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2010-05-09, 07:50
(This post was last modified: 2010-05-11, 09:15 by WisdomWolf.)
Well, the slowness seems to be isolated to my mac. When I connect from my wife's Windows 7 laptop everything works great. I've noticed that XBMC seems to lag in general though, so I'm wondering if its not just something weird with the latest builds. I mean, they are, afterall, not recommended. I'm going to give the skip name resolve tip a go to see if that does anything though.
UPDATE: Adding skip-name-resolve to the my.ini file resolved the issue, thanks lalaw. Now XBMC starts up quick and connects to the database very quickly. Now I just need to setup thumbnail support. So far I've been using Sugarsync, but that quickly overwhelms the cpu on my atom, so I may try one of the other methods.
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In my home network I don't have consistent path names to the file server from all client machines. The linux htpc boots via nfs and accesses the media files via nfs mount, so media files are located at /some/mount/point, but from windows clients the same files can only be addressed via smb:// or a drive letter. Impossible to share the existing xbmc profile/database.
My first try was to clone the database using sqlite terminal frontend and rewriting path names with sed on the fly, but then I learned that thumbnails are tied to path names too. Therefore I wrote a script which not only clones the database, rewriting path names as necessary, but also recalculates all thumb and fanart file names accordingly and builds a copy of the thumbnail cache matching the cloned database.
If someone is interested I can clean up the script somewhat and share it here.
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ive seen a dropbox tutorial somewhere here at the forum, but i think its not so easy as you think. if xbmc live supports dropbox... no clue sorry
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no prob man. i also have a crossplattform xbmc solution at home and i was looking for a way to always have anything in sync.
You only need the Database Folder located in the Userdata Folder not the whole userdata.
for you the symlink way should work. did you tried it?
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2010-06-19, 20:58
(This post was last modified: 2010-06-19, 21:01 by ringgh0st.)
does mysql implementation also works in the latest nightly? i installed it (17.06.2010 svn) but xbmc seems to not recognize the advancedsettings.xml anymore? any tipps?
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Hi all, I've been looking forward to this idea of a shared DB for a long time.
I have 6 XBMC LIVE 9.11 running on 3600 Revos. All device look at a single media NAS Synology DS410J (which can run SQL, I think...)
Can I use the method in the previous pages to work with LIVE?
Cheers.
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2010-08-06, 17:57
(This post was last modified: 2010-08-06, 19:49 by mikeziri.)
Got it. Thank you.
Running from PPA now.
It now works. Thank you!