Good day kind people of the forum.

 

I have a question that has been bugging me for a while, based on the following observation: my drives spin up when XBMC displays TV Series in library mode (with fanart).

 

Question: If I delete the fanart.jpg files from all of my shows, will XBMC instead cache the fanart on the client instead of waking multiple drives in my array just to display some measly images?

 

Bonus points: What metadata do you generate with your sickbeard/nzbdrone for your XBMC Setup?

I do not have any fanart.jpg files saved with my media so is suspect if you get rid of the files and update your library XBMC will download the art and save it with the library database.  The art that is downloaded will probably be different from what you currently have.  Like I mentioned I don't have any meta data or fan art saved with my media I can only guess that these files are either stored in the windows users folder or the MySQL database if you sync your library over multiple HTPCs.  I use MySQL to sync my library and all my fan art and meta data show up on every PC even if it is a brand new install.

Thanks for confirming what I suspected.

 

In regards to this:

I use MySQL to sync my library and all my fan art and meta data show up on every PC even if it is a brand new install.

 

I do not believe the sql database stores images for the XBMC library, but instead the links the fanart, so perhaps your new install was able to cache them from the internet quickly enough for you to feel immediate.

 

Thanks again

Anyway my images are not stored with my media or anywhere else on my server so it must be stored locally at each machine

Thanks for confirming what I suspected.

 

In regards to this:

I use MySQL to sync my library and all my fan art and meta data show up on every PC even if it is a brand new install.

 

I do not believe the sql database stores images for the XBMC library, but instead the links the fanart, so perhaps your new install was able to cache them from the internet quickly enough for you to feel immediate.

 

Thanks again

 

I think the images went into the MySQL database with v12 of XBMC, it was that or the path to them. However, I mostly use scraped images in my set up having done a seriously library restructure and clean up when converting to unRAID from Windows, so some of those files are simply not there.

http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=HOW-TO:Sync_multiple_libraries/Sync_thumbails_and_fanart

 

Since v12 "Frodo" each client caches locally the fanart and keeps in sync.  I have 3 XBMC clients with MariaDB and my drives spin down properly.

 

Do you have cache_dirs running via a plugin?  I had to switch from the plugin to original via go script to not cause strange things to happen.

 

--Mike

Bonus points: What metadata do you generate with your sickbeard/nzbdrone for your XBMC Setup?

Sickbeard's metadata default for XBMC is what I use (under the Config/PostProcessing tab).

 

I haven't seen it anywhere, but I imagine some have pulled out the metadata searching routines from XBMC to independently execute them. In my experiences, XBMC automatically tags things better than when I run MediaCompanion, especially in selecting the TV Show name.

url only tvshow.nfo and movie.nfo FTW

 

xml nfos seem silly unless you are hand fettling them xbmc is always better at them

http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=HOW-TO:Sync_multiple_libraries/Sync_thumbails_and_fanart

 

Since v12 "Frodo" each client caches locally the fanart and keeps in sync.  I have 3 XBMC clients with MariaDB and my drives spin down properly.

 

Do you have cache_dirs running via a plugin?  I had to switch from the plugin to original via go script to not cause strange things to happen.

 

--Mike

 

Mike what do you mean from plugin to go script? Thanks