2012-12-25, 10:18
First of all, thanks so much for your helpful reply. This clarifies a lot of my thinking and also supports my decision to start "playing" with UPnP once final Frodo is out. It appears the way to go.
Apologies for the double-post from the dev thread, but let me add this one as well here. May be insightful not only for me, but also for a broader audience looking into UPnP as the "hidden gem" you were describing. Any chance to help confirm whether my understandin below is correct?
1) The library can reside on one computer only, which serves via UPnP ("XBMC A"). "XBMC B" does not need to have an own library function (but receives everything from "XBMC A")
2) Poster and fanart caching happen only on "XBMC A". So, I save a lot of disk space on "XBMC B" as it no longer needs to cache images. However, "XBMC B" will also be a bit slower in displaying posters.
3) Library update is ONLY used on "XBMC A", everything happens automatically on "XBMC B" and I don't need to hit "update library" or "clean library"
4) Watched flags are not synced yet between "XBMC A" and "XBMC B", but this may be possible at later stage. Right now, both "XBMC A" and "XBMC B" have their own watched flags, which are not in sync.
5) If I change a poster on "XBMC A", it will automatically also change on "XBMC B". I cannot change posters on "XBMC B" with the set-up described in (1)
6) If I turn off "XBMC A", I won't see any movies in the library of "XBMC B"
Apologies for the double-post from the dev thread, but let me add this one as well here. May be insightful not only for me, but also for a broader audience looking into UPnP as the "hidden gem" you were describing. Any chance to help confirm whether my understandin below is correct?
1) The library can reside on one computer only, which serves via UPnP ("XBMC A"). "XBMC B" does not need to have an own library function (but receives everything from "XBMC A")
2) Poster and fanart caching happen only on "XBMC A". So, I save a lot of disk space on "XBMC B" as it no longer needs to cache images. However, "XBMC B" will also be a bit slower in displaying posters.
3) Library update is ONLY used on "XBMC A", everything happens automatically on "XBMC B" and I don't need to hit "update library" or "clean library"
4) Watched flags are not synced yet between "XBMC A" and "XBMC B", but this may be possible at later stage. Right now, both "XBMC A" and "XBMC B" have their own watched flags, which are not in sync.
5) If I change a poster on "XBMC A", it will automatically also change on "XBMC B". I cannot change posters on "XBMC B" with the set-up described in (1)
6) If I turn off "XBMC A", I won't see any movies in the library of "XBMC B"
