2012-03-19, 08:59
So I've spent the entire day trying to get all this stuff to work, and I'm finally breaking down and asking for a little help (and yes, I did relentlessly scour these forums to try and figure everything out). I have all my media on the E:\ drive of the computer in my bedroom, and I am using that computer to host a mySQL server so that it can share its XBMC library with the computer in my living room (which is hooked up to my TV). For the most part, it works. The videos can be played from both computers, and that makes me very, very happy. However, I can't settle for less than perfection, and I decided I wanted to move everything in my appdata\XBMC\userdata\Thumbnails folder to a new folder: E:\Shares\xbmc\userdata\Thumbnails. I DID check to make sure I set the new folders to have read/write access, but there's a chance I messed it up somewhere...
I've noticed that since I've set everything up (which again, it works), I no longer have the ability to "set content" or "remove source" on my "Movies" and "TV Shows" folders under "Videos" in XBMC. It only gives me a dropdown with the options "play, add to favorites, mark as unwatched, mark as watched, update library." If I go to Videos -> Files, there's nothing listed there. Also, when I add a movie to the E:\Movies folder, and update my library, it makes the movie available to watch, but I can't seem to download any fanart or poster art using the built in XBMC interface -- in fact, when browsing through my Video or Movie or TV Shows lists, when I click "Movie Information" and then either "Get Thumb" or "Get Fanart", all the "Remote Fanart" entries are blank, 0 bytes, and never load. I suspect this may have something to do with how I've configured my Thumbnail sharing, but I'm also curious if I'm going to have this problem regardless of the picture art stuff. Does sharing your library using a mySQL server force you to edit your library differently? I haven't quite figured that out yet - most of the tutorials stop after you get it working haha.
Here is my debug file, it's chock full of errors, but I'm still not sure what I'm doing wrong: http://pastebin.com/3KSZZiCr
And again, I'm sorry if I overlooked something that's already here, but I did spend a lot of time looking through existing posts to try and figure this all out. Thanks, I could really use some insight from you guys!
I've noticed that since I've set everything up (which again, it works), I no longer have the ability to "set content" or "remove source" on my "Movies" and "TV Shows" folders under "Videos" in XBMC. It only gives me a dropdown with the options "play, add to favorites, mark as unwatched, mark as watched, update library." If I go to Videos -> Files, there's nothing listed there. Also, when I add a movie to the E:\Movies folder, and update my library, it makes the movie available to watch, but I can't seem to download any fanart or poster art using the built in XBMC interface -- in fact, when browsing through my Video or Movie or TV Shows lists, when I click "Movie Information" and then either "Get Thumb" or "Get Fanart", all the "Remote Fanart" entries are blank, 0 bytes, and never load. I suspect this may have something to do with how I've configured my Thumbnail sharing, but I'm also curious if I'm going to have this problem regardless of the picture art stuff. Does sharing your library using a mySQL server force you to edit your library differently? I haven't quite figured that out yet - most of the tutorials stop after you get it working haha.
Here is my debug file, it's chock full of errors, but I'm still not sure what I'm doing wrong: http://pastebin.com/3KSZZiCr
And again, I'm sorry if I overlooked something that's already here, but I did spend a lot of time looking through existing posts to try and figure this all out. Thanks, I could really use some insight from you guys!
