2014-05-03, 07:22
(2014-05-03, 05:45)Bundy Wrote:(2014-05-03, 04:39)who.is.matt Wrote:(2014-05-03, 04:13)Bundy Wrote: Let me start by saying that I am absolutely amazed at how much work has been done for this device in such a short amount of time. I come to the FTV from a Rpi. I love how snappy everything is in the menus compared to the Rpi. I have an external drive with my movies on it that I would like to access from the FTV. As a workaround for not being able to use the usb port I plugged the drive into my Linksys E3000 router. What is the best method to be able to view my content on the FTV? I did get it to see the drive by setting it up as UPnP, but I can't seem to get it to scrape for metadata. At this point all I have is a list of folders with video files inside and it will show a video cover thumbnail once I open the video folder. Any ideas on making it prettier?
This isn't a Fire TV specific question, but it's an easy enough answer. Make sure that SMB (or a similar suitable method such as NFS) is enabled on the router for the NAS (network attached storage), then add the NAS as a source in XBMC using that method.
I appreciate your timely response. However, I had already done this as explained in my first post. I am trying to find out if anyone has had any success in importing a library basically, so as to benefit from the metadata and make it look nice instead of a list of folders.
Actually, you said that you're sharing the NAS using UPnP. I said to share the NAS using SMB or NFS. UPnP doesn't provide the direct access to media that XBMC needs to build a media library.