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I picked up an ATV2 today, jailbroke it with greenpois0n RC6, and installed XBMC. I'm connected wirelessly to my WHS using SMB. I am noticing some very flaky behavior scanning my media collection. While trying to scan TV episodes, it would crap out every half hour or so - either lock up or throw a "network not accessible" error. I reset the ATV and tried scanning movies. It's been scanning for almost 2 hours and has only gotten through about 20.
I know that my network is the prime suspect, but I'm not having any issues with any of my other devices - including my original ATV with XBMC. When I manually stop the scan and play something it works fine, so I know there is a good connection between the ATV2 and the server. Is XBMC for the ATV2 just not very solid on scanning yet?
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Try turning off your thumbnail generation. Go to System, Settings, Video, File Lists. And turn off "Extract thumbnails and video information". Then rescan. That worked for me and I still got all my box art, fan art, etc. So I'm not sure what I'm not getting, but after turning that setting off I was able to scan my entire collection.
HTH.
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Another strategy that has worked out very well for me, is to install XBMC on a computer, do the initial scraping and metadata tweaking there, and then copy the database from the computer to the ATV. I have a pretty large library, and 3 ATVs. I just copied the database over to each of them, and saved myself a lot of aggravation.
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like that last idea, where can i find the database files and where do i put it on the ATV2
Thanks
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On the Mac, the path is ~/Library/Application Support/XBMC/userdata/
I only copy over the files in the Database folder and the sources.xml since I use somewhat different settings for the advanced settings and so on between the ATVs.
On the ATV, the path is /private/var/mobile/Library/Preferences/XBMC/userdata/
Not sure on Windows 7, since I haven't bothered to setup my PC with XBMC
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Hmm interesting idea,
Okay came someone explain how to do this
Example: I want to see my itunes songs on my ATV via XBMC, so do I scan the actual directory of songs or itunes directory then save that Database and transfer to ATV or do I use windows SMB or UNP to do this?
Also what directory do I do this on the Windows 7, I found program files/xbmc/userdata is that it
Thanks all
