*Official* MyMovies For Dune Thread - Page 16

I found a way to segregate unwatched in Zappiti, but it's high maintenance.

Maybe I could get you to show me XBMC one day. We are close enough . My immediate concerns about it are it's playback engine. How close it gets to source direct, and how nicely it plays with my HTPC hardware.

Well, last night I went to watch a freshly ripped movie "Due Date". Dune wouldn't play it. Says "loading", display goes to 00:00:00 and sits there. Gave up, switched to HTPC and played from there. Played instantly and without error. When the movies was over, the Dune was still hung. Had to power cycle it to clear. .

I sure wish Kalidescape didn't have their "vault" and proprietary storage. They could make a boatload from all the frustrated HTPC/Dune/Sage/etc users. Oh well...

Ahhh Was too good to be true

Due Date was a rip via MM drop-and-rip. I have MM set to produce iso, but AnyDVD is set to remove trailers. I launched via Zappiti on the Dune.

Maybe that's it. I do have AnyDVD set to disable it FWIW. My AnyDVD settings look like this:

A little OT, but as it appears to be the casue of some of the playback issues I'm having, I went to the WHS server console (real console, not remote) and noticed the AnyDVD settings were back to the default. Not set to strip the junk. Not sure what causes them to get lost. MM services are runing as the local system account, I'm not sure if the AnyDVD settings are a per user setting or not either. I did find the setting different if I log on as a user or as administrator, so I'm assuming its a per user setting. Wonder how to set the settings and make them stick for local system account?

A little tip for those of you with a small, fast, SSD as your boot drive, but you want your my movies program AND data files to reside on a different drive.

Stop all My Movies services using task manager
move the my movies directory structure under c:\\ProgramData to the drive you want
create a symbolic link in the original location pointing to the new, example
in the c:\\ProgramData directory do the following
mklink /d "My Movies" "d:\\ProgramData\\My Movies"

The last step is to reinstall the hidden share for d:\\ProgramData\\My Movies\\FileStorage

The share name should be MyMoviesFileStorage$

This saved me nearly 1.8GB of storage on my SSD boot drive and countless reads/writes.

Great tip. Didn't know you could do a sim link in windows.

I think Microsoft calls em shortcuts.

A symbolic link is a pointer that works at the file-system level as opposed to a shortcut, which is a pointer designed to work within explorer.exe. Since a symbolic link is essentially grafted to the file system, it doesn't have a footprint, so to speak, whereas a shortcut is an actual file on the hard disk

Sure. It's easy.

auto: If you watch a movie (not sure how much), XBMC will set the watched flag automatically.

manual: If you select a movie in any list and access the context menu*, you can set or clear Mark as Watched manually.

*keyboard: c; mouse: right-click; remote: whatever button you like


Bitstreaming of compressed HD audio should be in the next release. (It already does DD, DTS and PCM.)

Video is another matter: so far XBMC does DXVA (and/or Crystal HD) and auto-adjusts framerate (and may control luma levels); the rest is up to your video driver.

Actually this concern has me currently revisiting DS filters, specifically LAV Splitter, LAV Filter and LAVCUVID. Until XBMC supports this stuff natively, I was thinking about using MPC-HC as the video player within XBMC. Sort of kludgy, I know. . . . but I did this before XBMC supported Blu-ray.

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Just so I'm not completely off-topic, does anyone know whether Dune might add Source Direct in a future firmware? It's the only major feature still lacking (as distinct from bugs).
DViCo managed to do it (sort of) in late firmware for the TViX M-6500A (8635), so it is possible on Sigma SoCs.

I asked them at cedia and they said they were looking into it. But I got the distinct impression it was not high on any priority list. Also voted on their feature request thing but don't think it got a lot of attention there either.

ok so I'm a dunce.... Can't get anything to work.

Trying to get a Dune HD D1 to work with my movies.

Do I want to get a usb flash drive to store the index on? How do I format it correctly for the dune?

Once I do that how do I get the index to go on the dune? I have tried putting the flash drive that I have now in the computer that the mymovies collection manager is running on, tried accessing it across the network from my laptop..

no matter what I do when I go to try and configure the paths for the folders of movies it tells me that I have to directly hook the drive to the dune.


WHat the heck am I doing wrong?

When you point MM to your movies, use the network path instead of a drive letter. Like //server/sharepath/movie/movie.iso instead of D:\\movie\\movie.iso

Now are you talking about when I rip the movies to the comupter or when I set up the meta-data for the dune?

When I try and configure the paths in the setup for the metadata it won't give me the option of anything other than directly having the share connected to the dune. From the instructions it looks like I should have a couple of radio button options that I don't have on the tab (no SMB or UPNP)

For each movie in MM, click the little disc button to bring up the list of discs. Then click something else (sorry, I don't have it in front of me right now) to tell MM where this movie is. There, you should use the network path.

oh shoot... that's going to take some time to correct. Already have 160+ movies ripped all using local structure.

is there an easier way?

Iirc when you update one of them, MM will ask if you want to update all of them.

I wish that was the case. I must be doing something wrong becasue it is only letting me update one at a time then it has to save it and is going very slow.

Is there another spot to change it? I am going into each movie and clicking on the little disc in the center of the page that gives me the path to the movie.

Maybe if you moved all your movies to a different directory, then when you update one, MM will see that they've all moved and offer to update all of them.

I'm kinda guessing here but it's worth a shot. I don't know of a better way.

I feel like an idiot.

So I got it to finally see the metadata and I can see a listing of my movies on the screen but...

it won't play them. Comes up with an error like it can't access the folder. I have zero passwords and no firewall at the moment trying to get this working. Have it using my account name which is a admin account.

ARGH

oh and I can't add the shortcut for my movies to the home screen. says something about can't create shortcut.

So the actual error message that i am getting is.

Failed to open URL. Then it list the whole network location of the movie.

Does this have anything to do with how my system is set up it no passwords?

make sure that (assuming media and index are on the same smb server) they're both contained in the same share. i believe thats the error message you get when you attempt to access a second smb share from a single server.

I'm not in front of my home computer at the moment. but if I remember correctly in collection managment the path looks something like \\\\desktop\\g\
ame of movie

the error that is showing on the dune has something to the effect of smb=Timbre:\\\\desktop\\g\
ame of movie




the media is on my desktop computer and the index is on a thumb drive in the dune. I suspect it has something to do with the login name and such but don't know why as I have no password requirements on the system

ah, yea, if the index is local then what i said doesn't apply. oh well, it was worth a shot.

Hello-
I have been using a Dune D1 for a few months now and it is great! I want to purchase a second one for our media room in our home, but had a few questions.
Presently, I am using My Movies and have my Index store on a USB stick inserted within the Dune unit. I am using Windows 7 to manage all of my DVD and Bluray rips with most stored on a RAID NAS setup. Is my only option to have the Index on my PC or can I add a second index to the new Dune? Is there anything I need to consider for either of these scenarios?

As well, I presently do not have a hard wire network run to the room where the new Dune will be located. Is anyone uing a Dune unit wirelessly and if so, how is the streaming? I can manage to run a line if needed, but was just wondering if anyone is using a Dune with a USB wireless adapter.

That is it for now and look forward to your insight.

Cheers.