2010-04-13, 12:20
Hi,
I have been playing with my new-ish XBMC setup, which is:
Ubuntu Karmic/XBMC Camelot/MythTV backend for DVB-S live TV/NAS content.
I am just using plain Windows shares on the NAS to access content for the moment - no UPnP stuff as I am unsure what the benefits of that might be.
I have created a profile for adults and one for kids.
TV shows on the NAS are organised as:
i.e. a top-level TV dir, under that one for Adults and one for Kids, with series/season dirs under this.
My plan was to add the Kids directory to the Kids profile as a video source, and just add the TV directory to the Adults profile as a video source (so I'd get both Adults and Kids subdirs).
Kids works fine.
Adults profile though, does not. If I add the TV dir as my video source, it gets very confused indeed and appears to try to identify "Adults" as the name of a series (which does not work at all of course), and similarly "Kids" ad the name of a series. So I end up with a just two spurious series called something like "Adult Commercial Break" and some similar strange "Kids" thing thing, each with hundreds of unidentified "episodes" in them.
None of the actual series/seasons under the subdirs are identified correctly, despite being pre-scanned with Ember Media Manager and having .nfo files and fanart/posters etc in place already.
To make it work for Adults, I have to add 2 video sources: at the level of "Kids" and "Adults" subdirs in my hierarchy above.
It looks like it will identify a series only if this is one level down from the source that you add, only.
Is that correct? Did I do something wrong?
Is this an example of something which would work better if I used a UPnP source?
Thanks,
Liam
I have been playing with my new-ish XBMC setup, which is:
Ubuntu Karmic/XBMC Camelot/MythTV backend for DVB-S live TV/NAS content.
I am just using plain Windows shares on the NAS to access content for the moment - no UPnP stuff as I am unsure what the benefits of that might be.
I have created a profile for adults and one for kids.
TV shows on the NAS are organised as:
Code:
/Media
/TV
/Adults
/ <series name>
/ <season #>
/ <another series name>
/ <season #>
/Kids
/ <series name>
/ <season #>
i.e. a top-level TV dir, under that one for Adults and one for Kids, with series/season dirs under this.
My plan was to add the Kids directory to the Kids profile as a video source, and just add the TV directory to the Adults profile as a video source (so I'd get both Adults and Kids subdirs).
Kids works fine.
Adults profile though, does not. If I add the TV dir as my video source, it gets very confused indeed and appears to try to identify "Adults" as the name of a series (which does not work at all of course), and similarly "Kids" ad the name of a series. So I end up with a just two spurious series called something like "Adult Commercial Break" and some similar strange "Kids" thing thing, each with hundreds of unidentified "episodes" in them.
None of the actual series/seasons under the subdirs are identified correctly, despite being pre-scanned with Ember Media Manager and having .nfo files and fanart/posters etc in place already.
To make it work for Adults, I have to add 2 video sources: at the level of "Kids" and "Adults" subdirs in my hierarchy above.
It looks like it will identify a series only if this is one level down from the source that you add, only.
Is that correct? Did I do something wrong?
Is this an example of something which would work better if I used a UPnP source?
Thanks,
Liam