[leftywhat]

That could be....
just look in the XBMC logfile, maybe there is something useful.

Ah looks to be slower due to downloading the images of actors!! Sent you pm with link to text file from log.

When I set debug mode on in xbmc I can see it downloading the actor images from the URLs listed in Ember.

I've noticed once you've added a movie in xbmc, when you remove the files folder/remove from library and clean the library, when you re-add the same movie files and re-do it all, it doesn't need to download the actors again. I think its the function "CVideoDatabase"

It must get stored in the xbmc database. Say if one movie has Eddy Murphy in it, that movie downloads his image, when another movie has Eddy Murphy in it, does XBMC download his image again going via the url put in the nfo via ember, or does it link to xbmc database? Slightly getting off topic... soz, but at least I know now why it takes longer when I have net connection compared to when I don't.

I guess other people knew all this, or they just don't care or notice?

I'm thinking of removing the actor images links from the .nfo files Ember created. I assume theres a setting in Ember to not put links to the actors in the nfo it creates? Thing is if there if no link in the nfo, what does xbmc do, does it then go look for the images or leaves them blank? :S

There is an option in the Ember (see Movies-> Scrapers images & Trailers-> "Do Not Save URLs to NFO). If this option is enabled, the actor-photo-, poster- and fanarts-links are not stored in the NFO.

Please make a test and tell us then whether the XBMC images only once downloaded.

I turned that setting on, the actor photo url's are still present in the nfo files created via ember.
The alternative poster and fanart links are removed, however you can leave these links in the nfo anyway, as they don't automatically download when you set up your movies in xbmc.

Its a bit ridiculous, for example in Anchorman, it has 46 actors with links to their image. I think I'm going to set actor limit to maybe 5 people or something. I think you can do that by going to settings > movies > scrapers - data > cast limit: 5? And I'll tick the box that only gets actors that have images. Then I think thats a good option, rather than having 50 actors (which maybe 30 have images).

I really would like to know though if a actor image has been downloaded once into the xbmc database, does the next movie with the same actor get the image from the xbmc database, or does it re-download the actors image and add it into the database.