Correct me if I'm wrong, but if I am wanting to play "any valid video type" then I still need to place the video file in a VIDEO_TS folder and have a dummy VIDEO_TS.IFO file in there to get DVD Library to pick it up as a movie folder?

Will this allow playing of other video types on the actual Vista computer as well or only on the extender?

tboyce:

PLUCKYHD:

no that seems more time consuming than I want since I have over 600 movies in dvrms

I am going to try one tonight.  If it works, my plan was to do a script to recurse folders and update all of them.  My collection is small in comparison to 600 movies.  The big question is how does VMC know what movie is in the DVRMS to get the movie data?  There is no DVDID.XML file.  I would love for this to work.

PLUCKYHD, are you soley using the .dvrms or do you have copies of the movies stored as well to get menues on the main PC?

 

Yes I am soley using DVR-MS as my media center pretty much is running headless. I run 100% off extenders. I will be soon adding some touchscreens to actually run off the dell.

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Tip: Vista SP1 is needed for the DVD Library to work on the extenders.

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Richard Miller Media Center MVP 2006

I have the DVD library on the extender (360) but the files refuse to play.

I rip the full disc to a folder, find the folder.pjg from IMDB and this obviuosly works fine on the PC.

I've used the techniques outlined in the post to run the script and create the symbolic links alongide the wvx file.  Transcoder is in the correct place....

When I come to play these folders on the extender it says it missing files to play them.  (It does see the folder and the images etc but wont play).  DVD folders that I've not run the scipt simply give the standard pop-up error.

Could it be that I am trying to play the wrong .vob file?  SHould the .vob be one large file?

Cheers.

Dillorscroft.

dillorscroft:

I have the DVD library on the extender (360) but the files refuse to play.

I rip the full disc to a folder, find the folder.pjg from IMDB and this obviuosly works fine on the PC.

I've used the techniques outlined in the post to run the script and create the symbolic links alongide the wvx file.  Transcoder is in the correct place....

When I come to play these folders on the extender it says it missing files to play them.  (It does see the folder and the images etc but wont play).  DVD folders that I've not run the scipt simply give the standard pop-up error.

Could it be that I am trying to play the wrong .vob file?  SHould the .vob be one large file?

Cheers.

Dillorscroft.

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Richard Miller Media Center MVP 2006

Hi,

Thanks for the help but this is what I have done.   Just wondered if it was because I was using a full disc rip and not the main movie.   I see the .mpeg files and the wxv.

I'm stumped at the moment.

Are other people getting their MyMovies metadata to appear for the "DVD Library" movies on the extender sessions? I'm not and I'm just wondering if others are having the same problem. I'm only getting the dvd cover art.

If someone knows a fix, your help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

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PLUCKYHD:

tboyce:

PLUCKYHD:

no that seems more time consuming than I want since I have over 600 movies in dvrms

I am going to try one tonight.  If it works, my plan was to do a script to recurse folders and update all of them.  My collection is small in comparison to 600 movies.  The big question is how does VMC know what movie is in the DVRMS to get the movie data?  There is no DVDID.XML file.  I would love for this to work.

PLUCKYHD, are you soley using the .dvrms or do you have copies of the movies stored as well to get menues on the main PC?

Yes I am soley using DVR-MS as my media center pretty much is running headless. I run 100% off extenders. I will be soon adding some touchscreens to actually run off the dell.

Just curious, which touchscreens are you getting?

dillorscroft:

Hi,

Thanks for the help but this is what I have done.   Just wondered if it was because I was using a full disc rip and not the main movie.   I see the .mpeg files and the wxv.

I'm stumped at the moment.

Right click on the wvx file open with notepad, does the wvx paths look correct?

Is the wvx file in the dvd folder.

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Richard Miller Media Center MVP 2006

Richard A Miller:

dillorscroft:

Hi,

Thanks for the help but this is what I have done.   Just wondered if it was because I was using a full disc rip and not the main movie.   I see the .mpeg files and the wxv.

I'm stumped at the moment.

