2013-02-14, 11:57
Hopefully someone can help me with this as I have trawled though a lot of posts and not really found a definitive answer as of yet
I have multicomputer setup at home, and this basically means I have a total of 5 machines with XBMC on, 4 are PC based, and the other is an iMac.
To serve4 all of these devices, I have a 40TB server connected to all of these machines (as well as the rest of the house) via a 24 port gigabit switch.
Everything has been running fine and each machine did a local scrape to update all of its library data, but after upgrading all of my machines to Frodo, I decided I wanted to go with a central database for my media collection (this is just video, ie TV and Movies, all music is dealt with via Sonos). So I went with the new MySQL route and that all went smoothly. Followed the multiple file export as well, as guides seemed to say that was the better option.
Once all machine had been started on the new database, I imported the library on one machine and this as expected has populated the library on all machines.
This is where I come a bit unstuck though.
Ever since I did the NEW library update, the thumbnails take forever to update on some of the machines. I appreciate that the thumbnails are now stored locally within each folder in the movie/tv database BUT it is painfully slow. I can only assume this is because each machine is accessing ALL of the thumbnails at once over the network, this is what is slowing down the machine.
So my question is this....is there some way I can have a local database for the thumbnails so each machine just accesses them as it would do if it were a standalone and not synced to other machines.
If this is possible, is there also way to have each individual machine check with a central database to make sure each machines local database is updated as films are added. Granted it wont be a pain to update each local machine with thumbnails each time but we are of course moving towards not having to do this
If I’ve missed this somewhere I apologise but would really appreciative some pointers or tips
I have multicomputer setup at home, and this basically means I have a total of 5 machines with XBMC on, 4 are PC based, and the other is an iMac.
To serve4 all of these devices, I have a 40TB server connected to all of these machines (as well as the rest of the house) via a 24 port gigabit switch.
Everything has been running fine and each machine did a local scrape to update all of its library data, but after upgrading all of my machines to Frodo, I decided I wanted to go with a central database for my media collection (this is just video, ie TV and Movies, all music is dealt with via Sonos). So I went with the new MySQL route and that all went smoothly. Followed the multiple file export as well, as guides seemed to say that was the better option.
Once all machine had been started on the new database, I imported the library on one machine and this as expected has populated the library on all machines.
This is where I come a bit unstuck though.
Ever since I did the NEW library update, the thumbnails take forever to update on some of the machines. I appreciate that the thumbnails are now stored locally within each folder in the movie/tv database BUT it is painfully slow. I can only assume this is because each machine is accessing ALL of the thumbnails at once over the network, this is what is slowing down the machine.
So my question is this....is there some way I can have a local database for the thumbnails so each machine just accesses them as it would do if it were a standalone and not synced to other machines.
If this is possible, is there also way to have each individual machine check with a central database to make sure each machines local database is updated as films are added. Granted it wont be a pain to update each local machine with thumbnails each time but we are of course moving towards not having to do this
If I’ve missed this somewhere I apologise but would really appreciative some pointers or tips
