[chunkhead]

XBMC-SVN_2009-09-27_rev23183-T3CH

Alright, totally confused now... Initial scan took (10.01) and update again, even quicker.

Library Scan: 10.01
Update: 00.13

Full Log: http://pastebin.com/f3dec87d0


Firstly, before getting carried away, i'll now try the whole library again.

Things that have been different for this experiment:

1) I disabled "library' in settings, deleted the 'My Videos34' and the Thumbnails folder each time.

2) The folder it's scanning from in on a drive which is already housing a folder full of shows (not a new drive, same sharing permissions)

3) The folder only contains 10 shows, as opposed to the main directory's which house 95, 112 and 56 shows respectively!


So... a few theory's:

Have I got too many shows within one directory for XBMC to cope with?

When I choose my sources, should I combine all three into one or have a seperate source for each directory (TV1, TV2, TV3)!?

Did I maybe just have a corruption with the databases that has been getting away unnoticed?

The full update will reveal more. I will give each folder their own source for this.

[arnova]

A few comments:
- Disabling the library obviously speeds things up since db-actions (especially write) are expensive (slow);
- The speed problem you're seeing among is probably caused by newer XBMC versions implementing stuff like Fanart and such. Trying with a Windows/Linux/MacOSX XBMC version could give clue what to look at.

EDIT: I'm not so sure about the hashing thing anymore. I believe our algoritm just computes an empty hash for empty directories.

[chunkhead]

I loaded the first Folder only (98 shows). Update took 06:07:53 to complete and had multiple failures with saving thumbnails. Almost all have no screenshots or Season covers, even thought they are all stored locally with the files!?

A partial log is here (Full log was almost 6mb)
http://pastebin.com/f1751674f

[arnova]

- The speed problem you're seeing among is probably caused by newer XBMC versions implementing stuff like Fanart and such. Trying with a Windows/Linux/MacOSX XBMC version could give clue what to look at.

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[frater]

- The speed problem you're seeing among is probably caused by newer XBMC versions implementing stuff like Fanart and such. Trying with a Windows/Linux/MacOSX XBMC version could give clue what to look at.

I have installed a caching proxy (squid) and let xbmc use it. Getting only new thumbnails takes ages and I have no idea what it's doing... It gets the thumbnail from the proxy's cache in a fragment of a second.

[chunkhead]

Have updated to entire TV Collection and hashing is still taking 20 secs or so each show...

[arnova]

Again: did you try a Windows/Linux/MacOSX XBMC version yet and see whether the problem also exists there?

[frater]

reloading movie details takes about 30s on my Windows system and 55s on my xbox. Reloading all the thumbs of a popular movie takes 1.5 second and 15 seconds on my xbox....

The thumbnails don't have to be downloaded. They are all cache hits.
I hope it's useful info.

I only noticed the big difference between getting thumbnails on a windows system and the xbox. The difference between a complete refresh (only 1 thumbnail though) is not that big.... the xbox is only 1.5 times that slow....

[arnova]

Did you all also try to disable grabbing of actor & seasons thumbs in the Video Settings screen?

[paddyred9]

Hey Guys,

I get the same problem here, How do I enable debug logging?

it take over a minute for the library to load for me

[empty]

http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=Log_file#Enable_Debugging

[afail]

i put a trac ticket in for this awhile ago #7329

[afail]

Because my XBOX will freeze if i perform playback while scanning, my solution has been to disable auto scan at startup and enable the idle sleep timer. Before I go to bed, I go to each XBOX and manually trigger a library update. When I wake up, the library is current and the xboxes are turned off.