2009-05-17, 05:51
I am fairly new to XBMC but I am loving it. I am a long time mythtv user, and I still use that for recording. But I much prefer XBMC's interface and the metadata scraping support.
I want to have a system with my media on a server and a number of xbmc clients around the house, all having access to the server.
It seems that each client has its own database, which seems a little crazy for my situation. I see little point in downloading movie/tv show metadata for each client.
I have searched here a little and can only find some fairly old threads about this. Knowing that development goes pretty fast and a thread from 2007 may be completely out of date, I was just wanting a pointer to how other people handle this.
I guess one way to handle it would be to use one client as the "master" and do all scraping there. And then somehow export that data to all the other clients.
Or has someone developed a way to make use of just one central database for number of clients?
I want to have a system with my media on a server and a number of xbmc clients around the house, all having access to the server.
It seems that each client has its own database, which seems a little crazy for my situation. I see little point in downloading movie/tv show metadata for each client.
I have searched here a little and can only find some fairly old threads about this. Knowing that development goes pretty fast and a thread from 2007 may be completely out of date, I was just wanting a pointer to how other people handle this.
I guess one way to handle it would be to use one client as the "master" and do all scraping there. And then somehow export that data to all the other clients.
Or has someone developed a way to make use of just one central database for number of clients?