[odbwilson]

Hi all,

I am a newbie to XBMC and like you guys to shed me some lights on the setup?
I like to setup a server that will be serving 50 clients.
Should I use NFS for sharing the video library or just use uPnP on the server?
Will the client's video Library be updated automatically if I add more videos on the server later.
Or I need to update the video library on the client's box one by one/ reboot the box?

Thanks,
Wilson

[Ned Scott]

For the scale of that size I would go with NFS + MySQL (wiki). It might be just as easy with UPnP (wiki), but I've never tried it with 50 clients. Either method only requires updating the video library once.

[odbwilson]

Thanks for the advice. I just tried to setup a Linux NFS server without XBMC and the client will update the video library locally(watchdog plugin was installed). When I add videos on the NFS server, the client will automatically update the video library. Just wondering if this setup is capable of handling 50+ clients? Or should I go for MySQL to share the video library for clients?