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More => Old Versions => Media Center 13 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: benn600 on January 26, 2009, 10:49:08 pm
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Is there a way to have MC build thumbnails for all items in the library? I would like MC to do so, on its own, very slowly, when idle. I know that building thumbnails on many HTPCs around the house simultaneously could truly be a huge task for the server. We're talking about probably 60 thousand items, 100% of which have a thumbnail associated.
Does Built Thumbnails from auto import do this? The problem is that I don't have the items being auto imported. I run the imports on my own (for various reasons). So is it possible to have thumbnails built in the background without auto import?
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You will have to enable auto-import.
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Not that I want to encourage background tasks or that you would want to add them but what about just what I said, a very slow, idle task that built thumbnails when idle, one at a time when not busy?
Or, I have many user accounts / libraries / systems that use the exact same server library--basically three folders: /music, /video, and /pictures
Would it ever be possible to store the thumbnail database on the server in a central location I choose? Can you get satisfactory thumbnail performance over a gigabit or 100Mb network connection? Then, the server could handle all thumbnail building and all clients could easily share the one database. It's a lot of work building thumbnails for a huge library so many times.
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Not that I want to encourage background tasks or that you would want to add them but what about just what I said, a very slow, idle task that built thumbnails when idle, one at a time when not busy?
Again, we call that auto-import. It can thumbnail, analyze, get art, and do other background tasks.
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Now for it to work, I have to auto import all 3 of my used folders, correct? There isn't a way to simply turn on auto import but rather, I have to select all these items, right?
Call it a bug or something else but when I name my VIDEO_TS DVD rips and turn on auto import, the names get overwritten and changed to VIDEO_TS. Can you reproduce this problem? I am not using a VIDEO_TS folder but rather just the movie name with files inside + folder.jpg file.
So if not for this issue, I would love using auto import. But it ruins my DVD titles everytime it scans.
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Call it a bug or something else but when I name my VIDEO_TS DVD rips and turn on auto import, the names get overwritten and changed to VIDEO_TS. Can you reproduce this problem? I am not using a VIDEO_TS folder but rather just the movie name with files inside + folder.jpg file.
It's a bug.
We'll try to get it fixed in a coming build.
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Thanks!