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that's why I use plex for remote playing. I still have XBMC as my front end for the HTPC but use plex for transcoding / streaming away from home. I have 20meg up so it makes it very reasonable, even on a wifi network to stream at a decent bitrate - heck even on 3G it transcodes to a suitable bitrate to stream well. Music works particularly well too. I installed the plex app on my tablet and phone, as well as setting up my otherhalf with it on hers, and she can access the media server from her office too. It works really well. :)
 
Yeah - you can use the plex media player instead - but I prefer the xbmc interface as well. Haven't quite figured how I want to do that. However, the likelyhood of us wanting to catch up on something so specifically is unlikely!
 
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Confused said:
Nope - once you run Frodo it will automagically upgrade the database, leaving the old Eden one in tact.

(This is assuming that you've allowed the "xbmc" user [or whatever MySQL user you set up] full control of the MySQL server)


An important thing though - DO NOT INTERRUPT THE UPGRADE PROCESS!!! And, do it on only 1 PC until it's completed.

If you do this, you'll need to drop the new Frodo databases, and re-launch XBMC to kick off the database update again.
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I haven't dabbled with mysqyl yet
 
Downloaded xbmc on my main rig and on my rather over the top 2500k htpc and i have had nothing but what appears to be huge memory leaks.

Both rigs have 8 gb of ram and a Samsung SSD in each but I was
running high on memory usage and both would lag then crash especially when trying to do something quickly and on exit.

I have to say that although rather nice looking I started looking elsewhere until I thought id try eden.

Everything is now so much quicker with absolutely no crashing or huge memory leaks either.
 
I think I'm settling with XBMC after several months of chopping and changing and general madness.

I had thought Mediaportal was the way forward, but it simply will not come out of standby properly and seems to be having some weird/annoying audio sync issues that are just too time consuming to fix. XBMC on the other hand, while still doing things in a way that frustrates me sometimes (re: multi disc movies), still looks nicer, behaves itself on TV viewing duties and wakes up properly from sleep. Which is what matters in the long term.

Now, if channel changing could be a bit sharper, say down a second or two at most, especially with HD channels, I'd be almost content.
 
Lunatic Dreyfus said:
Now, if channel changing could be a bit sharper, say down a second or two at most, especially with HD channels, I'd be almost content.
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Channel changing in XBMC on openelec/Linux IS 1-2 seconds, it's Windows where it's 8+ on all tuners, something to do with the way it's coded on windows, something it's has to wait for, the devs were talking about it on the official forum the other day.Its the main reason I opted for openelec over Windows XBMC after trying both.
 
chris74 said:
Downloaded xbmc on my main rig and on my rather over the top 2500k htpc and i have had nothing but what appears to be huge memory leaks.
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I have to say that although rather nice looking I started looking elsewhere until I thought id try eden.

Everything is now so much quicker with absolutely no crashing or huge memory leaks either.
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I've had issues with Frodo too, and have reverted to Eden.
 
Anyone else having issues with TV scrapers at the moment? Been running my HTPC with xbmc for a couple of years now and over the past week or so it's stopped picking up any TV shows that I add. Still picks up movies fine. Any ideas?
 
richyfingers said:
Anyone else having issues with TV scrapers at the moment? Been running my HTPC with xbmc for a couple of years now and over the past week or so it's stopped picking up any TV shows that I add. Still picks up movies fine. Any ideas?
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Tvdb has been down/intermittent all week, if your patient, go to the files menu of your tv shows, right click, scan for new content.I find 1 out of every 3 times it scans around 5 shows before it says it can't find server and you have to repeat.
 
How do you guys store your music?

Do you do it like tv series?

music
-Blink 182
--dude ranch
--chesire cat

etc

or do you just have

music
blink 182 - dude ranch
blink 182 - chesire cat

Any help would be great, cheers
 
I personally have mine your first example.

The files themselves are then named:

Artist - Album - xx - Title.ext

XBMC uses tags for music when you add it to the library. So - if your tags are good, the folder structure doesn't matter as much, but if your tags are bad, folder structure and good naming will allow you to view your files...

I've done both ;) Good tags AND good file structure.
 
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Cheers confused!

Anyone finding Frodo to be a bit "jerky" Im deff finding it not as smooth as Eden, so much so I may go back.
 
I tried xbmc and while it played videos fine i found the interface too laggy unless I used the most basics skins I could find.
Tried plex and even on their most detailed and graphical skins- no lag.

Kinda disappointed as I always thought XBMC was the best but, plex imo is far better for me. Just less customisable
 
I can get the TV Scraper to connect but for some reason it's not picking up certain shows.

For example Blackadder does not scan. I have my files as follows.

Tv Shows -> Blackadder > Series 1 > S1E01?

Is this correct ?
 
Simple question (i hope!)

I'm about to import around 400 films spread over 5 HDDs, so I'm adding them one HDD at a time. I'm noticing that not all the films seem to be getting added and checking them via the menus is pretty tedious - is there some kinda of database text file i can quickly view, so i can compare it with the actual folder list on my HDDs, so I can easily and quickly figure out what films haven't been picked up?

Thanks!
 
neil3k said:
I can get the TV Scraper to connect but for some reason it's not picking up certain shows.

For example Blackadder does not scan. I have my files as follows.

Tv Shows -> Blackadder > Series 1 > S1E01?

Is this correct ?
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Should be yes.

I have

BlackAdder > Season 1 > BlackAdder.S01E01.The Foretelling
 
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