2014-03-30, 22:48
Hi. I'm running Gotham on 2 Pis and my Windows desktop (which also hosts all of the content (via NFS connections) the MySQL database.)
The two RPis use the MySQL database fine, and can access all of the content.
My problem is that whenever I use XBMC on the Windows machine...
1) it can read all of the data (e.g. movie lists) fine from the MySQL database and it displays all of the artwork correctly [as scanned using the RPis)...
2) ...but when I go to play an asset, I always get the error message "The file is no longer available. Would you like to remove it from the library?".
I am wondering if the problem if the way the path for the assets is stored in MySQL. For instance, Avatar is listed as having the path "/media/movies/re-encoded/Avatar/"; this works fine because I have mapped "/media" to be a NFS mount on the PIs to the NFS share on the Windows machine. I know that, generally speaking, Windows perfers "\" instead of "/".
I've looked around the forums and have seen some folks suggest using SMB however I had to switch to NFS (at the suggestion of others in this forum) because I was getting terrible transfer rates streaming bluray content before using SMB.
Does this problem sound familiar, and does anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks in advance.
The two RPis use the MySQL database fine, and can access all of the content.
My problem is that whenever I use XBMC on the Windows machine...
1) it can read all of the data (e.g. movie lists) fine from the MySQL database and it displays all of the artwork correctly [as scanned using the RPis)...
2) ...but when I go to play an asset, I always get the error message "The file is no longer available. Would you like to remove it from the library?".
I am wondering if the problem if the way the path for the assets is stored in MySQL. For instance, Avatar is listed as having the path "/media/movies/re-encoded/Avatar/"; this works fine because I have mapped "/media" to be a NFS mount on the PIs to the NFS share on the Windows machine. I know that, generally speaking, Windows perfers "\" instead of "/".
I've looked around the forums and have seen some folks suggest using SMB however I had to switch to NFS (at the suggestion of others in this forum) because I was getting terrible transfer rates streaming bluray content before using SMB.
Does this problem sound familiar, and does anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks in advance.