I have developed an addon that manages a virtual library for anime shows, accessed through a video source endpoint.
There are a few problems with the current video library which I am trying to solve: 1) the existing scrapers suck for anime (even anidb mod); the recognition is terrible. 2) As a consumer of these shows, I only care about playing “the next episode”. I am not building out a real library here to hold on to forever. By “playing” the show, it plays the next episode, if there is one.
A lot of work has been done to implement python code that grabs watch progress from a tracking service (myanimelist), scan for files on disk to match them against shows that are being watched, and determine what shows have a file ready to play.
However, since this is all done in python, the only option I have available to present the list, is as a video addon. Personally, I would rather these shows be added to the actual tv show section, where it makes more sense.
I have seen several posts from Garbear and topfs2 from many years ago about a new python scraper system “Heimdall”, and a “unified content database”, which seems to possibly be what I am after. Confirmation on if these system will do what I want would be great.
So the question is, are any of these features actually planned to be integrated into a Kodi release? And if so, what version? I see that retroplayer is being added to v18, does that include the unified database, or just the emulation core?
http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=238307 (2015) – discussion on unified content database
http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=134012 (2012) – Project Heimdall
http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=173744 (2013) – Scraper and Library Mode