Using the copy function on the hub, I’ve just finished transfering video files from my NAS over to a new Hub puchased as a gift.
Problem is that the backdrops don’t come up for 90% of the shows, but does display correctly on a few. ???
With the firmware out of the box, 3.08.14, Titan Live theme, and Tinwarbles darklight templates, I had everything working on my SMP’s, but now they are buggered as well. Overviews come up and box covers are ordered properly… everything but the backdrops.
If it wasn’t for it working properly on some that were transfered, I would wipe it all and tell him to use the internal scraper, but is there an easy fix for this? There’s over 600G of data there, not to mention my own is now … less than perfect.
I’ve tried wiping the media library on the hub and rebuilding it. No joy.
The fact that there are a few that work properly indicate to me it isn’t a firmware issue. ?? but something else.
I’m just not very familiar with the differences between the Hub and SMP, as I’ve never had one but to give it away as I am now.
Think maybe I broke something in the xml’s messing around with Tinwarbles templates, but they seem to point at all the right places, and they were working before on the SMP’s from my recollection.
I also tried wiping all .wd_tv files on the NAS and rebuilt the media library. No joy.
Going to try re-creating from metadata with a small sample to see if it repairs it.
Thanks for the reply. I have Thumbgen set up to “store links to moviesheets”, and
The xml’s were my first thought, but after looking again, I can see no difference between the ones working, and the ones not, aside from some missing data in the actor and cast fields. Reason for this is beyond my paygrade.
Tags reference actual jpg’s located in thir respective folders.
working
45
9.4
TV-14
<imdb_id>tt0903747</imdb_id>
TV-14
Crime
Drama
Thriller
45 Breaking Bad - Breaking Bad Season Four | IMDb
9.4
TV-14
<imdb_id>tt0903747</imdb_id>
TV-14
Crime
Drama
Thriller
Bryan Cranston/Anna Gunn/Aaron Paul/Dean Norris/Betsy Brandt/RJ Mitte/Bob Odenkirk/Jonathan Banks/Steven Michael Quezada/Giancarlo Esposito
Bryan Cranston/Anna Gunn/Aaron Paul/Dean Norris/Betsy Brandt/RJ Mitte/Bob Odenkirk/Jonathan Banks/Steven Michael Quezada/Giancarlo Esposito
Michelle MacLaren
High Bridge Productions
Gran Via Productions
Sony Pictures Television
Breaking Bad.S05E02.Madrigal_sheet.jpg
Breaking Bad.S05E02.Madrigal.jpg
All I did was unplug one of my SMP’s and plug in the HUB. It networked up, and I began transeferring folders after setting up a few base folders. I didn’t remove the hard-drive from the HUB, becasue I didn’t want to void the warranty, and used the native copy function. Now, the backdrops are gone from all but four seasons of BB, and maybe a few other I haven’t found.
Shortly before I began all this, I did do a conversion of all the backdrops using thumbgen (use metadata), but it worked on both networked SMP’s prior to moving ahead, so I did…
and here I am…
edit – upon closer inspection, all the working xml’s are missing actor and director data. ??? I have a strange feeling the last go around with thumbgen messed up the .tmgd file. Not looking good.
dunno, try re-copying over one of the BB seasons with the missing backdrops … wait for the Hub to finishing compiling and see if the backdrops will display for that season ?
What boggles me is that when switching to network share so it reads off the NAS, it still doesn’t work, which tells me the HUB is just doing what it’s told when it reads from its internal drive, and that the problem resides on the NAS.
I’ll have to get that sorted first. Then I’ll patch it into my switch with it’s own lan and try another small transfer.
And here I thought it would be something simple. :smileyvery-happy:
Having bit the bullet and updated the firmware on the HUB to the current one, everything works fine on the hub now, sort of…
Using Mochi, everything works properly. Episode cover boxes have the #'s on top, backdrops display properly, overviews come up.
It doesn’t work properly with any of the custom themes. Backdrops come up but the cover boxes don’t display the #'s again, but some series do. At least there is the default that works.
A definite step in the right direction. Thanks to KAD79 for nailing it off the get-go.
Now to concentrate on the other issues reamaining.
Lastly, I find that Titan Live and Tinwarbles templates for Darklight just don’t get along.
I swear they were working for a while prior to ever attempting this transfer, but once I removed one SMP from the network, the house of cards just crumbled one corner at a time. First this wasn’t working, then that, then the other thing changed, all on different machines…
On both SMP’s I now have Darlight with the intended TG templates, everything works but the backdrops on the #2 unit.
It turned out to be a firmware issue. Updating resolved many issues.
What I did was copy over all the files, then cleared the media library and re-built it internally.
Not being too familiar with the HUB, I didn’t delete all the .wd_tv files that already existed, and assumed (ruh roh…) the unit would clear old and build new.
That might explain the overly large amount of “new videos” found once this process was complete - some 2000 or so compared to the 700 or so on my SMP with similar files.
Can someone out there tell me which .wd_tv files to delete, and their locations, outside of the ones i know about within each *edit* video sub- folder?
The unit is back in its box right now so I don’t know exactly… I was looking at a large one, something along the lines of “union cas index” located in one of the hidden files on (or near) the root of the device, but I shied away from deleting it because of unfamiliarity.
