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<blockquote data-quote="lulsam" data-source="post: 137698" data-attributes="member: 28181">Probably you are right and the best approach is to have a dedicated MP Server, and in my opinion this server should have not only a pictures db, but an integrated media db where MP will become a full media streaming server. I am not saying that the media should be inside the db, because depending on the RDBMS this could drive performance issues, probably the media could be in a file system and the media metadata in the db, but this is something to be discussed later.Unfortunately, taken into account the huge effort currently ongoing for TV Server probably this approach will take a while to evaluate, design and even more time to develop and test.Regarding the idea of having cached copies of any thumb, files and directories, I feel this is extremely valuable not only in the short term (AFAIK I an not the only one using a file server box separate from the MP box) but also for the &quot;far future&quot; of&nbsp; a streaming server, because optimizing the network traffic is becoming a must even in a controlled environment like a home lan.Best</blockquote>

[QUOTE="lulsam, post: 137698, member: 28181"] Probably you are right and the best approach is to have a dedicated MP Server, and in my opinion this server should have not only a pictures db, but an integrated media db where MP will become a full media streaming server. I am not saying that the media should be inside the db, because depending on the RDBMS this could drive performance issues, probably the media could be in a file system and the media metadata in the db, but this is something to be discussed later. Unfortunately, taken into account the huge effort currently ongoing for TV Server probably this approach will take a while to evaluate, design and even more time to develop and test. Regarding the idea of having cached copies of any thumb, files and directories, I feel this is extremely valuable not only in the short term (AFAIK I an not the only one using a file server box separate from the MP box) but also for the "far future" of a streaming server, because optimizing the network traffic is becoming a must even in a controlled environment like a home lan. Best [/QUOTE]

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