JJZolx;660161 Wrote:
Yeah, I never really got an answer to that one.
It'd be interesting knowing how a frame from a video is chosen to
represent it. A problem with the thumbnails for widescreen movies is
that they're all but unreadable with 1/2 the image area consisting of
black
I know nothing about DLNA, video libraries, tagging, etc. Educate me a
little. I do have a few hundred movies on my file server and several
thousand TV episodes. I watch them through a computer, but who knows,
maybe I'll buy a DLNA compatible player some day.
Questions:
Is there an equivalent
Ok, so I got LMS to scan my movies and TV shows. And I got XBMC 10.1 up
and running on a Windows XP computer. I added the UPnP library in XBMC
and it shows me the server. I've even played a few .avi files.
What I see in XBMC is a flat filename view. Is that what I should
expect? I thought it
You can browse by folder too, obviously video tagging is nowhere near
where music file tagging is. We do try to read at least tagged titles
from videos if they have them though.
Thumbnails are generated by LMS.
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andyg
AVI and MP4 files can be tagged the same as WMA/MP4 audio files, since
they use the same container. I am not sure about tagging for other
formats. There are probably a lot where you can't tag them at all.
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andyg
andyg's
Ok, I'm starting to get it.
I found in XBMC where I can browse by folder. For this instance of LMS
I have only videos, no music or photos. One thing that could maybe
improved is that at the top level I see:
Music
Pictures
Video
But Music and Pictures are empty. Seems like these could be
andyg;660068 Wrote:
You can browse by folder too, obviously video tagging is nowhere near
where music file tagging is. We do try to read at least tagged titles
from videos if they have them though.
Thumbnails are generated by LMS.
Is there some kind of thumbnail included in some video
