2010-04-30, 14:26
Hi All,
This may be a little off whack, as I'm not sure of the technical details on how XBMC scans folders when doing library updates currently - but in my head I guess it works something like this ;
When a library update is initialised XBMC goes through every single folder present in a media source and looks compares each file with what's in the library.
My proposal is some sort of 'Quick Scan' option which can be used to maintain updates to the library once it's initially set-up (A library update currently takes around 4 minutes for my ~2.5TB worth of videos)
When this option is selected then XBMC could look at modify dates of folders (or compare against some sort of checksum) for the top level folders (ie. Show XYZ\Season 01) if the modify date hasn't changed then it can safely assume nothing has altered and move on.. I guess this would be much quicker than looking at every single file within a folder?
Anyway, as I mentioned that could be totally crazy.. but I was just thinking how I can keep the library up to date but not have to wait for library updates each time I wake the PC..
This may be a little off whack, as I'm not sure of the technical details on how XBMC scans folders when doing library updates currently - but in my head I guess it works something like this ;
When a library update is initialised XBMC goes through every single folder present in a media source and looks compares each file with what's in the library.
My proposal is some sort of 'Quick Scan' option which can be used to maintain updates to the library once it's initially set-up (A library update currently takes around 4 minutes for my ~2.5TB worth of videos)
When this option is selected then XBMC could look at modify dates of folders (or compare against some sort of checksum) for the top level folders (ie. Show XYZ\Season 01) if the modify date hasn't changed then it can safely assume nothing has altered and move on.. I guess this would be much quicker than looking at every single file within a folder?
Anyway, as I mentioned that could be totally crazy.. but I was just thinking how I can keep the library up to date but not have to wait for library updates each time I wake the PC..
