03/14/2010 (1:25 am)
How to organize network share access?
my movie files are stored on several harddisks in several folders. I can access the files by SMB-Network. Everything works fine! Congratulations to the coders.
But ... as I do not know where every movie is located I have to scan up to 50 subdirectories to find the one I want to see.
I have a Telegent TM-100 UPnP-client that can show me all the stored media files in a long menu and play them then. All I have to do is run Windoes Media Service or Philips Streamium or any other UPnP Server on the server machine.
XBMC 2.0.0 should be able to listen to such a UPnP server, too. But it does not work with my xbox. Whenever I access the UPnP entry in the My Videos section it only freezes for one minute and then nothing happens.
Maybe I could have a video index by generating playlists?
Any idea?
Greetings
Frank
Anyway you have a few options:
1) Manually define a multipath bookmark which directly accesses each of these (seemingly random) folders full of movies. This will consolidate everything into a single list. I've never tried it with more than 10 or so paths, so I dont know how well this will work with such an excessive number of paths.
2) You can use NTFS junctions (they are kind of like Unix symlinks) to consolidate the movies.
3) You could make a set of video playlists (one per movie) and keep them in a single location. Just make sure that xbmc has access to the folders where the actual items are stored.
4) As you mentioned, you can use uPnP to clean it up for you.
5) There was a ccx server which allowed consolidation of multiple share points into a virtual folder but I forget which one. (This would be an xbms:// path.)
6) You can try to "Query Info For All Files" to scan all the media into the database. (Warning: the video query doesnt work very well. It works best when your files are cleanly named and stack correctly but even then its not 100% foolproof. Foreign and obscure titles can still cause some incorrect matches.)
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