmo 6.0.4 functionality to detect duration changes to videos, as
well as video codec changes for reripping and similar situations.

[jbinkley60]

An updated version of the Mezzmo Kodi addon has been posted on GitHub. This version, 1.0.6.9, contains a feature enhancement:

• Added support for Mezzmo playcounts to be copied and updated into the Kodi DB
and will set the watched flag when the playcount is greater than 0. Playcounts
will automatically update from Mezzmo when browsing playlists. The watched
flag will be displayed when browsing by actor / actress in the movie info panel.

[jbinkley60]

An updated version of the Mezzmo Kodi addon has been posted on GitHub. This version, 1.0.7.0, contains a performance enhancement:

• Added index to improve Kodi DB performance which started degrading with
version 1.0.6.2.

[jbinkley60]

An updated version of the Mezzmo Kodi addon has been posted on GitHub. This version, 1.0.7.1, contains the following feature enhancements:

• Added detection for Mezzmo metadata changes including tagline, rating, genre,
description, writer and more. Mezzmo metadata changes now sync to Kodi DB and
updates all Kodi DB data for a given movie when a Mezzmo change is detected.
• Added detection for audio codec changes
• Added user setting to disable Mezzmo change detection to speed up playlist
loading on slower devices or if you have a Mezzmo database that doesn't change
metadata very often. On slow devices you can enable change detection, sync
the latest Mezzmo changes to the Kodi DB and then disable change detection.
Default is enabled since most devices aren't impacted by the slight overhead.
When change detection is disabled new Mezzmo additions still sync to the Kodi DB
as long as Kodi DB actor information copy is enabled.

In addition support for Kodi 19 development is underway with a beta likely being available within a couple of weeks. If anyone is interested in testing please let me know.

[jbinkley60]

An updated version of the Mezzmo Kodi addon has been posted on GitHub. This version, 1.0.7.2, contains the following feature enhancement:

• Detects file name / container changes for existing Mezzmo video items. This
can help when you might rerip a video file to another format but keep the Mezzmo
name the same.

This feature can be helpful if you are converting / standardizing your Mezzmo library into a common video format.