Arkade Wrote:Hey guys,
I've been using XBMC for years, but I constantly have the problem where I try to play a file thats not available, because the server computer is powered down.
I use XBMC with multiple PCs (one for each member of family) and everything is shared through SMB. I was wondering if there would perhaps be some possibility to share the libraries so that it would be a little more... dynamic.
I mean that if I was using XBMC on the pcs (which I do) I could set it up on each computer to only find the media on the pc, and share it via upnp (if configured). That way any other XBMC could detect the machine, and get the library, thus not needing to scan all the data again. The other advantage would be that it would therefore hide offline content automatically (unless the folder was left open for ages).
What do you think? A possibility... eventually, or just a pipe dream?
Cheers
- Arkade
I think it would be possible if the database will be splitted to some separate parts, which will be stored on each media source (1 part per each media source). So, when XBMC starts up, it lookups all media sources (both local and remote), loads the parts of database from it. And then merges them to one common database. So, if some sources are temporary unavailable, the proper database part will not been added to the common database at the current start up.
By the way, if you have more then 1 XBMC device, you could update the database only once, all other XBMC devices will load already updated database parts at the next start up.
