Movie shares? (1 Viewer)

[Glith]

Hi.
I have a few folders with movies.
D:\movies\movie1
D:\movies\movie2
..
D:\DVDs\movie3
D:\DVDs\movie4
..

How can I get MP to show movie1,movie2,movie3 and movie4 in the same "view". Currently I need to press ".." and then select DVDs and then to go back press ".." and select "Movies" when i want to browse thru all movies.
I want to be able to browse thru all movies in the same view even if the movies is in different folders. Is it possible? If so, how do i do it?

Thanks.

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[Molokoids]

For now, the only way to do this is import all your movies in the database and the change the view to "title" (not movies).

 

[Glith]

Well.. I have a big problem importing my DVD images into the database.. It simply doesnt work for some reason.. The only way is to manually add all my movies one by one.

See here:
https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/viewtopic.php?t=14907

Is there any future plans to make the shares to appear as one without importing the movies to the database? Or will there be a fix to my small problem importing the DVD images into the database?

 

[Paranoid Delusion]

Glith

I cannot see this being added in the near future.
I'm playing with Nero Recode at the moment, recoding DVD's to mpeg4 to overcome the problem, so at least all my movies can be in one folder for ease of choice.

8)

 

[Glith]

Okay.. :-/
I dont really want to reduce the quality and loose some of the DVD features. It is an option for some people using MP. But not for me at the moment... I hope the the bug with the movie database import of the DVD will be fixed pretty soon... If it is reported as a bug that is? If not, how do I report it as a bug?

thanks.

 

[Glith]

Maybe someone has some answers? Will there be a fix to import the DVDs into the movie database automatically? And maybe there is a possibility that someone tries to change MP so there is an option that all different movie folders can be shown as a single movie list?

 

[Glith]

What f I have many folders on my harddrive with different genres? I would like them also to show up in the same list.

D:\Movies\Action\Movie1\
D:\Movies\Horror\Movie2\
D:\Movies\Fantasy\Movie3\

I dont want to press ".." and then drill down the directory structure once again.

I think a working movie database structure would be a solution for the future.

Meedio was great with the importers and databases... MP isnt Meedio but why not try and use the good stuff Meedio had and make MP even better? =)

 

[Glith]

Now with my second harddrive it gets even trickier... Now i can have like many shares... Bah!

I cant get a good overview of all movies anymore.... :-/
I still needs to drill down in every share to see every movie.

Please please please... Would be wonderful with some kind of database Meedio had where you import all movies(in different folders) into a database and you can have different views.

Also the possibility to have many databases.. One for movies, one for TV-series, One for music videos, one for small clips.. etc.. etc...

 

[dementate]

Hi,

(first post so I don't know what's the normal setup people here have)

I have a solution to this, it started two years ago when I discovered XBMC for the xbox, (until then I had a really old 21" trinitron and watched everything on my pc) I had the same issue, had to keep pressing ".." to navigate between the two HDs on my file server.

The file server is a simple linux box running samba. So say I have one disk mounted on /mnt/disk0 and the other on /mnt/disk1.
So we have:
/mnt/disk0/movies
/mnt/disk1/movies

It got real messy when I put in the fourth disk and we had trouble remembering what was in each disk!

So, I setup samba to share /mnt/share/movies and I wrote a script to do this:

find /mnt/disk0/movies  -type d -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -exec ln -s {} /mnt/share/movies
find /mnt/disk1/movies  -type d -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -exec ln -s {} /mnt/share/movies
find /mnt/disk2/movies  -type d -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -exec ln -s {} /mnt/share/movies
find /mnt/disk3/movies  -type d -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -exec ln -s {} /mnt/share/movies

This caters to a situation where you have a directory full of movie files, but, remove the -type d and you can cater to sub directories in each real share.

The above code just keeps adding stuff, you need to spring clean so i have a script called checksymlink:

#!/bin/bash

if [ ! -e "$1" ]
then
        if [ "$2" == "-d" ]
        then
                rm -f "$1"
        else
                echo "$1" invalid
        fi
fi

and you can call it like so to find invalid links:

find /mnt/share/series/ -type l -mindepth 1  -maxdepth 1 -exec /scripts/checksymlink {} -d ;
find /mnt/share/movies/ -type l -mindepth 1  -maxdepth 1 -exec /scripts/checksymlink {} -d ;

Now I know some (all?) of you may be using windows, but I have just confirmed that this script does work if you have cygwin installed (www.cygwin.com) on your windows box.

If anyone is interested in exploring this further, I can try to find the time to come up with a howto to do this.

PS: The reason I posted this is that I don't like the idea of having databases, they tend to remove flexibility, (because they will be written by someone else who may not have -your- idea of how things should be organised) and they generally tend to gum up the works. (for eg the music database on my setup has no titles, artist name, etc, because MP scanned for tags on my mp3 collection and found none -- I intentionally strip the tags because the way I organise my dir structure, I don't need them)

 

[Glith]

meedio had very flexible databases.. You could basically with the different importers insert any information into the databases you wanted.

But maybe it is quite hard to implement that into MP.. But that would be one cool feature.

I just would like the choice of using databases. And those who dont want that can use the current solution.

=)