2014-02-02, 15:09
After reading through the wiki, various other how-to sites, the thousands of pages from google searches I have some questions which hopefully the developers may answer.
My set up
Zyxel NSA310 box, with all my media on it, shared through NFS
Main media centre Ubuntu 13.10 with vdpau xbmc 13 alpha 12 - long story, ati card now works great.
PC - Arch linux with xbmc 12.3.
Raspberry pi with xbian running xbmc 12.2
Okay, I had a mysql database that used to update with all our media across the network fine, played and resume functions working fine, after upgrading to xbmc 13 the database numbers changed so now the media player updates but all the earlier versions cannot read the database (number to high), I knew this would happen.
So my questions.
1. Why is there a number change on every new version of xbmc, so that it is not backwards compatiable with earlier versions.
2. Why does the name tag in the advancedsettings file do nothing, yes it will use a different name but then adds a number to it and creates a new database so a complete waste of time.
I cannot update xbian from 12.2 as that's down to them. I can update Arch to 13, but why bother and yes I can downgrade my other media centre from 13 to 12.3 but then I will have graphic card issues.
So to finish, if there is no way of either modifing xbmc so that a newer version can be forced to use an older database number, or forcing older versions to use a higher database number, is there any other way to accomplish this. Any help on this would be appreciated as it annoying the hell out of me, ie moving away from xbmc and finding another solution which I would rather not do.
My set up
Zyxel NSA310 box, with all my media on it, shared through NFS
Main media centre Ubuntu 13.10 with vdpau xbmc 13 alpha 12 - long story, ati card now works great.
PC - Arch linux with xbmc 12.3.
Raspberry pi with xbian running xbmc 12.2
Okay, I had a mysql database that used to update with all our media across the network fine, played and resume functions working fine, after upgrading to xbmc 13 the database numbers changed so now the media player updates but all the earlier versions cannot read the database (number to high), I knew this would happen.
So my questions.
1. Why is there a number change on every new version of xbmc, so that it is not backwards compatiable with earlier versions.
2. Why does the name tag in the advancedsettings file do nothing, yes it will use a different name but then adds a number to it and creates a new database so a complete waste of time.
I cannot update xbian from 12.2 as that's down to them. I can update Arch to 13, but why bother and yes I can downgrade my other media centre from 13 to 12.3 but then I will have graphic card issues.
So to finish, if there is no way of either modifing xbmc so that a newer version can be forced to use an older database number, or forcing older versions to use a higher database number, is there any other way to accomplish this. Any help on this would be appreciated as it annoying the hell out of me, ie moving away from xbmc and finding another solution which I would rather not do.