newbie help

by **rab4169** on Sat Jan 07, 2006 1:11 pm

just downloaded the program and looks great ,the problem i have is i have about 200 divx movies all in the one folder called movies,am i going to have to put all 200 in individual folders? i would also like covers and movie info on all my movies. what would be the best way of going about this without it taking weeks
thanks
robert

by **GFORCE** on Sat Jan 07, 2006 1:25 pm

I Find putting them in folders saves for any future database issues down the track.

Incase you have to refresh, you have all the coverart in the same folders so you dont have to re assign everything

by **rab4169** on Sat Jan 07, 2006 2:37 pm

what do i rename the images in the folder to.

by **rab4169** on Sat Jan 07, 2006 2:42 pm

sorry where aswell can i download covers ,tried cc covers but this gives back and front on the one image, i would need to crop every image ,where can i just get front covers

by **dalanik** on Sat Jan 07, 2006 11:09 pm

rab4169 wrote:what do i rename the images in the folder to.

The best is to make folder structure like

MOVIES
........Alien
................Alien.avi
................Alien.jpg
........2001
................2001.avi
................2001.jpg

etc

Or try using Ant movie catalog to catalogize your movies, it downloads movie info from imdb and picture as well (you'll need XAnt plugin for XLobby). Ant is free, and plugin is available on xlobby site.

It is a lot of work to set it up the first time, but also most convenient and easy afterwards to find your movies... :-)

D.

by **hjackson** on Sun Jan 08, 2006 1:48 am

",am i going to have to put all 200 in individual folders? i would also like covers and movie info on all my movies. what would be the best way of going about this without it taking weeks "

Yes. Place each DIVX movie into an individual folder named after the movie title. To get all the info for the movie use DVDprofiler. There are instructions in the "HELP" section that describes how DVDProfiler is imported into Xlobby. (It's actually pretty easy when you see how)
Good luck.

hjackson

by **rab4169** on Sun Jan 08, 2006 9:14 am

ok , thanks.
just one last quesion , if i put the cover picture in the folder what is it best to name , if i name it folder.jpeg then media centre can see it but xlobby can`t and if i name it say alienfrontcover.jpeg then xlobby can see it but media centre can`t , i know i should just pick one but i was just wondering for in the future what would be best way to name it fir compatability with most software

by **hjackson** on Wed Jan 11, 2006 4:02 am

"... if i name it folder.jpeg then media centre can see it but xlobby can`t..."

? It doesn't matter what you name it for Xlobby.

hjackson

by **Colby** on Wed Jan 11, 2006 11:18 pm

"... if i name it folder.jpeg then media centre can see it but xlobby can`t..."

? It doesn't matter what you name it for Xlobby.

All my coverart is named folder.jpg