*** Official Kodi (née XBMC) Thread ***

oHUTCHYo said:
Guys, what is the best off the shelf option to have XBMC for my front room?

I currently have a WDTV but having played around with XBMC on my laptop, I love the auto scraping.

The only conditions for the hardware;

*Needs to have an optical out
*Need to be able to cope with high bitrate MKV files
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I have this requirement too actually. Really would like to replace my ATV2 in the bedroom with something better or that could play BDROMs.
 
Burned_Alive said:
Anyone know if its possible to make the library scan occur on your media server?

My setup is that I have my PC with all my files on, and two Raspberry Pis which stream off that. Because the Pis are only turned on when I want to stream something, they rarely catch up with library changes. Anyway I can put some sort of agent on the PC and have the Pis use the library file from there?
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If your PC is always on, you can set up MySQL on it, and also set up XBMC on the PC. Then, whichever device turns on will have access to the same library.

kkelly said:
http://lifehacker.com/5634515/how-t...c-media-center-across-every-room-in-the-house
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Don't follow this guide - it is out of date.

ubern00b said:
Setup XBMC to scan to a MySQL database and have all of your client devices read from the database. You can do all sorts of neat things once this is done like pausing a movie/tv show in the lounge and continuing from the same spot in any other room in the house. It's the little things that excite me really :P

http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=HOW-TO:Share_libraries_using_MySQL
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Use this link instead, or, look at what I posted in the very first post of this thread, it's the MySQL part that I originally made this thread about.
 
@Confused - if you have your database centralised how responsive is it when accessing the TV shows or movies on each of your devices..? And is one of them a Pi...? I do not mind setting up the SQL database, and can see some advantages to it, but I would not want to slow my Pi down any more than it is when working through the GUI of the skin.
 
I've never had the database locally, so can't compare - however, I can't say I notice any speed issues at all. Each client also is responsible for downloading the fanart itself, so the only delay I see is while it accesses TheTVDB etc for the images.

If you don't like it, simply remove the advancedsettings.xml file and you'll go back to using the existing local database on the Pi itself - you'll not lose that.
 
I might give it a go and, as you have noted, I can just flip back to using a locally stored one if I find any issues.
As I have my server waking up when either the Pi or my HTPC is switched on the delay before it is ready is minimal.

I am used to a very fast and responsive XBMC experience when using it on my HTPC. I know that I will not get that on the Pi but with having around 190 or so TV shows, some with many seasons, the Pi can be slow enough at times when accessing a locally based database without needing to do that from my server over Ethernet.

@StooM - thanks for posting that, it is reassuring - although the Pi might prove otherwise...?!
 
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After doing a search for Extra Fan Art and Extra Icons etc I now have several folders that have suddenly appeared in my HD and SD Movie collections. Any idea how to get rid of them?
 
All of those extra files and folders follow a naming convention. The simplest thing to do is to search your source drives for those names (assuming you are using Windows) and delete all of the results.
 
I use a shared mysql db and several pi clients. The shared db is on a hp microserver and I saw no degradation of service. Sharing movies over ntfs was better than samba though
 
FerretBoy said:
I use a shared mysql db and several pi clients. The shared db is on a hp microserver and I saw no degradation of service. Sharing movies over ntfs was better than samba though
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Do you mean NFS sharing over that of SMB...? How would it be better though....? In my case of of my TV series and Movies are on my NL40 Microserver running Windows 8.
 
In the first post in this thread, you mention that you have the BBC i-Player, ITV Player, 4OD plugins. I have iPlayer. Where do you get the other two?
 
Anyone know how to get RAW images to display correctly? I just get a pink squashed image. Jpg is fine, but the majority of my files are CR2 raw files.
 
Vimes said:
^^^^ I really must get my head around this. Did you use the guide from page 1 and here....

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

...also I read that the latest version of Mysql can be problematic for Windows 8 and thus use version 5.5.
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Yes I downloaded and installed 5.5 on my microserver with WinHomeSer2011. Follow the install instructions from the geek guide in the first post. Create the xbmc user and grant permissions with the 2 lines of sql quoted. On your xbmc machine don't bother exporting the library. Create the advancedsettings.xml and paste in the xml from the guide. (You don't need the name tags unless you use profiles) Obviously put the ip in of your server with mysql on it. Restart XBMC and you should have no library as expected but all your shares will still be there. Go through your shares one at a time selecting the scraper by choosing the option choose contents I think it is in the context menu for each share. This will now add all your movies etc to the new library in mysql.
 
Many thanks, much appreciated :)

I take it that your server is on 24/7...? I use a WOL function within XBMC which will wake up the HP NL40 when needed. I can't imagine that would be an issue as a file could not be played until the server is awake.
 
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