Metadata update only for a selection of files
Posted: Wed Nov 25, 2009 11:06 pmHi,
first I want to pay you my compliment. When I read your comment, that you own a Samsung B650 yourself, I was happily looking forward to see some piece of software which has the ability to function with this great TV out of the box with most features.
[x] smooth streaming (at least of all supportet codecs)
[x] thumbnail support
[x] background scanning for new files
[x] very fast folder browsing (most notably compared to PMS!)
[x] metadata support for virtual folders
...
Really, great work - runs like a charm (although I had to start it for the first time with admin rights (Windows 7).. maybe to create new files for the library).
=> But now to my feature proposal:
1) Is it possible to get a button to refresh just a bunch of selectet movies or a single (sub-) folder from the library? For example: I got some timeouts while retrieving covers and other information from thetvdb.com. When I press "Rescan video metadata" Serviio starts its LibraryUpdaterThread and goes through all files, instead of rescanning just the ones I want. This increases the working time from lets say 2 minutes to 3 hours
I'm aware that renaming the file would be a possibility to solve this (so that Serviio treats it as a new file), but a selection would be great!
2) Another nice feature would be to allow more than one instance of FFmpeg to run concurrently (as an option box, i.e. 3 on a quad core), reducing the time to update the library on a multicore system.
However, for Samsung TV's this is by far the best DLNA-Server I've seen so far.
Best regards,
Bizzl
first I want to pay you my compliment. When I read your comment, that you own a Samsung B650 yourself, I was happily looking forward to see some piece of software which has the ability to function with this great TV out of the box with most features.
[x] smooth streaming (at least of all supportet codecs)
[x] thumbnail support
[x] background scanning for new files
[x] very fast folder browsing (most notably compared to PMS!)
[x] metadata support for virtual folders
...
Really, great work - runs like a charm (although I had to start it for the first time with admin rights (Windows 7).. maybe to create new files for the library).
=> But now to my feature proposal:
1) Is it possible to get a button to refresh just a bunch of selectet movies or a single (sub-) folder from the library? For example: I got some timeouts while retrieving covers and other information from thetvdb.com. When I press "Rescan video metadata" Serviio starts its LibraryUpdaterThread and goes through all files, instead of rescanning just the ones I want. This increases the working time from lets say 2 minutes to 3 hours
I'm aware that renaming the file would be a possibility to solve this (so that Serviio treats it as a new file), but a selection would be great!2) Another nice feature would be to allow more than one instance of FFmpeg to run concurrently (as an option box, i.e. 3 on a quad core), reducing the time to update the library on a multicore system.
However, for Samsung TV's this is by far the best DLNA-Server I've seen so far.
Best regards,
Bizzl
This is only problem with the online metadata, the local extractors will see there is new/updated metadata (e.g. a new folder.jpg) and will update the library automatically .... with the online sources it'd bee too much bandwidth and the speed is also an issue.