HOW-TO synchronize your XBMC Media Center between every room in the house: Lifehacker

I had a problem with duplicates in the database and found it was caused by capital letters in the path in one sources.xml and no capitals in another sources.xml. Paths must match EXACTLY. Try making one sources.xml and copying it to the other machines, drop your database and rescrape.

Mike

(2012-06-18 06:15)Ned Scott Wrote:  In your advancedsettings.xml file:

Code:

<substitute>
  <from>E:\root\Media\Videos\Movies\</from>
  <to>SMB:\\JOE-AMD64\Media\Videos\Movies</to>
</substitute>

Needs to be changed to

Code:

<substitute>
  <from>E:\root\Media\Videos\Movies\</from>
  <to>SMB://JOE-AMD64/Media/Videos/Movies/</to>
</substitute>

Thanks, I will give that a try.

(2012-06-18 07:00)Ned Scott Wrote:  

(2012-06-18 06:38)tboooe Wrote:  ^^ all of my paths in the Source/xml file are of the smb:// format and I am still having the same issues as described b4pjoe. My logs do not have any errors.

Can you post the logs anyways, even if they're not showing errors? Remember to turn debugging on: debug log.

So I dumped my database and started over from scratch. The issues b4pjoe described are gone though the performance is very sluggish compared to the previous version of XBMC I was running. When I try to get to the Info screen, there is a 2-3 second delay. When I try to play a video there is a 3-5 second delay. Anyone else having delay issues?

(2012-06-20 17:43)tboooe Wrote:  

(2012-06-18 07:00)Ned Scott Wrote:  

(2012-06-18 06:38)tboooe Wrote:  ^^ all of my paths in the Source/xml file are of the smb:// format and I am still having the same issues as described b4pjoe. My logs do not have any errors.

Can you post the logs anyways, even if they're not showing errors? Remember to turn debugging on: debug log.

So I dumped my database and started over from scratch. The issues b4pjoe described are gone though the performance is very sluggish compared to the previous version of XBMC I was running. When I try to get to the Info screen, there is a 2-3 second delay. When I try to play a video there is a 3-5 second delay. Anyone else having delay issues?

if i remember correctly if you are having a delay issue and have a central database for all your thumbnails on a networked place like a server this is what causes the delays because it has to connect to that networked drive to access the fanart and thumbnails a way to get around this is to create your thumbnails locally and then once everything is scanned in you can copy it to the other machine into the thumbnails folder

the delay for the video to start playing could be caused by either once again accessing a networked drive that has spun down because it was idle or if you are using wifi connection it could be a bandwidth issue and it requires some degree of buffering and also could be caused if your htpc is not particularly powerful

Quote:if i remember correctly if you are having a delay issue and have a central database for all your thumbnails on a networked place like a server this is what causes the delays because it has to connect to that networked drive to access the fanart and thumbnails a way to get around this is to create your thumbnails locally and then once everything is scanned in you can copy it to the other machine into the thumbnails folder

the delay for the video to start playing could be caused by either once again accessing a networked drive that has spun down because it was idle or if you are using wifi connection it could be a bandwidth issue and it requires some degree of buffering and also could be caused if your htpc is not particularly powerful

Thank you for the reply. I do not use my NAS for the thumbnails because of this very issue. I keep a copy locally on each device. I also only use SSDs. In terms of playing video, my NAS is set to never spin down. The machine I tested this on is hardwired to the same router the NAS is. Again, I didnt have these issues with the previous version of XBMC on the same hardware.

(2012-06-18 06:15)Ned Scott Wrote:  In your advancedsettings.xml file:

Code:

<substitute>
  <from>E:\root\Media\Videos\Movies\</from>
  <to>SMB:\\JOE-AMD64\Media\Videos\Movies</to>
</substitute>

Needs to be changed to

Code:

<substitute>
  <from>E:\root\Media\Videos\Movies\</from>
  <to>SMB://JOE-AMD64/Media/Videos/Movies/</to>
</substitute>

(2012-06-20 17:43)tboooe Wrote:  So I dumped my database and started over from scratch. The issues b4pjoe described are gone though the performance is very sluggish compared to the previous version of XBMC I was running. When I try to get to the Info screen, there is a 2-3 second delay. When I try to play a video there is a 3-5 second delay. Anyone else having delay issues?

I've tried both of the above and still have the exact same problems I described earlier. Any more ideas?

I finally got it to work by recreating my Movie and TV Show Library and using the network path to start with instead of a local drive. Like this when originally creating the video source. "smb://joe-amd64/Media/Videos/Movies/" (without the quotes). Never could make the path substitution in advancedsettings.xml work.

I have had this setup working perfectly for a year or so now with 3 profiles (Wife & mine, Child 1 & Child 2).
I am going away for 3 weeks and have a couple of friends house sitting for that period and would like to set them up a seperate profile. Is there a way of copying my profile with all the information except for the watch list without going through scanning the whole library back in because last time it took about 3 days and now my collection is even bigger?

The watched items isn't so much of a big deal, I just want to avoid rescanning all the information again.

Can anyone help?, I am going away in a few days and would love to set this up

Did you try exporting your database then importing it into the new profile? Then you would just have to unmark the watched status.