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Sharing EMBY metadata folder with Kodi? (for thumbnails)


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denethor
Posted (edited)

I was investigating Kodi with MySQL Wiki articles. Below option in advancedsettings.xml reminded me something funny:)

<pathsubstitution>
<substitute>
<from>special://masterprofile/Thumbnails/</from>
 <to>smb://192.168.1.XXX/media/Thumbnails/</to>
</substitute>
</pathsubstitution>
This means that you can share one thumbnail folder for all of your Kodi devices.

In the mean time I have already redirected my Emby metadata folders to my NAS. I have checked the folder structures of both apps. Obviously they are far from being identical but I guess both stores virtually same data.

 

So the question is, does Kodi add-on have any kind of control over Kodi thumbnail generation? Even if it doesn't is it possible to manipulate Kodi thumb links in the database afterwards and replace them with same files from Emby metadata folder?

 

I know this is kind a overkill and definitely version 2.x kind of a request but it can serve the purpose of Emby being the center of user media libraries.

Edited by denethor
xnappo
Posted

Are you talking about collection thumbnails or individual show/movie thumbnails?  If the latter, you really don't need to have those sitting in your filesystem anymore, just let Emby keep the copy.

denethor
Posted

Are you talking about collection thumbnails or individual show/movie thumbnails?  If the latter, you really don't need to have those sitting in your filesystem anymore, just let Emby keep the copy.

 

Individual show/movie thumbs. Are you saying that those stored in the Emby? If so something wrong with my Kodi setups since I have thousands of thumbnail files in Kodi Appdata\Thumbnail folder.

marcelveldt
Posted

Yes, that is Kodi cache... It caches all textures to a temp folder...

xnappo
Posted

Oh, yeah.  Nothing we can do about that without changing Kodi.

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