2010-03-26, 22:57
spiderlane Wrote:Great - thanks for the tips
ETA - The copying of the thumbnail folder works a treat - I think I'll use one machine as the "master scraper" and rsync the thumbnails to the other machines every few hours.
Great! Another option suggested by MrDVD in another thread is to replace the local thumbnails folder of each XBMC client by a hard link to a shared folder in the server. That way you won't even have to rsync all the folders. The only cons that I find in his solution are:
1- A lack on speed accesing the networked image cache (anyway be aware that two people reported that the lack of speed is none in their tests while I observed a noticeable slowdown in XBMC screen openings)
2- If you loose connection to the networked shared folder XBMC won't show any posters or fanart.
See this thread for more details.