2013-01-31, 03:25
Hi All,
I have a number of PCs in my house running XBMC 11 and am looking to upgrade to 12 but I am concerned with the new library update changes, the removal of the path substitution and how it will different PCs updating the library and thumbnails.
Currently the PCs are turned off when not in use but they all update the library when XBMC first loads. TV/Movies etc. are on the NAS, as are all the thumbnails (using path substitution on each XBMC instance). This means everything is in sync because of the central database and central thumbnail storage.
The upgrade instructions for Frodo (http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=HOW...BMC_to_v12) explain how to remove the path substitution and copy everything locally and then it will keep it in sync itself but it doesn't explain how this actually works and I don't see how it can.
What if all the computers aren't turned on or the computer that did the update is then turned off when one of the others is turned on? The library will be up to date but the thumbnails missing I am guessing until that PC is turned back on at the same time as one of the others.
A good example is our home theatre which is used rarely compared to the living room. If I start XBMC and it updates the library and the computer is turned off for a few weeks then none of the other instances will "sync" the thumbnails stored locally on that PC only.
It appears to me that I'd need to somehow run a headless XBMC instance that is updating the library all the time on some type of server to have a centrally fully up to date database and then not do any updates on the actual clients.
Am I misunderstanding something with this new implementation?
Can path substitutions still work in Frodo (exactly the same as Eden) to get around this problem?
Regards,
Andrew
I have a number of PCs in my house running XBMC 11 and am looking to upgrade to 12 but I am concerned with the new library update changes, the removal of the path substitution and how it will different PCs updating the library and thumbnails.
Currently the PCs are turned off when not in use but they all update the library when XBMC first loads. TV/Movies etc. are on the NAS, as are all the thumbnails (using path substitution on each XBMC instance). This means everything is in sync because of the central database and central thumbnail storage.
The upgrade instructions for Frodo (http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=HOW...BMC_to_v12) explain how to remove the path substitution and copy everything locally and then it will keep it in sync itself but it doesn't explain how this actually works and I don't see how it can.
What if all the computers aren't turned on or the computer that did the update is then turned off when one of the others is turned on? The library will be up to date but the thumbnails missing I am guessing until that PC is turned back on at the same time as one of the others.
A good example is our home theatre which is used rarely compared to the living room. If I start XBMC and it updates the library and the computer is turned off for a few weeks then none of the other instances will "sync" the thumbnails stored locally on that PC only.
It appears to me that I'd need to somehow run a headless XBMC instance that is updating the library all the time on some type of server to have a centrally fully up to date database and then not do any updates on the actual clients.
Am I misunderstanding something with this new implementation?
Can path substitutions still work in Frodo (exactly the same as Eden) to get around this problem?
Regards,
Andrew