Taking ages to scan local content?

[pdp]

I don't understand how BB is taking forever to scan my local content. When I had the same external plugged into my pc using boxee, it found everything within minutes. I left it on overnight and checked on it this afternoon to find that barely found anything. I even tried removing the source and adding it again thinking something went wrong. After an hour it still only showed a few of my shows and movies.

Now a few hours ago I restored it back to factory and then updated it again. Added the source again and I'll check back on it during the morning to see if it went anywhere. It's currently identifying but I haven't seen anything change yet.

I'll update sometime in the morning or afternoon whether it worked or not.

[marcel]

Are you using the latest version 1.0.1.16125? What scanning type are you using?

[pdp]

Yes I'm using the newest version. After checking it this afternoon it did find my content after leaving it on overnight. I'm using the daily scanning.

Even though it did find it all, it did take way too long for it.

[SecretAsianMan]

Same here. I've been meaning to send in some logs.

Generally the story around indexing local content is troublesome. Try adding a new episode of a tv show and see how long it takes to show up. Afaik you can browse the folder manually (in which case, why did I buy a Boxee Box?) or you can dig through the settings menu to manually kick off a full scan and if you're lucky you can watch your show within the hour.

[pdp]

Same here. I've been meaning to send in some logs.

Generally the story around indexing local content is troublesome. Try adding a new episode of a tv show and see how long it takes to show up. Afaik you can browse the folder manually (in which case, why did I buy a Boxee Box?) or you can dig through the settings menu to manually kick off a full scan and if you're lucky you can watch your show within the hour.


Exactly.. if i wanted to use a file browser I'd just plug my computer back into my tv.

[dr.ripco]

Same here. I've been meaning to send in some logs.

Generally the story around indexing local content is troublesome. Try adding a new episode of a tv show and see how long it takes to show up. Afaik you can browse the folder manually (in which case, why did I buy a Boxee Box?) or you can dig through the settings menu to manually kick off a full scan and if you're lucky you can watch your show within the hour.


There does seem to be something wrong with the indexing. I enabled the syslog messages to be sent to a server and have been watching them. I know it won't index unless the box is idle, but this bugs me...

Nov 14 15:05:55 [192.168.1.79.227.34] boxee ReadFeed - RSS Init failed, could not parse feed http://res.boxee.tv/title/tv/?episode=

Nov 15 08:20:20 [192.168.1.79.227.34] boxee ReadFeed - RSS Init failed, could not parse feed http://res.boxee.tv/title/tv/?

Those message appear when it's trying to find an entry, but what I'm trying to point out is the time stamps. Yesterday (the 14th) after 16:00 or so, I left it on but not doing anything (went out), this morning I tapped on the remote to wake it up.

I have it (over smb) looking at two drives with maybe 2000 videos on them each, and it doesn't look like more than 300 have been "found" yet.

It sat for like 18 hours doing nothing with the indexing. Maybe it considers the screensaver as work (not idle) but at this rate, it'll take a week at this pace to find everything.

Something isn't right.

[thfrench]

Bumping this as I'm having exactly the same issues.

Initially I had a hard disk attached by USB with 10 or so films, and 7 TV shows. All scanned fine.

I have since moved to a network drive and scanning has been extremely hit-and-miss. Sometimes most of the films will identify, and I can add more, but it tends to get stuck around 70ish and won't add any more. Once there are more than 70 films in the directory it gets indefinitely stuck on 'Identifying'. All the files are found ok, it just never gets any further along the process. All the files are named according to the rules, but it's not even getting that far.

I have tried restoring to factory defaults, clearing the library, removing and re-adding sources etc. all with no luck :-(

[trooperlooper]

I have exactly the same problem since the latest update. The box just sits at identifying, however going in to the file browser and selecting files individually for identification is no problem.

I know that fair few ISPs are having problems today with page timeouts and the like, I'm wondering if the boxee just gives up if it can't get a response from the online database in a timely fashion, and the retry interval is either broken, or set way to long?

[trooperlooper]

And just as I post that I was manually identifying one of my shows to get it into the list, the boxee crashed and reset back to the home screen while trying to identify, and now it is rattling through all my shows at a pace and identifying them all! :)

[trooperlooper]

And now it has stuck again, it's up to 1021 shows out of around 1400. Last time it stuck was around 350 shows

[trooperlooper]

Talking to myself, I know :) but the solution to the identifying process getting stuck seems to be the following.

Go into the file browser, choose a tv show that hasn't been identified, identify it, ask boxee to attempt to identify all episodes in the same folder. As soon as it starts and the spinning wheel appears, hit the menu button a couple of times on the remote, this will crash the box and dump you to the home screen, a byproduct of this crash is that the identify process seems to get kicked :D
You can now hit rescan and it should start churning away through your files again. :)

[tmo]

I am having the same issue with the scanning. It seemed to find movies on my Western Digital Live (connected to my network via a DLink router) the very first time I added content or mapped to the drive via Boxee. I tried out the scanning function and it worked fine. I then added more video content to my drive and the scan did not work. I then tried to identify the folders on the drive as Movie folders and that did not work either. I then complicated matters even furhter by adding 69g of music to my external drive and tried to get Boxee to scan the folder as a Music item. I got a handful of songs identified and then it got stuck. I left it over night and still nothing.

I will give your solution a try tonight. Thanks for the tip.

[carnagerover]

I have mine added via SMB share and although my files are identified the first time, after that when I add anything new and I do a rescan it says it has finished almost straight away and finds no new files.

This is from my Dlink DNS 320 NAS, remove and re-add the share and it finds all the new files as well as the old :confused:

[hoagieh]

I have mine added via SMB share and although my files are identified the first time, after that when I add anything new and I do a rescan it says it has finished almost straight away and finds no new files.

This is from my Dlink DNS 320 NAS, remove and re-add the share and it finds all the new files as well as the old :confused:

Same thing happens to me. I'm set up on the hourly scan.

[carnagerover]

I cant get the boxee to find any new stuff I add to my NAS drive now.

I have to browse to any new media by going into the files menu and then browse. I'm not removing and adding the share any time I add new content as it can take up to a few hours to finish on my movies. I don't like how it takes a good while to start either, I would have no problem staying on that menu if it didn't take hours obviously. Not sure the reasoning behind why it takes so long to go through.

It would seem that if I wait for the boxee rather than try and re-scan files myself new entries appear in the movies section. So it looks like I should just play them through the file browser before that as a temp solution.

[tmo]

Tried trooperlooper's trick and it seemed to work. Also new update downloaded today, see what that does. Still have a few movies that do not seem to want to identify. Could be they are being classified as TV shows instead of movies, because that is what they really are and I may have to move the files to a different share to separate them from the movies.

Took about 2 hours to classify all of the songs since this was the first time for 69g. Maybe the daily scan will be faster.

Thanks.