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I'm not sure if this is platform specific, hardware specific or just user idiocy...

I posted this in the OpenELEC forums first, and got no replies, so I'm trying here:

I can't seem to get my Library working. Only file mode for all media. I just installed this system this week. Here's what I've got:
Foxconn NT-A3500 w/ 4GB RAM (no hdd/sdd)
OpenELEC v1.0.2 (Dharma 10.1) running on a 16GB USB2.0 thumbdrive
Synology ds411j NAS containing all media.
XBMC sources for media are defined / shared via UPnP over wifi-n (unencrypted)

I can play any of my media, but only via file mode. I do an "add source" and define the media type, and the scraper, and "run automated scan". The progress bar shows up that xbmc is scanning the media. But when it's done scanning, nothing has happened, and I still can't select "library mode". I'm stuck in file mode.

Any ideas? Thanks!.

What happens if you close xbmc and restart it? That is when xbmc actually scans for new content.

Have you read through http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Video_Library.

A debug log should show us what the scan is doing. Enable debug logging from System settings, System, Debugging, and restart XBMC then wait a minute or two for all the startup tasks to finish. Then do a scan.

Open the debug log by pressing Windows-R and in the Run dialog type:

"%appdata%\xbmc\xbmc.log"

(including the quotes). Click OK and the log should open in Notepad. Copy and paste the log into http://pastebin.com/ and post the link it gives you here.

JR

jhsrennie Wrote:Have you read through http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Video_Library.

Yes, I've read through that. It's good, but didn't help me (unless I'm missing something...)[/quote]

A debug log should show us what the scan is doing. Enable debug logging from System settings, System, Debugging, and restart XBMC then wait a minute or two for all the startup tasks to finish. Then do a scan.

Open the debug log by pressing Windows-R and in the Run dialog type:

"%appdata%\xbmc\xbmc.log"
[/quote] I think you must think I'm using the Windows version of XBMC? That command didn't work. I'm running OpenELEC v1.0.2.

Quote:(including the quotes). Click OK and the log should open in Notepad. Copy and paste the log into http://pastebin.com/ and post the link it gives you here.

JR

Here's the pastebin of my log file:
http://pastebin.com/PZXUL732

Thanks for any help you can provide. From a novice's perspective, it looks like (in the log file) that the scraper is not reading the actual file names of my movies. Instead it's reading some number....? All my files are stored on my Synology NAS (which runs a light version of Linux) in /volume1/videos/ and are named with the format 'movietitle (year).ext'

Scanning isn't supported for uPnP sources. This is because the URLs returned by a uPnP server are dynamic i.e. may change from session to session. That means the URL can't usefully be stored in the library.

I would use an SMB or NFS share to get at the videos. I think the Synology supports both.

JR

Scanning isn't supported for UPnP? Wow. Is that stated somewhere in the help files? I never saw anything.

I had a problem getting the NFS sharing to work. But I *just* figured it out (typo in my config file - IP pointed to xbmc machine instead of NAS).

All is well now. xbmc is scanning away.

Incidentally - if I add a new source (say music) while xbmc is scanning a recently added source (say video) does the auto scan that starts after I finish adding the music source cancel the scan in progress for the video source? It seemed to do so.

Thanks for the help!