2012-06-20, 01:25
First post, and I hope I offend no one. Just trying to stay the course here, but need some issues resolved.
I am a total newbie to the HTPC world, so please forgive my ignorance on these topics. Have read great things about XBMC, but have had a very frustrating experience so far, and spent upwards of 40 hours trying to get this all going. I am sure there are threads I have missed because I did not know what to search for, so if they do exist, url's would be greatly appreciated. Here goes.
1. Originally wanted to set this up as a strict XBMCbuntu box, but have abandoned that notion for the time being. Reason is, no matter what method I use to connect to my NAS, the libraries for music, tvshow and movies will simply not update. They just sit there for hours saying "Scanning for new content" and never cycle through any of the files it has been pointed to. Maybe it is something simple, but I could take it no longer and could not find the threads that direct me to a solution on this issue. Here are the system specs:
PC (all components brand new as of 2 weeks ago):
Asus P8H77-M Pro Motherboard
Intel core i3-2105 Processor
Radeon HD5470 Video card with 1GB RAM
8GB Corsair 1600MHz RAM
Kingston 120GB SSD (divided into Win partition, Linux partition, swap partition and unallocated partition)
OCZ 600 watt power supply
Logitech k400 keyboard/mouse
Software (very limited installations and intend to keep it this way):
Win 7 Pro 64bit
XBMCbuntu (Eden)
XBMC (11.0 with temporary upgrade to 12.0)
MPC (Media player classic installed this evening because XBMC would not play any sound in 12.0 - even though it did last night, reverted back to 11.0 and sound is back)
Server:
QNAP TS-459 Pro II
HT Equipment:
Denon AVR-2312
HDMI Direct Connection from HTPC
Klipsch 5.1 Surround speaker package
Toshiba 720p tv (soon to be upgraded)
Would love to be booting to Linux and running it that way, but I am a total newbie to home based Linux as well (have worked on linux servers for years and know quite a bit about them) and not having much luck here.
2. Benny Hill. I feel like I am chasing him around in circles like one of his signature gags. I have 3 discs, one from Season 5 and the other two from Season 6. I have named all of them with the naming convention of The Benny Hill Show s05e01e02e03.iso. So that would be season 5, then one of the season 6 ones is named The Benny Hill Show s06e01e02e03.iso, etc. But only one of the Season 6 discs shows up and the Season 5 disc does not show up either. I have tried taking out the leading zeros on both season and episodes, I have tried using fuller and shorter title names (Benny Hill, Benny Hill: The Complete and Unadulterated, The Benny Hill Show: The Hills Angels Years, etc.). None of this made any difference. It will still only find the one disc from season 6. My scraper is set to TVDB. Any help would be appreciated. ALL other TV Shows and episodes show up fine in the lists. I have posted a debug log file at the following location ( http://visionvendor.com/transfer/xbmcTVS...Update.log ) during which I instructed xbmc to "Update Library" for video files. I have used my own server here, I hope this is ok rather than using pastebin, etc.
3. Lost In Space. Some of these episodes show a "Not Playable In This Region" message, yet when I play them with Media Player Classic, they play just fine. How can this be??
4. Just purchased 4 Patti Smith CD's. Captured all of them using EAC (Exact Audio Copy) in WAV format (on a completely different system). Uploaded them to NAS. Tried adding them to the Music library and it says no go. It has also removed some of my other Patti Smith albums now when I look at the "Files" view of the music source I have set up. I understand that WAV files don't have the "tag" space that MP3 and other formats do, but I have had a lot of jukebox software over the years and although it may not have been able to store the pictures and all the details, it could at least find the files and add them to the library. What might I be doing wrong here? I have tried the "All Music" default scraper, Music Brainz as my scraper and Universal Audio as my scraper. No luck. Debug file posted here ( http://visionvendor.com/transfer/xbmcOve...8_2912.log ) where I instructed the program to "Update Library" for Music. I have stripped out most of the other 1000+ cd info and left in Patti Smith and that which comes right befor and right after. I used . . . . . . to indicate the break points. The new albums, in WAV format, that don't get added are "Gone Again", "Trampin'", "Banga" (in WAV and bin format in this folder) and "The Coral Sea" (Patti Smith and Kevin Shields).
I hope somebody can talk me out of this tree (I am ready to jump) and solve some of these problems so I can stick with XBMC. I am totally opposed to using Microsofts built in MC, and although some other options look attractive, I would really like to get this stuff resolved in this program and move on with enjoying all the content I have amassed over the years. Thanks in advance for any help you may be able to provide me with, and sorry again for not finding some of the threads that may exist out there that could solve these problems. I am just beat from reading through so much stuff and solving so many issues that my search abilities are falling apart and I am coming up with nuts on these issues.
