I am using a web disk mount to play the video. I opened the video folder, did not click to open the video, the mount transfer software page is displayed, but there is a request to download multiple files?? If the video in the folder is dozens of GB, it will directly cause the card to die. Is this automatically scanning files? Please remove this feature or limit scanning to a certain size to stop!!
You need to be more precise because your post doesn’t make any sense to me.
How precise? I want to open video A. When I open the folder where video A is. The folder contains videos A, B, C, D, E. If I don’t click to open video A. I found through network monitoring: CoreELEC system in the hard disk request to download video B and D??
Figure: I want to play Dune.part.two. After entering the folder, I don’t press any buttons. Only to find that the system is requesting two more files to download. If the other two files are large. For example, dozens of GB, the page card.
Same. I just opened a folder with videos and didn’t click on anything. The traffic monitor showed that two videos were requested at the same time.
I asked DeepSeek-R1 to finally find out why:
- Automatically scan the media library
Symptom: Kodi scans media folders by default to generate thumbnails, metadata (such as movie profiles, covers, etc.). If the video file is stored in a remote location (such as SMB/NFS/HTTP), scanning triggers network traffic.
Solution:
Disable automatic scanning: Go to Settings → Media → Database → Video and turn off the various options for automatically updating the database. Then reboot. Problem solved!
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