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<blockquote data-quote="kiwijunglist" data-source="post: 999239" data-attributes="member: 76888"><p><strong>You can divide your collection into 2 categories</strong></p><p> </p><p>1. TV Series</p><p> </p><p>This is easy to answer, Mediaportal has only one plugin for your tv series. It's called MP TV-Series. It will scan your tv series folders and idenitfy them using the folder + filenames. It will ignore any .nfo/.xml/images in the folders. It will automatically create it's own metadata and download it's own images (All from <a href="http://www.thetvdb.com" target="_blank">www.thetvdb.com</a>) which it stores in it's own database/directory seperate from the video files.</p><p> </p><p>2. Movies</p><p> </p><p>You have 3 main plugins that can handle your movies. They are 'moving pictures' , 'my videos' (which is built into mediaportal) and 'my films'. I'll just comment on moving pictures, because I think it is the most straight forward to use.</p><p> </p><p>Moving Pictures:</p><p>It will scan for .nfo and .xml files in the same folder as the moviefile, it will look for the imdb_id# in the nfo/xml file and use that to identify the movie. If it finds a folder.jpg or cover.jpg it will use that for the movie cover, if it finds fanart.jpg or backdrop.jpg it will use that for the backdrop. If it can't find any local artwork it will automatically download the artwork. It does not support multiple backdrops per movie. It does not support locally stored trailers (in fact it may think they are movies, unless you specifically tell it to ignore the files in advanced settings).</p><p> </p><p><strong>General questions</strong></p><p> </p><p>1. see above</p><p> </p><p>2. Mediaportal is designed to not pollute the media folders with database files. There is a method with moving pictures where you can make it create a .nfo or .xml file to help identify the movie should you need to repopulate your database.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Hot Questions</strong></p><p> </p><p>1. see above</p><p> </p><p>2. see above</p><p> </p><p>3. Whatever method you use for movies + tvseries mediaportal will remember what you have watched, what you havn't watched. If you are half way through a file it will remember that as well.</p><p> </p><p>You can create playlists in my tvseries, but I don't know why you would bother, since it knows where you are and can automatically play the first unwatched episode in a tv series/season.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Note:</strong></p><p> </p><p>If your tv series files are nicely named then my tvseries setup just involves pointing to your tvseries folder and the rest will happen automatically. If it is not sure it will ask you to select a tv series or episode from a list of matches.</p><p> </p><p>If your movies are single movie per folder and each folder has a .nfo or .xml file that contains the imdb+id# then moving pictures setup just involves pointing to your movies folder and the rest will happen automatically. If it is not sure it will ask you to select a movie from a list of matches. It also helps if either the movie file or foldername approximately matches the movie.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="kiwijunglist, post: 999239, member: 76888"] [B]You can divide your collection into 2 categories[/B] 1. TV Series This is easy to answer, Mediaportal has only one plugin for your tv series. It's called MP TV-Series. It will scan your tv series folders and idenitfy them using the folder + filenames. It will ignore any .nfo/.xml/images in the folders. It will automatically create it's own metadata and download it's own images (All from [url="http://www.thetvdb.com"]www.thetvdb.com[/url]) which it stores in it's own database/directory seperate from the video files. 2. Movies You have 3 main plugins that can handle your movies. They are 'moving pictures' , 'my videos' (which is built into mediaportal) and 'my films'. I'll just comment on moving pictures, because I think it is the most straight forward to use. Moving Pictures: It will scan for .nfo and .xml files in the same folder as the moviefile, it will look for the imdb_id# in the nfo/xml file and use that to identify the movie. If it finds a folder.jpg or cover.jpg it will use that for the movie cover, if it finds fanart.jpg or backdrop.jpg it will use that for the backdrop. If it can't find any local artwork it will automatically download the artwork. It does not support multiple backdrops per movie. It does not support locally stored trailers (in fact it may think they are movies, unless you specifically tell it to ignore the files in advanced settings). [B]General questions[/B] 1. see above 2. Mediaportal is designed to not pollute the media folders with database files. There is a method with moving pictures where you can make it create a .nfo or .xml file to help identify the movie should you need to repopulate your database. [B]Hot Questions[/B] 1. see above 2. see above 3. Whatever method you use for movies + tvseries mediaportal will remember what you have watched, what you havn't watched. If you are half way through a file it will remember that as well. You can create playlists in my tvseries, but I don't know why you would bother, since it knows where you are and can automatically play the first unwatched episode in a tv series/season. [B]Note:[/B] If your tv series files are nicely named then my tvseries setup just involves pointing to your tvseries folder and the rest will happen automatically. If it is not sure it will ask you to select a tv series or episode from a list of matches. If your movies are single movie per folder and each folder has a .nfo or .xml file that contains the imdb+id# then moving pictures setup just involves pointing to your movies folder and the rest will happen automatically. If it is not sure it will ask you to select a movie from a list of matches. It also helps if either the movie file or foldername approximately matches the movie. [/QUOTE]
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