Vero 4K art issues with large collection

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Hello,

I have a Vero 4K which has been in service for a few years. I also have several other devices connected to the same Kodi database which work fine. I now have ~1100 items in my collection between TV and movies.

I normally use the Infowall view. However, on my 4K I have been finding that art loading performance has rapidly degraded in this view, to the point where I have had to switch to text-only title view. I am wondering if the issue is because there is more art than the system can cache, though I do note that reported RAM usage is still under 512MB.

I have tried re-installing OSMC, which did not make any difference.

I was wondering if anybody else had a collection this large, and whether they had similar issues, or if I need to look for the issue elsewhere.

Thanks

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Hi, in case you are using the Estuary skin, have a look at this post and the related thread Thumbnail issue - #102 by JimKnopf.

Let us know whether this is the situation you described.

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Thank you. I found in that issue the suggestion to disable extract thumbnails from files, and that seemed to fix the problem.

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It sounds like Kodi is running out of memory and crashing.

On Vero V we doubled the RAM. While 2GB RAM was more than ample for Vero 4K and Vero 4K+ in 2017/2018; resource requirements always increase with each iteration of Debian and Kodi.

If you had a problem with all views, Iā€™d suggest a corrupt file, but if it is only occurring on certain views then I think it is a memory issue.

Cheers,

Sam

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That issue shows people experiencing this on Vero Vs as well, and as I said reported memory usage was low. Disabling the mentioned setting fixed the problem for me. I have no desire to put this perfectly functional device in a landfill.