2010-07-08, 10:13
Searched around but didn't see this issue come up.
I'm experiencing really sluggish response when first navigating an SMB network share where I keep my video media. It is as if XBMC is having to rebuild the thumbnails for all my media every single time I start up XBMC and navigate the folder for the first time. Once it is finished doing its thing, the folder list pops up, and I am able to navigate quickly, and I have no problems playing the media. Even HD content streams just fine. It is just that initial browse into the network share that takes forever!!!
Doesn't XBMC cache the information from the drives when it scans each time? It is really an inconvenience to have to go through this the first time I launch the folder.
I am running XBMC 9.11 r26018, Ubuntu 10.04 (Linux 2.6.32-23-generic-pae) i686, I installed from the PPA. I am running a 100Mb network, which I realize is why the caching takes so long in the first place, but I have no problems streaming HD content from the server. Again, it is only the initial browse of the SMB folder.
Please let me know if you require anything further or can point me to an existing post.
Thanks for your help!
-Marcos
I'm experiencing really sluggish response when first navigating an SMB network share where I keep my video media. It is as if XBMC is having to rebuild the thumbnails for all my media every single time I start up XBMC and navigate the folder for the first time. Once it is finished doing its thing, the folder list pops up, and I am able to navigate quickly, and I have no problems playing the media. Even HD content streams just fine. It is just that initial browse into the network share that takes forever!!!
Doesn't XBMC cache the information from the drives when it scans each time? It is really an inconvenience to have to go through this the first time I launch the folder.
I am running XBMC 9.11 r26018, Ubuntu 10.04 (Linux 2.6.32-23-generic-pae) i686, I installed from the PPA. I am running a 100Mb network, which I realize is why the caching takes so long in the first place, but I have no problems streaming HD content from the server. Again, it is only the initial browse of the SMB folder.
Please let me know if you require anything further or can point me to an existing post.
Thanks for your help!
-Marcos