Movies & Subs from a file server (1 Viewer)

[desnake]

What i wonder about is if i can have all my movies on my fileserver and import em directly into moving pictures?
Would i be able to use my srt subs from the same loacation or another spesefic location in the same way as i use em from my medacenter today?

can i have my movies in the server and the srt subs ON the mediacenter?

I need to free up my space on the mediacenter to add more tv shows, i also would like to add all 1400 movies and not just 700 as i have per now.

Thanks for answer in advance

 

[RoChess]

MovPic supports external drives, DAS, NAS or plain UNC network shares. Simply add the import paths as you see fit, there is really no limit, though it can add a delay to the startup as it scans each drive to see if new media was added/removed/etc.

MediaPortal is the part that deals with playback and subtitles and it simply looks for the subtitle file to be either embedded inside the container (MP4/MKV/AVI all have support for embedded soft-titles, the ones you can turn on/off), or external files such as text-based SRT, but also bitmap based IDX/SUB. It really supports them all if there is DirectShow support for it.

If you name the external subtitles as "mediafile.ext" and "mediafile.English.srt" then it will show up as "English" inside MediaPortal subtitle GUI selector (incase you have multiple subtitles, such as forced, commentary, etc). Internal subtitles will use the tags for this. You can also use the SubCentral plugin to obtain missing subtitles or improve the ones you have.

Splitting the subtitles away from media files, is also possible, MediaPortal config -> Videos -> "Subtitle" tab -> adjust "Subtitle paths" (requires MPC-HC engine). You can also use the ffdshow subtitle system as it has internal support for this as well.