[JodeL]

Hi everybody

I have now tried several hours to find a proper solution for my problem, but it seems I need help from someone with more experience.

I am normally using Windows Media Center and Media Browser in addition with Arcsoft Total Media Theater. Until now everthing worked fine. Now here is the thing. I bought an IPAD and tried to get my collection running on that. I also wanted to have all necesary metadata as well. So I tried to find an application for the IPAD using the Media Browser engine. Seems like something like that does not exist.
So I gave XBMC a try and surprise, many suitabable apps to use. On my HTPC I installed the EDEN version with teh Aeon MQ3 Skin. HTPC server is configured and seems to be running, but without a proper collection that's useless.

Now. I still want to use Media Browser as I personally like the way Media is presented on TV better, but I want to use XBMC for the IPAD. Basically, I want to use both at the same time. I figured out a way to get the metadata for both XMBC and Media Browser using Meta Browser. But I cannot get any of my DVDs or BluRays of my collection into the library. The only thing that works are the TV Shows that are not in DVD structure. I would appreciate any help. And fyi, Media Browser takes the following structure without any complaints. My structure looks something like this:

********************************
Movies
--->2012 (2009) - DVD
------>AUDIO_TS
------>VIDEO_TS
--------->VIDEO_TS.IFO

-->Many more DVDs

--->Bunraku (2010) - BluRay
------>BDMV
--------->index.bdmv
------>CERTIFICATE

--->Many more BluRays

TV Shows
--->Taken (2002) - DVD
------>Season 1
--------->Taken 1x01 - Beyond the Sky
------------>AUDIO_TS
------------>VIDEO_TS
--------------->VIDEO_TS.IFO

--->Many more series in DVD structure

--->Alias (2001)
------>Season 1
--------->Alias 1x01 - Truth Be Told.avi
------>Season 2

***********************

Thank you in advance.

[JodeL]

Really, nobody can help. Please any advise?

[Ned Scott]

Did you check the wiki? Adding videos to the library (wiki), NFO (wiki), and probably some other links floating around there.

[JodeL]

Yes,
I did check out all the forums and pages and every help i could find. Unfortunately, there was nothing useful in there.
I already have NFOs in place, but it looks like xbmc does not care.
I thought I might be able to adjust the advancedsettings.xml to recognize the VIDEO_TS.IFO, but that correction does not even work for the TV Shows.

Still looking for possible explanations or guides how to fix my problem. I am open to suggestions.

[jmarshall]

For movies:

Set content on the "Movies" folder, set "Movies in separate folders named like the movie", and scan.

TV shows are a little trickier - you need to add a regexp that allows it to look in the foldername.

Get movies going first, come back once done.

[JodeL]

Hi there I wanna give XBMC another try.

I already managed to set up my Movie collection and TV Show collection. I still have a Problem with the TV Shows that are in DVD form like:

TV Shows
--->Taken (2002) - DVD
------>Season 1
--------->Taken 1x01 - Beyond the Sky
------------>AUDIO_TS
------------>VIDEO_TS
--------------->VIDEO_TS.IFO

I already tried zu set up a advanced settings.xml with the following regexp. But it does not work. Any ideas, what I am doing wrong here?

<advancedsettings>
<tvshowmatching append="no">
<regexp>\[[Ss]([0-9]+)\]_\[[Ee]([0-9]+)\]?([^\\/]*)(?:(?:[\\/]video_ts)[\\/]video_ts.ifo)?</regexp>
<regexp>[\._ \[\-\\/]([0-9]+)x([0-9]+)([^\\/]*)(?:(?:[\\/]video_ts)[\\/]video_ts.ifo)?</regexp>
<regexp>[Ss]([0-9]+)[\.\-]?[Ee]([0-9]+)([^\\/]*)(?:(?:[\\/]video_ts)[\\/]video_ts.ifo)?</regexp>
<regexp>[\._ \-\\/]([0-9]+)([0-9][0-9])([\._ \-][^\\/]*)(?:(?:[\\/]video_ts)[\\/]video_ts.ifo)?</regexp>
</tvshowmatching>
</advancedsettings>

THX