Home Theatre Folder Structure

[sundeshbalraj]

I have a Mede8er with all my contect stored on a network share. I am looking for some tips to optimise my folder structure as navigation can become quite challenging.

What folder structure do you use for your content and what good examples have you seen ?

 

[Freaksta]

I dont navigate the way you will have to but every now and then im forced to.

My folder structure is as follows

Downloads ( All New incoming stuff)
Series>Series Name>Season folder> Episode.avi
Movies>Movies Name> movie.avi
HDmovies>movies name > movie.mkv

 

[thisgeek]

Mine is:

Video
-Movies
-- Action
-- Comedy
-- Drama
-- Horror
-- Family
-- Thriller
-- Scifi
-- Trailers
-Series
-- Title Season x
-- Title Season x

 

[IceQB]

thisgeek, do you sort movie genres seperatly? Or using an app to do for you?

 

[Dolby]

The only problem with genres is two genres, such as my massive collection of romantic horrors

Can the Mede8ter search through either movies or movies?

 

[123Eish]

I have mine like this

Movies-
New Movies 2010 - Then In this folder it goes action/comedy/thriller
Watched Movies OLD-the older movies not newer then 2010
Watched Movies 2010 -only movies realesed this year

Series-
Series Watched
New Series

 

[ToxicBunny]

I prefer my setup..

Movies
- Movie Name

Series
- Series Name
- Season

HD Movies
- Movie Name

All this has meta data and my system can search on genre, actor, etc etc etc and show me whats there.

 

[LazyLion]

Pretty much common sense really.

 

[thisgeek]

thisgeek, do you sort movie genres seperatly? Or using an app to do for you?

No, I sort it manually. I usually check them out on IMDB before I decide. I sometimes get them wrong though (usually when I'm too lazy to look them up )

 

[Dolby]

Have you Mede8tor folk gone to www.tvixie.com?

 

[LazyLion]

Have you Mede8tor folk gone to www.tvixie.com?

Hmm, thanks! I'll give it a shot.

 

[LazyLion]

Have you Mede8tor folk gone to www.tvixie.com?

Hmmm, OK I gave it a shot. Simple enough interface, but I find it tends to hand when searching an entire folder... so you pretty much have to do one movie at a time.

And then after I had done a few folders... I checked on my Mede8er and there was nothing. Still only the original cover.jpg files that I had copied before.

 

[IceQB]

So, it don't work.

 

[Dolby]

Odd - I've been using it for 18 months with my TViX and I think its the best piece of software out

It hands? You mean hangs?
How big is your folder?

It does take forever though and uses a ton of data. I think I did 100 movies in a row once and left it over night because it takes hours. Also took 300MB or so

 

[LazyLion]

Odd - I've been using it for 18 months with my TViX and I think its the best piece of software out

It hands? You mean hangs?
How big is your folder?

It does take forever though and uses a ton of data. I think I did 100 movies in a row once and left it over night because it takes hours. Also took 300MB or so

OK, apparently on the Mede8er you have to press a certain button to alternate between your folder.jpg file and the about.jpg file. I will have to give that a try.

Yes, it seems to hang... although it does not say "not responding" Maybe I will try half the folder (it was about 1 Terabyte of HD movies)... I only had three sources selected.

I'll try loading it up and leaving it overnight. I was also running it over the network to my Mede8er running in NAS mode.

 

[Bionic]

I really watch movies or series on flash disk before storing them on my TB on XBOX.In this way i only keep content that i enjoyed which i wouldnt mind watching again.

My folder structure is as follows:

Movie Vault
Series Vault
Music Vault
Unwatched

I must say that as much as you have some special way of folder structure,its still bit painful navigating in XBOX.

 

[Keeper]

I'm busy coding a New Media Centre that looks like this:

(Standard Skin)

(Wooden Shelf skin)


- It runs at ANY resolution you want
- It doesn't take loads of bandwidth when downloading covers (LOL @ 300MB!!)
- It takes a while to download - but not overnight! maybe an hour for 300 or so movies?
- Database loads almost instantly - 4 seconds.
- Multiple Skin support
- Built-In Media player with speed control + Matroska Support, with an option to launch your own player if you choose (VLC/MPC)

The good thing about my media centre is fast, it runs at 180 FPS on a 3 year old Pentium Q6600. (250 FPS on a fast 3GHz dual core)
When you delete movies in windows, or add new ones into your directory structure, it will know about them and add them when launching the program (which, like I said takes 4 seconds)

Will support Movies/Bluray/Imax/Series/Documentary/Games/Music/Radio/Books & Emulators



The Covers used in these screenshots are only for testing purposes (the folders are actually empty, hehe)

 

[rodga]

I'm busy coding a New Media Centre that looks like this:

(Standard Skin)

(Wooden Shelf skin)


- It runs at ANY resolution you want
- It doesn't take loads of bandwidth when downloading covers (LOL @ 300MB!!)
- It takes a while to download - but not overnight! maybe an hour for 300 or so movies?
- Database loads almost instantly - 4 seconds.
- Multiple Skin support
- Built-In Media player with speed control + Matroska Support, with an option to launch your own player if you choose (VLC/MPC)

The good thing about my media centre is fast, it runs at 180 FPS on a 3 year old Pentium Q6600. (250 FPS on a fast 3GHz dual core)
When you delete movies in windows, or add new ones into your directory structure, it will know about them and add them when launching the program (which, like I said takes 4 seconds)

Will support Movies/Bluray/Imax/Series/Documentary/Games/Music/Radio/Books & Emulators



The Covers used in these screenshots are only for testing purposes (the folders are actually empty, hehe)

very cool