2011-03-01, 23:55
After rolling out 3 HTPCs in my home, one using an ATV2, oe an XBMC Live and one Win 7, with my media stored on a dedicated unRAID server; it is very apparent that storing one's metadata and thumbnails in a single centralized location would make life much easier.
It is my understanding that each XBMC device holds the metadata locally. There are a few tutorials how to centralize the database and thumbnails, mainly this:
For the Database
and
For the Thumbnails - See post 108 on page 11.
If one follows these setups, I think the following would be a killer app.
A new Metadata Scraper like Ember or Media Center Master, or Media Companion, where one could input:
a) Where the Movies are Stored
b) Where MySQL database is located (with password and such)
c) Where the Substitute Thumbnails folder is. (from post 108 on page 11 above)
Then; one could scrape one's movies; it would detect new movies and TV shows and scrape accordingly, it would also check for metadata stored in Movie and TV folders and add that to MySQL - Like when using Sickbeard, or Couch Potato.
Like the old IBM commercials would end, "Now that would be cool..."
I don't know the first thing about programming, so this is just a dream.
What do you guys think?
Thanks,
H.
It is my understanding that each XBMC device holds the metadata locally. There are a few tutorials how to centralize the database and thumbnails, mainly this:
For the Database
and
For the Thumbnails - See post 108 on page 11.
If one follows these setups, I think the following would be a killer app.
A new Metadata Scraper like Ember or Media Center Master, or Media Companion, where one could input:
a) Where the Movies are Stored
b) Where MySQL database is located (with password and such)
c) Where the Substitute Thumbnails folder is. (from post 108 on page 11 above)
Then; one could scrape one's movies; it would detect new movies and TV shows and scrape accordingly, it would also check for metadata stored in Movie and TV folders and add that to MySQL - Like when using Sickbeard, or Couch Potato.
Like the old IBM commercials would end, "Now that would be cool..."
I don't know the first thing about programming, so this is just a dream.
What do you guys think?
Thanks,
H.