2009-06-20, 01:45
Total noob to XBMC here. I'm trying to switch off of XLobby as my Windows front-end and XBMC looks beautiful, but I'm having trouble getting content scanning to work with my particular and peculiar setup.
My DVDs span several drives on several servers, and they're all ripped as directories, not as ISOs. I then use DFS on a Windows server to aggregate all the directories into a single place. My front ends (which are all Windows) then just looks at \\server\DVD and sees everything, and when they try to access on of the folders, DFS redirects them. This works like a champ, since I can scan the entire \\server\DVD directory without spinning up any of the drivers that the actual media files are on.
So here's what I'm trying to figure out: Is there any way for me to tell XBMC, "I assure you there is a file at \\server\DVD\Moviename\VIDEO_TS\VIDEO_TS.IFO, please don't look there and instead use \\server\DVD\Moviename.nfo to get all the information you need"? From my experimentation, it looks like the .nfo file has to be stored next to the VIDEO_TS.IFO file, which is going to mean that updating my database will require me to spin up every drive that contains media, which is gnarly and slow. Or is there some other method that would work better for this particular situation?
One obvious solution to this problem is to build my own database import XML and just use that, but that behaves poorly if someone hits 'reload' on a movie info page.
Any tips or tricks I can use here?
My DVDs span several drives on several servers, and they're all ripped as directories, not as ISOs. I then use DFS on a Windows server to aggregate all the directories into a single place. My front ends (which are all Windows) then just looks at \\server\DVD and sees everything, and when they try to access on of the folders, DFS redirects them. This works like a champ, since I can scan the entire \\server\DVD directory without spinning up any of the drivers that the actual media files are on.
So here's what I'm trying to figure out: Is there any way for me to tell XBMC, "I assure you there is a file at \\server\DVD\Moviename\VIDEO_TS\VIDEO_TS.IFO, please don't look there and instead use \\server\DVD\Moviename.nfo to get all the information you need"? From my experimentation, it looks like the .nfo file has to be stored next to the VIDEO_TS.IFO file, which is going to mean that updating my database will require me to spin up every drive that contains media, which is gnarly and slow. Or is there some other method that would work better for this particular situation?
One obvious solution to this problem is to build my own database import XML and just use that, but that behaves poorly if someone hits 'reload' on a movie info page.
Any tips or tricks I can use here?
