1000+ videos best practice

"oliver9000" wrote:
i'm a newbie brightscript dev with a question about displaying a high volume of videos. The client has 1000+ videos and maybe 10 categories. They want to use the grid screen to display them all by category. In theory we would have one giant XML file to parse with 100 or so episodes in each category. Are there performance issues with doing this? Should we be using a poster screen to cycle through the categories and then launch a sub screen? The client wants a flat navigation with as few clicks between a poster and a video watch. thanks!

You should ask this in the developer forum as you will get more and better responses however:

I am using Roksbox and I have over 1800 video files in 30 or so genera. If I use an XML file I get extremely slow operation and even occasional lockups however in the directory mode, which separates the files by directories, I can use either the grid or the poster screen with pretty good performance but the grid screen provides the best performance. I have no idea if your app could be suited to the setup like I am using but I do know that the Roku is not really good at crunching numbers as its processor is, even at the fastest, quite slow and processing anything like an XML file is really number crunching.