*** Official Kodi (née XBMC) Thread ***

Deep said:
This is a fairly simple guide for new users on how to name files correctly.

Firstly make sure your Folders are organised correctly.
Each folder has a separate show, and then each season has a separate season subfolder.

TV Shows > Family Guy >
Season 1
Season 2
Season 3
Season 4

The Simpsons >
Season 1
Season 2
Season 3
Season 4

Download http://www.therenamer.com/TheRenamer. It has two options available, one for films and the other for TV Shows. Then make sure it's picking information from TheTVDB.

All you need to do is drag and drop the folder to the program and it'll automatically name it.

If for some reason it's incorrect then go to TheTVDB site and search for the program you want.

A good example is the old Batman cartoon from the 90s. Just naming it Batman is incorrect, search the site for just Batman and you'll see what I mean.

On TheRenamer you can make it manually rename the show in question by using theTVDB code.
For the 90s Batman cartoon this is the link:
http://www.thetvdb.com/?tab=series&id=76168&lid=7

The bold section is the code relevant to the show, so just type that in the manual box (on the bottom left from memory) and it should work.

Finally if you're shows are so poorly named that the numbering won’t work then change the files to this

S0x.Exx

Once you've done that drag it to TheRenamer let it do its job.

Hopefully this will make sense for everyone and more importantly help
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While this is a must when setting up XBMC etc, it's worth to note that not all files... whether it be a movie or tv episode are recognised by XBMC.

Files that don't scrape correctly (for whatever reason) should show in FILE MODE. Anyway, I found a solution that worked for me and Raymond Lin (a few posts back) and hopefully it'll work for you:

when a file doesn't show, go to VIDEOS >> FILES >> MOVIES (or whatever sub category your movies are in)

Can you see the movie/tv ep etc there? If so, go to file info by hitting I when on the file and refresh it and hopefully it'll now show.

That's how I got it working anyway.
 
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I think that I'm gonna get a Raspberry Pi Model B.

Would I be able to connect it to the router via Ethernet then stream from my main Desktop PC content to XBMC?
 
buckeejit said:
While this is a must when setting up XBMC etc, it's worth to note that not all files... whether it be a movie or tv episode are recognised by XBMC.

Files that don't scrape correctly (for whatever reason) should show in FILE MODE. Anyway, I found a solution that worked for me and Raymond Lin (a few posts back) and hopefully it'll work for you:

when a file doesn't show, go to VIDEOS >> FILES >> MOVIES (or whatever sub category your movies are in)

Can you see the movie/tv ep etc there? If so, go to file info by hitting I when on the file and refresh it and hopefully it'll now show.

That's how I got it working anyway.
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That's strange, I've never had that issue.
I've currently got just over 500 films and under 100 tv shows.
 
buckeejit said:
While this is a must when setting up XBMC etc, it's worth to note that not all files... whether it be a movie or tv episode are recognised by XBMC.

Files that don't scrape correctly (for whatever reason) should show in FILE MODE. Anyway, I found a solution that worked for me and Raymond Lin (a few posts back) and hopefully it'll work for you:

when a file doesn't show, go to VIDEOS >> FILES >> MOVIES (or whatever sub category your movies are in)

Can you see the movie/tv ep etc there? If so, go to file info by hitting I when on the file and refresh it and hopefully it'll now show.

That's how I got it working anyway.
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Also make sure the file name in the folder are named correctly, so Die Hard is Die Hard.mkv and not DH1080p.mkv.
 
The Renamer is king for that, took me a week but finally all my films/tv shows are named correctly, this pleases me and calms the OCD person within.
 
The only thing that annoys me about The Renamer is that sometimes if episodes are in their own folder as they should but are named something like

"TV Shows\Family Guy\Season 1\Family Guy - Season 1 Episode 9"

TheRenamer sometimes just says it can't work out the episode and you're then stuck having to go to other means to get it all set up.
 
zom247 said:
I'm in need of a new wireless keyboard, what are people using?
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I got a cheap Logitech Wireless Desktop K260 Keyboard and mouse.

Mainly use my Ipad to control XBMC but got that mouse and keyboard from asda for £15 about 6 months ago. Works fine for me and server/xbmc pc is about 15 ft away thru 2 walls to where I watch it.
 
booyaka said:
I got a cheap Logitech Wireless Desktop K260 Keyboard and mouse.

Mainly use my Ipad to control XBMC but got that mouse and keyboard from asda for £15 about 6 months ago. Works fine for me and server/xbmc pc is about 15 ft away thru 2 walls to where I watch it.
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Thanks. I use my harmony one mostly but I like to have a keyboard as well for surfing etc. Nothing too fancy needed either.
 
Marvt74 said:
The only thing that annoys me about The Renamer is that sometimes if episodes are in their own folder as they should but are named something like

"TV Shows\Family Guy\Season 1\Family Guy - Season 1 Episode 9"

TheRenamer sometimes just says it can't work out the episode and you're then stuck having to go to other means to get it all set up.
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If they're already in order then download better file rename. You can batch a process so that it labels each file in order as s0x.e0x then use The Renamer and you're sorted. It's so simple this way.
I had to redo 60 episodes a while back, took around 4 minutes
 
What skin do people recommend for ATV2?

Moved the files to my drobo so now running on gigabyte LAN and no more buffering. Just awesome!
 
Not sure if its available on the ATV but I use the NEON skin and it looks like the below.

Movies-1.jpg


TV.jpg


bob.jpg
 
Technical audio question: now that Frodo is out and the new audio engine is implemented, can XBMC on Windows decode DTSHD-MA and DD TruHD to LPCM on the fly, retaining bit perfect lossless all-channel HD audio?

I've tried to convert my files to LPCM before playing but that relies on having a DTS decoder in software. Plus I'd like to just rip and not do much else converting.....

My receiver only supports LPCM (and lossy codecs) but not HD codecs.
 
What are people using to tag their music? As I use cdart do I have to use picard musicbrainz so that it picks up the correct IDs? I usually use Tag & Rename but not all my music gets picked up with cdart. I've got plenty of time on my hands at the moment so re-tagging wouldn't be a problem :)
 
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