2014-08-27, 01:59
My setup: Get a big NAS (unRAID) - 13Tb
Create the following shares:
Movies (use the Movie scraper on this source)
TV (use the TV scraper on this source)
MusicVideos (Use the music video scraper on this source)
OtherVideo (no scraper, put the quirky non-scraping stuff in here... UFC, Documentaries, Home Video's of the Kids etc)
If you can't join several disks into a big array then try the following:
D:\Movies1 (share as Movies1 - smb://server/movies1/)
D:\TV1
D:\MusicVideo
D:\OtherVideo
E:\Movies2 (share as Movies2 - smb://server/movies2/)
E:\TV2
E:\MusicVideo
After you add the sources, and turn the scrapers on then XBMC will "combine" all of the content into your library and give you the consolidated view of all of your content.
Then you just need to ensure that you don't fill either of the volumes up. I would recommend only putting the "OtherVideo" share on to one volume, because it wont scrape and you don't want to manually browse between the two possible sources.
After years of experience I finally decided to concede and store my content in a way that XBMC works best. This took me a while to come to the conclusion. I finally realised that I consume all of this content from XBMC, and where/how it is stored is not of any concern. I occasionally go to these files shares from a PC to copy content for friends, while it is not in the hierarchy that I had originally intended it is certainly logical and easy.
My tip, concede and move your stuff.
Create the following shares:
Movies (use the Movie scraper on this source)
TV (use the TV scraper on this source)
MusicVideos (Use the music video scraper on this source)
OtherVideo (no scraper, put the quirky non-scraping stuff in here... UFC, Documentaries, Home Video's of the Kids etc)
If you can't join several disks into a big array then try the following:
D:\Movies1 (share as Movies1 - smb://server/movies1/)
D:\TV1
D:\MusicVideo
D:\OtherVideo
E:\Movies2 (share as Movies2 - smb://server/movies2/)
E:\TV2
E:\MusicVideo
After you add the sources, and turn the scrapers on then XBMC will "combine" all of the content into your library and give you the consolidated view of all of your content.
Then you just need to ensure that you don't fill either of the volumes up. I would recommend only putting the "OtherVideo" share on to one volume, because it wont scrape and you don't want to manually browse between the two possible sources.
After years of experience I finally decided to concede and store my content in a way that XBMC works best. This took me a while to come to the conclusion. I finally realised that I consume all of this content from XBMC, and where/how it is stored is not of any concern. I occasionally go to these files shares from a PC to copy content for friends, while it is not in the hierarchy that I had originally intended it is certainly logical and easy.
My tip, concede and move your stuff.