2012-11-19, 10:37
(2012-11-19, 00:13)vbat99 Wrote: One questions. How have you got MC to "Watch" a folder?? Are you manually running the scans or a Script/scheduler?
No, doing it manually. I'm not into scripts etc.
Quote:As for Movies in own folders, this is personal preference, and some settings need to be noted in MC.
You can have AVI, MKV, FLV, MP4, even ISO files just under a Root "Movies" folder,ie:
\Movies
\Movies\Titanic.avi
\Movies\Superman.mkv
etc
Or you can have in separate folders
\Movies
\Movies\Titanic\Titanic.avi
\Movies\Superman\Superman.mkv
etc
I prefer separate folders as I like the order it gives to my NAS. As you said, personal preference.
Also, my fan art and posters don't have the movie name, just folder.tbn, season 1.tbn etc, so if they were all in one folder, there would be conflicts.
Quote:Advantages of separate folders is addition of ExtraThumbs (Skin dependant) and a function of Media Companion, and groups the nfo, tbn and fanart in the same folder as the movie. (Note: In MC, Movie Preferences, put a tick in All Movies are in Folders (allow ExtraThumbs)
For TV Shows, just as TH3 M0L3 describes
\TV
\TV\Lost
\TV\Lost\Season01
\TV\Lost\Season02
etc
And MC will search all folders/sub-folders for matching video files.
Good points! I don't bother with folders for separate seasons though. As long as the files are named correctly XBMC sorts them into seasons.
Quote:The advantages that MC has for me is I have Three XBMC's in my house. One Dharma machine, One Eden and one Xbox. Having MC scrape the info, means only once is meta-data scraped, by Media Companion.
All three XBMC's pull the info from my storage, fast and easy.
Also, if you don't like the poster with for a movie, you can choose another from inside MC. Poster Tab. And Fanart Tab.
Hope this helps.
MC is very flexible, that's why so many people are using it over XBMC!
