It's not used so much these days. It's mainly still there for compatibility with old stuff.
It contains some .xml files, it's used for compatibility with some of the older metadata stuff in nextpvr.exe / uiclient to look for various different formats of metadata files, and converted them to a standard format. These days NextPVR downloads different style of metadata, so very few people really using this.
It used to also contain a resized version of any artwork found, resized to fit the size needed in the UI. We used to use GDI.NET for loading image files, and it was slow, and these resized images helped the UI stay relatively quick. Now we use SkiaSharp instead, so we can directly load the images without creating these resized versions.
(2023-12-04, 09:17 PM)sub Wrote: It's not used so much these days. It's mainly still there for compatibility with old stuff.
It contains some .xml files, it's used for compatibility with some of the older metadata stuff in nextpvr.exe / uiclient to look for various different formats of metadata files, and converted them to a standard format. These days NextPVR downloads different style of metadata, so very few people really using this.
It used to also contain a resized version of any artwork found, resized to fit the size needed in the UI. We used to use GDI.NET for loading image files, and it was slow, and these resized images helped the UI stay relatively quick. Now we use SkiaSharp instead, so we can directly load the images without creating these resized versions.
OK, thanx.
I've been rewriting my custom UI (so I can complete my switch from V4 to V6) and was just curious.
