Using the windows 10 look (probably works for others as well) try to use as many playlists as possible.
Create your own instead of using the built in ‘ Recent movies, In Progress’ etc..
If your system is a slower one (I have a X9S box), these playlists will not only load MUCH faster (almost instant)
but also there seems to be NO LIMIT on the amount of widgets that will load.
I am getting 1000+ ‘unwatched movies’ for example that will load load up within 10 seconds or so at start up.
I have noticed 2 issues with this however..
1. sometimes 2 separate categories will ‘bleed’ into each other (‘recent movies’ will temporarily take over the ‘In Progress’ slot for example)
Work around for this is choose a different look (boxes vs small posters) for example, or wait till it refreshes, or use less widgets
2. Focus will not remain on last selected file. This is a bug and hopefully can get fixed. I have not found any workaround for this.
For example select a movie from within the widget, play it, then stop the movie.
When it returns to the widgets, the movie you were playing is not the one selected (usually goes back to the top of the list)
This is bad when you have 100’s of widgets. This problem will not happen if you are using the netflix 2 look, but the netflix 2 look can only load so many rows.
The rows can still be very long but the speed at what things load up using playlists is no where near as fast as the windows 10 look.
Hopefully this bug can get fixed so that the last selected file still has focus in the windows 10 look.
Anyway, give your own playlists a try and see how much fast everything loads up and works, even with 100’s of unlimited widgets working..
This means 4 master widgets per page, and multiple pages.. each with 100’s of movies loading