mbc0 67 Posted October 19, 2014 Posted October 19, 2014 Hi, Firstly Everything actually works perfectly on my setup (5 Windows 7 XBMC Gotham Clients) except I have an annoying "glitch" which I am sure is just timing... My movie collection is quite large (2700) which is what I think is causing this "glitch" as I only get this when selecting movies from any XBMC3 skin from the XBMC3 Repo using Gotham and never my TV Shows (300) when I select movies I get the screen come up "Downloading Jason Data" this normally sits at 0 for about 15 seconds before I see it count across to 2700 but about 70% of the time it stays at 0 and tells me "Unable to connect to host" This happens on all clients AND my server itself running Windows 7, Mediabrowser Server, XBMC Gotham so that can rule out the network. Any advice would be gratefully received and PLEASE PLEASE keep up the great work :-D :-D Thank You
xnappo 1605 Posted October 20, 2014 Posted October 20, 2014 We need a log from the case when it errors out. Thanks, xnappo
mbc0 67 Posted October 20, 2014 Author Posted October 20, 2014 Hi Xnappo I guess the error is from XBMC? as I am using the XBMC3 skin? can you please clarify? Many Thanks
xnappo 1605 Posted October 20, 2014 Posted October 20, 2014 Please close XBMC, open it again, recreate the error, then grab xbmc.log (see http://kodi.wiki/view/Log_file/Advanced#Location for location) and post it on pastebin.com. Thanks, xnappo
mbc0 67 Posted October 21, 2014 Author Posted October 21, 2014 Hi Xnappo, I have attached two log files... 1, Start XBMC and select Movies & got cannot connect to host error, exited XBMC and zipped log https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/38473789/xbmc%20with%20host%20not%20connected%20error.rar 2, Start XBMC and select Movies & everything worked perfectly, exited XBMX and zipped log https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/38473789/xbmc%20working%20fine.rar Many Thanks For Your Help
xnappo 1605 Posted October 21, 2014 Posted October 21, 2014 Looks like it really is timing out on your huge collection. With almost all skins now, you can reduce the amount of data need by turning off 'Metadata' -> 'Include People' and 'Include Overview'. These are now background loaded. If you STILL time out after changing that, then try opening: %appdata%\xbmc\addons\plugin.video.xbmb3c\resources\lib\DownloadUtils.py change this line: conn = httplib.HTTPConnection(server, timeout=20) to: conn = httplib.HTTPConnection(server, timeout=40) xnappo
mbc0 67 Posted October 22, 2014 Author Posted October 22, 2014 Hi Xnappo, I have turned off the Metadata as suggested in the XBMC3 Addon, will this have no effect then on my metadata? you say it is all background loaded anyway? Cheers
xnappo 1605 Posted October 22, 2014 Posted October 22, 2014 Yes, it is loaded in the background in most, if not all, modded skins. It will only be an issue if you wanted to use an unmodified skin for some reason. Did it fix the problem? xnappo
mbc0 67 Posted October 22, 2014 Author Posted October 22, 2014 Hi Xnappo, it would appear that just disabling the metadata has done the trick! it loads the movie list much quicker as well... many thanks for this :-)
xnappo 1605 Posted October 22, 2014 Posted October 22, 2014 (edited) Isn't it still intolerably slow even though it does load? I have some ideas on making it faster, but they are lofty and require a lot of skin work. Would it be useful to have a user-defined letter grouping? Like you set the grouping to '5' then when you go into 'Movies' you would have #-D, E-I, J-M, N-R, S-W, X-Z ? I could do something like that pretty easily. xnappo Edited October 22, 2014 by xnappo
mbc0 67 Posted October 22, 2014 Author Posted October 22, 2014 Hi mate, It loads very quick but I do use solid state disks, I have to be honest if you introduced the grouping I would like it to be an option rather than forced as I am not sure if I would like the look of that? (hard without seeing it) For me now it works well & quick but would be interesting to know what others think! Thanks again Xnappo
xnappo 1605 Posted October 22, 2014 Posted October 22, 2014 Ok - kinda weird that the 20 second timeout was hitting, but now you are getting all the data in a reasonable time. It is using a local cache unless watched status changes, but with a library that big I would have thought it would be worse. The grouping would DEFINITELY be optional. xnappo
mbc0 67 Posted October 23, 2014 Author Posted October 23, 2014 Hi Xnappo, I have uploaded a short video so you can see how quickly it loads 2700 movies, this is over my network as well https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/38473789/XBMC%202014-10-23%2001-48-21-18.mp4 Cheers
xnappo 1605 Posted October 23, 2014 Posted October 23, 2014 Yeah, I guess that isn't too bad. In real life you probably use the 'Recent Movies' menu more anyway (I know I do). xnappo
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