[Lunatixz]

i am using openelec on a few systems and i tried them all. all of them build 49 channels out of 60.
after 4 hours it created only 49 and wouldnt continue. from 40-60 are all playlists so number 50 isnt different from 49.
i tried NFS, SMB and locally on the machine. the same outcome on all options.

Why are you running openelec? are you running on a low power pc or raspberry? did you install openelec on a hard drive or class 10 sd card?

i have a few endpoints in various rooms.
openelec is the best solution since the install and maintenance is very easy to do and since i use those endpoints as media centers only, i dont need the extra xbmcubuntu overhead.

the machine that acctually populate the channels is a strong machine with ssd and 8 gb ram.



just checked the logs on the channels that got stuck and i got this

this repeated A LOT!

I ask because usually users use openelec on low power devices... and in that case your slow channel build is because of that...

I'm re writing a lot more code now limited the amount of querys and writes to speed things up...

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@mrpickles

I have quite same issue also. Artwork Downloader uses almost always fanart.tv as source and I get only German pictures there. Although I have selected "English" as my setting and there is English pictures available.
I asked from Artwork Downloader topic from forums, if there is way to select/block source. But haven't got answer yet.

PTVL uses it own picture cache, where it scrapes images using artwork downloader. It's located: userdata/addon_data/script.pseudotv.live/cache/artwork or something. Sorry can't verify path atm..

What you can do, and what I have done, to replace images in cache with images that you desire.. It's tedious job though. And do a backup of those images if you happen to clear your caches-

I would also be interested that you would be able the use the images already scraped for the movies/tv-shows. I use Ember MM for scraping and all my artwork/fanarts/posters are located at my network server.

Hey thanks. Yeah I found that cache for PTVL. If I go and start replacing art, I think Im going to replace it in the folder with the movie and let PTVL load it and cache it. Then I know where the art is and not worry about backing up the cache if I need to reinstall xbmc or something.

Probably this weekend I think Im going to try to use a family block program (like one that you can block sites with....used mostly by parents for their kids)...and block fanart.tv and run the artwork downloader.....maybe after it fails to get stuff from fanart.tv it will get it from themoviedb

I would not mess with anything in the cache folder... it's there for PTVL not for users! think of it as ram... it's volatile memory! and would be a waste of time...