(2012-06-25, 04:38)Ned Scott Wrote: Name sure the naming is correct: Adding videos to the library (wiki)
Not quite sure what you mean Ned. I even tried re-naming my media drive from Media-1 to MyMedia1 and powered on/off/on the USB drive and XMBC can't find the new drive, still shows the old drive. I trashed some folders that were on the Media-1 drive (those were the 7 movies that showed up as folders. So now I only have the movies. I am happy that I managed to get the USB Cyrstalbuntu set up and I think it works... have to check it when I try a problematic movie.
I think I need a refresher course in Navigation - How to link a media drive to XMBC. Here's what I'm trying to do:
1. From XMBC horizontal menu, I select the "Files" option.
2. Next I see; "Add Videos, Playlists, Video Add-Ons" so I select "Add Videos".
3. Now I have the "Add Video Source" window and I select "Browse".
4. Which brings up the RH side menu "Browse for New Share" (HDHomerun Devices, Home Folder, NFS, ReplaTV Devices, Root filesystem, SAP Streams, UPnP Devices, Video Playlists, Windows network (SMB), Zeroconf Browser, Add Network location...,
And this is where was stuck for a while. Couldn't seem to find the "Media-1" drive and all its contents but yet I can see it on my iMac and all the movies play fine using VLC. For instance, selecting Windows Network (SMB) simply gives me my network names and if I select the one that shows the iMac I see "Media-1" listed, so I said OK and by some strange miracle it got added. Hooray! My only thing to do now is figure out how to get the movie-specific posters appearing on the RH side. I have the scrapers selected, installed and enabled, but all I'm getting is either nothing or a still clip from the movie. Confusing to my granddaughter who remembers that all our Barbie movies had posters before that look like our original videos. Maybe the scraper needs to spend some time digging LOL?
OK, it seems that while I have been writing this post and playing around, I did get XMBC to work with the USB stick so that is a MAJOR accomplishment. I did order a Broadcom HD card and I don't know if that will make anything any better. Right now a few movies I have scrolled through seem to play just fine, and I'll keep an eye out for any stuttering. Maybe my posts will help some other folks... I don't know. But I think it would be great if the Wiki on this was more pictorial and the same goes for adding a source.
Thanks to Ned for all the help and patience!
Mike