{"id":651,"date":"2014-04-20T11:02:20","date_gmt":"2014-04-20T10:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.thogersens.net\/?p=651"},"modified":"2014-06-28T12:57:13","modified_gmt":"2014-06-28T11:57:13","slug":"a-little-performance-suggestion-for-xbmc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jakobsens.net\/?p=651","title":{"rendered":"A little performance suggestion for XBMC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love the XBMC media center and it&#8217;s the best I have seen so far.<\/p>\n<p>But I have alway thought it was a little slow when starting playing media and upgrading the library was a killer.<\/p>\n<p>I have read a lot about how to setup XBMC on remote shares and every body was pointing out: <strong>Always use Samda to connect to your media.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I have a Synology box with all my media and it can use Samba as well as NFS.<br \/>\nBut of cause I used Samba to connect to it from my mediacenter and PC&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>The reason to use Samba was the problem with Upper\/Lower case letters in media names.<\/p>\n<p>I was thinking a bit about this and found that it was not a problem for me.<br \/>\nI have a lot of CD&#8217;s and when I ripped them I always organize them with MusicBrainz Picard so I knew exactly where the media is stored.<\/p>\n<p>I tried to connect to the Synology box using NFS and to my surprise media started playing right away.<\/p>\n<p>My head had to banged into the wall a couple of times because all the time I have spend trying to optimize network, MySQL and buying memory for the Synology box. <img src=\"https:\/\/jakobsens.net\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/mrgreen.png\" alt=\":mrgreen:\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em; max-height: 1em;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love the XBMC media center and it&#8217;s the best I have seen so far. But I have alway thought it was a little slow when starting playing media and upgrading the library was a killer. I have read a lot about how to setup XBMC on remote shares and every body was pointing out: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jakobsens.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jakobsens.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jakobsens.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jakobsens.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jakobsens.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=651"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jakobsens.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":673,"href":"https:\/\/jakobsens.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651\/revisions\/673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jakobsens.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jakobsens.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jakobsens.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}