Cheers~
W
I am a total newbie to the HTPC world, so please forgive my ignorance on these topics. Have read great things about XBMC, but have had a very frustrating experience so far, and spent upwards of 40 hours trying to get this all going. I am sure there are threads I have missed because I did not know what to search for, so if they do exist, url's would be greatly appreciated. Here goes.
1. Originally wanted to set this up as a strict XBMCbuntu box, but have abandoned that notion for the time being. Reason is, no matter what method I use to connect to my NAS, the libraries for music, tvshow and movies will simply not update. They just sit there for hours saying "Scanning for new content" and never cycle through any of the files it has been pointed to. Maybe it is something simple, but I could take it no longer and could not find the threads that direct me to a solution on this issue. Here are the system specs:
PC (all components brand new as of 2 weeks ago):
Asus P8H77-M Pro Motherboard
Intel core i3-2105 Processor
Radeon HD5470 Video card with 1GB RAM
8GB Corsair 1600MHz RAM
Kingston 120GB SSD (divided into Win partition, Linux partition, swap partition and unallocated partition)
OCZ 600 watt power supply
Logitech k400 keyboard/mouse
Software (very limited installations and intend to keep it this way):
Win 7 Pro 64bit
XBMCbuntu (Eden)
XBMC (11.0 with temporary upgrade to 12.0)
MPC (Media player classic installed this evening because XBMC would not play any sound in 12.0 - even though it did last night, reverted back to 11.0 and sound is back)
Server:
QNAP TS-459 Pro II
HT Equipment:
Denon AVR-2312
HDMI Direct Connection from HTPC
Klipsch 5.1 Surround speaker package
Toshiba 720p tv (soon to be upgraded)
Would love to be booting to Linux and running it that way, but I am a total newbie to home based Linux as well (have worked on linux servers for years and know quite a bit about them) and not having much luck here.
2. Benny Hill. I feel like I am chasing him around in circles like one of his signature gags. I have 3 discs, one from Season 5 and the other two from Season 6. I have named all of them with the naming convention of The Benny Hill Show s05e01e02e03.iso. So that would be season 5, then one of the season 6 ones is named The Benny Hill Show s06e01e02e03.iso, etc. But only one of the Season 6 discs shows up and the Season 5 disc does not show up either. I have tried taking out the leading zeros on both season and episodes, I have tried using fuller and shorter title names (Benny Hill, Benny Hill: The Complete and Unadulterated, The Benny Hill Show: The Hills Angels Years, etc.). None of this made any difference. It will still only find the one disc from season 6. My scraper is set to TVDB. Any help would be appreciated. ALL other TV Shows and episodes show up fine in the lists. I have posted a debug log file at the following location ( http://visionvendor.com/transfer/xbmcTVS...Update.log ) during which I instructed xbmc to "Update Library" for video files. I have used my own server here, I hope this is ok rather than using pastebin, etc.
3. Lost In Space. Some of these episodes show a "Not Playable In This Region" message, yet when I play them with Media Player Classic, they play just fine. How can this be??
4. Just purchased 4 Patti Smith CD's. Captured all of them using EAC (Exact Audio Copy) in WAV format (on a completely different system). Uploaded them to NAS. Tried adding them to the Music library and it says no go. It has also removed some of my other Patti Smith albums now when I look at the "Files" view of the music source I have set up. I understand that WAV files don't have the "tag" space that MP3 and other formats do, but I have had a lot of jukebox software over the years and although it may not have been able to store the pictures and all the details, it could at least find the files and add them to the library. What might I be doing wrong here? I have tried the "All Music" default scraper, Music Brainz as my scraper and Universal Audio as my scraper. No luck. Debug file posted here ( http://visionvendor.com/transfer/xbmcOve...8_2912.log ) where I instructed the program to "Update Library" for Music. I have stripped out most of the other 1000+ cd info and left in Patti Smith and that which comes right befor and right after. I used . . . . . . to indicate the break points. The new albums, in WAV format, that don't get added are "Gone Again", "Trampin'", "Banga" (in WAV and bin format in this folder) and "The Coral Sea" (Patti Smith and Kevin Shields).
I hope somebody can talk me out of this tree (I am ready to jump) and solve some of these problems so I can stick with XBMC. I am totally opposed to using Microsofts built in MC, and although some other options look attractive, I would really like to get this stuff resolved in this program and move on with enjoying all the content I have amassed over the years. Thanks in advance for any help you may be able to provide me with, and sorry again for not finding some of the threads that may exist out there that could solve these problems. I am just beat from reading through so much stuff and solving so many issues that my search abilities are falling apart and I am coming up with nuts on these issues.
Cheers~
W