2012-02-10, 00:19
chrissbu Wrote:From what I understand, even if you've used other tools for scraping metadata for the content, XBMC will still cache the thumbnails into a common thumbnail directory.
I'm having a problem getting the path substitution to work at all. I've created a folder on //jeeves/videos/XBMCThumbs, and added the code for the path substitution, but XBMC is still leaving the thumbnails on a local drive. I've tried
Code:<pathsubstitution>
<substitute>
<from>special://masterprofile/Thumbnails/</from>
<to>smb://jeeves/videos/XBMCThumbs</to>
</substitute>
</pathsubstitution>
as well as
Code:<pathsubstitution>
<substitute>
<from>special://masterprofile/Thumbnails/</from>
<to>//jeeves/videos/XBMCThumbs</to>
</substitute>
</pathsubstitution>
but nether seem to work. One thing I found is that I'm not running one of the nightlies...I'm using the main release. I will look at updating to one of the nightlies if that might take care of it.
Try this.....
<pathsubstitution>
<substitute>
<from>special://masterprofile/Thumbnails/</from>
<to>\\YOUR PC NAME\Users\YOUR USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\userdata\Thumbnails</to>
</substitute>
</pathsubstitution>
this works perfectly over my 4 machines advanced settings.xml saved in the userdata folder of each machine
note that you will have to share your userdata folder on your local machine