What am I doing wrong here? (1 Viewer)

[Bargey]

Hi Everyone, and welcome to my first post as I'm a new media portal devotee.

I've just built a HTPC and want to use it pretty much exclusively for Media Portal use. I've installed the software / extensions / skins etc I'm interested in, and am looking forward to configuring it all to my tastes. However I've run into one rather substantial problem, and it's driving me absolutely nuts.

I have 5 drives with HD Movies on them in mkv format, and another drive with my HD TV .mkv & .avi files on it. The problem I'm having is when I set up the video folders for Media Portal to scan it's as if the mkvs don't exist. The directory structure of the files is like this:

e:\HD Movies 1\A\moviefilename.mkv
e:\HD Movies 1\B\moviefilename.mkv
e:\HD Movies 1\C\moviefilename.mkv
f:\HD Movies 2\D\moviefilename.mkv etc etc

I have added the directory in to be scanned as follows:
e:\HD Movies 1\
f:\HD Movies 2\
etc etc

Now when I set it to scan, it finds one file, which is e:\HD Movies 1\A\A Nightmare on Elm Street.m2ts, the one non .mkv or .avi file I have across the six drives, and nothing else. It just can't see my mkv or avi files. I know it's scanning to the bottom of the directory structure or it wouldn't have found the one file it does find. The files are definitely there, and play fine if I try to watch them in MPC-HC or WMP and WMC finds them and adds them fine.... so why can't Media Portal see them? Moving Pictures won't see them either for the record.

I feel I'm missing something absolutely blatantly obvious and seeing I've been banging my head up against a wall for the past three hours I figure I might as well ask people with a lot more MP experience than me, I would really appreciate any help and insights anyone can give me.

 

[Paranoid Delusion]

My file structure is

F:\Movies\Avatar (2009)\Avatar (2009).mkv

~I think the A, B etc is screwing things up for you.

F:\MainFolder\subFolder with movie name\file

HTH

and welcome to MP

.

 

[Paranoid Delusion]

Just to add, if these are sorted as a series of movies, ie. back to the future 1\2\3, the can I recommend adding Rochess's IMDB+ scrapper for use with MovingPictures plugin, this allows the automatic addition of 1 2 3 to title, same goes for star wars etc, keeps things nice and tidy

 

[Bargey]

I'll try reorganising the folders how you suggested later today and see how that goes. 900+ folders, that's gonna be a fun job.

 

[Bargey]

Unfortunately renaming the folders didn't make a shred of difference, it still finds the m2ts file and none of the mkvs. It's like it can't see mkvs at all. I'm close to giving up on it

 

[rekenaar]

Hi there, welcome

Can you check if mkv's is still added in the list of video extensions.
If that is not the problem, you will have to do the scan and post full debug log files.

 

[MrCrabs]

AW: What am I doing wrong here?

How does your structure look like now? Did you have all movies starting with an A put in the same folder? What if you remove that nightmare movie, does it find no movies then or just another single movie?

 

[Bargey]

Video Extensions was practically empty (it only had .bdmv & .m2ts), so I'm guessing that was the problem. I'm just finishing off fixing the directory structure, after that is done I'll try the scan again, hopefully that has fixed my problem, I'll post again once I get these directorys fixed up and I've run the scan.

 

[Bargey]

So it's taken a few days to complete the scan of my collection, mainly cause I spend a lot of my time wasting network bandwith on other essential activities LOL. However fixing up the Video Extensions section was the solution, so thanks for that rekenaar. Lord knows why the list was so empty, I certainly didn't empty it, I was using the simple mode and the Video Extensions section isn't even visible in that mode...
Thanks to everyone for their assistance, it's much appreciated

 

[Paranoid Delusion]

Did not even give the extensions being missing a thought, as mkv is enabled by default