Posts: 58
Joined: Jul 2010
Reputation:
0
I am using SMB links for all which I think turns "\" into "/" and I have seen some comments on the forum that "\" can be an issue...
Not sure but that is what I use and I have never had any issue with teh errors you seem to get for some reason...
Posts: 11
Joined: Dec 2010
Reputation:
0
Actually I did exactly what everyone here has stated. What I didn't do before was clean my library on all of my machines before I installed set this up. The symlink was never a problem that actually went through without a hitch. Make sure that you have no files in your video and music libraries add the advancesetting.xml file and then do the symlink and then restore you libraries and everything should come up.
Furron
Posts: 456
Joined: Dec 2010
Reputation:
0
2011-01-03, 23:51
(This post was last modified: 2011-01-04, 09:31 by tboooe.)
I was able to create the databases on my Thecus NAS. Everything seems to communicate ok but I now cannot get XBMC to scan the folder for movies. I can add the folder and manually navigate to it. I can set the folder content to Movie but XBMC will quickly start to scan the folder before stopping. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Here are some lines from the log:
23:24:32 T:1668 M:1178746880 NOTICE: VideoInfoScanner: Starting scan ..
23:24:32 T:1668 M:1178746880 NOTICE: VideoInfoScanner: Finished scan. Scanning for video info took 00:00
23:25:05 T:1684 M:1196744704 WARNING: XFILE::CFileCurl::CReadState::FillBuffer: curl failed with code 28
23:25:17 T:3412 M:1144619008 ERROR: ADDON::CScraper::Run: Unable to parse web site
23:25:57 T:3740 M:1178300416 ERROR: Previous line repeats 5 times.
23:25:57 T:3740 M:1178300416 WARNING: XFILE::CFileCurl::CReadState::FillBuffer: curl failed with code 22
23:25:57 T:3740 M:1178300416 ERROR: CFileCurl::CReadState::Open, didn't get any data from stream.
Posts: 10
Joined: Jan 2011
Reputation:
0
Hi, i have mysql including shared thumbnails running on 3 Win7 clients, server (sharing videos, music, thumbnails is ubuntu lucidlynx). Everything is working fine, except one thing:
when i try to play a movie via database mode it does not find the movie and xbmc suggests to delete it from database. what i figured out is, that this happens because xbmc is not able to pass user/password to the share via database mode. (may be my configuration, i do not know)...
when i start the (same) movie via file mode, the movie plays fine, and then afterwards i am able to start (all) movies via database mode, so this is definitely an authentication problem. database initially also works if i connected to network share in windows prior to starting xbmc.
configurationis as follows
passwords.xml
<passwords>
<path>
<from pathversion="1">smb://LUCIDLYNX/</from>
<to pathversion="1">smb://user:pass@LUCIDLYNX/</to>
</path>
</passwords>
sources.xml
<video>
<default pathversion="1"/>
<source>
<name>hd.filme</name>
<path pathversion="1">smb://LUCIDLYNX/video_hd/hd.filme/</path>
</source>
</video>
strPath in xbmc_video database table is set to
smb://LUCIDLYNX/video_hd/hd.filme/
when i add the user:pass@ here, i am not able to play a file via database mode.
any suggestions, ideas are highly appreciated.
thanks in advance.
Posts: 49
Joined: Feb 2011
Reputation:
0
clambert - thanks for the reply. I was able to get MySql installed on the WHS. I am currently trying to rebuild my library on one of my net tops right now. A question: Do I need to use the IP address of the WHS as opposed to just browsing for the server on my network via the "Browse for new share" window and Windows network (SMB) option?
It seems to have found the media ok and is adding it back, but I'm not sure if I am bypassing the entire Sql database by browsing for the server path rather than typing out the IP address.
Posts: 49
Joined: Feb 2011
Reputation:
0
I was just reading about that. If I store the files (images, nfo, etc) with the actual video content itself, can I bypass the need to share it on the WHS? In my set up, XBMC doesn't really need to do any scraping because it should be done before hand after videos are saved on the network.