Video tags/thumbnail generation

[speedst3r]

I am seeing issues with video tags (video/audio codec, aspect ratio etc.) being obtained for videos. Additionally, for TV shows if TVDB does not have a thumbnail for an episode then none is generated; XBMC Frodo on an OpenELEC VM will generate a thumb if it cannot obtain an image from TVDB.

If I mount the media shares (NFS) under Linux on the XIOS (e.g to /media) then tags and thumbnail generation work properly. When the media is accessed through the nfs:// path they do not. Playing a video with dvdplayer (Play using... dvdplayer) the tags will be shown in the library after playback, even if you stop the video after a few seconds.

My setup is as follows:
2 x XIOS units and 1 x OpenELEC VM sharing a MySQL database for library
Media is shared by read-only NFS shares from a file server.
All XBMC instances and the file server are connected via wired Ethernet.

[davilla]

are pivos/linux and openelec running the same version of xbmc code ? current buildroot pulls and builds beta1 + pivos additions.

[speedst3r]

Near enough - I specifically had to rebuild my OpenELEC VM as XBMC under pivos/linux was using an updated database version.

OpenELEC is running XBMC-12.0-BETA1 Git: 46c919d
Last pivos image I built from Git was pivos/xbmc 4f3f6d0

Could it be due to pivos using an external player for h.264 while OpenELEC is using the default player?

[davilla]

thumbnails should be handled the same.
video tags (video/audio codec, aspect ratio etc.) reported in the GUI might depend on internal player. do you have a specific example ?

[speedst3r]

If there is a thumb available on TVDB then Pivos downloads it fine. For example, NCIS 10x08 (720p) was added to my library the other day before a thumb was on TVDB and it currently has no thumb. If I refresh the ep info (I haven't yet) it will get the thumb that is now on TVDB. I'm sure it will also pull the thumb when whatever reference is in the texture cache expires.

On OpenELEC (or vanilla Windows/Linux builds of XBMC) it will seek the video and generate a thumb from it if downloading fails.

Pivos works if I mount the NFS shares on the local fs. Combination of network path and external player maybe?

[speedst3r]

Still happens with 5af262e .

Example - just added Toy Story to my library today, but the XIOS does not populate the tags.

For reference, I perform a library update on the OpenELEC VM then browse to Movies or TV shows on the XIOS. The new item is there but without tags. If I browse to Movies/TV Shows on OpenELEC the tags are added.

[davilla]

5af262e is xbmc rc2, can you try with OpenELEC at rc2 ?

[speedst3r]

Still the same with the OpenELEC library management VM at Frodo RC2. It doesn't have a problem populating tags or generating thumbnails if one is not available online. The XIOS does.

[speedst3r]

Still the same in RC3. I'll reiterate that with local paths the XIOS has no problems

[Noexicaise]

Hi,

Same problem (latest build) with Synology Nas and smb share.hope solve

[davilla]

where are xbmc.logs ? www.pastebin.com them

[speedst3r]

http://pastebin.com/8Xg4eJzJ

Looks like no NFS context is opened until the file is selected to play?