2014-04-23, 17:37
(2014-04-23, 17:09)underworld123 Wrote:(2014-04-23, 15:15)KrakaJap Wrote: Direct paths like that don't seem to work on the FTV... I tried numerous combinations trying to get Thumbnails offloaded to my server. What worked for me (on Gotham) was to use the xbmc "special" protocol. In my case... special://thumbnails. That worked like a charm... however, when I tried to apply this same pathsub to a second profile it failed.
I tried special://thumbnails in the advancedsettings.xml on that profile as well as special://profile/thumbnails which, by their definition, should have pointed directly to the active profile.
NOTE: This does introduce a little lag when pulling up thumbnails/fanart while browsing. But to save a ton of space on a limited storage device... it's worth it to me.
If anyone knows how to get this working for a profile other than masterprofile, I'd really like to know.
Can you post your advancedsettings.xml for others to replicate? I can live with the little lag, if I can save space on AFTV.
Only if you promise to help me figure out how to get this working in a separate profile lol
Code:
<advancedsettings>
<videodatabase>
<type>mysql</type>
<host>192.168.1.102</host>
<port>3306</port>
<user>xbmc</user>
<pass>xbmc</pass>
<name>xbmc_movies</name>
</videodatabase>
<musicdatabase>
<type>mysql</type>
<host>192.168.1.102</host>
<port>3306</port>
<user>xbmc</user>
<pass>xbmc</pass>
<name>xbmc_music</name>
</musicdatabase>
<videolibrary>
<importwatchedstate>true</importwatchedstate>
<importresumepoint>true</importresumepoint>
</videolibrary>
<pathsubstitution>
<substitute>
<from>special://thumbnails/</from>
<to>smb://username:[email protected]/xbmc_thumbnails</to>
</substitute>
</pathsubstitution>
</advancedsettings>
/xbmc_thumbnails is a Windows share that I gave "Everyone" read/write permissions to. So I don't think I need to include the username and password but I did anyway. I think I might have network share authentication enabled which would require that, just forgot to look.
Also I should note that for whatever reason I had to start over... I uninstalled xbmc, deleted the mysql database, then reinstalled and set everything back up from scratch. Not sure if I just dorked up the database somehow or what but I tried this exact xml earlier in my process and it failed until I started over.