2011-10-25, 18:52
Firstly, apologies if I'm missing something completely obvious. It wouldn't be the first time.
Been using XBMC for a while and very happy with it. Because I am going to be setting up several more instances of xbmc in the household I decided to use a media companion to go through my collection so that I won't have to use the xbmc scrapers (and then go through correcting errors) each time.
So, I have used ember to go through my movie and tv shows and now have directories complete with nfo, jpg and tbn files.
Now,I assumed that all I would have to do is add each media directory as a source and that would be that but adding my tv folder doesn't result in anything appearing in under TV Shows and if I go into the tv folder in Videos it just shows lots of blank images and shows the .actor folder too.
Questions
1) So, even though I have used an external media manager, do I still have to have a scraper enabled when I add the source?
2) If so, does the scraper take the information from the local directory instead of TVDB?
3) If not, can you please call me a clueless knob and tell me what I need to do to add my files using the locally stored information/fanart etc generated by the media companion?
Much thanks for any help or advice offered.
Been using XBMC for a while and very happy with it. Because I am going to be setting up several more instances of xbmc in the household I decided to use a media companion to go through my collection so that I won't have to use the xbmc scrapers (and then go through correcting errors) each time.
So, I have used ember to go through my movie and tv shows and now have directories complete with nfo, jpg and tbn files.
Now,I assumed that all I would have to do is add each media directory as a source and that would be that but adding my tv folder doesn't result in anything appearing in under TV Shows and if I go into the tv folder in Videos it just shows lots of blank images and shows the .actor folder too.
Questions
1) So, even though I have used an external media manager, do I still have to have a scraper enabled when I add the source?
2) If so, does the scraper take the information from the local directory instead of TVDB?
3) If not, can you please call me a clueless knob and tell me what I need to do to add my files using the locally stored information/fanart etc generated by the media companion?
Much thanks for any help or advice offered.
