Playing files on TV
Posted 21.06.2010 @ 5.10PM (Edited 21.06.2010 @ 5.11PM)
@Craig - Really? I've had no major issues personally. Not sure what you've tried, but in settings define content to come from: http://thetvdb.com/ ... I've had small issues with some shows. Like my CSI folder needed to be named Crime Scene Investigations
My shows are like this:
Crime Scene Investigations / Season 1 / EP1S01.EpisodeName.avi
There is a wiki here, again not sure if you tried:
http://wiki.plexapp.com/index.php/Changing_TV_Show_Naming_Conventions
The only issue I've recently had is with a download of a show where the AVI files needed to be repaired in VLC player before we could watch them. Once I did that then Plex picked it up. Hope that helps, it is really worth getting it up and running if you can.
Also I've heard great things about Boxee, I haven't used it but it has some good features.
@SM - If you use something like Plex it replaces Front Row for you, I'm pretty sure you can only access files in iTunes, iPhoto etc via Front Row.
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@SM agreed. It amazes me that one of Apple's flagship software products could be so buggy. Had similar problems when I was trying to use Preview as a lightweight solution a few years ago. It ended up applying some colour correction to a whole bunch of photos about four times over so that they were really blown out. It crashed while I was trying to undo it and when I opened the files again it had saved all of the originals with the over adjustments done.
@dylan - do you use either Aperture or Lightroom yourself? I'm aware of the main software out there but am really hoping someone has a personal recommendation of one or another. Particularly for labelling and filing.
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Beautiful. Thanks for sharing.
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Playing files on TV
Posted 21.06.2010 @ 8.03PM
@SM - No need for it to be in itTunes, FrontRow can read straight from your movies folder. On the opening screen if you select TV Shows it will only show what's in iTunes. But if you instead just house all your TV shows in a subfolder (or alias from) your movies folder it will play most anything (avi/mp4/mkv etc).
@sunky - yeah my naming conventions *(01-01 - Episode Name)* didn't match the *S01E01* format. Really liked the potential of the app so changed them over the weekend, works a treat now.
Think I'm only going to use if for movies/tv - all my one off doco's/stand-up and the kids tv we now have don't really fit well under either of those categories.