2013-03-19, 23:22
I'm trying to find an efficient way to manage my Library, which should go something like:
- Initial import in XBMC - scrape for 12 hours (I can live with this theoretically one-time inconvenience)
- Export Entire Library (separate XMLs)
- Check/Update/Edit metadata on OSX with ViMediaManager
- In XBMC (I'm running Raspbmc), remove that source, then add it again (i.e. how the wiki suggests you should refresh the library)
The problem is, I was hoping it would just go through the NFO files and update the media library, but NO, it's taking forever because looking at the logfile it seems to need to create and resize images the entire time (for the thumbnail cache).
This is not an efficient process, to have to wait for all that each time I update more than a handful of movies' metadata in viMediaManager and want to just refresh everything. The thumbnail generation process on a Raspberry Pi takes WAY too long, and ideally this doesn't need to happen. All of the import time is directly due to this, an unnecessary step.
The question is, how do I set things up so that it doesn't have to generate thumbnails every time? Can't the thumbnails be generated once and be stored in the same folder as the movie? Is there a setting for this? Why is it not on by default? Especially if this source is mounted to the machine running XBMC ?
Cheers
- Initial import in XBMC - scrape for 12 hours (I can live with this theoretically one-time inconvenience)
- Export Entire Library (separate XMLs)
- Check/Update/Edit metadata on OSX with ViMediaManager
- In XBMC (I'm running Raspbmc), remove that source, then add it again (i.e. how the wiki suggests you should refresh the library)
The problem is, I was hoping it would just go through the NFO files and update the media library, but NO, it's taking forever because looking at the logfile it seems to need to create and resize images the entire time (for the thumbnail cache).
This is not an efficient process, to have to wait for all that each time I update more than a handful of movies' metadata in viMediaManager and want to just refresh everything. The thumbnail generation process on a Raspberry Pi takes WAY too long, and ideally this doesn't need to happen. All of the import time is directly due to this, an unnecessary step.
The question is, how do I set things up so that it doesn't have to generate thumbnails every time? Can't the thumbnails be generated once and be stored in the same folder as the movie? Is there a setting for this? Why is it not on by default? Especially if this source is mounted to the machine running XBMC ?
Cheers