XBMC Library scraping and SMB

[bulletprooffool]

I have the Neo X7 - I have tried both the Minix Frimware / XBMC, as well as Quickshot V2 (with XBMC) and finally, BeyondXBMC (on the Quickshot V2 firmware).

It seems no matter what I do, scraping / updating my library from and SMB share hosted on Windows takes forever (up to 12 hours!!)
Has anyone found a workaround? Is anyone else having the same pain?

[bulletprooffool]

93 views, no response.
I can only assume that this means there is a long list of other people having the same problem . . that were hoping for a simple answer?
Anyone?

[Flumpster]

93 views, no response.
I can only assume that this means there is a long list of other people having the same problem . . that were hoping for a simple answer?
Anyone?

SMB is slow anyway but how much are you trying to import?

[bulletprooffool]

Hey Flumpster - cracking work on BeyondXBMC.


I have a medium sized library - about 300 movies, 2000 episodes of series, no music.

any ideas?
Took several hours - even though I was adding a library I had added before (on a different XBMC distro) - so image files etc would already have been added to the directories!

[Flumpster]

Hey Flumpster - cracking work on BeyondXBMC.


I have a medium sized library - about 300 movies, 2000 episodes of series, no music.

any ideas?
Took several hours - even though I was adding a library I had added before (on a different XBMC distro) - so image files etc would already have been added to the directories!

Mine takes nowhere near this long but.... I tried to do an update earlier and it was taking ages per episode where it normally flies thru them. I went to use archos video player as I was eating food and didn't want to mess around and just get the episode on and when I went to update my shares in there it did the same thing. It just started slowly pulling the episode info and no covers were coming in at all.

I went off to update my archos player to see if that was the cause and noticed the following in the chagelog.

- Fix cover image not loaded anymore due to tmdb.org change of API

I wonder if this is related to the update on XBMC being slow for me today as it tries to grab images that are not supported in the api by the addon any more.

[bulletprooffool]

I use TVDB and IMDB as my scrapers.

I have 120MB Down, 12MB up so it is not related to the internet speed.
It does seem that TV series are slower than movies and my remote apps seem to show the very few (if any) of the wide banner style images have come down.
I can think of a few workarounds, but I'd really like to get to the bottom of why the updates are so slow.
Can you see anything in your logs as to why it was slow?
I just see my entries having a few seconds in between and each entry taking long - I don;t see any errors.

Incidentally, I am running Quickshot V2, with Minix XBMC removed and BeyondXBMC installed.
I haven't added anything besides a new skin (but the change in skin made no change to scraping times)

[Flumpster]

I use TVDB and IMDB as my scrapers.

I have 120MB Down, 12MB up so it is not related to the internet speed.
It does seem that TV series are slower than movies and my remote apps seem to show the very few (if any) of the wide banner style images have come down.
I can think of a few workarounds, but I'd really like to get to the bottom of why the updates are so slow.
Can you see anything in your logs as to why it was slow?
I just see my entries having a few seconds in between and each entry taking long - I don;t see any errors.

Incidentally, I am running Quickshot V2, with Minix XBMC removed and BeyondXBMC installed.
I haven't added anything besides a new skin (but the change in skin made no change to scraping times)

I just wiped my install and I am scanning in a sample set of series and movies over smb now and timing it. There are 249 films and 549 TV episodes. It should give us a rough idea.

[Flumpster]

23 minutes. And all that had to be pulled from the internet to my K-R42 as I don't have my smb shares writable.

[bulletprooffool]

23 minutes. And all that had to be pulled from the internet to my K-R42 as I don't have my smb shares writable.

That's a whole bunch quicker than mine are going (Neo X7)
What scrapers are you using?
What OS is your SMB hosted on?
Are you using SMB1, or SMB 2?

Making the shares non-writable might not be a bad idea (although it means fresh downloads each time) - it also means things on my windows box (like AV etc) can not affect the writes to disk.
I'll gove it a go as soon as I have some time.

[Flumpster]

That's a whole bunch quicker than mine are going (Neo X7)
What scrapers are you using?
What OS is your SMB hosted on?
Are you using SMB1, or SMB 2?

Making the shares non-writable might not be a bad idea (although it means fresh downloads each time) - it also means things on my windows box (like AV etc) can not affect the writes to disk.
I'll gove it a go as soon as I have some time.

Default scrapers for Movies and TV Shows.
Windows 7.
Standard Windows share by right clicking on the folder and clicking share. Then into advanced to untick write/modify access.