UPNP is a protocol with the intention of making services ‘discoverable’. NFS/SMB are a bit different in that regard, with the latter formerly implementing it only to remoe it due to security reasons
This one has no share mentioned
Movies_NAS
nfs://192.168.0.7/
true
How would it look like if the sharing part was working properly?
It’s still indexing the files. I’ll leave it finishing the stuff and tomorrow I’ll replace that space by an underscore. Hopefully it will not break a lot of stuff.
I read that NFS is preferred over SMB because of performance and reliability. Furthermore, there’s that part of me who wants to get the stuff working properly.
So, tomorrow morning I’ll replace the space by the underscore and will try the NFS again.
About the library database, probably will have to reindex everything again, correct? That will break the path that it’s creating for the SMB stuff.
I saw that it did not catalogue some movies the right way anyway.
A third question: Is there a way to get all episodes of a series to show together? I saw an option to get all files under the same folder placed together, or something like that and enabled it. However, I can already see many episodes arranges as movies. Any tricks for that?
If you remove the space you will break everything you already scraped. At least with SMB it is totally fine and I’ve never had an issue with it (I have sources with spaces myself). I don’t know if NFS is the same (never used it).
As for the TV shows please refer to the following articles which should answer most if not all of your questions. Basically if you have TV shows showing up as movies that means you have them located in a path set to scraping movies. The TV show files and movie files must be in two different folders that are NOT nested one inside of the other.
As I am browsing, through the files, it started getting slower and slower, and finally gave me an error message saying that software caused the connection to abort.
Is there a tutorial teaching how to set the library, the fields we want and the values to fill there?
The way it automatically indexed using the online database made a mess out of how I had organized the movies. Let alone that there are many movies with the wrong poster and some even came up with a totally incorrect description, actors, etc.
I’d rather create my own database and fill it manually.
If you remove the space you will break everything you already scraped. At least with SMB it is totally fine and I’ve never had an issue with it (I have sources with spaces myself). I don’t know if NFS is the same (never used it).
I think it also broke for the SMB because when I clicked in some files it said the movies were no longer available.
As for the TV shows please refer to the following articles which should answer most if not all of your questions. Basically if you have TV shows showing up as movies that means you have them located in a path set to scraping movies. The TV show files and movie files must be in two different folders that are NOT nested one inside of the other.
Thanks! I’ll take a look at them.
The space did not do that. It sounds like you have issues with your network you need to track down. There will be some initial slowness when you first browse any given section of a library as the box is busy caching artwork. This is normal and expected behavior. If you have your files named in an acceptable manor and your shares are setup correctly you should find that Kodi will correctly scrape almost all of your content with artwork without intervention. There are outliers where you may have to tweak to get a show to scrape correctly but these are outliers.
You can’t make the database manually but you can generate nfo files and tweak their content with a media manager such as tinyMediaManager and this will override the online scraper. This is not needed for most commercial content though.
Each source gets set as what kind of media is on it and a scraper is set for that type of media. Even though the default scraper for movies and TV is TMDB the actual scraper that is used for each type is not the same.
You can’t make the database manually but you can generate nfo files and tweak their content with a media manager such as tinyMediaManager and this will override the online scraper. This is not needed for most commercial content though.
Thanks! Thank is working so far. I deleted the library automatically created by Kodi and scanned again using only the internal option. At least it kept the folder structure I was using originally, which I like better than the arrangement made by the automatic scan.
I used the tinyMediaManager in a few movies and it seems to work and ran another scan using only internal sources and it worked fine. I see there’s a $10 charge for the full software but it’s worth it.
This problem is solved. Now back to the networking issue. I’ll run more tests and post here what I find.
I see that you are quoting peoples post to have the context which is good but seems you haven’t seen the quoting function of the forum.
Just mark the text you want to quote with the mouse and a "Quote button should pop up next to it. Just click that and the text will be added to your post with the respective quote relation (as in the top of this post).
Sorry, I guess I need to start adding a warning now when suggesting this software. You don’t actually need to pay for version 3 of the software as it is shareware. Version 4 of TMM is a paid program but at present there is not a large disparity in features. Version 3 is still available to download from their website.
No worries. I am having a new problem.
I used the tinyMediaManager to create several nfo files and thumbnails and saw that it saved each in each movie’s folder. So far so good.
I then ran the library update using only the local source and Kodi created the library with all the data.
After that I decided to run a movie to see how it was doing. Now Kodi does not play any movie. Tehre’s a spinning dual-circle thing in the middle of the screen and appears to be in an eternal loop. I tried other movies but got a similar result, such it started playing and immediately stopped.
