[zuvembi]

I have a fairly simple question. In the file view, I have a directory (New) with a symlinks to the ten newest films in my Movies structure. However XBMC appears to see them only as a zero-length file and won't play the file it points to.

Ideally it would have realized it was pointing to a file already in the DB and just presented details. Less ideally it would have just presented the bare filename. This case seems sort of broken to me.

Does XBMC not follow symlinks by design, or should I submit a trac ticket?

Version: Rev: 25436 compiled from SVN on Suse 11.1 i586

[prae5]

I've not tested this, but i suspect it may happen if the destination point is outside of the main source.

Have you tried creating a hardlink?

[zuvembi]

I've not tested this, but i suspect it may happen if the destination point is outside of the main source.

The files are all in the same "share" if that's what you mean.

Example:

The only share is "video", which contains Movies:

video/
|-- Childrens
|-- Movies
|-- Music_Videos
|-- TV_Shows
`-- misc

The Movies structure (including "New") looks like this:

Movies
|-- Action
|-- Comedy
|-- Crime
|-- Documentary
|-- Drama
|-- Fantasy
|-- Horror
|-- Kung_Fu
|-- Marx_Brothers
|-- New <=========
|-- Romance
|-- Schlock
|-- SciFi
`-- Western

The symlinks in New only point to files in the Movies subdirectories.

Have you tried creating a hardlink?

Well, I haven't tried that admittedly. When I get home, I could try giving that a go.