zip wrote:You can do this by:
- disabling Descriptive metadata (Metadata tab)
- browsing for your content via the Folders category
- you can also disable most of the other Categories on the Presentation tab, if you don't use metadata - they will be mostly empty
It's still a nightmare for huge libraries.
With all mentioned above done (metadata disabled etc), it took almost 28 hours for Serviio to add 2TB folder with mixed content (video, mp3, jpg's) to the library on not very weak computer (i7,32GB, SSD512GB, HDD2x4TB). One can argue that that's one time only job, and I can almost agree with that, but after library is finally build, when I copy just one new file to same 2TB shared folder and force library update, Serviio took 27 minutes (!!!) to publish the file to the client TV's. For me personaly, when I add a new file to the shared folder and press Force Update, I almost certainly wish to watch the file immediately, not half hour later.
On the other hand, "oShare", simple free DLNA sever takes only 23 seconds to scan same 2TB folder and publish its content, while newly added files are visible effectively immediately.
See my point?
I understand how metadata and various sorting/display/navigation/etc options can be important for some or many people, but there are also people like me who dont need all of that and just want to access their media content as soon and easy as possible.
In my opinion too Serviio shall have an option to switch to some kind of fast On-The-Fly folder/file access mode based on media filename extension only (mkv,mp4,avi,mpg,mp3,jpg...), without any prior transcoding, metadata gathering, content analyzing etc etc etc.
Regarding content analyzing (codecs, resolution, bitrate etc) - let the client devices take care of that. If the file is invalid or unplayable by device, device will report an error or...freeze. If it do so from time to time, no biggy - we'll restart the device, knowing that something's wrong with particular file.