XBMC Media Center : Setup Guide, Knowlege Base & Support - Page 21

I fixed it! Except for the original problem where 5 tv series wouldn't show up. It shows the title and thumbnail but says there ate mi seasons or episodes. It turned out to be somthing simple. When you edit or add a source and click ok it brings you to a screen that says "set content" and its always been grayed out and said "no content found" or somthing Like that. I always thought I couldn't do anything with that, but it gives you the options of movies or tv and I changed it to tv series. Then I went back to the video home screen and right clicked on tv and "searched for content" and it worked. I had to go back thru settings and readjust some things that I had tweeked also. I know how to at least get back to where I started so I'm going to go thru and clean/remove/import again, see if any or all of those do the trick.

I'm having a problem with 10.1 not displaying my video correctly.

For some reason all my movies independent of format have a 2 inches border all around when I play them in xbmc. They are correctly displayed when played in WMC or with MPC-HC.

Anybody has a clue?

I'm using a fullscreen window instead of true fullscreen, could that be it? The xbmc interface is correctly displayed also.

I had reason to test this recently. It appears to me that as of 10.x, playback in MPC-HC will lag and jerk if XBMC is run in fullscreen mode, at least if videos are stored on a networked server. Playback is fine if XBMC is run in the fake fullscreen/window mode.

I don't know if its as simple as this but press the backlash//vertical line button on your keyboard, the one above the enter button.

Does anybody know why xbmc will find what you have stored at its source and allow you access to it from the video section but not the tv section? My files have been found and made there way Into xbmc and I can access the tv episodes from video>tv, but not tv directly.

I'm stating this problem again because I havnt found an answer. I have about 50 tv series with hundreds of seasons and episodes all stored in F:\\TV\\.

My xbmc video>tv picks up everything but when I try to access 4 specific tv series they won't show up. The path is exactly the same, there all spelled the same, in the same order, the same file type. I've tried removing the source in xbmc and at the file source. I've tried cleaning the library, importing the library, renaming the source in xbmc and at the filesource, every little thing Like that that I can think of I've tried, also in between all of these I scan and rescind for content, set content, and look for tv info.

Another thing, I have all 6 seasons of nip tuck and it will only read 5 of them in "TV" but in "Video>TV" it reads all 6. There all exactly the same as far as location, spelling, file type, etc. F:\\TV\\Nip Tuck\\seasons\\episodes. I can't for the life of me figure this out.

In 'file' mode xbmc has nothing to find per se - its just a replication of your file manager in windows - you can name it anything you like and it will appear in that mode.

Move to Library mode and that's an all together different proposition - correct and accurate filenaming is paramount to the source being scraped and shown correctly.

Why not try turning on debugging (from the xbmc gui), carry out a scrape, once complete paste your log to pastebin and supply a link from here to it. These are the type of queries that are answered on a daily basis over at the xbmc forums.

@joeydrunk - want to know why? - why not ask the experts in the xbmc forums, your unlikley to get a definitive response here as none of us are developers of the app.

You could also try tapping 'z' while playing a video to cycle through the screen format options.

Has anyone been able to play on 10.1? I tried but it gives an invalid error. I am still using TMT5.

I don't think that is being addressed until XBMC 11.0.

10.1 per release notes:

This is intended as a bug-fix release only, no new features have been introduced. Notable fixes include:

• If an in-use skin was updated in Windows, XBMC would freeze
• Some RTMP streams in Windows did not play
• Included add-ons have been updated
• The correct referrer is now used for downloading add-ons, improving dependency statistics
• Crashes during playback on ATI hardware in some circumstances have been fixed
• Hardware decoding improvements for OSX
• Various small fixes

Try one of the nightly builds (http://mirrors.xbmc.org/nightlies/win32/?C=M;O=A), but be careful they can bite. Also moving to nightlies renders the databses incomaptible if you want to move back to 10.1 - take a backup in case.

Thanks for the quick reply guys.

Check this out. http://m.lifehacker.com/5621471/how-...ayback-in-xbmc

Have you come across anything else?

@joeydrunk - did you get your other tv series problem resolved?

No not yet, I've been real busy with school finals, soon though. I hope.

I followed the directions on this sight:http://m.lifehacker.com/5523672/turn...o-game-console, to add my video games to xbmc via the launcher. I can't figure out how to add thumbnail to my videogames. In the picture in the link when you right click on the name of the game all of the exact same options come up on my screen except for the thumbnail option, except for that it looks exactly the same. What am I doing wrong?

Perhaps dealing with one issue at a time might help

Wow great question!

