[marcc]

Hi everyone,

Long time Xbox XBMC user, recently converted to XBMC for windows. I must say I am quite impressed this far! I just finished importing my 700+ DVD library using MyMovies and XBMC has picked up the xml & nfo file for each movie with fanart and all. I have it working nicely on a Acer Aspire One Netbook running Tiny 7. All I can say is WOW, performance is impressive!

Now I'm at a stage where I want to import my TV Seasons on DVD, but I want it to show up in the TV Shows tab (under the Mediastream Skin). From what I understand the scrapper picks up the episodes by file name (ie: 24 S01E01), however how can I do this with a TV DVD with VIDEO_TS file structure. I have created a new network directory on my SMB server named "TV Shows' (which is seperate then my dvd movies) and was planning on naming each folder by season and disc #, ie: 24 S01 D1

Is there a solution, or is this a limitation of XBMC with TV DVDs?

[Frozone]

U can do an iso for every episode, or convert them to h264 (handbrake).
I did an extra ISO for Heroes, to get all correct voices and subs.
But for TVShows where no Subs needed I go for Handbrake. (Its I want 2 Languages, and with handbrake u can get only 1 sub)

[marcc]

Thanks Frozone,

So if I understand you correctly, I basically have to convert the DVDs using Frozone to an alternate format?

[Frozone]

It does not have to be an alternate format. I use CloneDVD to create an iso for every episode. (Shrink may work) Its the fastest way.

But converting is fine to spare space.

[uncertainty]

This topic was just discussed and answered just afew threads down...

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=52055

[KidKiwi]

DVDShrink should be able to open your Video_TS folders and write them out to your new setup as ISO files.

Best to have each epsiode as a single ISO file. You can open multiple sessions of DVDShrink and run them using a great piece of free S/ware called MultiShrink 1.4. It'll cycle through all open sessions of DVDShrink without further user interaction.

Hope this helps and have fun