Exporting a Movie Database for use on other Networked PCs?

[jlr2000]

I have Xlobby setup in the basement with movies located on local and network drives...I have it set up pretty much the way I want now, but as I try to put Xlobby in other areas of the house (TV room PC, Kids bedroom PC) I'm finding that the Movie Database information doesn't "travel" well. I just grabbed the whole XL directory and copied it to the other machines. When I changed the media locations (network drive letters), it refreshes the database and I lose everything except the cover art and title. Do I have to build the database for each PC based on the location of the media, or is there a way to export this database info and re-import it with different media locations? I hope this makes sense. My basement PC has movies on the local E & F drive, and on a networked M drive. On the PC I'm putting together now, I mapped X, Y & Z to be E, F & M...but that causes the DB details to disappear. Am I missing something simple or is this just the way it works? Any input appreciated! Thanks!!

[dgemily]

Use a fat client on each other pc: fat client is a full install of xlobby, with the option "connect to the serveur" in the xnet section. Of course you must start you principal xlobby as server xnet ( same section of the set up)
It will load every databases on you xlobby client from your serveur xnet…
To have a correctly path on your client, use networking unc path in your databases: like "\\ServerName\c\..........."

later

[jlr2000]

Thank You!

[jlr2000]

ok, I have the XL Server setup with three directories for movies, 2 local and 1 network drives. I have it set as such:

E:\My Movies (Local)
F:\My Movies (Local)
\\otherpc\moviesdrive\

It seemed to work okay at first but I noticed ZoomPlayer would freeze ocassionaly during movie play. This has not happened before and I have to assume it's related to me now using XNET. One question is should I be using UNC names for the local drives as well? IE:

\\myserver\moviedrive
\\myserver\othermoviedrive
\\otherpc\moviesdrive\

I now see why I should be using DVD profiler....anytime I change the directories I have to rebuild the database...is this stored anywhere? To be safe I think I will rebuild it in DVD profiler so it can be saved (a pain once but then I have it). If I setup my drives with both local and network as UNC do I even need to use XNET (other than keeping the databases synched)? Sorry for all the questions, I have the basement XL running great (sans XNet) and I'd like to get the kids and upstairs going. The fat client I'm using is a PIII 700 with 192mb ram running XPsp2...is that fast enough for XL and if not could that be impact the server when connected? Thanks.

[dgemily]

One question is should I be using UNC names for the local drives as well? IE:

\\myserver\moviedrive
\\myserver\othermoviedrive
\\otherpc\moviesdrive\

yep, this is the right way

sorry, I'm not using dvdprofiler, I use Ant Movie Catalog... but I think, rebuild your database in DVDprofiler is the good way too

If I setup my drives with both local and network as UNC do I even need to use XNET (other than keeping the databases synched)?

you can use only UNC path if you want, you don't need to use the local one. and yes you don't need to use xnet but with Xnet you can control and synchronize the "zone(s)" audio(s) of every pcs and from every pcs

The fat client I'm using is a PIII 700 with 192mb ram running XPsp2...is that fast enough for XL and if not could that be impact the server when connected?

I don't know, didn't try it...

[Myth]

anytime I change the directories I have to rebuild the database...is this stored anywhere?

The databases are stored in the directory at C:\Program Files\XLobby\databases (assuming you are using the default locations)

The movie database is ... movies.xml ( or whatever your movies database is called.

I always make a copy of the xml file before major changes, then if anything happens I can just stop XLobby, delete the existing movies.xml file, and replace with the old one!

If I change directories or drive locations, I do a search and replace in the offline xml file...

eg: \\Mediaserver\Disk01\DivX\myMovie.avi ---> \\KidzPC\Disk02\DivX\myMovie.xml

hope this helps
Myth