2012-11-25, 19:46
Greetings and thanks in advance for any help. I am new to XBMC (11.0) and a novice Ubuntu user (12.10). I thought it would be a great idea to use an inexpensive computer as a media box. So far, not so good.
Ubuntu, runs, installs, as does XBMC. However, XBMC won't find any of my media locations. I store media on 2 large USB hard drives. Both are NTFS formatted, if that makes a difference. Ubuntu itself can locate both drives in the file explorer and I can play media off both of them.
When I am in XBMC, I going to Add Media Source and click on Browse, I get the window where you can chooses sources. The only sources I get that are on my computer is one partition of an NTFS drive inside the PC case and the Ubuntu Home folder. I can't see anything else useful aside from network locations.
I am really at a loss here as I can't find a solution from search.
Please save me from being a douche playing files using VLC using my wireless mouse I would really like to use XBMC and the lovely phone remote which works, even though I can't add media.
Once again, thanks in advance.
Ubuntu, runs, installs, as does XBMC. However, XBMC won't find any of my media locations. I store media on 2 large USB hard drives. Both are NTFS formatted, if that makes a difference. Ubuntu itself can locate both drives in the file explorer and I can play media off both of them.
When I am in XBMC, I going to Add Media Source and click on Browse, I get the window where you can chooses sources. The only sources I get that are on my computer is one partition of an NTFS drive inside the PC case and the Ubuntu Home folder. I can't see anything else useful aside from network locations.
I am really at a loss here as I can't find a solution from search.
Please save me from being a douche playing files using VLC using my wireless mouse I would really like to use XBMC and the lovely phone remote which works, even though I can't add media.
Once again, thanks in advance.