Right click on the wvx file open with notepad, does the wvx paths look correct?

Is the wvx file in the dvd folder.

Make sure the playlist has the .wvx extension. It can't be anything else. If it has a .wmx extension for example, it can be played by WMP locally but the extender will not understand. This was the mistake I made when everything else appeared correct.

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When in doubt, reboot.

See: How to enable folder monitoring in My Movies for extenders. - http://unmitigatedrisk.com/archive/2008/04/04/185.aspx

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Ryan

I did some looking into using the dvr-ms files.  One side effect of putting them in as dvr-ms and letting DVD library handle them natively is that they will also show up as recorded tv shows as well.  This seems like it would be an issue with my 200 or so movie collection, but with Plucky's 600 disk collection, I am not sure that I can imagine it.  I love the simplicity of DVD library, just need to figure out the best combo on extenders.

tboyce:

I did some looking into using the dvr-ms files.  One side effect of putting them in as dvr-ms and letting DVD library handle them natively is that they will also show up as recorded tv shows as well.  This seems like it would be an issue with my 200 or so movie collection, but with Plucky's 600 disk collection, I am not sure that I can imagine it.  I love the simplicity of DVD library, just need to figure out the best combo on extenders.

I convert to dvr.ms using the quick stream fix feature of VideoReDo.  Only takes about 4 minutes per DVD.  In conjunction with MM, they don't show up in recorded TV.

Does this method (the wvx playlist) have any advantage over conversion to dvr-ms (like subtitles or somehting maybe?)

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Richard, thanks for trying to help and make this simple.

I have (in this order)
1.  previously upgraded to SP1
2.  Donwoladed the v.07 version
3.  Copied the DLL to the ehome folder
4.  Run the transcoder file that adjust the registy settings...
5.  I have copied the script from the htpcug site into wordpad and saved it as createWXV.vbs
Now I have questions....
You mention two constrants, I assume you mean -
>>>>>>

'strRemoteLocation is the path that will be used in the WVX file to reference the location of the videos
'This should be accessible via the machine that will play the WVX file
Const strRemoteLocation = "\\server\Videos"

'strWVXOutputFolder should be the location the WVX files should be written
Const strWVXOutputFolder = "\\Server\Videos_MediaCenter"

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My dvds are all ripped to my k:\my movies\mainmovie or k:\my movies\fulldisc folders.  Does that mean I change the fist one to Const strRemoteLocation =  "k:". 
Do I need the quotes?  Also can I change the second one to the root of k: as well or does it need to reside somewhere specific?

Lastly - would the script then be:  cscript createwxv.vbs k:  ?  Do I need quotes?  I assumes it should create this .wvx file on the k root?

Sorry to ask such basic questions, but I have tried a couple of different things and am just throwing darts.  Thanks to any/all help.

Tom

aeroguy:

tboyce:

I did some looking into using the dvr-ms files.  One side effect of putting them in as dvr-ms and letting DVD library handle them natively is that they will also show up as recorded tv shows as well.  This seems like it would be an issue with my 200 or so movie collection, but with Plucky's 600 disk collection, I am not sure that I can imagine it.  I love the simplicity of DVD library, just need to figure out the best combo on extenders.

I convert to dvr.ms using the quick stream fix feature of VideoReDo.  Only takes about 4 minutes per DVD.  In conjunction with MM, they don't show up in recorded TV.

Does this method (the wvx playlist) have any advantage over conversion to dvr-ms (like subtitles or somehting maybe?)

I still like the dvr-ms for playing on the extender the best.  From what I hear, the VOBs have some issues.  The only problem is if you want full DVD content on your main PC and ripped content on your extenders, you are almost doubling your disk space.  Some movies I can live without the extra content even on the main PC, so I only keep the dvr-ms.

Flagging them as a movie and having them appear in recorded TV could mean a simpler file structure, that is about it.

 

Now, I have a dvr-ms in my video_ts folder.  I am getting an error when I try to play the movie from the extender.  Any ideas?