2011-03-30, 22:41
Hey all,
I have just recently discovered the awesomeness of Sick Beard (and will soon be playing with Couch Potato to handle movies) and have almost got my home theatre setup - complete with multiple XBMC clients sharing a MySQL db and centralised thumbnails - working completely automatically.
One issue I have noticed is that on the ATV2 (w/ XBMC), checking for new episodes/movies at start up slows it down considerably, and the process is very slow compared to on my laptop running XBMC. This means that XBMC is currently failing the Wife-acceptance test, as new media isn't "just there".
One way I can think of to work-around this is to have my main server, where all of my media and home theatre related processes/programs lives, update the MySQL database either:
(a) After Sick Beard (and eventually Couch Potato) has performed some processing, (I currently use uTorrent and Sick Beard scans a folder every 10 minutes to look for new eps) have some form of script/program run that rescans my library and adds entries into the MySQL database, or
(b) Install XBMC on my server PC and have it check for new content periodically via the use of a plugin (not really preferred as I imagine it will chew some resources unnecessary if all it is doing is scanning for content and scraping it every now and then).
Does anyone know how I can achieve (a) above? I believe future versions of Sick Beard are looking at having a feature similar to this implemented, but for now I need a work-around.
Sorry if parts of this all all over the place. Just got up and getting ready for work - quite tired!
Thanks for any assistance anyone can provide.
I have just recently discovered the awesomeness of Sick Beard (and will soon be playing with Couch Potato to handle movies) and have almost got my home theatre setup - complete with multiple XBMC clients sharing a MySQL db and centralised thumbnails - working completely automatically.
One issue I have noticed is that on the ATV2 (w/ XBMC), checking for new episodes/movies at start up slows it down considerably, and the process is very slow compared to on my laptop running XBMC. This means that XBMC is currently failing the Wife-acceptance test, as new media isn't "just there".
One way I can think of to work-around this is to have my main server, where all of my media and home theatre related processes/programs lives, update the MySQL database either:
(a) After Sick Beard (and eventually Couch Potato) has performed some processing, (I currently use uTorrent and Sick Beard scans a folder every 10 minutes to look for new eps) have some form of script/program run that rescans my library and adds entries into the MySQL database, or
(b) Install XBMC on my server PC and have it check for new content periodically via the use of a plugin (not really preferred as I imagine it will chew some resources unnecessary if all it is doing is scanning for content and scraping it every now and then).
Does anyone know how I can achieve (a) above? I believe future versions of Sick Beard are looking at having a feature similar to this implemented, but for now I need a work-around.
Sorry if parts of this all all over the place. Just got up and getting ready for work - quite tired!
Thanks for any assistance anyone can provide.