Does XBMC cache thumbnails for images?

Well true enough - why not use it when you bought it

I've actually installed aufs on my Ubuntu installation. All my writes now occur to a ram disk - so my flash is read-only. I then have a script that upon shutdown of the box sync's just the database files and cached thumbnails to flash.

Hi

I have an issue that my photos are previewed very slow. I read here thumbs of the photos are cached after the dir is opened the first time. Will this be done recursively? is there a way to cache all photos from the top dir all the way down in the dir structure?

I also read somewhere that xbmc looks first to the exif thumbs before to look to the cache thumbs. Will there be cache thumbs created when exif thumbs exists of a photo? could it be set the other way around (first look to cache then to exif) because locally stored thumbs are faster then NAS stored exif thumbs?

thnx in advance

Paddy

MikeD Wrote:1. Does XBMC cache photo thumbnails?
2. If so, is there a way to get XBMC to pre-cache all folders?
Mike

jmarshall Wrote:1. Yes.
2. No.
Once you've browsed once, they're cached.

XBMC would perform much better if the images were cached automatically.
It looks bad when the thumbnails aren't ready.
And for large image collections (like most people have) performance is not good.

Of course, for smaller CPU systems like ARM devices, caching thumbnails in mandatory.

The first thing the WD HD Media player does is thumbnail everything.

XBMC could have similar photo browsing like PS3 have:
http://uk.playstation.com/ps3/support/ph...o-Gallery/

It's sad that problem with XBMC cache photo thumbnails exist from the begining, and still is ignored
1. http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid...low+photos
2. http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid...low+photos
3. http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid...low+photos
4. http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid...slow+photo

I have big problem too with thumbs and large photo collection. I have to wait those little image every time i back fullscreen image watching and that is not short time, maybe two minutes.

I have win7+xbmc rc2 and i use my photos via gigabit homenetwork.

ps. Sort by exif data rating stars would be cool feature to add xbmc own photoviewer.

Any change for this?
How i can speed up photo thumbs loading? xbmc photos is almost unusable now, thumbs start loading allways from first photo and if i just look picture 434.jpg in fullscreen, so when i back thumbs view i have to wait over 400 pics loading.