God the nerve of me. Actually having the gull to ask a question in avs forums about a 2nd problem when the original hadn't been figured out. I should really start thinking about doing that at school, sticking with one problem and not moving on until its figured out. Oh wait I want to learn and I want to graduate. It is humanly possible to deal with more than one task at a time. Especially when someone has put effort into said task and hadn't figured it out, gotten use to it and moved on to somthing else he deemed more important. Why even say that?

Except, while not perhaps phrased in the most diplomatic fashion, he's right.

Computer software systems have nearly incomprehensibly large state spaces and their stability is highly sensitive to initial conditions. That's why after installing software, uninstalling software, changing settings, and changing them back, so many people eventually wipe their HTPC and rebuild the software installation from scratch; it's one of the surest ways to return the system to (something that closely approximates) a previous state that's known to work.

So, if you have mystery gremlins in your HTPC and things aren't working the way they should, then going on a new adventure that involves installing new plugins, changing settings, and modifying databases may simply make it that much harder to solve the original problem, especially when the new adventure uncovers problems of its own.

YMMV and good luck.

LOL - obviously more time required at school studies than pottering about with computers - typical younger generation. Obviously English and Comprehension aren't your strong points - it's not a question but a statement And a gull is a bird - think you meant gall.

I admire your thirst for knowledge, however, sometimes until the first problem is solved, subsequent others will fail as a consequence. Obviously never heard the saying "walk before you run".

@JAB thanks for the more measured and diplomatic response - appreciate it.

That article was written a year ago and XBMC has changed a lot. You may need to go in and identify your sources to allow for it to pull that content down. The other option is to manually place the image file in the folder.

Like others said though, focus on issue at a time. Bouncing around from issue to issue without resolving the first one first can lead to other problems. Not this will happen here but if you fix issue two before issue one and then fix issue one it could break two all over again.

Yes I know its a bird, I'm on my phone and it auto finishes sentences for me wich I don't always catch. The way you stated your sentence I took it as a question like you were trying to evoke a response.

I know computers can be very finicky and tempermental the more programs you add and settings you remove and what not. I've been there many times and that has nothing to do with this. It's a brand new build with just the OS on an ssd an a new install of 10.1.

Of course if I had a big problem with how my computer was acting and responding and I needed to do a reinstall of everything I wouldn't work on another problem but this is not that kind of situation. It is ok to work on more than one problem, its called multitasking. If you don't feel like helping me that's fine, you just don't say anything.

By the way, thankyou for your original answer to my first question. That was actually usefully information and I appreciate that.

Thanks, as far as the launcher plugin for videogames the information in the article is still current.

What did you mean by " go in and identify your sources" and when you say "place the image file in the folder" do you mean to put a picture of the cover into the videgame file.

I think that Launcher (the add-on used in that guide) has stopped active development now. But an off-shoot called Advanced Launcher is still being worked on, so maybe you could give that a go?

It can be a bit more complicated at times, but there's quite a detailed User Guide. As you'll see, it has support for fan art, poster and meta data scraping of game titles. Also, the (long) XBMC forum thread for Advanced Launcher is here.

No response expected - merely a comment, good luck though with what your attempting to achieve. Given the problems you have already had and the numerous requests for assistance throughout the thread its clear that your multi-tasking strategy is one we should all follow - - but your right I'll butt out and say nothing further.

Sources as in when you add in media you have to tell XBMC what it is and how it will be scraped. And yes, I mean exactly that. Find a picture of the cover, dump it in the folder with the game and rename it to folder.jpg.

Be aware that using this for launching games isn't the most seamless as it just opens the game over XBMC as a separate application.

Zing!!

Thanks guys I appreciate the info.@Aequalszero and @frankspin

I got a problem when using MCM and XBMC. MCM works fine and fetches all the meta data flawlessly. However when I try adding my movie folder as a source in XBMC, it disregards the .nfo that MCM has made and looks up the info online against themoviedb instead.

quiet frustrated now any suggestions?

When you edit the Mivie source, do you have the option to "use the folder name" selected? I had the same issue and selecting this option made XBMC use my MCM .nfo file instead of it's own. You'll have to clear your library and rescan after making the change. You can refresh one movie first to see if it worked. It should ask you if you want to search the Internet or only use local files.

Well it partly works. My .mkv movies now load with correct plot. However the ratings are wrong. They all end up with even numbers? I now tried changing the .nfo file that MCM has created so it's using . instead of , in rating and it worked. I can't be the first person with that problem?! How can I change that? I can't manually change 500 files?!

And there's still a problem with movies with Audio_ts and Video_ts folders. It seems it doesn't read the movie.nfo file for these? Upon playing around, if I copy all the files into the Video_ts folder, than it works. But again, what's the point with MCM if I have to manually move all these files?