2011-02-16, 03:08
Any first hand experience if this will speed up XBMC?
Advocate Wrote:If I scrape on my main machine then i get everything showing on my ATV2 but without thumbs or fan art. I then have to rescrape on the ATV2 to get thumbnails etc to show....most frustrating
transcender Wrote:False. I think if you read from the nature of this thread's 7 pages thus far, this is not correct. More generic info can be found on the wikis.
http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Thumbnails
Many people use 3rd party scrapers. That just gives you a static place to pull from the LAN vs WAN when scraping initially but that information is still cached locally in the databases as well as the images, which are NOT in the database.
The images and library information shown in XBMC don't come from those 3rd party files. The information comes from the database and the images the locally cached images on the client.
Those nfos/jpgs....blah blah are just there for the scrape into XBMC and not used again. If you watch a file and it gets 'mark as watched', its marked as watched in the database NOT your NFO.
matbor Wrote:Can't you just ftp it across to the ATV2? or does this not work?
Where did I read, if you install Samba on the ATV2 first and then XBMC, that remote thumbnails work?
found it... http://forum.xbmc.org/showpost.php?p=724688&postcount=5
vicbitter Wrote:The post you are referring to is for the original ATV not ATV2.
At this point it is not possible to mount remote disks as part of the filesystem on ATV2 (see davilla's post http://forum.xbmc.org/showpost.php?p=701278&postcount=6)
Memphiz Wrote:Yes it fixes the substitute. So thumbs can be loaded from remote shares, when special://masterprofile/Thumbnails is substituted via advancedsettings.xml properly.
But i introduced a mem leak here *argl* - will clean that up after work and give it to davilla
bye
Memphiz
Memphiz Wrote:Yes it fixes the substitute. So thumbs can be loaded from remote shares, when special://masterprofile/Thumbnails is substituted via advancedsettings.xml properly.
But i introduced a mem leak here *argl* - will clean that up after work and give it to davilla
bye
Memphiz
<pathsubstitution>
<substitute>
<from>special://masterprofile/Thumbnails</from>
<to>smb://x.x.x.x/Thumbnails/</to>
</substitute>
</pathsubstitution>
WisdomWolf Wrote:Ok I've spent a great deal of time scratching my head over this. I am working with an iPad, not an ATV2, but the process should be the same, I believe. I did finally get my videos to play correctly by adding EVERYONE to the list of users on my Windows 7 share and making sure it had the appropriate permissions. But I still can't get the thumbnails to show up.
I've tried using special://masterprofile as well as special://profile to no avail. I do know the links are working because I get errors about creating files at the beginning of the log because they already exist. But it still won't pull the files. I keep getting an error saying that the texture manager is unable to load the file.
The interesting thing is that when I put the same path into a source for photos and attempted to load one of the thumbnails XBMC appears to just hang. But if I connect via a program like FileBrowser (SMB Browser) I can see the thumbnails with no problem. So confused.
XBMC.log
Lines 50-194 show the File Exists errors and lines 397-401 shows it failing to load them. I'm stumped. Anybody know where I am going wrong?