2015-01-21, 23:47
Up till now, I've been using a WDTV Live Hub, with my library on a NAS, each movie in its own folder, organized as follows:
\Movies\3 Days of the Condor (1975)\3 Days of the Condor (1975).iso
\Movies\Bourne Identity, The (2002)\The Bourne Identity (2002).iso
\Movies\Bridge Too Far, A (1977)\A Bridge Too Far (1977).iso
Notice that for titles beginning with an article ('A', 'The'), the folder name is adjusted accordingly, so that movies are listed in correct order when viewed by directory (TCMD)/folder (Explorer).
For multi-CD sets:
\Movies\Apollo 13 (1995)\Apollo 13 (1995) CD1.iso
\Movies\Apollo 13 (1995)\Apollo 13 (1995) CD2.iso
And for movie sets:
\Movies\Back to the Future Trilogy\Back to the Future (1985)\Back to the Future (1985).iso
\Movies\Back to the Future Trilogy\Back to the Future Part II (1989)\Back to the Future Part II (1989).iso
\Movies\Back to the Future Trilogy\Back to the Future Part III (1990)\Back to the Future Part III (1990).iso
For TV shows (though I rarely watch TV shows):
\TV\Dragnet (1951)\Dragnet (1951) S1D1.iso
. . .
\TV\Dragnet (1951)\Dragnet (1951) S2D4.iso
While I have a small collection of BDs, none of them have been ripped yet. As of now, all the rips are from DVD (well, music is from CD), and the .iso structure works very well on the WDTV -- it plays just like a physical DVD, giving menus from which to select audio, special features, etc.; and for TV, to select an episode.
Now, I've just built an HTPC and installed Kodi/XBMC, and I have a few questions on using with Kodi:
1. Would there be any advantage (or any disadvantage) to using an alternate format (mkv?), rather than .iso?
2. How to organize TV shows if using .iso (multiple episodes per disc/file), since all the examples seem to be based on an individual file per episode?
3. How to organize files such as audio books, demonstration/how-to videos, instructional videos, lectures, and so on? These have no place from which to scrape information, artwork, etc. I presently have them all as .mp3 and .mp4 files, and sometimes there is a mixture of .mp3/.mp4 within a single series of lectures, for example.
4. What weather options are available? I understand the background of why Underground Weather has been removed, but the only general (non-country specific) weather add-on in my new Kodi installation is Yahoo, which is totally useless to anyone outside the U.S., since there seems to be no way to display in metric.
Thanks for any input.
\Movies\3 Days of the Condor (1975)\3 Days of the Condor (1975).iso
\Movies\Bourne Identity, The (2002)\The Bourne Identity (2002).iso
\Movies\Bridge Too Far, A (1977)\A Bridge Too Far (1977).iso
Notice that for titles beginning with an article ('A', 'The'), the folder name is adjusted accordingly, so that movies are listed in correct order when viewed by directory (TCMD)/folder (Explorer).
For multi-CD sets:
\Movies\Apollo 13 (1995)\Apollo 13 (1995) CD1.iso
\Movies\Apollo 13 (1995)\Apollo 13 (1995) CD2.iso
And for movie sets:
\Movies\Back to the Future Trilogy\Back to the Future (1985)\Back to the Future (1985).iso
\Movies\Back to the Future Trilogy\Back to the Future Part II (1989)\Back to the Future Part II (1989).iso
\Movies\Back to the Future Trilogy\Back to the Future Part III (1990)\Back to the Future Part III (1990).iso
For TV shows (though I rarely watch TV shows):
\TV\Dragnet (1951)\Dragnet (1951) S1D1.iso
. . .
\TV\Dragnet (1951)\Dragnet (1951) S2D4.iso
While I have a small collection of BDs, none of them have been ripped yet. As of now, all the rips are from DVD (well, music is from CD), and the .iso structure works very well on the WDTV -- it plays just like a physical DVD, giving menus from which to select audio, special features, etc.; and for TV, to select an episode.
Now, I've just built an HTPC and installed Kodi/XBMC, and I have a few questions on using with Kodi:
1. Would there be any advantage (or any disadvantage) to using an alternate format (mkv?), rather than .iso?
2. How to organize TV shows if using .iso (multiple episodes per disc/file), since all the examples seem to be based on an individual file per episode?
3. How to organize files such as audio books, demonstration/how-to videos, instructional videos, lectures, and so on? These have no place from which to scrape information, artwork, etc. I presently have them all as .mp3 and .mp4 files, and sometimes there is a mixture of .mp3/.mp4 within a single series of lectures, for example.
4. What weather options are available? I understand the background of why Underground Weather has been removed, but the only general (non-country specific) weather add-on in my new Kodi installation is Yahoo, which is totally useless to anyone outside the U.S., since there seems to be no way to display in metric.
Thanks for any input.