Compiling My Movies folders (2 Viewers)

[dabenno]

I have just installed another drive into my htpc, was just curious to know if its possible to compile all of the 'My Movies' folders into just one under MP?

For example under MP Config its setup like this:

C:\Movies - 'Visual name MOVIES
D:\Movies - 'Visual name MOVIES2

So under MP under my Videos it displays

MOVIES
MOVIES2

- Which is as you'd expect it to do, but is it possible to get MP to just display the contents of both folders without having to select either movies/movies2?

Cheers

 

[rtv]

Yes using a database driven "view" which e.g. displays all movies by their title. This would need database records (e.g. from an IMDB lookup) of course and therefore wouldn't work for family movies / unknown movies.

 

[dabenno]

Great stuff thought it might be possible - i'm new to this, so how do I go about configuring that?

 

[Darre]

It's in the Manual/Wiki

 

[dabenno]

Yeah had a look through that, am I meant to be able to tick both folders or something? Think I might just be being a bit simple here but im still not quite sure what to do.

 

[dabenno]

Any chance someone can give me a quick tip please?

 

[Darre]

There's really not much to say.. You add your video folders and tick the one you want as default.. If you dont want any of them as default you dont tick any of them. If you want more help you are going to have to ask a question

 

[zebons]

Any chance someone can give me a quick tip please?

Take a look here

 

[Darre]

Any chance someone can give me a quick tip please?

Take a look here

Keep in mind that with this sollution you should sort your movies in genre folders. If you don't you will have to link each and every one of your movies - and that can be troublesome if you have more then 50 of them. On top of that you have to link each new movie as well - if you don't use genre folders.

 

[AlcoNaft]

I'm also looking for "mergin folders" solution and did't find it yet. I have in my HTPC 3 hard disc with Video folderss like htat:

X:\Videos\Movies
movie_from_X
....
X:\Videos\Cartoons
cartoon_from_X
....

Y:\Videos\Movies
movie_from_Y
.....

Y:\Videos\Cartoons
cartoon_from_Y
....

Z:\Videos\Movies
movie_from_Z
....

Z:\Videos\Cartoons
cartoon_from_Z
....

I want to see in MediaPortal my videos list like that:

Movies
movie_from_X
movie_from_Y
movie_from_Z
Cartoons
cartoon_from_X
cartoon_from_Z
cartoon_from_Y

Of cource I have created folder like C:\Media\Videos with junctions for X:\Videos, Y:\Videos, Z:\Videos but it not helps much. I'm spending a lot of time finding new downloaded movie from torrent I see only43 ways to solve this problem:
1) Create RAID array (I'dont want to do that beacouse my HDs has different sizes), JBOD is not cool from reliability point of view.
2) Create"virtual files system" driver, that will be not easy...
3) Use advanched junction functions in Vista. You can create in Vista shortcurts for the files across different volumes and also network drivers. But I don't want to use Vista in my HTPC and you have to update this shorcuts(or links) manually or develop special soft/script.

4) Create plugin or modificate MediaPortal - that I guess will be the best option. But I don't know how yet.