JSON-RPC (JSON Remote Procedure Call) interface protocol in development for XBMC

spike411 · 2012-02-15 12:45

Thanks, Montellese, my search-fu was weak today. The proposed solution seems OK.

mikebzh44 · 2012-02-15 19:01

Hello.

I want to filter partially watched movies (movies started to watched but not finished) in playlist so I use :

Code:

xbmc.executeJSONRPC('{"jsonrpc": "2.0", "method": "Files.GetDirectory", "params": {"directory": "%s", "media": "video", "properties": ["year", "runtime", "file", "playcount", "rating", "plot", "fanart", "thumbnail", "resume", "trailer"]}, "id": 1}' %(_playlist))

But every movie have the following resume property :

Code:

u'resume': {u'position': 0, u'total': 0}

I have started a movie, fast forwarded it and then stoped it.
When I click to view it, XBMC ask me if I want to watch it from start or from 21:12

So where can I found the information "this movie have been watched for 1272 seconds" ?

Thanks.

**Montellese** · 2012-02-16 01:22

It should be in the "resume" property. I just tested it with one of my movies and this is what I get from VideoLibrary.GetMovies, VideoLibrary.GetMovieDetails and Files.GetDirectory:

Code:

"resume": { "position": 1849.088134765625, "total": 5024 }

I haven't tested it with smartplaylists though.

mikebzh44 · 2012-02-16 09:52

Montellese Wrote:It should be in the "resume" property. I just tested it with one of my movies and this is what I get from VideoLibrary.GetMovies, VideoLibrary.GetMovieDetails and Files.GetDirectory:

Code:

"resume": { "position": 1849.088134765625, "total": 5024 }
I haven't tested it with smartplaylists though.

I think that is a bug Sad

Request made by GetDirectory on a playlist :

Code:

{u'rating': 3.7999999523162842,

 u'fanart': u'special://masterprofile/Thumbnails/Video/Fanart/d9db9c4e.tbn',

 u'filetype': u'file',

 [b]u'resume': {u'position': 0, u'total': 0},[/b]

 u'label': u'Drive',

 u'thumbnail': u'special://masterprofile/Thumbnails/Video/d/d9db9c4e.tbn',

 u'file': u'C:\\Vid\xe9os\\Films\\Drive\\Drive.mkv',

 u'year': 2011,

 u'playcount': 0,

 u'runtime': u'100',

 u'type': u'movie',

 u'id': 192,

 u'trailer': u'http://hd.fr.mediaplayer.allocine.fr/nmedia/18/83/93/95/19243476_fa1_vf_sd_001.flv'

}

Request made by GetMovieDetails on the specific movie :

Code:

{u'moviedetails': {[b]u'resume': {u'position': 1271.79809570312[/b]5, u'total': 6024},

 u'movieid': 192,

 u'label': u'Drive'}}})

**jmarshall** · 2012-02-16 10:14

The resume point is returned only if needsCast is set true in GetDetailsForMovie() et. al.

@Montellese: perhaps the additional info isn't being fetched for this field?

**Montellese** · 2012-02-16 11:09

Yeah it probably isn't fetched for smartplaylists but I'm not sure if I want to fix that. The problem with retrieving the extra info ("resume", "sets", "cast" etc) is that the time it takes to retrieve the information skyrockets. This is ok for GetMovieDetails because you only retrieve one movie and it's information. It is also acceptable for VideoLibrary.GetMovies because I can first check whether we actually need to retrieve the extra info and if not I don't set the needsCast flag in the request to the database. But I don't have this kind of information when retrieving smartplaylists (which is done in XBMC's VFS) so enabling that flag by default will slow down loading every smartplaylist independent of whether this happens through JSON-RPC or the XBMC GUI. So it kind of is a bug but only because it would worsen the smartplaylist experience overall.

bthusby · 2012-02-16 16:55

Is JSON-RPC inherently a bit slow/heavy (bottleneck) when you have a large library of TV Shows?

I was given this explanation in another thread concerning the "On-deck" -feature, a script that shows which episodes I should watch based on what show I'm normally watching, and which is the next unwatched episode in those TV shows.

The script seems to have some performance issues / delay on the ATV2. I also use a MySQL DB on a NAS for my libraries.

**Martijn** · 2012-02-16 16:57

bthusby Wrote:It seems to have some performance issues on the ATV2.

An ATV2 just hasn't got much ponies. If you want power better buy somethnig better

**Montellese** · 2012-02-16 16:59

Obviously the larger your library is the longer it takes to retrieve all the tvshows in it. Furthermore the watchlist script first retrieves all the tvshows and then for every tvshow it retrieves all the episodes. So the more tvshows you have the more it has to go through. And the more episodes there are in every show the longer it takes to process every show. You can't expect it to take the same time to go through all episodes of 10 tvshows compared to all episodes of 50 tvshows.

Furthermore the ATV2 isn't really popular for being very fast or having enough power to do everything XBMC offers. If you don't want to spend more money on your htpc you'll have to live with the fact that it won't be able to do everything as fast as if you spent more money on something faster/better.

bthusby · 2012-02-16 17:14

Wow, that is impressive response time from the XBMC team Smile

I have a Win 7 PC work horse with XBMC installed, sitting in the next room, but I like the ATV2 due to its simplicity. I don't have to turn on anything and wait for boot-up, and be nagged by updates from Acrobat, Sun and Itunes every other week... Wink

Maybe it is possible to optimize the JSON parsing by not go through the whole library each time? This obviously concerns the implementation of the script and not JSON-RPC as such.

Is JSON-RPC implemented in XBMC using Python?
And if so, is it simplejson which is used in Python, or the allegdely faster python-cjson or ultrajson? I'm unfortunately not an expert.

A lot of people use ATV2, Ipad etc these days for XBMC, and I hope performance and efficiency will be addressed where it can Smile

spike411 Junior Member Posts: 12 Joined: Apr 2011 Reputation: 0 Location: Prague, Czechia	2012-02-15 12:45 Post: #1711 Thanks, Montellese, my search-fu was weak today. The proposed solution seems OK.
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