View Full Version : My Videos Option
HarshReality
2006-12-03, 18:42
For whatever setting there isat the momment I have @ 208 Divx movies on my NAS. every time I enter the directory it obviously accesses and generates a list based on the database and actual files. The pain is if I look at info or anything off the main view and then go back it stalls for @ 10-15 seconds and generates the whole list again.
Can we setup somehow so it only refreshes when entering the first time or have a setting so this action can be disabled?
jmarshall
2006-12-03, 22:16
What's your directory layout? Which view (Files I presume?). How many things have thumbs?
its possible but its honestly a pain in the ass to do for the files views. you should notice that this doesnt happen in the music or video library views because the lists are cached to disc. its a database view that xbmc has full control over. so it knows when the database changes, and when to purge the cache and re-get the list. however, this is difficult to do in files view. we'd have to fetch the listing regardless to see if any new files have "appeared" in the folder. it may speed things up a bit because the thumb setting takes some time but i dont think it would be worth the effort. (and remember that the 10-15 secs is using the thumb cache. delete the thumb folder and re-enter that folder to see how long it really takes.)
jmarshall
2006-12-04, 01:09
Thumbs should be done async, so that *shouldn't* have any effect.
HarshReality
2006-12-04, 02:35
They all have thumbs and media info however I have a few ISO files and the like I have not stored to library and some of my other video files (music videos and clips) have no reference to be stored to the library, as a result it would involve changing each time I left the main directory.
But you are correct, it is in files view. Will give it a shot in library but my television programs and the like wont display unless I drop to file view which brings me back to square one.
jmarshall
2006-12-04, 02:45
We need to know WHY it is taking so long. Please pastebin your directory layout and a debuglog of you entering the folder as well.
oh, i hadnt noticed that my videos was using a seperate thumb loader like music now... do you have stacking enabled? that requires some processing time.
rimsky82
2006-12-04, 07:20
If this helps at all, I have about the same amount of movies, a lot of which are stacked, and all have thumbs, but I don't encounter this problem. It's actually very fast.
HarshReality
2006-12-04, 07:55
No worries guys if nobody here sees anything similar (and it appears I am out of my head) I'll just do a new build in a week or so and see what happens then.
I'm curious... How many subfolders do both of you have in the same location where you're movies are? The stacking code tries to stack "SUBFOLDER/VIDEO_TS.IFO" into a playable item. This means that every subfolder is accessed which can be related if they are remote folders.
rimsky82
2006-12-04, 23:46
I have zero subfolders in my movies folder.