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<blockquote data-quote="robbo100" data-source="post: 870084" data-attributes="member: 91446">Welcome to MediaPortal.&nbsp;The answer to your question really depends upon what your videos are (in content terms) and how you want to view them. However, your old recorded videos will not be viewable in the Recorded TV section of MediaPortal because&nbsp; this content is registered in a database at the point of recording and can not be done retrospectively without a large amount of effort (and even with this effort, you will probably only be able to import .ts files - but I am not sure about that)&nbsp;Most people (well, when I say most people I mean &quot;this is what I do and I assume others do to&quot;) do the following:<ul>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">Split out your videos so that your &quot;TV Series&quot; &quot;Films&quot; and &quot;Other Videos&quot; (one off recordings you don't want to keep forever or home videos) are in seperate folders.</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">For the &quot;Other Videos&quot; you will want to configure this directory within the MP&gt;Videos&gt;Videos Folders (<a href="http://wiki.team-mediaportal.com/1_MEDIAPORTAL_1/141_Configuration/MediaPortal_Configuration/2_Videos/1_Video_Folders" target="_blank">http://wiki.team-mediaportal.com/1_MEDIAPORTAL_1/141_Configuration/MediaPortal_Configuration/2_Videos/1_Video_Folders</a>)</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">For the &quot;TV Series&quot; you will want to install the TV Series Plugin and point it to the directory containing those files.</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">For the &quot;Films&quot; you will want to install the Moving Pictures Plugin and point it to the directory containing those files.</li>
</ul>Clearly you will have a transitional period where your old TV recordings which you are yet to watch will be stored in a different area than your new MP TV Recordings.What made you move across to MP (if you don't mind me asking)?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="robbo100, post: 870084, member: 91446"] Welcome to MediaPortal. The answer to your question really depends upon what your videos are (in content terms) and how you want to view them. However, your old recorded videos will not be viewable in the Recorded TV section of MediaPortal because this content is registered in a database at the point of recording and can not be done retrospectively without a large amount of effort (and even with this effort, you will probably only be able to import .ts files - but I am not sure about that) Most people (well, when I say most people I mean "this is what I do and I assume others do to") do the following: [LIST] [*]Split out your videos so that your "TV Series" "Films" and "Other Videos" (one off recordings you don't want to keep forever or home videos) are in seperate folders. [*]For the "Other Videos" you will want to configure this directory within the MP>Videos>Videos Folders ([url]http://wiki.team-mediaportal.com/1_MEDIAPORTAL_1/141_Configuration/MediaPortal_Configuration/2_Videos/1_Video_Folders[/url]) [*]For the "TV Series" you will want to install the TV Series Plugin and point it to the directory containing those files. [*]For the "Films" you will want to install the Moving Pictures Plugin and point it to the directory containing those files. [/LIST] Clearly you will have a transitional period where your old TV recordings which you are yet to watch will be stored in a different area than your new MP TV Recordings. What made you move across to MP (if you don't mind me asking)? [/QUOTE]

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