jmarshall Wrote:The log shows no thumbs being cached at all.
My guess is your confusing "the thumbs of each picture load one at a time in the listing" with "the thumbnails are being cached".
How long is it taking to load each thumb in the listing?
Cheers
Jonathan
Hi Jonathan, well to be honest I can only guess how long is it taking as it looks like it is not loading thumbnails at all just creating them everytime each folder is either opened for listing or when returning to listing from full screen view. So I guess it's taking from a quater of a second to one second to create or load any of the thumbs. Yesterday when I finished logging I used the Midnight Commander to search through all of the cached files (every single one of them (0,1,2,...everything) to see if the date/time of file creation or changes matches the time I accessed pictures but all the cached files were old, non of them updated. But maybe it's just because I have not put any new image(s)/folder(s) into PICTURES main directory.
I was also thinking that this might be caused by the fact that I have two harddrives in my PC, the main with system and the other where pictures are stored. (I "connected" the second hardrive using fstab (/dev/sdb1 /home/r/d250 ext3 defaults,users 0 0)
But it's not what causes it for sure because this issue with thumbnails appeared even when I was testing XBMC with one drive only (I did a pure installation after that)
What I'm going to do is:
- to put a new picture files/folders among the old ones and see if any new cache file(s) is(are) created
- to put different size pictures to see if thumbnail generating takes longer for bigger images and shorter time for smaller ones
- to compare it with the old XBMC for XBOX (not sure if this can tell anything since the core of XBMC might have changed, but still it's Linux based system)
If you want me to try anything else just tell me.
Thank you.
Richard