2015-03-15, 16:05
I have spent the last two hours searching for this and had no luck. I am positive I saw either a writeup or an option for this somewhere once before. Any advice or ideas along these lines would be helpful.
I am running a Windows 7 machine as a server, multiple hard drives shared through SMB for my Kodi/PLEX machines to get it's media from. As the drives run out of space I remove media from them which in turn removes it from Kodi and PLEX on the next library cleanup. What I would like to do is keep it in the library but have Kodi ask you to insert a disk into the Kodi machine in order to play the content. The content of the disks are exact copies of what they are while on the server, the main directory of the disk being the folder of the show/movie. This includes all the nfo and jpg files.
I am not sure if I could create a symbolic link which links to the disk drive of a completely different machine and it would ask for the disk or if you'd need to create some type of script or any other options.
I want to do this for multiple reasons. It is more important for Shows as it is not as common to go back and watch them as it would be a Movie and I like having access to my Movies instantly, though it would be nice if this worked for both. I also like having it still listed in the Library as a list for people who don't know my Library as I do, i.e. friends over for a movie night. And if they would like to watch something not on the server it would not involve me running to the server in a different room to copying the disk to it or needing to flip through booklets of CDs for something to watch.
I do also have some PLEX clients, it would be awesome if this would work with that as well but it is not my main concern as those devices don't generally have a CD Drive. Having it still show in their Library would be nice but I don't care if it asks for a CD or just says it can't play it.
I am running a Windows 7 machine as a server, multiple hard drives shared through SMB for my Kodi/PLEX machines to get it's media from. As the drives run out of space I remove media from them which in turn removes it from Kodi and PLEX on the next library cleanup. What I would like to do is keep it in the library but have Kodi ask you to insert a disk into the Kodi machine in order to play the content. The content of the disks are exact copies of what they are while on the server, the main directory of the disk being the folder of the show/movie. This includes all the nfo and jpg files.
I am not sure if I could create a symbolic link which links to the disk drive of a completely different machine and it would ask for the disk or if you'd need to create some type of script or any other options.
I want to do this for multiple reasons. It is more important for Shows as it is not as common to go back and watch them as it would be a Movie and I like having access to my Movies instantly, though it would be nice if this worked for both. I also like having it still listed in the Library as a list for people who don't know my Library as I do, i.e. friends over for a movie night. And if they would like to watch something not on the server it would not involve me running to the server in a different room to copying the disk to it or needing to flip through booklets of CDs for something to watch.
I do also have some PLEX clients, it would be awesome if this would work with that as well but it is not my main concern as those devices don't generally have a CD Drive. Having it still show in their Library would be nice but I don't care if it asks for a CD or just says it can't play it.