corsasport.co.uk
 

Corsa Sport » Message Board » Off Day » Geek Day » Media Center Users » Post Reply

Post Reply
Who Can Post? All users can post new topics and all users can reply.
Icon:
Formatting Mode:
Normal
Advanced
Help

Insert Bold text Insert Italicized text Insert Underlined text Insert Centered text Insert a Hyperlink Insert Email Hyperlink Insert an Image Insert Code Formatted text Insert Quoted text
Message:
HTML is Off
Smilies are On
BB Code is On
[img] Code is On
Post Options: Disable smileys?
Turn BBCode off?
Receive email notification of new replies?

noshua

posted on 14th Dec 09 at 18:27

Aaron - you might want to take a look at XBMC - if you like your media looking nice :)

ed; take a look at the XBMC forum, there are various tools that will organise your media for you, as well as a getting the required data to make it look nice (XBMC specific tools).

edit; http://xbmc.org/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=116

I think last time I ran the library I use xbmcNFO, I think I used another tool to organise my films and tv series into correct folders as well, I just can't remember the name.

[Edited on 14-12-2009 by noshua]


Aaron

posted on 14th Dec 09 at 18:21

TBH, my media centre is just a standard install of Windows XP...and because i'm a uber nerd...i access my films/tv shows/music from a network drive on my server :cool:


ed

posted on 14th Dec 09 at 17:36

What Media Centre do you have?


Mike GSi

posted on 14th Dec 09 at 17:27

I have Media Center but havent ever used it :lol: is it any good?


ed

posted on 14th Dec 09 at 17:22

Good call on meta<browser/>, cheers :thumbs:


Dom

posted on 14th Dec 09 at 17:06

All my movies are in their own directories (under the main movie/film directory) and that's the prefered way of doing it for XBMC (and WMC etc). Again, TV Shows should be done in a similar way with each show having it's own directory and then each season having it's own directory under that.

It's also worth using meta<browser/> application, as it'll automatically get metadata and covers (HD & SD sizes) for your films/tv shows (as long as you have the above directory structure) - XBMC (& WMC) will use this if it's available.


ed

posted on 14th Dec 09 at 17:00

How do you arrange your video files? iTunes arranges my music into a nice folder arrangement and XBMC will connect to iTunes on my PC to stream music for me which is fine. However my video files are in a group of folders, but I've noticed that on XBMC you can somehow have a DVD cover view which holds all the info about the movie. Can iTunes sort all that out for me too, or would I have to add all the info manually?