najkks Wrote:well first off, i cant choose to sort the alphabetically. I can only choose "title, year, genre and so on" - so thats my first problem.
Sort by title is alphabetical. But NO, not first off, lets worry about this LATER. Lets get your movies scraped so they can show up in the library view in the first place.
najkks Wrote:so if i get you correct.. where i can find the movies in xbmc right now is in the "movie-library" where i choose which discs to search for movies in? Thats true.. because only there i can see all 200 movies on each disc.
the scrapping is to help me be able to see the thumbs/covers in xbmc "movie-mode" - where i start playing a movie?
then i think i got this.. so my problems with not getting a correct scrapping should resolve in the movies doesnt showing up at all in "viewing-mode" ?
ummmm, NO, well sort-of. Well you are somewhat correct in your statements but your terms for things are way way off to the point where they make no sense at all. I think we need to use the 'proper' xbmc terms in order to communicate about them in a helpful way. I will break your 3 statements down individually to show you what I mean but first lets get some concepts down.
There are two modes of viewing your media files: (1) File View, and (2) Library View.
FILE: This is the basic one. All of your files contained in your SOURCE(S) are viewable here. This is a simple mode where you can see a basic list of the folders/files available to you. You can play your movies etc. from this view mode. This is where you would be able to see or find any of your movies that have not successfully been scraped into your XBMC library viewer.
LIBRARY: This confuses a lot of people new to XBMC at first. In terms of XBMC 'Library' is simply a MODE OF VIEWING your available media. This is the fancy display mode with all the fanart, movie posters, etc. and the display of information about the media title. This is completely different than the library concept in Windows7 where a library is simply all of the certain types of files you have on disk(s).
So now to address your 3 statements above:
najkks Wrote:so if i get you correct.. where i can find the movies in xbmc right now is in the "movie-library" where i choose which discs to search for movies in? Thats true.. because only there i can see all 200 movies on each disc.
If you have successfully added your sources (the 'Movies' folders on your two usb drives) you can access them under the XBMC main menu heading 'VIDEOS' which displays your video media in FILE VIEW.
One of the options you will see under the VIDEOS heading is 'Add Source' and this is where you tell XBMC where to find your media files. In this case your movies. Navigate it to your usb drive movies folder, then you 'set content' to movies (this activates the default tmdb scraper). Read this guide for step by step on how to do this correctly:
http://tbueter.com/XBMC/Guide/XBMC_DharmaGuide.pdf
najkks Wrote:the scrapping is to help me be able to see the thumbs/covers in xbmc "movie-mode" - where i start playing a movie?
No such thing as 'movie-mode' so no one will know what you are talking about with such statements. What you are refering to is actually your XBMC Movies library view. This is found on the main menu -> 'Movies' and as you say it is where the thumbs/covers are displayed. In order for your movies to appear here automatically they have to be scraped successfuly. This is where getting your folder names to match up with the scraper site is essential. You can play your movies from here OR under the 'Videos' heading (file view).
najkks Wrote:then i think i got this.. so my problems with not getting a correct scrapping should resolve in the movies doesnt showing up at all in "viewing-mode" ?
What you mean here is 'library view mode' which in your case is under 'Movies' on the XBMC main menu. Yes to the first part - getting your movies to scrape will get them into your xbmc movies library viewer.
najkks Wrote:G:/30 year old virgin (2009)/30 year old virgin (2009).mkv
or should i rename it with punctuation between all the words?
should i ignore the movie-date, or do i have to bring it in there?
This was answered by clubwerks and as he indicated
G:/Movies/30 year old virgin (2009).... is going to be better than setting an entire drive letter as a source. And yes use the correct year with the name.
najkks Wrote:it wont work for sure if i use the "themoviedb.org" as scraping-page? (you talked about that earlier)
Where are you getting that? The default scraper site is "themoviedb.org" so if you match your folder names to this site your movies will scrape perfectly.
najkks Wrote:one more thing.. ive read about the youtube-plugin-thing,
but cant seem to find the way in how to reinstall it in xbmc!
This is another subject. Read about - installing add-ons.