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I am in Afghanistan and I run a media server for our guys. I am running Linux (ubuntu) with about 16TB of movies/TV/music.

We are on a slow connection to the world.

What I'd like to do is create a local repository of media info (IMDB or the like) on my server so only one copy of the "IMDB" info is downloaded from the internet. Then the users on my network can point their systems to the server and pull the data to their local systems.


Is there a way to share the library info on the server ... and is there a way to point a PC's install of XBMC to the server's library?

Thanks!!

I'd also set up a heavy caching server:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy_server#Caching

Should accelerate all web browsing and such.

The simplest way to do it is to just export your library as single files. This will put a nfo, fanart and poster into the folder corresponding to every movie/tv show.

Then, when they update their local library, it sees the local nfo etc and uses that instead of going online to fetch it.

I think all this stuff with mysql is overcomplicating it.