2009-04-24, 20:58
I figure while I try to work on my first problem, I would start on my second one.
I have a central media center in my office. It has all the movie and Tv show files on external drives. Prior to finding XBMC I was using the ugly WMP to stream my movies and shows to several other computers in my house. I am trying to do the same thing with XBMC. One of the problems I am having is that the file name seems to change on it's way to the XBMC remotes. Instead of seeing the file name Caprica, it comes up with 29E7B030. Obviously the scrappers can't find that. If I rename it, then scraps the info, thumbs, and fanart and thats it. I think the episodes must be having the same treatment as I don't get anything for them. (This is my first problem on main media center also http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=49431)
My movies are the same way except it will not find anything when I rename the files.
I use UPnP to connect the remote computer to the main media center for the shared drives on it. I can see everything in file mode and watch everything, but thats not really any better the WMP11. I was hoping at the least to get the thumbs, fanart and tv show episodes even if I can't get the whole thing to function normally in library mode.
I am not very computer savvy, which is probably th problem. Any help is appreciated. I am starting to feel that I will need to find someone here in Las vegas that knows what they are doing as I have made no headway in the past 3 weeks.
I have a central media center in my office. It has all the movie and Tv show files on external drives. Prior to finding XBMC I was using the ugly WMP to stream my movies and shows to several other computers in my house. I am trying to do the same thing with XBMC. One of the problems I am having is that the file name seems to change on it's way to the XBMC remotes. Instead of seeing the file name Caprica, it comes up with 29E7B030. Obviously the scrappers can't find that. If I rename it, then scraps the info, thumbs, and fanart and thats it. I think the episodes must be having the same treatment as I don't get anything for them. (This is my first problem on main media center also http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=49431)
My movies are the same way except it will not find anything when I rename the files.
I use UPnP to connect the remote computer to the main media center for the shared drives on it. I can see everything in file mode and watch everything, but thats not really any better the WMP11. I was hoping at the least to get the thumbs, fanart and tv show episodes even if I can't get the whole thing to function normally in library mode.
I am not very computer savvy, which is probably th problem. Any help is appreciated. I am starting to feel that I will need to find someone here in Las vegas that knows what they are doing as I have made no headway in the past 3 weeks.
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