[raisputin]

First, I apologize if this is in the wrong forum...

I recently setup my old machine, a Dell Dimension 8200 running Ubuntu 9.0.4 with XBMC (awesome BTW) and I have a few seperate folders of Folders/Movies set up as video sources, so I see when I go to Videos

Videos 1

|-->Movie 1

|-->Movie 2

|-->Movie 3

Videos 2

|-->Movie 4

|-->Movie 5

|-->Movie 6

TV Shows
Other

I would like when I go to Videos to see only 1 folder called "Videos" that contains all of the files from Videos 1 and Videos 2...such as

Videos

|-->Movie 1

|-->Movie 2

|-->Movie 3

|-->Movie 4

|-->Movie 5

|-->Movie 6

Could I do this by symlinking each file/folder containing a movie to a 3rd folder that I add as the source?
(I was thinking a perl script to parse each folder and create an appropriate symlink, as a cron job of course)

Or is there another way to do it that I don't know about? Or perhaps that is a feature suggestion?

Next, I would like to make it so that when anyone accesses the "Other" folder that they will have to enter a password to gain access. This is mainly because it has shows that I don't want the kids (under 13) accessing at this time, e.g. All R-Rated, MA Rated Movies unless I specifically enter a password to gain access. Is that possible?

Thanks in Advance

[topfs2]

Welcome to the forums!

First question is fixed by multipath in add source.

The other question should be doable (afaik) with master lock. I don't use em so I can't tell you http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=System_Settings

Cheers,
Tobias

[raisputin]

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. I guess I didn't look around well enough

Cheers. I will try it when I get home.