[pko66]

I do not know if this is a known problem or perhaps an "accepted" one, the facts are these:

I usually do not use library mode (last time I tried was maybe a year ago in xbmc-xbox) since I found then it had very poor functionality and order when you have a moderately large movie collection. I tried today to use it and, when selecting "title", xbmc apparently hangs but after like 10 minutes, the listing appears. I think the reason is too big a collection (my MyVideos34.db is 5MB, recently cleaned, exported videodb.xml is around that also).

I think my movie collection is large, but far from extreme, and this behaviour is with a decent CPU and RAM (core 2 dual @ 3GHz, 4GB DDR2-800), it makes the library mode unusable. I am afraid that the limitations of library mode affect all platforms, but at least in windows/linux/mac there is the posibility of overcoming it with enough hardware but it is not so, at least not now.

[marlboroman1]

I to found library mode very hit and miss in the past but I started with a fresh profile and re scanned every thing I havent had any problems since. It all works very well now but i still don't use it much file mode is not as flashy but less maintenance over all.

ps my video34 DB is just over 6MB so That shouldn't be the problem

[pko66]

Ok, I've just deleted my db files... re-scraping everything (thanks to XBMC-db and XBMC Companion it shouldn't take more than a few hours...)