[alshain]

I scan a site for videos and I need to do multiple requests for each video to get the necessary information in order to be able to play it and display information.

To reduce the loading time, I would like to be able to gather information about the movies, such as "Plot", in the background, after the virtual directory structure has been established.

However, I am not sure how XBMC's plugin architecture works. I presume it loads the items directly into non-python memory, thereby destroying the relationship between my actual node and the pyton ListItem object.

Is it possible to add information to a node after it has been "submitted" to XBMC from the plugin? (i.e. after endofdirectory())

[spiff]

nope.

[alshain]

hmm too bad. Thanks for the information.

Is there any place with more information about the plugin architecture in general? I find that the HOW-TOs are more of a "we want to do that, here's the code" and not really much of an explanation of how the things work together.

For instance, I have been struggling to get my covers downloaded, until I noticed that it gets cached depending on the path or url (or at least so I believe) so I have been trying for hours to get my thumbnails working...